Controllers - Salt Lake City - Vice President, Financial Accounting - 8981854
- Goldman Sachs
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- Full Time
Job Duties: Vice President, Financial Accounting with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in Salt Lake City, Utah. Managing the preparation of the firms 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.
Job Requirements: Masters 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 Bachelors 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 Masters degree or five (5) years with Bachelors degree with the following: using Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to produce or review financial information for inclusion in companys consolidated financials; identifying issues related to internal controls and supplying comprehensive recommendations to management to mitigate companys 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; and utilizing accounting processes and analyzing financial control infrastructure, control risk assessments, and control framework.
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