Senior Accountant
Regular Employment
Location: Kansas City, MO, US
Are you a detail-oriented accounting professional looking to make an impact in a dynamic, growing business environment? Join our team where your expertise will drive financial excellence and contribute to our strategic growth in the insurance industry. This role offers exciting opportunities to apply your accounting knowledge while developing your career with a forward-thinking organization.
About the Role
As a Senior Accountant, you'll play a crucial role in our financial operations, ensuring accuracy and compliance while contributing to process improvements that enhance our team's effectiveness and efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead quarterly close activities including reconciling balance sheet accounts and preparing accurate financial data for internal and external reporting
- Collaborate with auditors by providing necessary documentation and support for both internal and external audit processes
- Ensure compliance with risk and control frameworks and meet all audit requirements
- Perform quality checks on output produced by team members for Corporate Solutions Finance stakeholders
- Conduct comprehensive analysis related to accounting policies, reporting, monitoring, and reconciliation activities
- Identify and implement process improvements to enhance team delivery and efficiency
About the Team
The Corporate Solutions North America Finance team is responsible for the financial management of the Corporate Solutions North America entities, including the quarterly financial closing for US statutory valuations. In addition, the team also contributes to the financial planning and analysis of the entities, providing quality management information for reporting and decision making, both historic and forward looking projections as well as a number of projects.
About You
You're a collaborative and analytical finance professional who thrives in a dynamic environment. Your attention to detail and ability to communicate complex financial information clearly makes you an effective team member. You enjoy finding solutions to challenges and continuously improving processes while maintaining the highest standards of accuracy.
We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:
- College graduate with BA or BS in Accounting
- Five plus years of work experience in the insurance industry
- CPA certification or equivalent; 2- 5 years experience
- Strong knowledge of statutory accounting policies and regulatory framework
- Advanced Excel skills
- Experience with US Statutory accounting principles
These are additional nice to haves:
- Knowledge of IFRS accounting principles
- Experience with financial systems and automation tools
- Project management experience
- Strong presentation skills and experience communicating with senior leadership
The role will be located in our Kansas City, MO office. Our company has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office three days per week.
The estimated base salary range for this position is $84,000 to $126,000. The specific salary offered for this, or any given role will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to job location, scope of role, qualifications, complexity/specialization/scarcity of talent, experience, education, and employer budget. At Swiss Re, we take a "total compensation approach" when making compensation decisions. This means that we consider all components of compensation in their totality (such as base pay, short-and long-term incentives, and benefits offered), in setting individual compensation.
About Swiss Re
Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.
Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.
If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.
Swiss Re is an equal opportunity employer. It is our practice to recruit, hire and promote without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, pregnancy, sexual orientations, marital status, military status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Decisions on employment are solely based on an individual's qualifications for the position being filled.
During the recruitment process, reasonable accommodations for disabilities are available upon request. If contacted for an interview, please inform the Recruiter/HR Professional of the accommodation needed.
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