Staff Accountant

Overview

By joining our team as an accountant, you will be exposed to the energetic and fast paced financial services industry with a firm renowned for its product knowledge and expertise.  You will have end to end responsibility for the business entities to which you’re assigned, gathering all of the information necessary to prepare and manage their financials and associated financial reporting. This will give you the opportunity to gain an understanding of the business strategies and financial products that drive your companies as well as the types of inter-company transactions that occur between them.

To thrive in this role, you’ll need to be a self-starter who cares about details and deadlines and someone who can stay organized in an intense and fast-paced work environment. Our teams are highly collaborative, and you can expect to work closely with colleagues both in the U.S. and globally to meet our team goals.

In this role, you will :

• Prepare & reconcile monthly journal entries, general ledgers and financial statements ensuring compliance with GAAP or relevant reporting standards
• Reconcile management P&L to the General Ledger; collaborate with colleagues in financial operations to obtain data and substantiate  variances; report variances to management on a monthly basis
• Gain an understanding of the underlying business activity and conceptualize the flow of data from trade to financial statement
• Interface with external auditors, regulators and other internal departments as needed
• Prepare analytical procedures on underlying data and provide explanation for variances
• After a period of development within the department, be responsible for conducting comprehensive entity reviews and ensuring their accuracy and regulatory compliance

What we’re looking for

About Susquehanna

Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm powered by scientific rigor, curiosity, and innovation. Our culture is intellectually driven and highly collaborative, bringing together researchers, engineers, and traders to design and deploy impactful strategies in our systematic trading environment. To meet the unique challenges of global markets, Susquehanna applies machine learning and advanced quantitative research to vast datasets in order to uncover actionable insights and build effective strategies. By uniting deep market expertise with cutting-edge technology, we excel in solving complex problems and pushing boundaries together.

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