Overview
Highly desirable Family Office opportunity! Newly created Senior Accountant role reporting to the Controller, overseeing general ledger, monthly close, and bank reconciliations across multiple entities. Ideal professional will have 4+ years in a family office, trust, fund administration, or professional services firm environment. For more opportunities from KNM Resources, please visit .
Responsibilities
Monthly close and general ledger
- Manage and execute the monthly closing for all entities according to a defined calendar, using tiered timelines for active, low-activity, and dormant entities.
- Prepare and post journal entries, accruals, prepaids, and intercompany entries with supporting documentation.
- Prepare and maintain balance sheet reconciliations and roll-forwards for each assigned entity as part of every close.
- Review entries and reconciliations prepared by the Staff Accountant/ Financial Analyst.
Cash and bank reconciliations
- Prepare a weekly cash report.
- Keep all bank, brokerage and custodial accounts reconciled within 10 business days of month-end.
- Investigate and clear reconciling items; escalate stale or unusual items to the Controller.
- Support segregation of duties: reconcile accounts independently of payment processing.
Investment, trust and partnership accounting
- Record investment activity accurately and maintain supporting documentation based on third-party statements.
- Maintain partner capital accounts and allocations for partnership entities.
- Track trust principal and income where required and support trust schedules for fiduciary reporting.
- Prepare schedules that support the outside accountants' quarterly book-to-fair-market-value entries.
Payables and controls
- Review Bill.com coding and approvals for accuracy across entities and resolve exceptions.
- Document close procedures, reconciliation standards and desk procedures for each entity group.
Reporting, tax and external support
- Prepare monthly entity-level financial statements for Controller review.
- Coordinate day-to-day support for the outside accountants’ quarterly reviews and year-end work, including schedules, documentation, and responses to follow-up questions.
- Prepare tax workpapers and schedules for the tax preparers as requested by the tax team for fiduciary, partnership, corporate, gift and nonprofit returns.
- Respond to financial information requests from authorized internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
- CPA or actively pursuing a plus but not required
- 4+ years of accounting experience, including month-end close.
- Multi-entity and intercompany accounting experience preferred.
- Knowledge of investment accounting and partnership capital accounts.
- Advanced Excel skills, including lookups and pivot tables.
- Strong knowledge of QuickBooks.
- Family office, trust, fund administration, or public accounting (private client / trusts and estates) experience preferred.
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This position is listed as full time and onsite.