CastleOak Securities, L.P. (“CastleOak”) is a premier boutique investment bank focused on providing capital markets services to a broad array of corporate, governmental and institutional clients. CastleOak is 100% employee-owned and a leading Minority-Owned Business Enterprise (MBE), certified by the National Minority Supplier Development Council. Headquartered in New York City, the firm specializes in primary and secondary sales and trading of fixed income, equity, and money market securities, as well as financial advisory (including M&A and private placements). Since its founding in 2006, CastleOak has grown to approximately 50 professionals and has assisted its clients on public offerings totaling over $3.4 trillion. CastleOak’s professionals average 20 years of successful Wall Street experience and ongoing working relationships with some of the largest global corporations. 

CastleOak’s finance group is a small, high performing team that recently separated out from our Operations team. As the company continues to grow, the finance team is as the forefront of establishing reporting, budgeting, and value-add insights to the business and to senior management. The team is responsible for a wide variety of deliverables and touches all parts of the business, ensuring high visibility and the chance to round out a broad skill set. We are looking for an individual to fill our newly created Finance Analyst role. The team currently consist of two people: the head of the team and a Senior Vice President, who will both be invested in teaching and mentoring this person. The analyst will round out the team and have a front row seat to the inner workings of a boutique investment bank.  

Essential Responsibilities:

• Assist in annual/monthly financial statement preparation
• Prepare and post month end journal entries
• Perform month end general ledger account reconciliations
• Prepare month end work papers
• Perform month end bank reconciliations
• Accounts payable invoicing and expense processing
• Accounts receivable tracking
• Perform various accounting, administrative and other related ad hoc requests

Required Qualifications (please do not apply if you do not meet all of these, especially the required experience):

• BA in Accounting/Finance
• Understanding of GAAP standards and accounting principles
• 4-6 years’ experience in the industry 
• Strong Skills in Excel and other Microsoft platforms
• Ability to multi-task
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment
• Aptitude to work autonomously as well as in a team environment
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong attention to detail
• Unsurpassed integrity and trustworthiness

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working towards or has an interest in becoming a CPA
• Broker dealer experience a plus
• FINRA knowledgeable a plus
• Audit experience a plus

Location:

• New York, NY (please note that we are working in a hybrid model with employees coming into the office three times a week)

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, medical condition (including pregnancy and related conditions), physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, and/or any other characteristic protected by law.