SR ACCOUNTING MANAGER

Palm Harbor Homes•New Braunfels, TX

About The Position

The Senior Accounting Manager for Standard Casualty Company is responsible for overseeing and maintaining accounting principles, practices, and procedures to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of both GAAP and statutory financial statements. This role provides leadership and supervision to the accounting team, ensuring work is effectively allocated and completed accurately and on schedule. The position manages competing deadlines and a wide range of accounting functions, including general ledger management, financial reporting, and coordination of internal and external audits.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Corporate Finance and 7+ years of progressively responsible experience for a P&C insurance company or insurance division of a large corporation.
Must be detailed and deadline oriented with excellent time management skills, ability to maintain confidentiality and work in a fast-paced environment.
Data entry management, reporting skills, complex analytical and research results are required.
Microsoft Word, Outlook, and Excel spreadsheet proficiency.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Accounting, MBA and/or CPA designation preferred.
Experience with Sapiens/StoneRiver GL, Blackline Reconciliations, and/or Gain Compliance systems preferred.

Responsibilities

Maintain a system of control over all accounting transactions for both GAAP and Statutory financials.
Ensure an accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, and year-end close.
Collaborate with the other department managers to support overall department goals and objectives.
Monitor and analyze department work to develop more efficient procedures and use of resources while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
Advise staff regarding the handling of non-routine reporting transactions.
Coordinate the provision of information to internal and external auditors for the annual GAAP and Statutory audits, including preparation of the Annual Audit Report.
Coordinate the provision of information to Fronting company and MGA auditors for periodic and ad-hoc audits.
Validate that all reinsurance is accurately accounted for and coordinate with reinsurance brokers for the settlement of amounts due to/from reinsurers.
Responsible for providing information to Cavco for the filing of quarterly and annual reports with the SEC.
Assist in the development and implementation of new procedures and features, including the use of automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), or 3 party (BPO) resources, to enhance the workflow of the department and provide training to new and existing staff as needed.
Work with each direct report to establish goals and objectives for each year and monitor and advise on the progress to enhance the professional development of staff.
Daily review and verification of employee timesheets and approval of time off requests for direct reports.
Any additional duties assigned by the supervisor.