Controller Assistant Job Description
Controller Assistant Duties & Responsibilities
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Licensing or Certifications for Controller Assistant
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Controller Assistant Examples
Controller Assistant Job Description
- Providing the corporate accounting department with regular reporting of revenues, AUM and performance
- Reviewing, completing, and distributing sales commissions and financial statement accounting
- Control and accounting for fixed assets and depreciation sub-ledgers for both book and tax purposes
- Percent-complete accounting for multi-element projects and straight line for recurring revenue multi-year agreements
- Accounting for stock option-based compensation and stock option exercises
- Reviewing semi-monthly payroll and fringe benefits to ensure accurate posting to the G/L and appropriate accounting for bonuses, commissions, OT and other special pays, job costing, withholding, proper cost departments
- Interfacing with accounting firm for preparation of multi-state tax filings
- Oversee the monthly review of account analysis for all accounting areas including revenues, accounts receivable, accounts payable, fixed assets, intangibles, accruals and prepaid assets
- Provide training and direction to the Accounting staff to maintain
- Perform accounting research on complex issues
- Preparation of SEC filings and supporting schedules
- Ongoing monitoring of compliance with REIT regulations and maintaining exemption from Investment Company Act of 1940
- Creating ad hoc analysis to assist management with decision making
- Reviewing investment cash flows and yields provided by portfolio managers for completeness and accuracy
- Preparing quarterly tax workbooks and schedules and audit work-papers
- Compiling information for press releases and investor and board presentations
Controller Assistant Job Description
- Supervising, motivating and mentoring the Financial Accounting team
- Ensure proper accounting principles are being followed
- Support operational Accounting processes
- Draft financial and accounting sections of SEC Forms 10-K, 10-Q, S-3’s, S-8’s, 8-Ks and proxy
- Supervise Fund Accounting team members on monthly bookkeeping and balance sheet review
- Design, develop and document improvements to the accounting and reporting functions to foster a greater reliance upon controls
- Assist in the oversight and performanceof the daily accounting including accounts payable and accounts receivablefunctions
- Manage the monthly accounting close process while ensuring timely and accurate consolidation of financial results
- Support the preparation of monthly and quarterly financial reporting package and SEC financial statements with larger accounting team
- Manage all day-to-day technical accounting activities
- Knowledge of GAAP, including corporate tax provisions
- Assisting with the fund administration process
- Assisting with managing the funds' annual audits
- Investment execution and trade settlement by participating in underlying manager document reviews, supervising the preparation of wire instructions and trade tickets, and confirming receipts of all investments
- Maintaining a database of underlying investments and key terms
- Reviewing and analysis of underlying manager audited financial statements
Controller Assistant Job Description
- Identify, recommend and implement accounting process improvements to support company growth
- Responsible for preparation of financial statements and all reporting for the US subsidiary
- In charge of insurance policy renewals and loss analysis, and meeting with brokers
- Analyze trends and identify ways to minimize costs
- Analyze financial data and implement effective internal control processes
- Responsible for overseeing Sr
- Manage and coach the team effectively
- Manage preparation of financial reports
- Manage financial statement and analysis
- Coordinate FRB/NYSB and internal audit examinations
- Yardi or Timberline systems experience strongly preferred
- Public/private mix (Big 4 background & must currently be in the retail, manufacturing, or wholesale industry)
- Must have managed a large team (8-9)
- Implement new reporting requirements and regulations
- CPA license or equivalent experience required
- Proficient in GAAP & SOX
Controller Assistant Job Description
- Assisting in process improvement
- Overseeing and reviewing the general ledger including recurring journal entries, period-end accruals, and intercompany activity
- Managing the monthly, quarterly and year end close
- Accurate and timely processing of accounts payable and accounts receivable
- Assisting with yearly budget and forecasting projections reporting on variances
- Coordinating and acting as a liaison with the external auditors regarding the annual financial statement audit
- Collaborating with business unit leaders to ensure all inter-company transactions are recorded properly
- Supervising and mentoring a staff of four direct reports
- Performing various ad hoc projects as requested by the Controller and CFO
- Reporting on the large trades across IB and ensuring that they are booked in line with the P&L
- GAAP Financial Statement preparation experienced required
- Knowledge of MS Office, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Yardi Voyager preferred
- Experience with fixed income financial instruments
- Healthcare/Pharmaceutical industry experience preferred
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation or Masters degree a plus
- Preparing detailed MI and analysis on client resource consumption such as Client Balance Sheet and Client RWA
Controller Assistant Job Description
- Review of all new contracts and write up summaries
- Review work of staff
- Support payroll/commissions and payroll tax filings
- Provide oversight for product costing and analysis
- Complete management reporting
- Participate in all phases of financial SEC reporting processes
- Support quarterly reviews and annual audit
- Update and maintain the database for making and tracking clinical trial payments
- Assist in Sarbanes-Oxley 404 documentation and support Sarbanes-Oxley 404 internal testing
- Submit account analysis
- Review and approve invoices for payment and accurate recording/coding of information to automated system
- Oversee monthly trial balance production for selected investment funds
- Coordinate interaction with financial services companies as a Fund Administrator for 9 funds, including parallel Trial Balance reconciliation
- Interface with Operations, Middle Office and Product Control personnel in review of position reconciliations and reporting
- Provide audit support for all funds
- Working knowledge of Credit-related products including Bank Debt, Trade Claims and Distressed Debt