Senior Accountant, Financial Reporting

We need to output HTML fragment with headings

for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. So we need to extract sections. Let's parse the job posting: Job Summary: Perform complex accounting functions requiring minimal supervision and a thorough knowledge of general accounting methods, principles, and practices and a broad understanding of the company’s business units. Utilize accounting and financial principles and techniques associated with advanced accounting and develop and implement solutions to daily accounting issues where procedures may not be well defined. Provide directions to department staff members. Essential Responsibilities: (list of duties) Required Education and Experience: Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent in Accounting, Finance or other complimentary discipline. Minimum five years of progressively responsible post college accounting experience required. Ability to interact effectively and professionally with both internal coworkers and external contacts. Solid understanding of MS Excel and strong attention to detail and organizational abilities. Must be a self-starter with the ability to work independently, prioritize tasks and meet deadlines. Preferred Education and Experience: Previous insurance industry experience. Knowledge of Statutory Accounting Principles. Position Type and Expected Hours of Work: This is a full-time position. CSO’s overall business workdays are Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with the incumbent’s actual work hour schedule to be determined by their supervisor. Attendance is required with employee working their scheduled hours of work at the employee’s designated work location, which may be office or remote based, or a combination thereof. Work Environment: This job operates in a corporate office environment. Incumbent is expected to reasonably work through necessary stressors of the job and work well with others. It is CSO’s practice to communicate pertinent information on job duties, company policies and benefit disclosures via its email system. Thus, employees are required to access their company email account as an integral part of their job responsibilities. Physical Demands: This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, cell phone, laptops, photocopies, filing cabinets. The work performed is sedentary with the employee seated, and standing intermittently, to perform most duties. Less than 10% of the time will be spent performing physical activities and the job does not involve stooping, crawling or kneeling except in occasional situations. However, a negligible amount of lifting, pulling and pushing may be required to perform the work and some walking, standing, and manual dexterity may be required in routine activities such as carrying papers, opening file drawers, operating basic office equipment. Travel: This position requires no overnight travel. Then there is a paragraph about job description design, etc. Then "To perform this job successfully..." etc. Then "Reasonable accommodations may be made..." etc. Then "CSO is a smoke and drug free workplace..." etc. Then "Job offers are contingent upon..." etc. Then "Criminal convictions do not necessarily prevent employment." etc. Then "Applicants are not obligated to disclose any sealed criminal record." Then "Equal Opportunity Employer Participates in E-Verify". Those are boilerplate to remove. Also there is "The above job description has been designed..." etc. That's also boilerplate. We need to include sections: About the role (maybe from Job Summary). Responsibilities (Essential Responsibilities). Requirements (maybe Required Education and Experience). Qualifications (maybe Preferred Education and Experience). Skills (maybe abilities like MS Excel, attention to detail, self-starter, etc). Benefits (none given). Pay (none). Schedule (maybe from Position Type and Expected Hours of Work). Also Work Environment, Physical Demands, Travel could be part of About the role or separate sections? The instruction says use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but says "Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It implies we should use those headings where appropriate. It doesn't say we cannot add other headings like Work Environment, but likely they want only those standard headings. However we need to preserve all substantive information. We could embed Work Environment, Physical Demands, Travel under About the role or maybe under a separate section like "Working Conditions". But not in the list. The instruction: "Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It suggests those are the allowed headings; we should not create others. So we need to fit all info into those sections. Thus: - About the role: Job Summary + maybe Work Environment, Physical Demands, Travel? Could include those as paragraphs. - Responsibilities: list of essential responsibilities. - Requirements: Required Education and Experience (maybe also include "Ability to interact effectively..." etc). Could also include "Solid understanding of MS Excel..." etc. - Qualifications: Preferred Education and Experience. - Skills: maybe combine abilities like MS Excel, attention to detail, organizational abilities, self-starter, prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, ability to interact effectively, etc. Could also include knowledge of Statutory Accounting Principles (though that's preferred). But we can put that under Qualifications. - Benefits: none given, so omit. - Pay: none given, omit. - Schedule: from Position Type and Expected Hours of Work. We must not include placeholder text like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We must not repeat job title. We must not include Job ID etc. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, etc. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's craft. First, About the role: combine Job Summary, Work Environment, Physical Demands, Travel maybe. Job Summary paragraph: "Perform complex accounting functions requiring minimal supervision and a thorough knowledge of general accounting methods, principles, and practices and a broad understanding of the company’s business units. Utilize accounting and financial principles and techniques associated with advanced accounting and develop and implement solutions to daily accounting issues where procedures may not be well defined. Provide directions to department staff members." Work Environment: "This job operates in a corporate office environment. Incumbent is expected to reasonably work through necessary stressors of the job and work well with others. It is CSO’s practice to communicate pertinent information on job duties, company policies and benefit disclosures via its email system. Thus, employees are required to access their company email account as an integral part of their job responsibilities." Physical Demands: "This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, cell phone, laptops, photocopies, filing cabinets. The work performed is sedentary with the employee seated, and standing intermittently, to perform most duties. Less than 10% of the time will be spent performing physical activities and the job does not involve stooping, crawling or kneeling except in occasional situations. However, a negligible amount of lifting, pulling and pushing may be required to perform the work and some walking, standing, and manual dexterity may be required in routine activities such as carrying papers, opening file drawers, operating basic office equipment." Travel: "This position requires no overnight travel." We can combine into a few paragraphs. Responsibilities: list each duty as

