**Description** **Job Summary:** Under general supervision, uses extensive knowledge and skills obtained through education and experience to prepare financial statements, regulatory filings, and other financial analysis reports and to analyze and reconcile general ledger accounts. Guidance is provided to perform varied, complex accounting functions with responsibility for making complex decisions. Evaluation, originality and ingenuity are required to locate, select and apply appropriate procedures, processes and techniques to specific assignments. Resolves or recommends solutions to complex problems. Regular contact with senior management and other internal customers is required to identify, research, and resolve accounting/reporting issues and problems. **Essential Duties and Responsibilities:** * Interprets the regulatory guidance and prepares financial regulatory filings. * Uses general ledger accounting software to prepare monthly financial statements and reports. * Researches and makes recommendations to resolve unusual or irregular transactions. * Reconciles general ledger accounts, prepares analyses and completes other monthly general ledger closing procedures. * Responds to internal/external auditor inquiries. * Prepares surveys to be submitted to industry organizations and publications. * Researches issues regarding the application of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to preparing financial statements and other financial reports. * Recommends process improvements to increase efficiency in processing or analyzing financial information. * Assists in training others. * Resolves complex accounting problems. * Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned. **Qualifications** **Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:** **Knowledge of:** * Advanced accounting and reporting concepts, practices, and procedures. * Accrual based accounting practices. * Accounting and reporting software packages. * Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). **Skill in:** * Reviewing, interpreting and analyzing financial statements. * Interpreting regulatory guidance and preparing regulatory filings. * Preparing financial statements and management reports. * Resolving unusual transaction and accounting discrepancies. * Researching GAAP issues. * Operating standard office equipment and using required software applications to produce correspondence, reports, electronic communication, spreadsheets and complex databases. **Ability to:** * Implement changes to standard procedures when required by specific situations and circumstances. * Make independent decisions and solve more complex accounting problems. * Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with all organizational levels. * Explain or clarify financial information to all levels of management. * Provide training to others. * Organize, manage and track multiple detailed tasks and assignments with frequently changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment. * Provide a high level of customer service. **Educational/Previous Experience Requirements:** * Bachelor’s Degree (B.A.) in accounting or finance and a minimum of five (5) years experience in preparing and analyzing financial information; or * A minimum of four (4) years accounting experience in the financial services industry. ~or~ * Any equivalent combination of experience, education, and/or training approved by Human Resources. **Disclaimer** * Raymond James Bank is an EOE/AA and VEVRAA Federal Contractor * Priority will be given to protected veterans * EOE/AA: Female/Minorities/Disabled/Protected Veterans/LGBT **Job:** Accounting & Finance **Primary Location:** US-FL-St. Petersburg-Saint Petersburg **Organization** RJ Bank Accounting **Schedule** Full-time **Job Shift** Day Job **Travel** No **Req ID:** 2402968