Senior Accountant

FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.  

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Your Team's Impact

As a Senior Accountant, you will oversee financial reporting responsibilities along with some month-end close processes for the North America division. You will perform account reconciliations on a monthly basis with documented support, complete all journal entries each period while providing well-organized and easy to follow support, provide audit requests as needed for both internal and external auditors.

What You'll Do

Responsibilities:

• Complete financial reporting requests that relate to financial disclosures, financial statement tie-outs, roll-forward schedules, and other financial reporting deliverables needed by the technical accounting team.
• Independently prepare month-end journal entries to be recorded in the Workday ERP system and explain all components.
• Prepare account reconciliations on a monthly basis with well-documented support.
• Provide audit requests as needed, meeting assigned deadlines.
• Comply with internal SOX requirements and execute/understand assigned key controls.
• Navigate Workday and other key reporting systems, understand how to analyse accounts, and identify risks.
• Provide ad hoc reporting and analysis as needed.
• Provide flux analysis comparing income statement and balance sheet accounts across various periods and be able to explain major drivers for the change in balances on a monthly basis.

What We're Looking For

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting.
• 2-3 years of experience within Accounting.
• Experience with SEC reporting, month-end close, recording journal entries, and performing account reconciliations.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Word.

Desired Skills

• CPA designation or working towards CPA designation.
• Experience working in public accounting.
• Experience working for a public company.
• Advanced Excel skills.

What's In It For You

At FactSet, our people are our greatest asset, and our culture is our biggest competitive advantage. Being a FactSetter means:

• Contributing to a firm with over 40 years of consecutive growth, named a 2023 Best Place to Work by Glassdoor and led by a top-rated CEO Talent Champion.
• Support for your total well-being. This includes health, life, and disability insurance, as well as retirement savings plans and a discounted employee stock purchase program, plus paid time off for holidays, family leave, and companywide wellness days.
• Flexible work accommodations. We value work/life harmony and offer our employees a range of accommodations to help them achieve success both at work and in their personal lives.
• A global community dedicated to volunteerism, sustainability, and inclusivity, where collaboration is always encouraged, and individuality drives solutions.
• Career progression plans with dedicated time each month for learning and development.
• Employee-led Business Resource Groups that align with our DE&I strategy and are wholly supported by Executive Management.

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Company Culture and Benefits: At our organization, we foster a collaborative and inclusive culture that encourages growth and innovation. We offer competitive benefits and provide ample opportunities for professional development, paving the way for exciting career advancement within the Financial-Technology industry.

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Salary is just one component of our compensation package and is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, and certifications.

Company Overview: 

FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award winner. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn. 

At FactSet, we celebrate difference of thought, experience, and perspective. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to characteristics protected by law.