Controllers - Jersey City- Associate, Financial Accounting- 9490843

Goldman Sachs • Jersey City, NJ

8d • Onsite

About The Position

This role involves reporting and governing key metrics related to AUS reporting, preparing and reviewing global financial reporting materials for the AWM Controllers Leadership Team, and leading strategic change across AWM Controllers by collaborating with senior leadership and Technology. The position requires managing data, performing data reconciliation, governance, and system testing, data visualization and reporting, project management, and presenting key metrics and analysis to senior leadership. A key aspect of the role is to create efficiencies through automation and implement strategic initiatives, including requirements gathering, project planning, testing, training, and communications. The Associate will collect and treat high volume of data related to AUS, reporting on the effectiveness of the Firm’s governance, risk management, and controls. This includes interacting with AWM Controllers leadership to confirm data quality and collect rationales for critical reporting and internal governance processes, performing divisional operations functions, and ensuring data integrity of reported information. Sourcing and reconciling data from various sources is essential for completeness and accuracy. The role also involves presenting key divisional metrics and analysis to Controllers Leadership and AWM Leadership Teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Accounting, Finance or a related field.
• Three (3) years of experience in the job offered or in a related role.
• At least three (3) years of experience identifying issues related to internal controls and supplying comprehensive recommendations to management to mitigate company’s risks.
• At least three (3) years of experience utilizing knowledge of U.S. General Accepted Accounting experience (GAAP) to produce or review financial information for inclusion in company’s consolidated financials.
• At least three (3) years of experience utilizing Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint to create reports and perform analysis using pivot tables, VLOOKUP, charts, filtering, data validation, and other various tools.
• At least three (3) years of experience independently reviewing general ledger and journal entries to analyze and reconcile accounts, including investigating fluctuations in both P&L and balance sheet account amounts and reporting periods.
• At least three (3) years of experience identifying and understanding underlying drivers during analytical reviews.
• Employer will accept bachelor's degree equivalent based on single degree, combination of degrees, or combination of degree(s) and/or diplomas and/or certification(s) / membership(s) / professional credentials, determined to be equivalent to a U.S. bachelor's degree by a qualified credential evaluation service.

Responsibilities

• Report and govern key metrics related to AUS reporting.
• Prepare and review global financial reporting materials.
• Lead strategic change across AWM Controllers.
• Manage data and perform data reconciliation, governance, and system testing.
• Conduct data visualization and reporting.
• Manage projects and present key metrics and analysis to senior leadership.
• Create efficiencies through automation.
• Implement and execute all aspects of strategic initiatives, including requirements gathering, documentation, project plan creation and maintenance, testing execution, departmental trainings and communications.
• Collect and treat high volume of data related to AUS, reporting on the effectiveness of the Firm’s governance, risk management, and controls.
• Interact with AWM Controllers leadership to confirm data quality and/or collect rationales in support of critical reporting and internal governance processes.
• Perform divisional operations functions, including those related to data integrity of reported information.
• Source data from various data sources and systems and reconciliate this data to ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Interact with Controllers Leadership and AWM Leadership Teams to present key divisional metrics and analysis.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level