Title: Vice President of Accounting

Primary Location:  Grand Rapids

Employee Status: full-time exempt

Estimated Hours/Week:  38

Remote:  No

What You’ll Get: (note varied offerings based on role and hours)

• Weekly Pay

• Comprehensive Health & Wellness package including Medical (with prescription coverage), Dental, and vision

• Matching Health Savings Account Contributions, Dependent Care flexible spending account (FSA)

• Retirement options like 401 (k) with company match and pension.

• Paid time off: Vacation, Personal days, paid holidays, paid volunteer time, sick days, & flex time.

• Tuition reimbursement

• To see a full list of our benefit offerings – check out this helpful guide!

About this position:

LMCU is looking for a Vice President of Accounting who will be responsible for playing a critical role in overseeing the financial integrity and operational efficiency of the credit union's accounting functions. This position is responsible for the strategic direction, management, and oversight of the accounting department, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and contributing to the overall financial strategy and performance of the credit union.

What you’ll do:

• Assumes responsibility for the development and implementation of effective accounting strategies, policies, and procedure. Ensures that policies are in accordance with evolving regulations, legal requirements, accounting principles, and industry trends.

• Supervises the development and implementation of financial information and control systems, including general ledger, budgeting, mortgage accounting, and other accounting subsystems.

• Assumes responsibility for the effective preparation, maintenance and reporting of internal and external financial records and analyses.

• Oversees development and preparation of daily, monthly, annual, and other periodic financial statements and reports. Ensures that accounts and reports provide responsibility centers with adequate operating and financial data. Ensures that records and reports are in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and government regulations.

• Oversees the preparation of budgets. Assists in establishing operation budgets for each responsibility center.

• Performs and oversees special studies for management, such as cost analyses, ratio and trend analyses, and other comparative examinations. Detects and analyzes trends in financial data.

• Assumes responsibility for aiding and advising department managers in handling accounting entries and reports and various comparative analyses.

• Interfaces with Information Systems personnel in the
  development and implementation of efficient accounting procedures consistent with new applications.

• Assumes responsibility for establishing and maintaining effective business relations with outside auditors and regulators. Serves as liaison between the Credit Union and external auditors and regulatory authorities.

• Stays informed about new and changing accounting statements issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).

• Effectively supervises the accounting department staff, ensuring optimal performance. Provides leadership to department personnel through effective objective setting, delegation, communication, training, and performance appraisals as required.

What You’ll Bring: You’ll like this position if you have...

• Five years to eight years of progressive accounting experience, with at least 5 years in a leadership role within the financial services industry, preferably in a credit union or banking environment.

• A bachelor's degree in accounting and/or finance, CPA or similar credential (beneficial, but not required).

• Strong knowledge of GAAP, regulatory requirements, and financial reporting standards specific to credit unions.

• Knowledge of related auditing functions.

• Understanding of Credit Union operations and information needs.

• Strong organizational skills.

• Excellent analytical abilities.

• Technical understanding of automated accounting and other industry information systems.

Who We Are:

We’re proud of our past, thrilled with our present, and couldn’t be more excited about our future! Lake Michigan Credit Union has grown to become one of the largest credit unions in the nation with our headquarters in West Michigan.

As a credit union, LMCU is a not for profit institution, owned by its members, instead of corporate stock holders. We are accountable directly to our members, and they directly share in our success – benefitting by lower and fewer fees, better savings and checking interest rates, lower cost mortgages and a host of other advantages that simply don’t exist at traditional banks.

It’s about always doing what’s best and right for our members - it guides everything we do.

From friendly, knowledgeable and professional employees who greet you by name, to offering stellar value at every turn, LMCU works for its members.

Working with LMCU you can grow and advance in your career and work with talented teams that help you become better each and every day.As an employee you can have confidence in knowing your work is having an impact by supporting our mission of serving our members’ lifetime financial needs.

You’ll be encouraged to innovate and excel and we're committed to your empowerment as an employee, providing ongoing training, development, support, and opportunities for you to achieve your career goals.

Have additional questions about the role?

You may email us at: Careers@lmcu.org.

If you lack access to the internet or internet connectivity, or have a disability that hinders your ability to apply online, please choose one of the following options to obtain assistance:

Call us at: (616) 242-9790

Mail your resume to: 5664 Prairie Creek Drive, Caledonia, MI 49316

Please Note: These options are reserved for use by individuals requesting an accommodation as a candidate. Information received via these options will be routed to our HR team, who will provide appropriate assistance to facilitate the completion of LMCU’s online application.