Title: Associates, Financial Accounting
Employer: ING Financial Services, LLC
Location: New York, NY
Salary range: $110,000 - $140,000
Job Description:
Lead the delivery of consolidated financial and regulatory reporting for ING’s head office. Lead preparation of Year-End audited financial statements for standalone legal entity. Own reconciliation processes across daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual cycles for timely and accurate month-end close reporting. Analyze existing accounting configurations and develop enhanced setups to improve financial data accuracy and reporting efficiency. Manage the implementation of new accounting standards and guidance in accordance with IFRS. Develop advanced reconciliations and variance analysis to produce detailed commentary for the Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Off-Balance Sheet. Apply financial product knowledge to execute projects with strategic technology builds and changes in reporting paradigms. Contribute to project preparation and play a key role in multiple initiatives, supporting execution and driving progress across deliverables. Act as key contributor in presenting high-priority projects to the Finance Department, highlighting team efforts and final deliverables prepared for local regulators. Liaise with Finance teams, Operations, Front Office, internal and external auditors. Independently implement and enhance internal controls over financial reporting, identifying process inefficiencies and recommending improvements to strengthen control environments. Sign off on regulatory and financial reports as a reviewer. Lead interactions with internal auditors, external auditors, and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance teams. Design onboarding programs and contribute to strategic planning, policy development, and financial oversight activities. Provide mentorship and job training to new team members.
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Accounting, or Business Administration with Accounting focus and minimum 2 years of experience as financial or accounting analyst in the financial services industry. Must have experience working with the following: financial reporting and regulatory reporting; variance analysis and commentary accounting policies and new guidance implementation; automation and process improvement; financial products including Rev/Repo and Stock Borrow/Loan, derivatives, equities, and loans; performing financial analysis; Power BI and Python; navigating enterprise financial systems for reporting, journal entries, and data extraction; and reconciling financial data between multiple feeder systems and the general ledger to ensure accuracy and consistency.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Business Administration with Accounting focus (or foreign equivalent)
- Minimum 2 years experience as a financial or accounting analyst in the financial services industry
- Experience with financial reporting and regulatory reporting
- Experience performing reconciliations across daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual cycles and month‑end close
- Experience preparing year‑end audited financial statements for a standalone legal entity
- Experience with variance analysis and producing detailed commentary for Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Off‑Balance Sheet
- Experience implementing accounting policies and new guidance in accordance with IFRS
- Experience with automation and process improvement initiatives
- Knowledge of financial products (Rev/Repo, Stock Borrow/Loan, derivatives, equities, loans)
- Experience navigating enterprise financial systems for reporting, journal entries, and data extraction
- Experience reconciling financial data between multiple feeder systems and the general ledger
- Experience working with auditors, SOX compliance teams, and implementing/enhancing internal controls over financial reporting
- Experience with Power BI
- Experience with Python
- Ability to provide mentorship and job training to new team members
What We Do
ING is a pioneer in digital banking and on the forefront as one of the most innovative banks in the world. As ING, we have a clear purpose that represents our conviction of people’s potential. We don’t judge, coach, or tell people how to live their lives. However big or small, modest or grand, we empower people and businesses to realise their vision for a better future. We made the promise to make banking frictionless, removing barriers to progress, and make people confident in their financial decisions. As a global bank we have a huge opportunity – and responsibility – to make an impact for the better. We can play a role by financing change, sharing knowledge, and innovating. Being sustainable is in all the choices we make—as a lender, as a partner and through the services we offer our customers
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