[Remote] Senior Accountant
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Confidential company is seeking a Senior Accountant to assist with the completion of the monthly financial statement close process. The role focuses on premium, claims, and commission journal entries and reconciliations, while also supporting cross-functional initiatives and driving process improvements.
Responsibilities
- Prepare entries, perform analysis and reconciliations to support monthly close process with a focus on premium and loss reporting, including the reinsurance components; prepare worksheets to substantiate and document account balances
- Uses excel extensively to generate pivot tables and lookups to sort and accumulate data to get in format that can be used to prepare monthly journal entries
- Assist with preparation of quarterly and annual Statutory Statements
- Participate in annual external audits, as well as ad-hoc audits
- Reconcile premium and loss general ledger accounts to detail source data and related reports to ensure additions and/or revisions to accounts are appropriately reflected in all GL-based reports and queries, and update procedures as needed
- Contribute to the maintenance of policies and procedures related to internal controls in place and ensure compliance with the internal control standards
- Develop strong understanding of relevant Statutory accounting guidance, and maintain current with emerging pronouncements and their impact on the Companies’ financials
- Communicates with co-workers, management, clients, vendors, and others as needed in a courteous and professional manner
Skills
- 4+ years of insurance accounting required
- GAAP and STAT knowledge, practices and procedures
- Undergraduate studies in accounting or finance; accounting major and degree preferred
- Progress towards CPA preferred
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