. Let's extract list: - Reconcile and analyze financial information utilized by Accountants and Accounting Analysts to prepare entries to accounts, such as general ledger accounts, documenting business transactions. - Examine and perform analysis on a variety of financial information and documents for completeness, accuracy and conformance with accounting requirements. - Prepare projections and determine trends on accounting data to show effects on income and financial condition. - Perform statistical analysis to determine trends, estimates, and significant changes in financial statements, budgets, or tax returns, and write narrative reports explaining findings. - Identify accounting problems, independently research solutions and forms conclusions to present to management or appropriate party. - Determine proper handling of financial transactions and approve transactions. - Monitor compliance with statutory accounting principles, generally accepted accounting principles and company procedures. - Review, investigate and correct errors and inconsistencies in financial entries, documents and reports. - Prepare monthly department reports for management and assist with department-wide projects. - Review and/or prepares premium tax estimated deposits and annual returns, guaranty associations, other state assessments, survey and fees, city taxes, and other miscellaneous state surveys and fees for CSO and subsidiary companies. - Review work of Accountants to ensure integrity of all financial data. - Interact with other department members to resolve problems and inquiries and to allow for efficient data and information flow. - Perform other related duties as assigned and assist in financial audits. We need to ensure we preserve all. Requirements: Required Education and Experience bullet points: - Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent in Accounting, Finance or other complimentary discipline. - Minimum five years of progressively responsible post college accounting experience required. - Ability to interact effectively and professionally with both internal coworkers and external contacts. - Solid understanding of MS Excel and strong attention to detail and organizational abilities. - Must be a self-starter with the ability to work independently, prioritize tasks and meet deadlines. We could also include "Ability to interact effectively..." etc. Qualifications: Preferred Education and Experience: - Previous insurance industry experience. - Knowledge of Statutory Accounting Principles. Skills: maybe combine MS Excel, attention to detail, organizational abilities, self-starter, prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, ability to interact effectively, etc. But some of those already in Requirements. Could separate: Skills: MS Excel, attention to detail, organizational abilities, self-starter, prioritization, meeting deadlines, interpersonal communication, etc. However we risk duplication. The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Duplication is okay if it's present in multiple places? But we should not invent. We can keep Requirements as is, and Skills could be empty? Better to not create Skills section if no distinct skill content beyond what's already in Requirements. But we could still create Skills section with the skills mentioned: MS Excel, attention to detail, organizational abilities, self-starter, ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, ability to interact effectively, etc. However those are already in Requirements; but we could still include them, but that would be duplication but not invented. The instruction does not forbid duplication, but says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So maybe we should not create Skills if it's thin. However we have some skill info that is not captured elsewhere? Actually Requirements already includes those. So Skills would be thin. Better to omit Skills section. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Schedule. Check if we have any Benefits or Pay: none, so omit. Now Schedule: from Position Type and Expected Hours of Work. Paragraph: "This is a full-time position. CSO’s overall business workdays are Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with the incumbent’s actual work hour schedule to be determined by their supervisor. Attendance is required with employee working their scheduled hours of work at the employee’s designated work location, which may be office or remote based, or a combination thereof." We can put that as

. Now we need to ensure we don't include any boilerplate like "The above job description has been designed..." etc. Also remove "To perform this job successfully..." etc. Also remove "Reasonable accommodations may be made..." etc. Also remove "CSO is a smoke and drug free workplace..." etc. Also remove "Job offers are contingent upon..." etc. Also remove "Criminal convictions do not necessarily prevent employment." etc. Also remove "Applicants are not obligated to disclose any sealed criminal record." Also remove "Equal Opportunity Employer Participates in E-Verify". Also remove "The above job description has been designed to indicate the general nature of work performed; the level of knowledge and skills typically required; and usual working conditions of this position. It is not designed to contain, or be interpreted as a comprehensive listing of all requirements or responsibilities that may be required by employees