Supervising Senior Accountant

Senior Supervising Accountant
**Hybrid schedule - must be on site 2 days a week in the New Haven, CT offices

Overview
Responsibilities include:

• ccounting for worldwide insurance operations, Canadian insurance operations, investment management companies, charitable 501(c) (3), or a combination thereof.
• Controls general ledger (G/L) activity and monthly closings.
• Monitors account reconciliations.
• Prepares or oversees preparation of various monthly and quarterly management accounts and supporting schedules, including budget vs actual financial statements.
• ssists with preparation of Quarterly and Annual statements.
• Specific experience with Footnote entries on Financial Statements.
• Strong Reporting/Analytics and Solutions experience.
• Prepares or oversees preparation of audited financial statements and accompanying footnotes. Assists with preparation of year-end schedules for external audit and appropriate year end surveys as required by rating agencies and associations.
• Supervises accounting tasks performed by the Senior Accountant and Accountant.
• Demonstrates an advanced capability to work with accounting standards.

Core Responsibilities

• Controls general ledger activity and closing of general ledger each month, including insurance operations, investment management entities, and charitable entities (U.S. 501(c) (3) and Canadian Not-for-Profit entities).
• Identifies and analyzes unusual and significant fluctuations of account activity.
• Prepares quarterly and annual statements using SAP S/4 Hana and/or Workpaper Manager (WPM).
• Prepares annual audited financial statements and accompanying footnotes.
• Supervises work of Senior Accountant(s) and Accountant(s) and provides training and education on job responsibilities and business operations.
• Oversees monitoring of monthly account reconciliations prepared by business areas.
• Prepares or oversees preparation of depreciation, expense account analysis and allocation schedules.
• Prepares monthly, quarterly, or year-end schedules, as requested by management, external auditor, and various year-end surveys.

Essential Competencies
Professionalism/Personal Accountability, Collaboration and Teamwork, Communication, Flexible and Adapts to Change, Service to Customers and Clients

Skill Qualifications Required:

• Substantial and demonstrable financial skills to be used in financial analysis and reporting
• Strong organizational and coordination skills to support multi-tasking
• Supervisory skills or ability
• Strong oral, listening and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to work collaboratively
• nalytical and problem-solving skills
• Sound judgment

Systems/Technical Knowledge:

• Exposure to large-scale enterprise, financial systems (e.g. SAP)
• Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Education and Experience Qualifications Required:

• BS in Accounting
• 4-6 years insurance industry experience or equivalent combination of training and experience; insurance finance experience preferred.