Job Description

Job Title: Junior Accountant

Location: Midtown, NYC:

Salary: $60,000 - $65,000 + BONUS

NY based Financial Service firm seeks a Junior Accountant to join their Team

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Prepare and research Bank Reconciliation, and other Balance sheet recs.
• Substantiate Claim fund, Funds Held, and other Balance sheet recs.
• Assist with the daily banking responsibilities including but not limited to positive pay, general banking, daily booking of bank activity, miscellaneous check clearing differences, and check deposits.
• Program accounting including tracking and maintaining detailed supporting work-papers. Incoming data from administrator should be checked for reasonability, and questions should be asked. Applicable reinsurance shall be applied, including Funds Held tracking and reporting.
• Setting up premium accruals, and reserves, while verifying that source data ties to the ledger.
• Assistance with the completion of state filings and forms.
• Assistance with some Statutory Annual statement preparation, including but not limited to the Supplemental Accident and Health exhibits, Schedule F/S, and Schedule H. Junior Accountant will need to work with others to ensure he/she is getting all necessary detailed data to complete the assigned components of the statement.
• Assist the Lead Senior Accountant on various new projects, and similar job-related duties.
• Research reconciliation differences that occur as part of the program accounting process.
• Prepare financial statement to work paper support reconciliations.
• Assistance with commission accruals, billing, and payments.
• Performs all other job functions necessary for the proper management of the department.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Must have Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• Excellent PC skills using MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) specifically Excel.
• Detail-oriented with excellent organization skills.

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