Job Title: Senior Manager of Unclaimed Property
Job Responsibilities:
- Manage complex unclaimed property matters, including voluntary disclosure reviews.
- Engage with clients, administrators, adverse parties, and opposing attorneys/accountants to efficiently review and negotiate resolutions for unclaimed property issues.
- Assist in growing, training, managing, and developing a team of unclaimed property professionals.
- Serve as project manager for unclaimed property tasks and deadlines.
- Review, analyze, and reconcile accounting records and deliverables.
- Investigate transactions to determine if they represent unclaimed property.
- Prepare and review calculations of unclaimed property liability and associated statistical sampling.
- Delegate tasks and provide effective feedback to team members.
- Conduct presentations for clients and adverse parties.
- Prepare and review professional client-ready reports.
- Research and review company financial information and unclaimed property issues.
- Review unclaimed property reports filed with states.
- Apply unclaimed property law and regulations to company facts and accounting transactions.
- Investigate and review corporate structures and histories.
- Standardize team-wide review processes for consistency.
- Assist in negotiating unclaimed property settlements.
- Draft and review responses to inquiries and requests from opposing parties.
- Recruit, train, mentor, and develop team members at various levels.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Education and Experience Information:
- Minimum of 7 years of accounting/audit experience, with at least 4 years in unclaimed property.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, indicating knowledge of statistical, financial, and accounting principles.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:
- Commitment to excellence and problem-solving.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
- Collaborative attitude and team player mentality.
- Organizational and project management skills, effective at prioritizing and delegating.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, with advanced Excel fluency (pivot tables, lookup functions, embedded formulas, etc.).
- Proactive time management skills.
- Self-motivation and professionalism.
Salary Information:
- Not provided in the text.
Legal Terminology and Important Information:
- The employee must satisfactorily perform all essential job duties and responsibilities, with or without reasonable accommodation, unless it causes undue hardship to the firm.
- Job duties and responsibilities may change at any time, with or without notice, subject to firm needs.
- The firm will not consider resumes from external agencies or recruiters and will not compensate them for recruitment assistance.
- Barnes & Thornburg adheres to equal employment opportunity principles and policies, prohibiting discrimination based on protected characteristics under applicable laws. This includes ancestry, sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, military/veteran status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, or any other protected basis.
- The policy applies to all employment decisions and practices, with compliance to all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws.
- Working conditions are described as a normal office environment with little exposure to excessive noise, dust, temperature, etc. The description is not exhaustive of essential functions, responsibilities, or requirements.
