Associate – Accounting

The Role:

SoFi's Finance Leadership Program (FLP) is an exciting role for recent grads and entry level finance and accounting professionals that want to learn and develop financial analysis skills within a fast-growing FinTech company. This accounting focus role includes a blend of rotations within our Controllership team, learning the business across various areas of accounting including SOX, Tax, Accounting Policy and Reporting, Business Intelligence, and Finance Transformation.  We have a complex business and believe exposure to other areas of Finance outside of Controllership will help shape your career and understanding of how we operate. With that in mind, this role will also have project-based work within Strategic Finance, Corporate and Functional Finance, Treasury, Procurement, and Capital Markets.  

This program aims to provide junior professionals the opportunity to work across the entire finance team, learning from a variety of leaders to develop skills necessary to grow and innovate within the finance industry and work cross-functionally within the organization. You will be working closely with our Finance and Controllership team on value-add assignments that provide depth and understanding of critical finance functions including modeling, planning, reporting, and business operations while utilizing tools and technology necessary to execute in a fast-paced environment. 

What You’ll Do:

• Working both independently and in a team setting, you will contribute to a wide variety of monthly and quarterly accounting and finance processes and short-term assignments to develop and strengthen your technical and leadership skills and business acumen.
• Support monthly and year-end close processes, including preparing workpapers and assisting with audits and SEC disclosures.
• Enhance and document accounting processes, narratives, and policies to ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP and regulatory standards.
• Prepare financial, analytical, and statistical reports to support investor reporting, management decisions, and external audits.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Strategic Finance, Capital Markets, FP&A and Treasury to ensure accurate financial reporting.
• Contribute to accounting for new products, business transactions, and regulatory guidance implementation.
• Help facilitate financial forecasting and planning efforts for SoFi's key initiatives in partnership with functional leaders and in collaboration with business unit leaders.
• Support in preparation of internal and external materials to facilitate management discussion and analysis of key financial and business performance indicators.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s or Master's/MBA degree in Accounting, Finance, or Economics or a related field (Master’s/MBA with a concentration in Accounting preferred) with availability to start by Summer 2025.
• Have no more than 12 months of professional full-time work experience (excluding internships and research assistant roles)
• Must be willing to relocate to Cottonwood Heights, UT area and be available to work in the Cottonwood Heights, UT office
• Must be attending a US-based university for positions in the US
• Able to obtain work authorization in the US in 2025
• Interest in the FinTech industry and/or Banking, Finance, Accounting
• Prior experience operating in a professional environment preferred
• Ability to work across multiple projects and transition from task to task as needed
• Comfortable with G-suite and/or Microsoft Office (specifically Excel and Google Sheets) and working with large data sets
• Fast learner, intellectually curious, goal oriented
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong social and leadership skills