Role Summary The Senior Accountant, Financial Close and Reconciliations, balance sheet, and subledger reconciliations, tie-outs, close workpapers, and journal entry packages, and supports the external audit. Most reconciling items transparent. The ones that do not are where the role earns its value: an item that keeps rolling forward, a variance that is small but persistent, or a balance that ties but for the wrong reason. The role is expected to investigate the root cause rather than plug the difference, and to explain the item plainly. These are the cases the role exists to get right. This is a preparer role only. Approval, posting, sign-off, and all accounting-policy judgement are retained preserving segregation of duties.
Key Responsibilities
Reconciliations
- Prepare bank, balance sheet, and subledger reconciliations to the close calendar,
including card settlement and customer funds accounts.
- Investigate and explain reconciling items, and track aged items to resolution.
- Escalate unresolved or unusual items with a clear explanation. Month-End Close
- Prepare tie-outs and close workpapers.
- Prepare journal entry packages with supporting documentation for review and posting.
- Meet close calendar deadlines and flag risks early. Audit Support
- Prepare schedules and supporting documentation for external audit requests.
- Respond to auditor queries promptly and accurately. Process Improvement
- Identify recurring reconciling items and recommend fixes at source.
- Standardise and automate reconciliation workpapers where practical.