Accounting Track: Finance and Accounting Leadership Program 2025 | Cincinnati

Fifth Third Bank
United States, Ohio, Cincinnati
Nov 22, 2024
Make banking a Fifth Third better We connect great people to great opportunities. Are you ready to take the next step? Discover a career in banking at Fifth Third Bank. Be a part of Fifth Third Bank's landmark early talent program that allows recent college graduates to participate in hands-on leadership development supporting the Cincinnati market. This is a paid professional development opportunity where you'll learn Fifth Third Bank's business practices, operations, and procedures. You will be responsible and accountable for risk, encouraged to openly exchange ideas and opinions, elevate concerns, and follow policies and procedures to safeguard the company. Doing the right thing for customers and colleagues is key; you'll ensure their actions and behaviors drive a positive customer experience, achieving real results by consistently identifying, assessing, managing, monitoring, and reporting risks of all types. The Finance and Accounting Leadership Program (FALP) offers two well-defined tracks to prepare participants for careers in Finance or Accounting (with an emphasis on either Accounting or Finance rotations based on the participant's program focus). During the program, you'll rotate among different teams, becoming an integral member of each one so you can fully collaborate on key initiatives. This position features hands-on training from industry leaders, developing skills in accounting, financial planning and analysis, external reporting, treasury, investor relation, and other areas you'll need in a career driving economic growth. Get meaningful work experience and targeted educational opportunities to develop future organizational leaders in a rotation-based model that will give you exposure to multiple business areas. Strengthen your business acumen through exposure to Fifth ThirdBank's senior leaders, performance coaching and feedback, mentoring relationships, leadership and professional development opportunities, and develop a professional network that includes some of the best talent in the industry. What You'll Do Participants will buildskills and experience in financial concepts, building critical thinking skills and business acumen. A two-year program based in Cincinnati, the program consists of four 6-month rotations where participants will have early-career development through guided and self-directed learning and training activities. Participants will build problem-solving abilities and learn to clearly communicate in a financial environment while drawing data-driven conclusions and having exposure to Fifth Third Bank's senior leadership. Your days will be filled with fast-paced on-the-job training and development as a vital part of the team. In meetings, you won't be expected to be seen and not heard; your ideas will be vital to the company's strategies going forward. You'll meet with senior leaders, soaking in their experience and insights, while developing your own skills based on their guidance. You'll be a valued part of the team, gaining valuable experience and getting first-hand insights on how to runa major banking institution. Upon program completion, you'll have access to placement opportunitieswithin the finance division in roles such as financial analyst, senior accountant, reporting financial analyst, and treasury analyst. Job Duties (3)Accounting Rotations: Accurately maintain accounting records and perform all related accounting functions. Prepare daily entries while overseeing preparation of other entries. Monitor accounts and maintain account balances. Facilitate compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Reconciliation and resolution of outages from complex accounts. Responsible for special accounting projects and complex assignments. Preparation of Bancorp andsubsidiariesfinancial reporting. (1)Finance Rotation: Assist in the execution of financial analysis. Understand and assist in the identification of key business factors that impact the business. Prepare and analyze monthly reports. Investigate and document unusual items. Perform maintenance on existing schedules and reports for changes to information. Document, evaluate and improve design of reports and processes to ensure that analytical tools evolve as business changes. Required Knowledge and Skills Upon hire, a completed four-year undergraduate degree inAccountingwith a graduation date within 2024-2025 A minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 Previous internship or co-op program experience preferred Financial Services experience preferred but not required Campus involvement/leadership experience Basic Excel proficiency (data entry, formatting, charts, basic formulas,Vlookup) Basic familiarity withinternal general ledger, reconciliation and reporting systems Shows aptitude to learn additional software applications as required by FALP Assignment Abilityto complete both guided and self-directed learning activities Abilityto solve routine problems by following defined procedures Strong attention to detail and the ability to communicate financial information Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based immigration sponsorship now or in the future #earlycareers2025 #financeandaccounting Accounting Track: Finance and Accounting Leadership Program 2025 \| Cincinnati LOCATION -- Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 Fifth Third Bank, National Association is proud to have an engaged and inclusive culture and to promote and ensure equal employment opportunity in all employment decisions regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, veteran status or any other legally protected status.