Senior Accountant

PenFed Credit Union; Washington, Baltimore (District of Columbia, MD); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 133,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

Parental leave

401(k) match

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Education assistance

Volunteer opportunities

Loan discounts

Job summary

PenFed Credit Union in Tysons, Virginia is seeking a Senior Accountant for a Hybrid role. You will apply GAAP knowledge to prepare and analyze financial information, record transactions, and support audits and policy projects.

Responsibilities include monthly closings, preparing financial statements, reconciliations, and designing reports. You will collaborate with consultants and auditors, and training staff as needed to ensure continuity and accuracy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• 4+ years of related accounting experience.
• Strong GAAP knowledge; CPA preferred.
• Examples of presenting accounting results to stakeholders.
• Strong Excel skills: pivots and VLOOKUPs.
• Ability to simplify large data sets in Excel.
• Curious and adaptable in a dynamic environment.
• Strong writing, verbal and presentation skills.
• Experience with monthly accounting close preferred.
• Experience using AI tools preferred.

Responsibilities

• Compile and record financial information to the general ledger; complete monthly closings.
• Prepare balance sheet, income statements, and other schedules.
• Perform reconciliations to ensure ledger accuracy and auditability.
• Execute and manage timely, accurate transactions.
• Identify control weaknesses and implement remedial changes.
• Design and produce reports.
• Conduct research and analyses for projects.
• Provide information to auditors and consultants on significant matters.
• Assist in maintaining accounting systems for proper recognition of transactions.
• Support staff and act as escalation point for Staff Accountants.

Skills

GAAP accounting

Excel (Pivot Tables)

Excel (VLOOKUPs)

Financial analysis

Communication

Technical writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Job Overview

PenFed is hiring a (Hybrid) Senior Accountant at our Tysons, Virginia location. The primary purpose of this job is to apply comprehensive knowledge of accounting principles, concepts, practices, and standards in performing complex duties related to preparing and analyzing financial information to record transactions, prepare reports, and review and verify accuracy. This position will also work with consultants, auditors, and others to analyze and provide information on operational, reporting, or system impact related to policy changes and new products; contribute to special projects; and may train staff.

Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties and the position will perform other duties as assigned.

• Compile, review, analyze, and record financial information to the general ledger. Complete monthly closings.
• Prepare balance sheet and profit and loss statements, consolidated financial statements, and other accounting schedules and reports.
• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly reconciliations to ensure general ledger account information is accurate, consistent, traceable, and auditable.
• Execute and manage timely, accurate transactions.
• Identify control weaknesses, communicate to management, and participate in making remedial changes to tighten and enhance controls.
• Design and produce reports.
• Conduct research and analyses.
• Provide requested information to auditors, consultants, and others on significant matters requiring coordination.
• May design, modify, install, and/or maintain accounting systems to ensure adequate recognition of financial transactions.
• May perform moderately complex accounting projects or participate as a team member on highly complex projects.
• Act as point of escalation for Staff Accountants

This role is responsible for ensuring business continuity.

Qualifications

Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent required
• 4+ years of related experience in Accounting
• Strong understanding of GAAP accounting required. CPA strongly preferred.
• Must have specific examples of preparing and presenting accounting results to stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills, particularly with excel pivots and VLOOKUPS, required.
• Must have specific examples of simplifying large data sets using excel.
• Intellectually curious with a willingness to work in a dynamic, challenging and rewarding environment.
• Strong writing, verbal and presentation skills required.
• Experience with monthly accounting close preferred.
• Experience using AI tools, preferred.

Supervisory Responsibility

This role will not supervise employees.

Licenses and Certifications

There Are No Additional Certifications Required.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an indoor office setting with moderate noise.

Most roles require working in an office setting with moderate noise and the ability to lift 25 pounds.

Travel

Ability to travel to various worksites and be on-call may be required.

Pay Transparency

The anticipated starting salary range for this role is $60,000.00 - $ 132,840.00

This position is eligible for an organizational performance based annual bonus, subject to board discretion and approval.

This position is eligible for an individual performance based annual bonus.

Benefits

At PenFed, we offer a robust benefits package designed to support you both personally and professionally. You'll have access to comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans; paid time off; and family-friendly benefits like paid parental leave, care support, and fitness center access. Financial wellness is encouraged through features like a 401(k) match, employee loan discounts, and fully paid life and disability coverage. We also support growth via education assistance, community involvement, and volunteer opportunities.

Our Purpose

Helping members achieve their dreams since 1935. Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed) is one of America's largest federal credit unions, serving 2.8 million members worldwide with $29 billion in assets. PenFed offers market-leading certificates, checking and savings, credit cards, personal loans, mortgages, auto loans, and a wide range of other financial services, always with members' interests in mind. PenFed is federally insured by the NCUA and is an Equal Housing Lender.

Equal Employment Opportunity

PenFed management will maintain and observe personnel policies which will not discriminate or permit harassment or retaliation against a person because of race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, military or veteran status or obligation, the presence of a physical and/or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, and all statuses protected by applicable state or local law in all recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, overtime, position classifications, work assignments, facilities, promotions, transfers, employee treatment, and in all other terms and conditions of employment. PenFed will also prohibit retaliation against individuals for raising a complaint of discrimination or harassment or participating in an investigation of same. PenFed will also reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability so that they can apply for a job or perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace and the threat cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation or if the accommodation creates an undue hardship to PenFed. Contact human resources (HR) with any questions or requests for accommodation at [e-mail].