Senior Accountant

We need to produce HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Not present. Responsibilities: we have primary responsibility and essential functions. Could combine into Responsibilities. Requirements: Education and Experience, Competencies maybe as Requirements? Usually Requirements includes education/experience and competencies. Benefits, Pay, Schedule not present, so omit. Use

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  for prose. We must not repeat job title. No metadata like Job ID. Remove boilerplate: EEO, equal opportunity, accommodation statement, etc. Also remove "THIS JOB DESCRIPTION IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT ANY TIME." Also remove "Genesee Regional Bank is an equal opportunity organization..." etc. Also remove "Reasonable accommodation may be made..." etc. Also remove "While performing the duties..." maybe physical demands? That's not required to keep? It's substantive? It's about physical demands; maybe we can keep but it's not a section heading. Could include in a

  under Responsibilities? Probably better to keep as a paragraph under a section like "Working Conditions" but we only create sections when there is real specific content. Physical demands and work environment could be included as a paragraph under a section like "Work Environment". But we don't have a heading for that unless we create a section. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could combine into Responsibilities section. But physical demands is not responsibility. Could we omit? It's substantive but not required to keep? The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we must keep physical demands and work environment info. We could put them in a

  after Responsibilities, maybe under a heading like "Working Conditions". But we need to decide if we create a heading for it. The instruction: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text. So we can create a section for Working Conditions if we have specific content. We have physical demands and work environment specifics. So we can create a heading like "Working Conditions". Use

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  with the details. Similarly, we have Education and Experience, Competencies. Could combine into Requirements section with subpoints? But we need to follow instruction: Use

  for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can use Requirements heading for education/experience and competencies. Could also split into Education & Experience and Competencies as separate headings, but that may be many thin sections. Better to combine into Requirements. Thus sections: Responsibilities, Requirements, Working Conditions. We need to extract content. Primary Responsibility paragraph: "Under the supervision of the Controller, responsible for overseeing the bank’s operational accounting functions, managing the accounts payable process, Facilitating the month-end close process, and the review of monthly account reconciliations to ensure accurate and efficient performance of the Bank’s financial accounting function. This position is expected to have strong accounting expertise and the ability to analyze data and independently problem-solve." Essential Functions list: many bullet-like sentences. We'll turn each into

  . We need to preserve all substantive info. So list each essential function as separate

  . Might be long but okay. Let's extract essential functions sentences separated by periods? The text: "Oversee the bank’s accounting operations, including account reconciliations, daily balancing of GL and bank accounts, loan settlements, daily processing, mortgage closing and funding, clearing suspense items, and other duties. Review daily balancing performed by accounting staff and serve as the primary back-up for operational functions.Manage the processing of Accounts Payable in a timely and accurate manner, including proper classification of invoices to the general ledger while ensuring accurate accounting for capital expenditures, prepaid expenses, and expense accruals.Manage the expense reimbursement process, including reviewing expense reports and managing the corporate credit card program.Review monthly account reconciliations performed by accounting staff and prepare high level or complex reconciliations; take responsibility for ensuring outstanding items clear on a timely basis.Calculate mortgage sales commissions and work with HR to ensure proper processing in accordance with respective incentive compensation plansResearch and ensure compliance with the proper accounting for other items, including periodic monthly, quarterly, and annual transactions in addition to irregular and non-recurring transactions. This includes participation in the adoption of new accounting standards updates.Facilitate the general ledger closing process each month, including variance analysis and proposing journal entriesMaintain the bank's general ledger as an accurate and useful accounting resource; in coordination with the operations department, this includes account structure and system parameter setup, deferred fee/cost parameters and maintenance, as well as relevant interfaces with core system modules and integration with other systems essential to the bank’s accounting functionOn an as-needed basis, participate in cross-departmental teams for the implementation of new products or other procedural changes that have an impact on accounting processes and/or general ledger interfaceResponsible for the accurate preparation and timely filing of sales tax returns and Form 1099’sEnsure compliance with abandoned property/stale dated check rulesParticipate in self-development activities to understand and continuously grow knowledge of bank transactions, GAAP, treasury functions, and other industry knowledge.Work with other finance personnel to fulfill the requirements for any internal audits, external audits, and regulatory examinations related to the finance function.Actively participate in demonstrating the behaviors outlined in The GRB Experience.Other duties as assigned." We need to split into sensible items. Could keep each sentence as

  . Ensure we keep details. Now Education and Experience: "Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting with a minimum of 5 years’ accounting experience, or the equivalent combination of education and experience.Competency with Microsoft applications including Excel, Word and Outlook.CPA preferred but not requiredPublic accounting and/or supervisory experience preferred" We can make

