General Ledger Specialist — Remote, Travel 50-60%

Matlen Silver; Dallas (TX); Remote; USD 55,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-paid travel

Remote work

Job summary

Matlen Silver is seeking a General Ledger Specialist to support core banking migrations, system cutovers, and financial implementations. The role focuses on GL mapping, subledger-to-GL balancing, journal verification, and account reconciliations during mock conversions, testing, and live go-lives.

Candidates with bank/financial-institution experience and solid GL knowledge are preferred; travel is approximately 50-60% with occasional longer trips, and remote work is supported.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or equivalent professional accounting experience.
• Previous accounting or finance experience within a bank, credit union, or financial institution.
• Strong understanding of General Ledger accounting workflows.
• Strong knowledge of chart of accounts structures and GL mapping.
• Experience researching and resolving out-of-balance conditions.
• Hands-on experience with complex account and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Experience preparing, reviewing, and posting journal entries.
• Experience supporting system cutovers, testing, implementations, or financial system migrations.
• Ability to support test script validation and post-migration financial tie-outs.
• Willingness and ability to travel approximately 50%-60%, typically 1-2 trips per month lasting 6-9 days.

Responsibilities

• Support financial institution core banking migrations, system cutovers, and implementations.
• Perform General Ledger mapping and assist with chart of accounts alignment.
• Perform subledger-to-GL balancing and identify discrepancies.
• Research and resolve out-of-balance conditions.
• Prepare, review, and verify standard, recurring, and adjusting journal entries.
• Perform balance sheet and complex account reconciliations.
• Support mock conversion runs and active testing cycles.
• Validate financial results following migrations and system conversions.
• Assist with test script validation and post-migration financial tie-outs.
• Support live go-live and cutover events.
• Work closely with accounting, finance, operations, and implementation teams throughout the conversion process.

Skills

General Ledger

GL mapping

Subledger balancing

Journal entries

Account reconciliations

Banking migrations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Job description

Matlen Silver is seeking a General Ledger Specialist to support core banking migrations, system cutovers, and financial implementations. The role focuses on GL mapping, subledger-to-GL balancing, journal verification, and account reconciliations during mock conversions, testing, and live go-lives.

Candidates with bank/financial-institution experience and solid GL knowledge are preferred; travel is approximately 50-60% with occasional longer trips, and remote work is supported.