Sr Analyst-Settlement Accounting (Merchant Services) College Park, Georgia;Richmond, Virginia; Phoenix, Arizona; Addison, Texas; Richmond, Virginia; Richmond, Virginia; Addison, Texas; Newark, Delaware; Spokane, Washington; Kennesaw, Georgia **Job Description:** This **Sr Analyst, Settlement Accounting** will be responsible for research, report generation, spreadsheet preparation, and accounting analysis supporting the Settlement Accounting function in Enterprise Merchant Operations. This role is a key individual contributor to the effective financial management of our Merchant Services capability by defining, testing and improving accounting setup for Merchant Services, investigating errors, supporting compliance with accounting policy and enabling strategic business development through financial analysis. **Responsibilities:** + Understand accounting and key operational systems needed to perform research and applies expertise on these systems to resolve issues. + Completes various month-end close tasks including preparation of account reconciliations compliant with company accounting policy, trending of P&L accounts, aging and risk reporting, and ensuring month-end close deliverables and deadlines are met. + Prepares and analyzes accounting data by processing and interpreting accounts such as general ledgers, sub-ledgers, and operational settlement systems. + Deep understanding of GL match pass set-up and maintenance of matching criteria documentation. Identifying and driving refinements to match pass set-up as production processes evolve. + Validate reconciliation between reports and automated entries made from various systems. + Analyze daily production reports to identify opportunities for improvement and report to management. + Reviews, investigates, and corrects errors and inconsistencies in financial entries and reports. + Provides project and production support including process design, testing, attendance on calls, and resolution of complex operational accounting issues. + Create/support balancing and reconciliation using Monarch, attend design calls, create procedures, process maps, QA processes, LOB and SPI control metrics, testing, and production implementation support. + Completes ad hoc reporting or analysis assignments as needed. **Required Skills:** + Must have work experience in Accounting (e.g., eLedger, Frontier, Monarch) and Settlement/Payments systems in the banking/financial industry. + Strong ability to research, analyze and solve basic to complex accounting and operational issues. + Knowledge of accounting systems with prior experience completing reconciliations and sub-ledger accounting + Ability to deliver high quality work in fast-paced environment to meet client demands. + Ability to collaborate with internal and external partners to resolve exceptions. + Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills + Strong ability to prioritize multiple tasks at once. + Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite products (Excel, Word, SharePoint, PowerPoint) and Adhoc reports. **Desired Skills:** + BA / MA Accountancy preferred, or degree in related field (e.g., Accounting, Finance, Economics). + Work experience in Global Accounting or Merchant Accounting preferred. + Work experience in Credit Card/Merchant Services industry experience preferred. + Work experience in ATM/payment processing, reconciliation and settlement or settlement accounting preferred. **Shift:** 1st shift (United States of America) **Hours Per Week:** 40 Bank of America and its affiliates consider for employment and hire qualified candidates without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. 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