US-MN Minneapolis,  LEAD FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT, GMAC-RFC 0759
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Position: Lead Financial Accountant
Date: July 31, 2006
JOB#0759
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Status: Full-time

DESCRIPTION: Lead Financial Accountant

At GMAC-RFC, our capital and commitment are inseparable.

Whether you’re just beginning your career or it’s time for something new, you want a job that engages, excites, and has potential—to work for a company that recognizes your goals and achieves its own.

GMAC-RFC is a global leader in residential real estate finance markets. We connect people who have capital with the people who need it. We are motivated by a commitment to seek long-term relationships instead of transactions, and we value people as much as profits.

These principles—and our ability to provide innovative capital solutions to our consumer and business partners—continue to transform and redefine real estate finance markets, worldwide.

Under the direction of the IBG Lead Financial Accountant and Chief Accounting Officer, the Lead Financial Accountant will work with IBG business groups in the U.K., Continental Europe, Canada and Latin America, IBG change management, and ResCap finance and policy teams to implement generally accepted accounting principle (GAAP) pronouncements to ensure complete and accurate financial statements are prepared at all levels of the IBG organization.

Essential Accountabilities

• Responsible for delivery of required financial reporting deliverables to ResCap.
• Consolidating and reviewing the financial reporting work papers/templates used for preparing consolidated IBG and ResCap financial information for technical accuracy and completeness.
• Work with members of each business unit finance group to ensure requirements are understood and to improve on the accuracy of reporting delivered to ResCap. This would include the design and development of reporting templates that meet both the ResCap and business unit finance needs.
• The development/enhancement and coordination of internal control processes for preparing financial statements across the IBG that ensure compliance with Sarbanes Oxley requirements.
• Implementing new and revised GAAP technical reporting requirements to prepare the consolidated IBG financial statements.
• Recommending changes/additions to IBG business group reporting requirements to ensure compliance with GAAP reporting.
• Assists with performing review of parent company SEC-related reporting as it relates to IBG.
• Liaison with external auditors with respect to IBG consolidated templates and supporting documentation.
• Work with ResCap to enhance the process to monitor and ensure accuracy of inter-company elimination, consolidation and foreign currency translation entries in accordance with enterprise control requirements.
• Have key responsibility for developing and maintaining all Peoplesoft reporting.
• Manage relationship with Corporate Systems group to ensure accurate GL maintenance for all IBG business units.

Requirements:

• Bachelor Degree in Accounting or Finance with suitable experience in accounting leading to a recognized accounting qualification.
• CPA
• 5+ years experience performing increasingly complex accounting duties.
• Financial Services experience particularly mortgage banking, securitization, preferred.
• Experience with SEC reporting preferred
• Supervisory experience a plus
• Understanding of GAAP and general ledger related to the financial services industry.
• Understanding of SEC requirements.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to effectively interact/communicate with team members from various countries.
• Ability to multi task and prioritize work/deliverables.
• Commitment to meet deadlines.
• International business experience desired.
• Willingness to travel internationally up to 30% and willingness to relocate internationally in the future.
• Proficiency in foreign languages (Spanish, German, Dutch) a plus

Rewards

Picture yourself working for a company that rewards your accomplishments and recognizes your goals even as it achieves its own. At GMAC-RFC, we’re looking for people who want to make a difference. We focus on our associates’ success by investing in their growth, rewarding their creative thinking, and promoting a healthy balance between work and life.

COMPANY CONTACT INFORMATION:

To learn more, visit our website at www.gmacrfc.com/careers.

Equal Opportunity Employer