Senior Accountant - Fintech Lending (Hybrid, Chicago)

Connect Search, LLC; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Connect Search, LLC is hiring a Senior Accountant to join a fast-growing, venture-backed fintech lender in Chicago. You will be hands-on, reporting to the Corporate Controller, handling day-to-day books for a growing loan portfolio across several entities and helping shape accounting processes as the team grows.

You'll own month-end close under US GAAP, loan and investment accounting, CECL support, intercompany reconciliations, and financial statements with audit support, while driving

Qualifications

• 3+ years of progressive accounting experience.
• Financial services background: lending, loans, mortgage, debt or specialty finance.
• Multi-entity consolidation and intercompany reconciliation experience.
• Strong close and reconciliation skills.
• Advanced Excel, and comfort using AI tools to work smarter.
• Clear communicator who likes to own the work.

Responsibilities

• Close monthly and year-end books under US GAAP with JEs, reconciliations, and support schedules.
• Handle loan and investment accounting: principal, interest and fee splits on debt service payments.
• Reconciling loan and investment positions to servicer and counterparty statements.
• Provide CECL support: loan-level inputs, allowance and provision entries, audit schedules.
• Consolidate across entities and perform intercompany reconciliations.

Skills

Advanced Excel

AI tooling experience

Ownership mindset

3+ years accounting

Strong communicator

Education

CPA track

Tools

Bill.com

QuickBooks Online

Job description

Connect Search, LLC is hiring a Senior Accountant to join a fast-growing, venture-backed fintech lender in Chicago. You will be hands-on, reporting to the Corporate Controller, handling day-to-day books for a growing loan portfolio across several entities and helping shape accounting processes as the team grows.

You'll own month-end close under US GAAP, loan and investment accounting, CECL support, intercompany reconciliations, and financial statements with audit support, while driving