Senior Accountant - Cedar Rapids, United States - Aegon

Description

Responsible for the accounting of complex transactions typically associated with advanced accounting such as verifying the accuracy of journal entries and accounting classifications assigned to various reconciliations; processing and summarizing financial transactions.

Responsibilities:
Ensures the accounting transactions are recorded accurately and timely.
Reconciles, investigates, corrects, and adjusts accounting information in accordance with aggressive deadlines.
Works with both internal and external sources to ensure proper reporting of financial data.
Reviews or analyzes data for completeness, material changes, variances, and other appropriate information.
Determines appropriate methodology to prepare information for use by others.
Identifies, participates, and contributes ideas for success in relation to assigned work, projects, or other process enhancements.
Understands the flow of information, admin systems, appropriate reporting tools and uses that knowledge to troubleshoot problems.
Responsible for adherence to the company's framework of internal controls.
Participates on project teams.

Seeks out potential areas of improvement (for example, workflow, automated processes), by documenting business processes, identifying controls and deficiencies, testing identified controls, and work with internal departments for best practices.

Work with Internal and External Auditors.
May be responsible for the quarterly and annual preparation work that helps prepare the statutory financial reporting.
May have supervisory responsibilities, or review work or train other accountants.
Create, update, review of standard operating procedures.


Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in Accounting or equivalent

education/experience.
Minimum of 5 years of experience, with degree.
Preferred

Qualifications:
Advanced knowledge of accounting area preferred (for example, investments, insurance products, premium, tax).

Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing, ability to handle multiple projects, customer service approach, willingness to take on new projects.

Work effectively individually and within a team; organizational and prioritization skills.

Working Conditions:
Fast paced deadline-driven office environment.
Hybrid employees

will need to work at a Company office location at times and a remote work location (typically their home) at times.

Locations:
Cedar Rapids, IA
St. Petersburg, FL
This job description is not a contract of employment nor for any specific job responsibilities. The Company may change, add to, remove, or revoke the terms of this job description at its discretion. Managers may assign other duties and responsibilities as needed.

In the event an employee or applicant requests or requires an accommodation in order to perform job functions, the applicable HR Business Partner should be contacted to evaluate the accommodation request.

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