Associate Director, Accounting - Operations Lending POST NUMBER: 430563

• Manages the financial record keeping, reporting, tax filing and other accounting functions for the organization.
• Effectively assess risk over accounts and areas of responsibility. Apply judgment to ensure that financial integrity of accounting entries, accruals, and account reconciliations are intact and operating effectively.
• Assist in research of technical accounting issues as needed. Apply proper accounting treatment required as a basis for booking journal entries and gathering audit evidence.
• Manage the month and quarter end close process and related responsibilities for the Lending Accounting team.
• Prepares or directs preparation of reports for management and other schedules requested by internal and external auditors.
• Researches and documents company position on technical accounting issues with the ability to effectively communicate and present to business partners.
• Supports compliance and improves processes and internal controls in area of responsibility.
• Produces accurate and timely financial reports, for internal and external use, in accordance with GAAP and in compliance with section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act, including the preparation of financial statements for standalone entities..
• Works directly with external auditors to support financial statement audits and control environment testing.

• 10 years of accounting experience
• Experience working for Fintech Lending a big plus
• Experience at a Big 4 accounting firm auditing financial institutions a big plus
• Technical accounting preferences in credit losses, allowance for loan losses, ASC 606, ASC 860.
• Strong technical (GAAP) and financial accounting skills and ability to document accounting conclusions in technical white papers. Ability to interpret and present technical accounting details in lay terms to non-accounting business partners
• CPA preferred

Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

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Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
• licensure and certification requirements;
• office location and other geographic considerations;
• other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.