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Robert Half Senior Accountant II - Technical Accounting in Chicago, Illinois

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To apply to this hybrid role, please send your resume to John Sadofsky at john.sadofsky@roberthalf.c0m

Feeling stuck or straight up bored at your current job? Let’s fix that. A high-End Investment firm is seeking a Senior Accountant. Perks include including above market pay-rates, top-tier health benefits, plenty of work from home flexibility, and other unique perks that their top competitors can’t to provide.

Key Responsibilities:

Reporting and Closing:

  • Prepare financial statement deliverables (Statutory and IFRS) prepared by team

  • Support close related changes and issues that arise and represent team on certain subjects

  • Ensure integrity of system close feeds impacting area

  • Ensure that all IFRS, GAAP and Statutory closing and reporting tasks (e.g. annual report, reporting to regulatory authorities, NAIC reporting) related to own area of responsibility are accurate and timely on a global basis.

  • Ensure completion of assigned ad-hoc postings, Journal Entries and Account reconciliations on a periodic basis.

  • Assist in creation and publishing of monthly and quarterly reporting package for IFRS and STAT results that includes analytics and metrics over the income statement and balance sheet.

  • Ensure completion of monthly legal entity close submission activities, including posting of accruals, deferred acquisition expenses and other accounting transactions.

  • Assist in preparation of technical account analyses and data checks for monthly and annual IFRS (ECCS) reporting and underwriting schedules for quarterly and yearend statutory reporting.

Project work

  • Participate as assigned in Local and Global Projects (IFRS 17, ledger transformation efforts)

  • Participate as assigned for technical accounting guidance matters for significant transactions (Ex. Sales of subsidiaries) both locally and globally

  • Identify process improvements into project work and ensure desired results

  • Identify and rectify post go-live issues

Manage relationship with 3rd parties (auditors, biz units, tax authorities, public authorities, etc.)

  • Coordinate and resolve of closing issues with heads of business units to ensure quality financial statements that comply with local and global reporting standards

  • Assist in the completion of audited financial statements and coordinate data requests for external audits and state examinations relating to the statutory underwriting results

  • Own relationship with 3rd party cedants, evaluate business cases, and oversee all bookings and settlements (facilities, pools, etc.)

  • Complete Ad-hoc requests

Process Improvements:

  • Identify and implement technology leading to team, area, or sub function process efficiencies

  • Coordinate initiatives with business units E2E locally to result in process efficiencies.

  • Understand manual processes and implement process improvements to make the processes more efficient and with strong controls.

    Requirements

Required Skills:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or Business degree

  • 1-3 years of experience working in an insurance accounting and reporting department for a property and insurance company.

  • 3-5 years of experience in the preparation of the Financial Statements

  • Relevant insurance accounting experience, including knowledge of US statutory and GAAP accounting principles. Knowledge of IFRS is a plus.

  • Exposure to insurance system architecture for UW and Claims functions.

  • Knowledge of insurance accounting principles and reporting especially for property and casualty companies

  • Detailed knowledge of insurance functions and processes E2E, including UW/Claims/Operations/Actuarial and functions of underlying systems

  • Experience with SAP/BW/Cognos and proficient in Microsoft Office products.

  • Data Quality and Reporting: Ensuring compliance of closing, reporting with internal & external requirements

  • Ability to identify and initiate appropriate actions to remediate issues that can be abstract / ambiguous and follow through on their remediation.

  • Ability to identify and initiate appropriate actions to remediate issues that can be abstract / ambiguous and follow through on their remediation.

  • Ability to identify patterns and root causes in complex (e.g. ambiguous from various sources) data and processes to rapidly distill key issues and provide insight in various situations.

To apply to this hybrid role, please send your resume to John Sadofsky at john.sadofsky@roberthalf.c0m

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