Sr Staff Accountant -AUL (Hybrid)

We help protect our customers against life's uncertainties. Regardless of where you work within the company, you'll be helping provide protection and peace of mind when our customers need it most.

This position is responsible for completing various monthly and quarterly accounting responsibilities including general ledger and insurance subledger journal entries, reporting packages/deliverables, reconciliations for reinsurance accounts, and other various assigned duties related to accounting work. This position will help ensure data integrity by analyzing work and providing support.

These responsibilities must be performed timely and accurately with great attention to detail. This position may be assigned accounting projects in order to assist with specific corporate and/or department goals and objectives.

This position uses tools such as Excel, SAP, SAP Analysis for Office, and various administrative systems. An understanding of the detail workings of Protective's general ledger and insurance subledger will also be required.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for booking monthly and quarterly activity, ensuring calculations and entries are accurate for the Chase acquisition, including key reinsurance processes for Wilton Re and Commonwealth.
• Responsible for completing Wilton Re monthly and quarterly deliverables, including settlement statements, cession entry checks, and various other reports and deliverables.
• Responsible for analyzing results and providing additional support and explanation when needed.
• Responsible for preparation of quarterly key reconciliations.
• Assist with support for internal and external auditors for quarterly and annual reviews.
• Serve as one of the point-of-contacts and assist with support for Wilton Re inquiries.
• Other accounting and financial job duties as assigned.

Qualifications / Education / Skills

• This position requires high level critical thinking skills, a strong sense of urgency, and a working knowledge of GAAP accounting (Statutory accounting and reporting is a plus), general ledgers, accounting related systems/ databases and operational accounting process flows.
• The position is expected to be at a level beyond just reporting and tying numbers and must be able to understand underlying trends.
• A Bachelor's Degree in accounting is required, with a CPA and/or MAcc/MBA designation preferred. Minimum 3-5 years of applicable accounting and general ledger experience is required, preferably in the insurance industry.
• This position requires very strong analytical and technical accounting related abilities to ensure accounting related processes and systems are operating in an accurate and efficient manner.
• Attention to detail is a must to be successful in this position.
• Strong deductive and inductive reasoning skills are a must.
• Insurance accounting experience is preferred. Excellent communication skills are needed as there will be frequent interaction with reinsurance companies, management, IT employees, LAD Finance, Reinsurance Administration, Claims, Corporate Accounting, Actuarial and various other departments.

Employee Benefits:

We aim to protect our employees' wellbeing through a broad benefits offering. For example, we protect physical wellbeing through health, dental and vision insurance. We protect mental wellbeing through mental health benefits and an employee assistance program. We protect time away from work with a variety of paid time away benefits ( e.g., paid time off, paid parental leave, short-term disability, and a cultural observance day). We protect financial wellbeing through contributions to healthcare accounts, a pension plan, and a 401(k) plan with Company matching. All employees are encouraged to protect their overall wellbeing by engaging in ProHealth Rewards, Protective's platform to improve wellbeing while earning cash rewards.

Eligibility for certain benefits may vary by position in accordance with the terms of the Company's benefit plans.

Diversity and Inclusion :

At Protective, we are committed to providing an inclusive culture where all employees are able to fully contribute and thrive. Our goal is to grow and develop our people, attract diverse talent and support strong, diverse communities.

We support diversity, equity, and inclusion by working to develop a culture of inclusion and belonging led by leaders who develop potential and embrace unique skills and abilities. Our aim is to create an equitable and accountable environment for all leaders and employees that will drive performance and impact business strategy. In this way, we can increase overall diversity for leadership roles and pipelines of talent by maturing our hiring practices, robust development opportunities and focus on retention of key talent.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to being inclusive and attracting, retaining, and growing the talents of a diverse and inclusive workforce.