Accounting Manager
Republic Finance•Plano, TX
•Hybrid
About The Position
Republic Finance is seeking a detail-oriented Accounting Manager to lead its accounts payable function and contribute to the month-end close. The role includes reviewing journal entries and account reconciliations, supporting tax compliance, and managing the annual 1099 process. The position is based at the Plano, Texas headquarters on a hybrid schedule. The posting also describes responsibilities and qualifications for configuring and maintaining decision platforms, deploying machine learning models, supporting API-driven decisioning, testing and governing production releases, and monitoring and troubleshooting decisioning systems. These details appear inconsistent with the Accounting Manager title and accounting-focused overview.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a quantitative or technical subject area; extensive Decision Platforms experience may waive the degree requirement.
- 1–3 years of professional experience programming, working with databases, and configuring or supporting Decision Platforms such as GDS Link Modellica, Provenir, FICO, Experian PowerCurve, or comparable tools.
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of SQL, Snowflake, and relational databases.
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Python programming.
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Excel and BI skills; Power BI preferred.
- Working familiarity with REST APIs and JSON or XML payloads, and experience using Postman or similar API testing tools.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a strict test-first approach to production changes.
- Excellent communication skills and willingness to collaborate and help team members.
- Initiative, intellectual curiosity, creativity, strong time management, and ability to lead multiple concurrent releases.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree in a quantitative or technical subject area.
- Consumer lending or financial services experience.
- Experience deploying machine learning models into a production decisioning environment.
- Familiarity with credit bureau data and attributes from Experian, Equifax, or TransUnion, and third-party fraud or identity verification vendors.
- Exposure to model risk management, fair lending, or ECOA/Regulation B adverse action requirements for automated decisioning.
- Experience with Git and structured release management or CI/CD practices.
- Power BI skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead the accounts payable function.
- Play a key role in the month-end close.
- Review journal entries and account reconciliations.
- Support tax compliance.
- Manage the annual 1099 process.
- Implement credit, underwriting, and fraud policies in decision platforms by translating business requirements into decision flows, rulesets, scorecards, matrices, and cutoff logic.
- Deploy Data Science machine learning models into decision platforms and validate that platform scoring reproduces expected results.
- Coordinate with data vendors, credit bureaus, and solution partners to build and maintain API-driven decisioning connectors.
- Partner with business teams to clarify, document, and make requirements testable, including decision logic, assumptions, and edge cases.
- Develop an understanding of business systems and how decision engines interact with them.
- Establish governance processes such as version control, change management, peer review, release documentation, and rollback procedures.
- Test changes before production release, including unit, regression, integration, and user acceptance testing; build reusable test cases and batch simulations.
- Monitor post-implementation decision volumes, approval rates, error rates, response times, and business success criteria.
- Troubleshoot production decisioning issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive controls and monitoring.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 15 days of paid time off to start plus one additional personal holiday
- 401(k) with employer match
- Company-provided life insurance
- Long-term disability coverage
- Employee Assistance Program with confidential mental health support
- Access to LinkedIn Learning's library of more than 10,000 professional development courses
- Employee of the Month Program
- Philanthropic support for multiple charities, including an annual drive for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Regular drawings for sports tickets
- Professional offices with a friendly team environment
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
