Operations Accounting Specialist

Operations Accounting Specialist

Company Profile: Argent Financial Group (Argent) is a leading, independent, fiduciary wealth management firm responsible for more than $180 billion in client assets. Argent provides individuals, families, businesses, and institutions with a broad range of wealth management services, including trusts and estate planning, investment management, ESOPs, retirement plan consulting, funeral and cemetery trust administration, charitable organization services, oil and gas (mineral) management and other specialized financial services. Headquartered in Ruston, Louisiana, Argent was formed in 1990 and traces its roots back to 1930.

Department Profile: The Argent Operations Accounting Department covers three functional teams: Tax, Fees, & Fund Administration. The Tax team is responsible for ensuring compliance with IRS & State Regulations related to US tax reporting, tax withholding, and IRS tax filing requirements. The Fee team handles all client revenue processing and reporting for Argent. The Fund Administration team provides bimonthly valuation reports for various clients.

Job Summary: The Operations Accounting Analyst role reports directly to the Operations Accounting Manager and supports the Fees team. This role owns the full fee lifecycle — from invoice creation and payment processing through reconciliation and reporting — and requires comfort moving between detailed, recurring transactional work and higher-level analysis and reporting. This individual is expected to take initiative on process improvements, documentation, and special projects.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Front Office & Cross-Team Support

• Review fee settings for new accounts to ensure correct fee revenue calculations
• Create, review, and distribute Fee Worksheets to administrators
• Process Fee QForms (fee schedule changes, calculation corrections, etc. requested by administrators)
• Monitor and respond to Fee Tickets and email inquiries from front-office administrators

Fee Invoicing & Payment Processing

• Create and mail fee invoices to clients
• Enter incoming fee payments and balance outstanding fee receivables on the accounting system

Reporting

• Transfer collected fees to Corporate Accounting multiple times per month
• Assist with preparation of monthly Fee Revenue Report
• Assist Fee Manager with Fee Database production
• Prepare fee accrual reports
• Prepare various subsidiary fee reports
• Review Fee Quality Control Reports
• Prepare Fee Committee Reports, including monitoring of aged fee receivables and accounts without fee schedules
• Review and calculate bank interest fee revenue

Projects & Process Improvement

• Support Business Acquisition projects as assigned
• Identify and lead process improvement initiatives during lower-volume periods
• Additional responsibilities as required

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong attention to detail, particularly with recurring transactional and reconciliation work
• Comfortable balancing routine processing work with independent, self-directed project work
• Great communication skills, including working directly with front-office Administrators
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good command of Microsoft Office products, especially Excel (pivot tables, formulas; VBA/macros a plus)

Credentials and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field; equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered
• Helpful to have experience with FIS AddVantage
• Well organized with ability to manage multiple recurring deadlines
• Works well independently and in a team setting