Senior Accountant, Financial Reporting

Overview

This Senior Accountant role supports the financial reporting side of the finance organization and serves as an accounting support bridge between Finance Operations and Financial Reporting. The position owns back-end accounting, reconciliations, and controls for defined areas to enable sufficient controls and segregation of duties.

As transaction volume and complexity increase, the role will help modernize processes, including leveraging AI and automation tools, to keep pace.

Responsibilities

Administrative and operating expense accounting

• Prepare and record administrative and operating expense accruals (e.g., audit, tax, and other recurring professional-services accruals)
• Own a portfolio of prepaid and accrual reconciliations
• Reconcile payroll and benefit-related accounts each period, providing an independent review layer on entries booked by the payroll processor
• Serve as a backup for processing payroll and related benefits

Investment and debt accounting

• Maintain investment accounting entries and reconciliations across the parent and insurance entities, working within established review controls
• Maintain debt accounting, assessing and implementing technical accounting requirements resulting from changes in terms or rates
• Prepare covenant compliance and other monthly reporting requirements for lenders

Reconciliations, close, and controls

• Serve as preparer and/or independent reviewer to support segregation of duties across the close for assigned areas, within close and reconciliation deadlines
• Support software capitalization / internal-use software accounting and related documentation
• Support lease accounting under ASC 842 and other technical accounting topics related to administrative expenses

Handoffs and cross-team partnership

• Absorb recurring one-off tasks that do not have a natural home, freeing finance operations staff to focus on scaling core work
• Investigate variances and partner with Finance Operations and FP&A to resolve issues at the source
• Partner with FP&A to create system-driven allocations of administrative expenses across cost centers
• Identify and help implement AI-enabled or automation tools to improve the efficiency and scalability of accounting processes

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
• 3–5 years of progressive accounting experience
• Hands-on experience owning account reconciliations and month-end close
• Strong understanding of accrual accounting and internal controls / segregation of duties
• Detail-oriented and accountable, with the ability to take full ownership of an area and drive it to completion
• Comfortable working across teams and communicating clearly between operational and reporting functions

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA (or active candidate) — a plus, not required
• Public accounting / Big Four experience — a plus, not required
• Experience in a highly-regulated industry (e.g., insurance, healthcare, financial services), including statutory and/or GAAP reporting and familiarity with multi-entity structures
• Experience with NetSuite and a close-management platform such as FloQast

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary, bonus opportunity, and equity package
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Paid vacation and company holidays

Location

United States