Accounts Payable Accountant

The Accountant is an entry-level accounting position responsible for the accurate recording, tracking, and reporting of financial activity for FINRA. This position is assigned to one or more areas of the Finance department and works closely with numerous other areas within the Finance department such as Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Cash Management, Financial Reporting, Financial Planning, the Investments Office, Payroll, and Purchasing. This position will also interact frequently with Management for the various business lines to which it is assigned, and will take primary responsibility for assigned revenue streams and/or vendor or customer relationships.

Essential Job Functions:

1. Prepare, analyze and review financial information and prepare reconciliations across a wide variety of accounts, which could include bank accounts, fixed assets, investments, benefit plans, intangible assets, and other assets/liabilities as assigned.
2. Perform reconciliation of accounts, identifying and clearing reconciling items.
3. Prepare all monthly entries, interfaces, and allocations.
4. Present results monthly to Finance management.
5. May work closely with Finance management in the coordination and preparation of audited financial reports, serving as primary point of contact for core audit-related requests.
6. Contribute to the preparation of internal/external audit requests.
7. Contribute to the preparation of monthly and quarterly balance sheet and income statement variance analysis.

Education/Experience Requirements:

1. Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business, or Finance with at least 12 semester hours of Accounting.
2. Two or more years of relevant work experience in an accounting environment.
3. Proficiency in Workday preferred.
4. Financial software systems experience, with a keen eye for leveraging technology to improve efficiencies preferred.
5. Expense report processing is preferred.
6. Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word.
7. Strong communication and analytical skills.

Work Conditions

Hybrid office conditions.

For work that is performed in CA, Washington, DC, CO, HI, New York, NY, and WA, the chart below outlines the proposed salary range for the corresponding location. In addition to location, actual compensation is based on various factors, including but not limited to, the candidate’s skill set, level of experience, education, and internal peer compensation comparisons.

1. California: Minimum of $63,600, Maximum Salary $122,300
2. Washington, DC: Minimum Salary $66,100, Maximum Salary $117,100
3. Colorado/Hawaii: Minimum Salary $57,500, Maximum Salary $101,900
4. New York, NY: Minimum Salary $69,000, Maximum Salary $122,300
5. Washington State: Minimum Salary $57,500, Maximum Salary $117,100

To be considered for this position, please submit an application. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

The information provided above has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work of the position. It is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required.

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Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. FINRA provides comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance. Additional insurance includes basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, supplemental life, spouse/domestic partner and dependent life, and spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment, short- and long-term disability, long-term care, business travel accident, disability, and legal. FINRA offers immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match and eligibility for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution, tuition reimbursement, and many other benefits.

Time Off and Paid Leave

FINRA encourages its employees to focus on their health and wellness in many ways, including through a generous time-off program of 15 days of paid time off, 5 personal days, and 9 sick days (all pro-rated in the first year). Additionally, we are proud to support our communities by providing two volunteer service days (based on full-time schedule). Other paid leave includes military leave, jury duty leave, bereavement leave, voting and election official leave for federal, state, or local primary and general elections, care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment); and childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment). Full-time employees receive nine paid holidays.

Important Information

FINRA’s Code of Conduct imposes restrictions on employees’ investments and requires financial disclosures that are uniquely related to our role as a securities regulator. FINRA employees are required to disclose to FINRA all brokerage accounts that they maintain, and those in which they control trading or have a financial interest (including any trust account of which they are a trustee or beneficiary and all accounts of a spouse, domestic partner, or minor child who lives with the employee) and to authorize their broker-dealers to provide FINRA with duplicate statements for all of those accounts.

All of those accounts are subject to the Code’s investment and securities account restrictions, and new employees must comply with those investment restrictions—including disposing of any security issued by a company on FINRA’s Prohibited Company List or obtaining a written waiver from their Executive Vice President—by the date they begin employment with FINRA. Employees may only maintain securities accounts that must be disclosed to FINRA at one or more securities firms that provide an electronic feed (e-feed) of data to FINRA, and must move securities accounts from other securities firms to a firm that provides an e-feed within three months of beginning employment.

You can read more about these restrictions here.

As standard practice, employees must also execute FINRA’s Employee Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement without qualification or modification and comply with the company’s policy on nepotism.

Search Firm Representatives

Please be advised that FINRA is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this employment opportunity. Regardless of past practice, a valid written agreement and task order must be in place before any resumes are submitted to FINRA. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at FINRA without a valid written agreement and task order in place will be deemed the sole property of FINRA and no fee will be paid in the event that person is hired by FINRA.

FINRA is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, disability, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal state or local laws as appropriate, or upon the protected status of the person’s relatives, friends, or associates.

FINRA abides by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-741.5(a). This regulation prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals on the basis of disability, and requires affirmative action by covered prime contractors and subcontractors to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities.

FINRA abides by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-300.5(a). This regulation prohibits discrimination against qualified protected veterans, and requires affirmative action by covered prime contractors and subcontractors to employ and advance in employment qualified protected veterans.

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