Accountant

Position Summary:

The Accountant is responsible for the preparation of financial reports and supporting documents as well as assisting their manager with regulatory, managerial, real estate owned, profitability, investor reporting and budgeting activities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Understands the business, financials, industry, customers and strategy.
2. Assist with the month, quarter and year-end close; prepares the footnotes to the annual report and all required disclosures.
3. Maintains accounting models used for significant financial estimates. 
4. Develops and maintains proper controls for safeguarding assets and accurate reporting of financial position and performance; participates in internal control meetings and discussions; ensures two-party control, FIDICIA and COSO compliance.
5. Responds to questions in absence of their Manager.
6. Maintains knowledge and capabilities of banking core systems and systems of profitability.
7. Completes loan repurchase entries and loan modification entries for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as the reconciliations, remittances, and LAR edits.
8. Assists with the completion of regulatory reporting.
9. Processes employee expense requests and maintains corporate credit card records.
10. Facilitates with department managers to develop a budget and forecasting; reports budgeting to senior management. 
11. Works with internal audit and compliance to ensure accounting department is in compliance. 
12. Keeps up-to-date with current financial reporting and accounting procedures and regulations. 
13. Completes various projects and accounting duties such as time studies for accounting estimates, derivative accounting, government census requests, and 401K reporting, etc.
14. Maintains real estate owned portfolio including general ledger entries, expenses, refunds, sales, and income taxes.
15. Reconciles general ledger accounts and tracks and reviews reconciliations for all departments.
16. Establishes and maintains systems of investor reporting for service retained loans; reviews all sold loans and proper coding; evaluates and approves all sold loan remittance reports to agencies and investors for accuracy prior to transmitting funds; ensures timely remittance to investors via their cash remittance systems or wire transfer; reconciles custodial demand deposit accounts; and stays current with current investor remittance reporting regulatory requirements.
17. Complies with all applicable banking laws and regulations, including, but not limited to the Bank Secrecy Act, USA Patriot Act, and related anti-money laundering statutes, and federal consumer protection legislation and regulations. Builds working knowledge of all applicable laws and regulations.
18. Other duties as required.

The duties outlined above are a summary and may not be an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible responsibilities, tasks, and duties. All job descriptions may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of FMHC.

Qualifications and Skills:

1. 3 to 5 years of accounting or financial reporting experience is required. 
2. Experience working in financial services or banking is preferred. 
3. Experience in mortgage lending is preferred. 
4. Experience in banking/lending laws, regulations or guidelines is preferred.
5. Experience with and strong understanding of financial reporting systems is required.  
6. Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance is required OR equivalent experience, 
7. Master’s degree or equivalent experience is preferred. 
8. Proficiency in MS Office [Outlook, Excel, Word] or similar software is required. Encompass, Cleartouch, Nautilus, various government and investor software/web portals is preferred.

Necessary competencies:

• Resilience
• Communication
• Service Orientation
• Interpersonal Awareness
• Business Acumen
• Decisiveness
• Leads Courageously 
• Organizational Skills
• Attention to Development

Physical Environment

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to lift, walk, stand, sit, bend, reach with hands and arms, climb, push/pull, use hands, and see, hear and speak.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.
• This position is performed in a hybrid environment, five days a week with typical work hours being 8.30a through 5.15p.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.