Staff Accountant

Job Description

Accounting Associate, Personal CFO | Corient

The Tone:
This is an Accounting Associate role at Corient, located in New York, NY, with a hybrid work model. Corient is the world’s largest multi-family office and non-bank wealth manager, serving high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families. This role is crucial for simplifying clients’ financial lives, maintaining accurate records, and supporting their wealth preservation for future generations and causes they care about. By contributing to a team that values ambition and growth, this position helps establish lasting legacies for clients.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid – New York, NY

• Mission: This person simplifies clients’ financial lives by meticulously managing accounting functions, ensuring accurate record-keeping, and supporting wealth preservation for future generations.
• Tech Stack: Sage Intacct, QuickBooks Online, Bill.com, Excel

What You’ll Actually Do
• Bookkeeping: Perform daily, weekly, and monthly bookkeeping functions for clients.
• Accounts Payable: Manage vendor maintenance, including creating and modifying vendors, processing W-9s and NDAs, and recording invoices in accounting systems.
• Financial Reconciliation: Reconcile bank statements, brokerage statements, and credit card statements, integrating transaction feeds into accounting systems.
• Journal Entries & Reporting: Record journal entries for various financial activities and prepare ad hoc analysis and reporting, including annual Form 1099 processing.
• Client Records: Meticulously maintain client files and records in shared network folders, promptly responding to client requests.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in accounting.
• Experience: 0-4 years’ accounting experience focusing on A/P, Journal Entries, Bank Reconciliations, and Data Entry.
• Skills: Strong proficiency in Excel (including pivot tables and v-lookups), expeditious and accurate data entry, effective verbal and written communication, core self-management skills (time management, organization, prioritization, resourcefulness, problem-solving), detail-oriented, intelligent, inquisitive, and exhibits accountability and ownership.
• Bonus: Preferred experience with Sage Intacct, QuickBooks Online, or similar accounting systems; Family Office Experience preferred.