Director of Accounting

Overview

This role involves leading accounting and finance initiatives to improve financial reporting, business insights, operational effectiveness, and process scalability. The position combines accounting expertise, financial analysis, process improvement, and technology-enabled solutions to support business growth, new product implementations, system modernization efforts, and continuous improvement across the finance organization.

This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct people management responsibility. Strong leadership through influence, executive presence, and the ability to lead cross-functional initiatives across finance, operations, actuarial, claims, IT, and business leadership is required.

The successful candidate will serve as a trusted finance partner, translating complex accounting, operational, system, and data considerations into practical recommendations and scalable solutions. Responsibilities include supporting business requirements, process design, data readiness, testing, controls, user adoption, and post-implementation stabilization for new finance and accounting systems.

Responsibilities

Project & Initiative Leadership

• Lead or play a key role in cross-functional projects, including system implementations, operationalizing new business contracts, and finance modernization initiatives.
• Manage project scope, timelines, dependencies, and stakeholder communication.
• Anticipate risks and proactively resolve issues to keep initiatives on track.

Process Improvement & Automation

• Identify and implement opportunities to automate, streamline, and standardize accounting and finance processes using AI-enabled data analytics, workflow automation, anomaly detection, document intelligence, reporting automation, and close process automation.
• Partner with IT and finance transformation teams on system enhancements, reporting automation, and workflow redesign.
• Support change management and adoption of new tools and processes, including documenting processes and controls to improve transparency, scalability, and audit readiness.
• Ensure automation and AI-enabled solutions are designed with appropriate data quality, documentation, internal control, auditability, and governance considerations.

Financial Analysis & Reporting

• Partner with internal stakeholders to develop and prepare analytics to review monthly and quarterly financial results, including client level results.
• Analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual financial results, including variances, trends, and key drivers impacting business performance.
• Support financial reporting activities in accordance with U.S. GAAP, U.S. Statutory, internal policies, and insurance industry standards.

Leadership Through Influence

• Serve as a trusted finance partner to senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders, influencing decisions through data, judgment, and credibility.
• Lead discussions on accounting interpretations, financial impacts, and risk considerations.
• Facilitate alignment across teams by proactively identifying issues, proposing solutions, and driving consensus.

Requirements

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field.

Experience

• Minimum of 7 years of progressive accounting and financial leadership experience.
• Experience with Power BI, Power Automate, ERP/reporting systems, and AI-enabled finance tools.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, financial reporting, and internal control concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex work through influence, collaboration, and credibility.
• Proven experience driving automation, process improvement, or finance transformation initiatives.
• Advanced analytical skills with the ability to synthesize large or complex datasets into actionable insights.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present to senior leadership.

Skills & Competencies

• Technology curiosity and AI fluency.
• Change management and adoption leadership.
• Data-driven decision making.
• Control-oriented transformation mindset.
• Influencing and stakeholder management.
• Strategic thinking with strong attention to detail.
• Process and automation oriented mindset.
• Accountability, ownership, and independent problem solving.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive accounting and financial leadership experience.
• Experience working at large global insurance/financial services companies.
• CPA designation.

Compensation & Benefits

• Pay range: $103,800.00 - $173,300.00
• Any posted pay range considers a wide range of compensation factors, including candidate background, experience, and work location, while also allowing for salary growth within the position.

Additional Information

• If no application deadline is provided, this role may be a pipeline requisition, and applications may be collected on an ongoing basis.

Equal Opportunity

• The employer is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not use or consider race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law in employment decisions.

AI, Identity Verification, and Interview Requirements

• Employment is contingent upon completion of a required identity verification process, which may include biometric technology, where permitted by applicable law and subject to applicable notice and consent requirements.
• Virtual interviews are required to be conducted on video.