Senior Accountant

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St Louis, MO, USA
Hybrid
Senior level
Big Data • Fintech • Information Technology • Software • Analytics
The Role
The Senior Accountant supports revenue recognition, accounts receivable, general ledger reconciliations, cash and payables reporting, revenue cost accounting, inventory management, audits, sales tax research, compliance filings, and financial documentation. The role reviews contracts for US GAAP compliance, resolves revenue issues, improves accounting strategies, and communicates financial impacts to cross-functional teams. This is a hybrid position requiring three days per week in the St. Louis office.
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About Exegy

Exegy is a global leader in intelligent market data, advanced trading systems, and future-proof technology. Exegy serves as a trusted partner to the complete ecosystem of the buy-side, sell-side, exchanges, and financial services technology firms around the globe. Headquartered in St. Louis with regional offices in North America, the UK/Europe and Asia Pacific, Exegy has the global footprint to deliver world-class support and managed services to its customer base of elite financial market participants.

Job Summary

Exegy seeks a dynamic, detail-oriented, organized self-starter to join our Finance department. The Senior Accountant supports management, as needed, by performing accounting functions, including but not limited to revenue recognition, accounts receivable, general ledger account reconciliations, and special projects.

This is a hybrid role in our St Louis, MO office, combining remote work with three (3) days in office per week.

Responsibilities

  • Review sales contracts and reduce contract related issues to ensure proper revenue recognition in accordance with United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP)

  • Analyze and understand various service/product offerings and revenue streams to ensure proper revenue recognition

  • Prepare weekly cash management and payables reporting

  • Perform revenue cost accounting and reporting activities on a monthly basis

  • Perform month-end account reconciliations

  • Perform inventory management

  • Resolve revenue related issues and follow-up on outstanding items

  • Assist in financial audits and implement audit recommendations

  • Review and recommend improvements to current revenue recognition strategies

  • Prepare documentation for all revenue related activities

  • Research sales tax laws and regulations as needed

  • Communicate effectively with staff as well as the various departments that play a role in the billing and revenue recognition functions

  • Inform and educate other business areas as to the financial impact of potential business decisions they are responsible for making

  • Prepare and submit compliance reporting and filings

  • Use tax, business licenses, annual reports/filings, etc.

Our Ideal Candidate Has:

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

  • 7+ years of experience in accounting roles

  • Experience with ERP systems; NetSuite proficiency preferred

  • Demonstrated advanced experience with accounting and spreadsheet software, especially Excel

  • Solid understanding of accounting principles and financial reporting standards

  • Self-motivated, flexible, deadline focused and able to complete tasks with minimal supervision

  • Acute attention to detail and accuracy

  • Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, and the ability to effectively interact with senior management and individuals with varying degrees of financial knowledge

Skills Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
  • 7+ years of experience in accounting roles
  • Experience with ERP systems
  • NetSuite proficiency
  • Advanced experience with accounting and spreadsheet software, especially Excel
  • Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial reporting standards
  • Self-motivated, flexible, deadline-focused, and able to work with minimal supervision
  • Acute attention to detail and accuracy
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to communicate effectively with senior management and individuals with varying financial knowledge
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The Company
HQ: Saint Louis, MO
130 Employees
Year Founded: 2003

What We Do

Exegy provides ultra-high performance, hardware-accelerated computing appliances that process market data for financial organizations. Exegy is the established leader in providing real-time market data solutions with an unparalleled combination of speed, capacity, features, and service. Today Exegy serves as a strategic partner to leading principal traders, agency brokers, exchanges, Alternative Trading System (ATS) and dark pool operators, market makers, hedge funds, and asset managers. Guided by these strategic relationships, Exegy has expanded their offerings to include historical market data solutions that deliver essential testing, analysis, and compliance capabilities to data-driven, automated trading strategies. In addition, Exegy’s investments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) drive Signum – a game-changing portfolio of predictive trading signals that are delivered in real-time, synchronously with low-latency market data. Learn more about the Signum portfolio of real-time trading signals at exegy-signum.com. At the heart of Exegy solutions are purpose-built, hardware-accelerated appliances derived from an extensive portfolio of patented and patent-pending technology. All solutions are delivered as a fully managed service backed by a global team of experts and state-of-the-art infrastructure. Exegy delivers a premium user experience from its regional offices in New York, London, and Hong Kong, as well as its 24/7 operations center at its St. Louis headquarters. Exegy promotes the design of robust electronic markets through its MarketDataPeaks service that reports real-time market data feed rates.

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