Senior Director, Assistant Controller

Responsibilities

• Leads, mentors, and develops a multi-layered accounting organization
• Builds leadership capability and succession planning
• Establishes clear roles, responsibilities, and performance metrics that optimizes team performance and enables individual employee development
• Recruits, develops, and retains top accounting talent, ensuring the skills and knowledge needed for a modern accounting organization are retained
• Oversees monthly, quarterly, and annual close
• Reviews journal entries, reconciliations, and reporting, ensuring compliance with relevant GAAP and NAIC Statutory Accounting Principles
• Provides technical accounting leadership, staying up to date on technical developments within GAAP and NAIC Statutory Accounting Principles, and ensuring the appropriate adherence of internal policies to the relevant guidance
• Ensures consistent application of accounting policies
• Led modernization of accounting operations leading to close process optimization
• Ledesigns scalable, automated, and standardized processes that leverage the technology and tools available to the team
• Partners with Finance and IT to optimize systems and data flows, developing a strategic roadmap for the department’s development
• Champions continuous improvement
• Leads external audit execution for consolidated GAAP and stand-alone subsidiary GAAP and NAIC Statutory audits
• Oversees internal controls over financial reporting and Model Audit Rule (MAR) Compliance within the accounting organization
• Identifies and remediates risks on a proactive basis, engaging with team members across the organization to optimize risk management processes
• Safeguards regulatory compliance

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of progressive accounting experience
• Minimum 5 years of people leadership
• Experience in health insurance, managed care, or regulated financial services preferred
• Public accounting experience with big four firm preferred
• Bachelor’s degree required
• CPA strongly preferred
• Advanced degree preferred

About the Role

The Senior Director, Assistant Controller is a senior finance leader responsible for building and leading a high-performing accounting organization while modernizing core accounting processes, systems, and controls.

Benefits

At Capital Blue Cross, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental & Vision coverage, a Retirement Plan, generous time off including Paid Time Off, Holidays, and Volunteer time off, an Incentive Plan, Tuition Reimbursement, and more.

Pay

Base pay is influenced by several factors including a candidate’s qualifications, relevant experience, and anticipated contributions to meet the needs of the business, along with internal pay equity and external market-driven rates.

Schedule

This position is classified hybrid, which requires onsite work on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.