Senior Accountant

KeyBank•East Honolulu, HI

12d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Accountant role involves a range of responsibilities focused on financial review, compliance, and process improvement. Key duties include reviewing financial statements, investigating general ledger variances, participating in month-end close activities, reconciling accounts, managing accruals, and serving as a liaison between Financial and Servicing Operations. The position also requires ensuring compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and completing audit requests. Essential functions include maintaining reports, creating ad-hoc queries, translating technical data into actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders, resolving reconciliation exceptions, preparing and analyzing regulatory reporting, documenting departmental procedures, and supporting internal control monitoring and testing. The role emphasizes proactive identification and implementation of improvements, advanced Excel skills for complex calculations, and adherence to KeyBank policies and ethical conduct.

Requirements

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
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

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
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

Responsibilities

Reviewing balance sheets and income statements
Investigating general ledger variances
Participating in month-end close processes
Reconciling accounts
Managing accruals
Acting as liaison between Financial and Servicing Operations
Ensuring GAAP compliance
Completing audit requests
Maintain recurring reports and ad-hoc queries to support business needs
Translate technical data findings into clear, actionable reports for non-technical stakeholders
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
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
Performs other duties as assigned by management
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.