Associate Accountant
About The Position
Where Ambition Meets Innovation Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you’ll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals. Job Overview: The Associate Accountant is a key position in the Controllership Revnue group and will report to a Manager of Revenue Accounting. The Associate Accountant will be responsible for maintaining the accounting records and providing accounting support and analysis for revenue and production expense transactions of LPL Investment Holdings and its subsidiaries. The Associate Accountant will assist in implementing process improvements to help the team streamline and enhance efficiencies, promote the analysis and communication of results and provide proactive customer service.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related fields
- Minimum of 1-2 years of relevant professional experience
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, prioritization, and adapt to change
- Strong analytical and organizational skills
- Proactive approach to identifying and assessing risk
- Basic understanding of internal controls
- Effective communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with all levels of management and work in a team-oriented environment
- Ability to effectively collaborate well across business functions
- Strong attention to detail, self-motivated, innovative, and demonstrated ability to multi-task
Nice To Haves
- Experience in public accounting and broker-dealers
- Experience working with Oracle and Excel Spreadsheet Server
- CPA license a plus
Responsibilities
- Assist in the monthly closing process, including the preparation and review of journal entries, flux analysis, and other review activities
- Prepare balance sheet reconciliations
- Support financial statement consolidations for actual, plan and reforecast information
- Support quarterly and year-end financial reporting and audit deliverables
- Identify and participate in the execution of key Sox Controls
- Manage processes and controls related to Revenue Accounting
- Ad hoc requests as determined by management
Benefits
- 401K matching
- health benefits
- employee stock options
- paid time off
- volunteer time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