  • each. Competencies list: many sentences separated by periods. We'll split. Competencies: "Strong knowledge of GAAP accounting principles.Provide a remarkable client experience. Greet clients with warmth, genuine interest and a smile.Lead by example. Identify current or potential problems, take ownership and see them through to resolution.Act as a unified team. Possess strong interpersonal skills including the ability to proactively communicate with and help others, within and across departments.Ability to work independently. Seek and incorporate feedback on your performance from management, coworkers and clients.Demonstrated PC literacy.Ability to handle highly confidential information with sensitivity, tact and discretion.Possesses exceptionally strong data analytics skills and a passion to dig into data to find answers.Self-driven with an obsession for learning and independently pursuing process improvements." We need to keep each as
  • . Some sentences are combined like "Strong knowledge of GAAP accounting principles." then "Provide a remarkable client experience. Greet clients with warmth, genuine interest and a smile." Actually that's two sentences: "Provide a remarkable client experience." and "Greet clients with warmth, genuine interest and a smile." We'll split. Now Working Conditions: Physical Demands paragraph and Work Environment paragraph. Physical Demands: "While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands or fingers, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to stand, sit, and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus." Work Environment: "The work environment is an indoor, climate-controlled office setting.Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Genesee Regional Bank is an equal opportunity organization. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.THIS JOB DESCRIPTION IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT ANY TIME." We need to remove boilerplate: EEO statement, accommodation statement, and change statement. So we keep only: "The work environment is an indoor, climate-controlled office setting." Possibly also keep "Reasonable accommodation may be made..."? That's boilerplate? It's about accommodation; might be considered boilerplate but it's substantive? The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. The accommodation statement is likely legal boilerplate. So remove it. Also remove EEO line. Also remove change statement. Thus Working Conditions section will have Physical Demands paragraph and Work Environment paragraph (just the indoor climate-controlled office setting). We'll combine into one

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    s. Now produce HTML. Structure:

    Responsibilities

    • Under the supervision of the Controller, responsible for overseeing the bank’s operational accounting functions, managing the accounts payable process, facilitating the month-end close process, and the review of monthly account reconciliations to ensure accurate and efficient performance of the Bank’s financial accounting function. This position is expected to have strong accounting expertise and the ability to analyze data and independently problem-solve.
    • Oversee the bank’s accounting operations, including account reconciliations, daily balancing of GL and bank accounts, loan settlements, daily processing, mortgage closing and funding, clearing suspense items, and other duties.
    • Review daily balancing performed by accounting staff and serve as the primary back-up for operational functions.
    • Manage the processing of Accounts Payable in a timely and accurate manner, including proper classification of invoices to the general ledger while ensuring accurate accounting for capital expenditures, prepaid expenses, and expense accruals.
    • Manage the expense reimbursement process, including reviewing expense reports and managing the corporate credit card program.
    • Review monthly account reconciliations performed by accounting staff and prepare high level or complex reconciliations; take responsibility for ensuring outstanding items clear on a timely basis.
    • Calculate mortgage sales commissions and work with HR to ensure proper processing in accordance with respective incentive compensation plans.
    • Research and ensure compliance with the proper accounting for other items, including periodic monthly, quarterly, and annual transactions in addition to irregular and non-recurring transactions; this includes participation in the adoption of new accounting standards updates.
    • Facilitate the general ledger closing process each month, including variance analysis and proposing journal entries.
    • Maintain the bank's general ledger as an accurate and useful accounting resource; in coordination with the operations department, this includes account structure and system parameter setup, deferred fee/cost parameters and maintenance, as well as relevant interfaces with core system modules and integration with other systems essential to the bank’s accounting function.
    • On an as-needed basis, participate in cross-departmental teams for the implementation of new products or other procedural changes that have an impact on accounting processes and/or general ledger interface.
    • Responsible for the accurate preparation and timely filing of sales tax returns and Form 1099’s.
    • Ensure compliance with abandoned property/stale dated check rules.
    • Participate in self-development activities to understand and continuously grow knowledge of bank transactions, GAAP, treasury functions, and other industry knowledge.
    • Work with other finance personnel to fulfill the requirements for any internal audits, external audits, and regulatory examinations related to the finance function.
    • Actively participate in demonstrating the behaviors outlined in The GRB Experience.
    • Other duties as assigned.

    Requirements

    • Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting with a minimum of 5 years’ accounting experience, or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
    • Competency with Microsoft applications including Excel, Word and Outlook.
    • CPA preferred but not required.
    • Public accounting and/or supervisory experience preferred.
    • Strong knowledge of GAAP accounting principles.
    • Provide a remarkable client experience.
    • Greet clients with warmth, genuine interest and a smile.
    • Lead by example.
    • Identify current or potential problems, take ownership and see them through to resolution.
    • Act