Hybrid Financial System Analyst

at Trustmark

• Job title: Financial System Analyst
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $69,776 - $100,788 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cognos
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Lake Forest, United States

About the role

• Financial Systems Analyst overseeing benefit processing and reconciliation at Trustmark. Collaborating with teams on financial reporting and improving processes.

Responsibilities

• Oversee CBS (Mequon) Suspense Account
• Analyze/research reconciling items and follow-up with Operations on open items.
• Significant interaction with the Operations, Bank Reconciliation and Cash Management teams to resolve new/outstanding issues.
• Track and resolve all suspense items with Operations team.
• Ensure required applicable money movement requests and journal entries are processed in a timely fashion.
• Perform data mining in the proprietary divisional data mart to identify processing issues.
• Identify related items and clear from the Total Reconciliation system (T-Recs).
• Prepare monthly reconciliation at an employer level.
• Provide financial guidance when required.
• Review and update ICFR documents on an annual basis.
• Identify areas of process improvements and recommend solutions – both at a system and procedural level.
• Update and/or create procedural documentation.
• Prepare quarterly and annual statutory filings and ensure data is complete and accurate.
• Prepare and review audited financial statements, notes, and supplementary schedules.
• Conduct variance analyses and prepare responses for significant variances.
• Prepare and track annual and quarterly AMBEST, ACLI, and other industry associations’ information requests and data surveys.
• Assist in preparing annual filings and ensure asset balances agreement with valuation support.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and/or 4 – 6 years of related experience OR High School Diploma or GED with 6-8 years related experience.
• Proven experience in cash application, account reconciliation, GAAP and Statutory accounting.
• Must be proficient in MS Office including Access, Outlook, and Word.
• Must possess intermediate Excel skills including formulas, pivot tables and VLOOKUPs.
• Familiarity with G/L and financial reporting systems (i.e., Workday, COGNOS, or Hyperion) and how general ledgers support the financial statements.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Must possess critical thinking skills.
• Must provide excellent customer service and the ability to interface well with customers.
• Ability to discern and resolve issues independently.
• Must be flexible with work schedule during peak times and able to work overtime to meet business needs.

Benefits

• Health/dental/vision
• Life insurance
• FSA and HSA
• 401(k) plan
• Employee Assistant Program
• Back-up Care for Children, Adults and Elders
• Many health and wellness initiatives
• Wellness program that enables employees to participate in health initiatives to reduce their insurance premiums.