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Senior Financial Reporting Specialist
Jane Street Group, LLC has openings for a Senior Financial Reporting Specialist in New York, NY.
The position duties are as follows : Drive key components of the global accounting function at Jane Street. This includes analyzing and maintaining financial books and records to ensure their efficiency and compliance with GAAP principles or applicable foreign accounting standards and preparing and reviewing various accounting reconciliations and financial disclosures that support the preparation of the financial statements. Day-to-day job duties include :
- Support the accounting month-end close process in the US and globally, which includes the preparation of various accounting reconciliations and financial schedules that support the preparation of the financial statements, such as global cash reconciliation, investment rollforward, and global trading profit and loss calculation
- Serve as the primary liaison between Jane Street and external auditors for various interim and annual financial audits, reviews, and agreed-upon procedure engagements
- Work with developers to codify and test various P&L adjustment logic for automation, including creating standardized SQL query templates to empower user self-service
- Drive the revamp of the activity-based P&L process, which includes global trading profit and loss computation, classification, and reconciliation across existing and new trade flows
- Prepare comprehensive monthly financial analyses for various global trading and non-trading Jane Street entities, including the newly established Canadian broker-dealer entity, which entails balance sheet and income statement fluctuation reviews, monthly financial statements and supporting schedules to fulfill various reporting requirements
- Review, assign, and correct trade / transaction types for daily trade activities to ensure accurate P&L attribution and categorization
- Oversee the completion of monthly "book close" of the internal database, including collaborating closely with the reconciliation team and conducting pre-close checks on interest and dividend netting, security type attribution, and security prices that feed into Profit and Loss computation
- Manage responses to key financial reporting surveys including the BE-185 and Business Enterprise R&D Surveys
Part-time telecommuting may be permitted with manager approval.
The position requires 3 or 4 year Bachelor's degree in Accounting, a related field, or foreign equivalent plus 3 years of experience as an accountant or similar role. Experience must include the following :
2 years of experience in a public accounting role including experience acting in a Senior capacity overseeing audit engagements and exposure to both US GAAP and IFRS
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