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Senior Accountant

2 months ago

Des Moines Iowa, United States Principal Financial Group Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Accountant to join our Investment Accounting team at Principal Financial Group. As a key member of our team, you will play a critical role in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our financial statements.

Key Responsibilities
  • Apply knowledge of accounting standards and expertise to tackle business problems, seeking guidance for new or complex situations.
  • Interact with various functions across the organization, including internal/external portfolio management, external auditors, external pricing vendors, operations, and accounting team members.
  • Independently research and document sophisticated accounting decisions.
  • Apply sophisticated accounting analysis in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), statutory accounting principles (SAP), tax regulations, or other regulatory guidance.
  • Perform complex transaction processing and exception handling.
  • Provide oversight and/or execution of month-end accounting processes, including cash flow analysis, reconciliations, and general journal entries.
  • Interpret valuation control reports and assets, identify, and evaluate risks and opportunities, and present findings to management and analysts for decision making.
  • Responsible for the monthly process to obtain prices from external sources or internal models and assure the reasonableness of those prices within a strong control environment for fixed income, alternative, and mortgage loan assets on our consolidated financial statements.
  • Participate in identifying opportunities for process efficiencies, data reconciliation, and model documentation improvements.
  • Act as the subject matter expert and work with project owners to ensure accounting objectives are met through the design and implementation of new processes and/or systems.
  • Carry out testing to ensure the system or process is operating as intended.
  • Escalate any findings/variances/issues as needed.
  • Identify and implement operational excellence projects, providing business requirements for new systems or improvements.
  • Assist in the development and implementation of governance frameworks and financial controls.
  • Monitor control structure and escalate issues as vital.
  • Drive remediation plans for control deficiencies.
  • Coordinate with external auditors as part of the planning and execution of the annual external audits.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance or equivalent experience plus a minimum of 5 years relevant experience required.
  • CPA or other applicable certifications preferred.
  • Understanding of basic accounting principles, ability to interpret financial statements, and efficiently and effectively research, compile, and analyze information.
  • Must be detail-oriented, able to maintain a high degree of accuracy, work independently, meet established deadlines, handle multiple tasks, and prioritize effectively.
  • Ability to learn systems and applications used within the firm required, proficiency with system and applications strong preferred.
What We Offer
  • Comprehensive, competitive benefit offerings crafted to protect your physical, financial, and social well-being.
  • A purpose-led firm, motivated by our mission to make financial security accessible to all.
  • A trusted leader for over 140 years, with a strong commitment to our employees and customers.