Senior Accountant, Broker-Dealer
About The Position
The Senior Accountant, Broker-Dealer role involves a range of critical financial tasks including reviewing balance sheets and income statements, investigating general ledger variances, participating in month-end close processes, reconciling accounts, managing accruals, and acting as a liaison between Financial and Servicing Operations. The position also ensures GAAP compliance and completes audit requests. Essential functions include performing general accounting tasks for payroll-related activities, handling complex reconciliations, fundings, or settlements, and resolving reconciliation exceptions. The role also entails preparing, analyzing, coordinating, and reviewing regulatory reporting, documenting and updating departmental procedures, and completing audit requests. Additionally, the Senior Accountant will participate in testing corporate and departmental projects, monitor and test internal controls, and proactively identify and implement areas for improvement. Strong Excel skills are required for complex calculations, and other duties may be assigned by management. All employees are expected to comply with KeyBank policies and procedures, including acting professionally, conducting business ethically, avoiding conflicts of interest, and acting in the best interests of Key’s clients and Key.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in Accounting, Finance, or Audit.
- Understanding and interpreting both manual and subsystem entries
- Managing accruals, amortizations, and identifying inconsistencies
- Ensuring financial statements align with accounting standards
- Completing audit requests and maintaining documentation
- Investigating causes of fluctuations in financial data
- Using data to support strategic decisions
- Leveraging tools like Power BI or Tableau to communicate insights
- Experience with platforms like SAP, Oracle, or Workday
- Familiarity with BlackLine or similar
- Including macros, pivot tables, and formulas
- Bridging Financial and Servicing Operations
- Tailoring messages for different stakeholders
- Presenting findings and driving decisions
- Coaching junior staff and fostering accountability
- Working alongside AI and RPA tools
- Especially in client-facing or sensitive scenarios
- All KeyBank employees are expected to demonstrate Key’s Values and abide by Key’s Code of Conduct.
Responsibilities
- Perform General Accounting tasks for all payroll related activities
- Perform moderate to complex reconciliations, fundings or settlements
- Resolve moderate to complex reconciliation exceptions
- Prepare, analyze, coordinate and review regulatory reporting
- Document new departmental procedures, update changes to existing procedures, and/or review procedures
- Complete audit requests
- Participate in testing of corporate and departmental projects and communication of risks, issues or defects
- Support monitoring and testing of internal control including completing quality reviews for moderate to complex departmental functions/ GRC testing and coordination
- Proactively identify and implement areas of improvement in all aspects of current functions
- In depth excel skills for developing/creating complex calculations in workbooks
- Other duties as assigned by management
- Performs other duties as assigned; duties, responsibilities and/or activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice
- Complies with all KeyBank policies and procedures, including without limitation, acting professionally at all times, conducting business ethically, avoiding conflicts of interest, and acting in the best interests of Key’s clients and Key.
Benefits
- Base salary in the range of $69,000.00 - $105,000.00 annually
- Eligibility for incentive compensation which may include production, commission, and/or discretionary incentives
- List of benefits available (link provided in original posting)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
