Senior Accountant

Location: USA – Madison, WI or New York, NY
Work Arrangement: Hybrid (8-12 days per month in-office)

About the role

Contribute to effective and efficient accounting and reporting procedures by analyzing complex accounting issues, collaborating with key stakeholders, providing analytics, implementing best practices, and completing designated reporting, budgeting, planning, and accounting functions to ensure compliance with company and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Complete and deliver designated financial reports and accounting procedures in a timely and accurate fashion by ensuring compliance with regulatory and company requirements.
• Support team member development by reviewing and analyzing complex accounting issues, communicating feedback to team members, sharing knowledge, resolving questions, and providing recommendations on best practices to support the achievement of business objectives.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying, developing, and implementing process and system solutions, monitoring accounting procedures, proposing automation opportunities, analyzing results, and researching discrepancies.
• Support internal and external audit requests and inquiries by coordinating the completion and review of assigned audit files and identifying, understanding, and implementing regulatory and operational changes to accounting policies, procedures, and deliverables.
• Facilitate efficient and effective team operations by reviewing complex accounting transactions, responding to inquiries, assisting with ad hoc requests, sharing knowledge and resources, and recommending process improvements.
• Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders by providing support and guidance for accounting inquiries, ensuring accurate and timely completion of accounting functions, and communicating process changes and improvements.
• Contribute to a positive work environment by demonstrating cultural expectations and influencing others to reward performance and value accountability, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, continuous improvement, collaboration, creativity, and fun.
• Manage the organization's Treasury licenses and regulatory requirements.
• Provide ongoing support for state compliance reporting, ensuring timely and accurate submissions to state regulatory authorities and helping the organization meet its statutory obligations.
• Prepare and support group consolidations contributing to the completeness and accuracy of financial reporting at the enterprise level.
• Balance sheet reconciliation of remediation efforts, helping resolve aged reconciling items, improve control effectiveness, and enhance the quality of financial data used in reporting and decision-making.
• Support key strategic finance initiatives, including the QCAP statutory investment refresh, which requires extensive coordination, technical accounting knowledge, and reporting expertise to ensure accurate statutory reporting and alignment with business objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 4 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive accounting experience.
• Statutory reporting experience.
• Insurance industry background.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license.

Skills

• Critically review, analyze, synthesize, compare, and interpret information; use logical approach to analyze issues.
• Adapt and be flexible in a complex changing environment.
• Collaborate with people at different levels within the organization to accomplish a common goal.
• Evaluate implications of project outcomes to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Communicate information in a clear, well-organized, and professional manner.
• Provide technical and regulatory compliance support.
• Analyze and synthesize complex information to form options and recommendations; utilize effective research and investigative techniques.
• High attention to detail; follow established guidelines to focus on details and complete tasks attentively and thoroughly.
• Encourage and build mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members; share expertise.
• Anticipate obstacles and challenges, identify root cause, and strategize plans to address.
• Build long-term collaborative working relationships with senior managers across the business.
• Continuously work toward improving education background; maintain current knowledge of developments in relevant field.

Preferred Knowledge

• Advanced working knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
• In-depth working knowledge of products and concepts relating to the financial services industry, including financial instruments, financial management, insurance principles, and cash and capital principles.
• Applied working knowledge of finance technology processes, procedures, solutions, and best practices.
• Working knowledge of continuous improvement methodology and principles.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $84,500–$144,000. The salary offer will be decided based on the role's complexity, its location, and the candidate’s professional background, including their education and experience.

Benefits

• Hybrid working – a mix of working from home and in the office.
• 22 weeks of paid leave for family growth, with 12 weeks available to all parents on a gender-equal basis.
• Competitive 401(k) program with company match up to 8%.
• Well-being program including holistic wellbeing coaching, gym membership, confidential counseling, financial and legal advice.
• Tuition reimbursement for professional certifications and continuing education.
• Employee Network and Community – QBE actively supports six Employee Networks and many ways to give back to your community.