Financial Accountant Jobs in Utah

INTRODUCTION

Vice President, Financial Accounting with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in Salt Lake City, Utah.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

- Managing the preparation of the firm’s quarterly and annual consolidated financial statements, footnotes and XBRL filings jointly with the management team.
- Providing guidance to LECs and Product Controllers on quarter-end processes and new deliverables.
- Coordinating with the external auditors and managing the quarterly review and year-end audit processes.
- Evaluating the impact of new accounting standards on disclosures.
- Reviewing complex transactions with Accounting Policy and controllers to evaluate the impact on disclosures.
- Responsible for reconciliation, finalization of balance sheets, new entity setup and dissolutions approvals, and overall preparation and reporting of financial reports to internal and external stakeholders.
- Responsible for monthly closing process, including review and monitoring of firmwide consolidation entries to ensure accurate reporting of firmwide balance sheet.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Master’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Finance, Accounting, Professional Studies, Management, or a related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or in a related role OR Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Finance, Accounting, Professional Studies, Management, or a related field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or in a related role.
- Prior experience must include three (3) years with Master’s degree or five (5) years with Bachelor’s degree with the following:
- Using Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to produce or review financial information for inclusion in company’s consolidated financials.
- Identifying issues related to internal controls and supplying comprehensive recommendations to management to mitigate company’s risks.
- Participating in internal and external financial audits, including demonstrated familiarity with audit trail, audit testing, control documentation processes, and audit inquiries.
- Reviewing general ledger and journal entries to analyze and compute consolidation entries.
- Investigating fluctuations in both P&L and balance sheet account amounts and reporting periods, including identification, and understanding of underlying drivers during analytical reviews.
- Using Excel, MS Word, and MS Powerpoint to create reports and perform analysis using pivot tables, VLOOKUP, charts, filtering, data validation, and other “what if” tools.
- Utilizing accounting processes and analyzing financial control infrastructure, control risk assessments, and control framework.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Holiday & Vacation Policies
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.

LOCATION

Salt Lake City

CORPORATE TITLE

Vice President

DIVISION

Controllers

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