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About the Role
The Senior Lead Accountant is a senior-level accounting professional responsible for leading complex accounting matters, financial reporting, regulatory reporting, audit support, and internal control activities for assigned entities, functions, or business units. The role operates with a high degree of independence and is accountable for the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and supportability of significant accounting and reporting deliverables. This role leads through expertise, review authority, project leadership, mentoring, collaboration, and influence rather than direct people management.
Responsibilities
- Lead close management and accounting oversight for assigned entities, functions, or business units, including unique or judgmental matters, stakeholder engagement, issue resolution, and timely risk escalation.
- Prepare and review complex or high-risk journal entries, reconciliations, trial-balance analyses, reporting schedules, and accounting conclusions.
- Coordinate and oversee assigned financial statement, footnote, statutory, annual statement, regulatory, and other reporting deliverables.
- Independently research and resolve complex or ambiguous accounting and reporting matters, balancing technical accuracy, controls, and business implications.
- Lead assigned audit workstreams, coordinate PBC deliverables, resolve auditor questions, and ensure workpaper quality, completeness, evidence retention, and timely follow-up.
- Serve as an ICFR and control-environment subject matter expert for assigned areas; identify gaps and lead improvements to controls, narratives, walkthroughs, policies, and procedures.
- Lead significant cross-functional workflow, system, reporting, and control improvement initiatives.
- Provide trusted technical guidance to Accounting leadership, team members, business partners, auditors, regulators, and third-party service providers.
- Promote consistent standards for accuracy, review rigor, documentation, accountability, communication, and collaboration within assigned workstreams.
- Mentor Accountants, Senior Accountants, and Lead Accountants; provide technical training and support development of future accounting leaders.
- Prepare and present analyses and recommendations to senior management, auditors, and regulators with minimal oversight.
- Foster relationship building and meaningful collaboration with colleagues throughout the organization through proactive on-site interaction.
Requirements
- Advanced knowledge of GAAP and strong command of complex accounting, financial reporting, audit, and internal control concepts.
- Demonstrated ability to independently resolve complex, judgmental, or ambiguous matters and anticipate downstream and cross-functional impacts.
- Ability to review the highest-risk work, challenge assumptions, document conclusions, and provide clear technical direction.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex matters to senior stakeholders and non-accounting audiences.
- Demonstrated cross-functional leadership, relationship management, conflict resolution, analytical, organizational, and project leadership skills.
- Experience leading process, system, reporting, or control improvements and mentoring accounting professionals.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Experience with SQL, multidimensional data warehouses, or business intelligence tools is a plus.
- Extensive use of a computer keyboard is a demand of the position.
Skills
- GAAP
- Financial Reporting
- Regulatory Reporting
- Audit Support
- Internal Controls
- Accounting
- SQL
- Business Intelligence
- Microsoft Excel
- Relationship Management
- Conflict Resolution
- Analytical Skills
- Organizational Skills
- Project Leadership
- Mentoring
Location
- Midtown Manhattan
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior-level
- 8+ years of progressive accounting or finance experience
Education Level
- BA/BS in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline
- CPA preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $98,000 - $127,000
Benefits
- Medical (including Vision)
- Dental
- Employer funded defined benefit pension plan (five year vesting)
- Employee Life Insurance
- Spouse and Dependent Life Insurance
- Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
- Short-Term Disability (STD) coverage
- Long-Term Disability (LTD) coverage (elected as either pre-tax or after-tax)
- Business Travel Accident Insurance
- Worker’s Compensation
- Employee Assistance Program
- Retiree health insurance (eligible after 10 years)
- Retiree life insurance
- 401(k) with matching contributions (immediate vesting)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- Commuter Benefits
- New York’s 529 College Savings Program (NY State residents)
- Educational Assistance Program
- Parental Leave
- Time Off (Vacation, Sick, Personal and Holidays)
- Discretionary annual incentive program
About the Company
- Church Pension Group (CPG) is a financial services organization that serves the Episcopal Church.
- CPG was founded in 1917 to provide pension benefits to eligible clergy of the Episcopal Church.
- CPG's mission has expanded to include life and disability insurance, health benefits, property & casualty insurance, and publishing.
Equal Opportunity
- In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
- CPG does not sponsor visas.
- CPG is an equal opportunity employer.
- We are committed to fair hiring practices and do not discriminate against job applicants or employees based on any protected characteristics.
- We also celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.