Mortgage Accounting Specialist

Golden 1; Sacramento (CA); Hybrid; USD 78,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Golden 1 Credit Union in Sacramento seeks a Staff Accountant to join our Accounting team, focusing on mortgage accounting and ensuring accuracy and strong internal controls within the organization.

The ideal candidate has mortgage accounting experience or similar, with 5+ years in accounting within a financial institution and a Bachelor’s in Accounting. This exempt, full-time role reports to the Sr Manager - Accounting and pays $77,500–$85,000 annually.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience required.
• 5+ years in Accounting, financial institution, or equivalent required.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain sub-ledgers.
• Reconcile, research, and clear differences.
• Develop process improvements to accounting systems and procedures to mitigate/resolve systemic issues and outages.
• Data entry and recordkeeping.
• Prepare journal entries for the Credit Union.
• Review and research monthly income statement variances.
• Participate in department projects by providing expert advice to management on all items related to their accounting specialization(s).
• Initiating and leading meetings to resolve issues.
• Contributes to the preparation and review of internal financial reports, including Cash Flow, Financial Statements, variance, statistical reporting, and other ad-hoc reporting.
• Formulate, affect, interpret, and implement management policies and procedure practices for all position functions.
• Update procedures in response to changes in operational activities or technological upgrades.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of state and federal laws and regulations related to credit union compliance including bank secrecy act (BSA) and anti-money laundering laws appropriate to the position.
• Ensure compliance with applicable standards, rules, regulations and systems of internal control.
• Preparation of audit work papers/computer spreadsheets for internal auditors.
• Independently formulate budget expectations for accounting specialization(s) in budget preparation, analyzing past performance and anticipating likely future implications.
• Proactively develops and delivers solution recommendations to management.
• Contributes to the preparation and review of external financial reports, including Investments, Financial Statements, variance reports, regulatory reports, Board reports, statistical reporting, peer reporting, and other ad-hoc reporting.
• Increase productivity by developing automated applications, eliminating duplications and coordinating information requirements.
• Perform reviews or validations of Accounting Specialist work prior to, or in lieu of, review by Accounting Supervisor.
• Influences capital project planning.
• Update and maintain computerized accounting models and analyze results through reports, graphs and other analytical tools.
• Develop reports for executive management and the board of directors.
• Create, analyze, review data, supporting spreadsheets, and charts to report the financial performance of the Credit Union.
• Recommend enhancements to analytical modeling tools to further support strategic plans and initiatives.
• Perform reviews or validations of other accountants work prior to, or in lieu of, review by Accounting Manager or Budget Manager
• Contributes to preparation of audit work papers/computer spreadsheets for external auditors.
• Contributes to preparation of Allowance for Loan Loss Analysis (ALL), Call Report, Delinquency, Modifications, and Charge-off Reporting.
• Develop and Recommend Internal Controls improvements.
• Comprehension of economic and industry impact on financial planning and ability to adjust accordingly.
• Lead and coordinate capital project planning by advising business owners on appropriate accounting treatment on project costs and related expenses.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Job description

Golden 1 Credit Union in Sacramento seeks a Staff Accountant to join our Accounting team, focusing on mortgage accounting and ensuring accuracy and strong internal controls within the organization.

The ideal candidate has mortgage accounting experience or similar, with 5+ years in accounting within a financial institution and a Bachelor’s in Accounting. This exempt, full-time role reports to the Sr Manager - Accounting and pays $77,500–$85,000 annually.