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Funds Control Accounting Liaison
The Funds Control Accounting Liaison ensures appropriate accounting, settlement and reconcilement practices are established to support current processes and change initiatives. Also, provides oversight of general ledger changes to ensure Comerica will not experience a control weakness or material misstatement of the financial statements.
Position Responsibilities:
- Serve on projects as a subject matter expert and lead Funds Control initiatives.
- Design accounting flows to ensure proper accounting treatment for new and changed processes.
- Responsible for testing key systems to ensure they interface to the general ledger appropriately.
- Identification of issues to be resolved and leading the delivery of solutions.
- Analyze and resolve reconcilement and balancing differences.
- Identify opportunities to enhance or re-engineer processes to improve quality and efficiency.
- Work independently, making decisions and providing guidance to business units to ensure their systems and processes have appropriate accounting treatment.
- Make recommendations to improve procedures and controls to management.
- Demonstrate an understanding of projects by communicating updates, procedural changes, and training.
- Maintain positive and collaborative atmosphere with internal clients and team members.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong multi-tasking skills: ability to work under pressure and deadlines.
- Strong accounting and problem-solving skills.
Position Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting
- 2 years of accounting experience working on complex technical and business projects with an emphasis on accounting for assets and liabilities
- 2 years of experience designing accounting flows
- 2 years of experience with financial system applications
- 2 years of reporting and analysis experience using Microsoft Excel
