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Metropolitan Commercial Bank (“MCB” or the “Bank”) is a New York City–based, full-service commercial bank providing tailored banking solutions to businesses, institutions, and individuals. Founded in 1999, MCB operates banking centers in Manhattan and Boro Park, Brooklyn, within New York City, as well as in Great Neck on Long Island, New York, and Lakewood, New Jersey. The Bank recently expanded to Miami, Florida with their newest Brickell banking center.

Metropolitan Commercial Bank offers a comprehensive suite of commercial, business, and personal banking products and services to small businesses, middle-market and corporate enterprises, private and public institutions, municipalities, and local government entities.

The Bank has earned national recognition for its financial performance, innovation, and strategic growth. The Bank was named one of Newsweek’s Best Regional Banks in 2024 and 2025. Additionally, MCB recently received Editor’s Choice recognition at the Banking Tech Awards USA for Digital Onboarding & Omnichannel Banking and in 2026, the Bank earned Great Place To Work certification and received the Web Award Standard of Excellence for MCBankNY.com.

We are a client-focused organization that values technological innovation and excellence. A strong technical mindset, AI fluency, and adaptive skills are essential for our employees to effectively contribute to our mission and drive our success. We foster human–AI teaming and strong governance to ensure technology is used responsibly and in alignment with Bank policies and procedures. For more information about the Bank, please visit the Bank’s website at MCBankNY.com.

Position summary:

Reporting to the Assistant Controller, the Staff Accountant is to support the corporate controller’s team. This will include processing month end procedures and balance sheet reconciliations. The ideal candidate is a “self-starter”, with the ability to work independently with limited supervision, keeping all relevant parties apprised of developments. This person must also fit well in our small company work environment.

Standard 4-day in-office requirement, 1 day remote (of your choosing)

Essential functions and responsibilities

• Prepare month end close procedures on a timely basis which includes preparing journal entries in the general ledger and analyzing variances in account balances.
• Perform assigned daily and monthly balance sheet reconciliations in M-Files and promptly investigate and clear reconciling items. This involves ongoing communication with various groups within the company, including the Loan Servicing Team, Cash and Deposit Operations, and Human Resources.
• Perform the OFAC compliance review over new vendors and regular vendor listing.
• Contribute to special projects and ad hoc requests.
• Manage and improve the documentation procedures around the assigned activities.
• Drive audit compliance within the areas for which you are responsible.
• Analyze and process accounts payable invoices in the Concur software.

Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• CPA or CPA seeking candidate
• PC proficient, including Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, and Word).
• Good working knowledge of GAAP and bank accounting principles.
• Ability to complete tasks in a timely manner and work independently, excellent verbal and communication skills, and strong service and team orientation.
• 1-3 years in a banking environment.
• Finxact core banking and Prologue general ledger is a +.
• Driven by a passion and curiosity to continuously learn how various technological systems, including AI, can enhance the work that you do.

Potential Salary: $65,000 - $75,000 annually

This salary range reflects base wages and does not include benefits, bonus, or incentive pay. Salary bands are purposefully wide ranging to encompass the different factors considered in determining where a candidate falls in the range, including but not limited to, seniority, performance, experience, education, and any other legitimate, non-discriminatory factor permitted by law. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed here.

Metropolitan Commercial Bank provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

MCB Maintains a drug-free workplace.