Principal Accountant

📋 Description

• • Leads and coordinates financial processes; providing direction, oversight, and review of financial transactions. Performs professional accounting work, including the preparation of financials statements, insurance department, and other regulatory filings. Analyzes and recommends solutions on complex accounting issues.
• • Demonstrates an expert understanding of complex financial information and makes recommendations to accomplish objectives and improve company performance.
• • Leads the timely and accurate posting, balancing, reconciliation, and review of financial transactions.
• • Prepares monthly, quarterly, and annual comprehensive financial reporting packages, that includes analysis of budget to actual, prior year compared to current year, and key performance indicators. In addition, provides analysis of balance sheets and cash flows for all lines of business.
• • Interacts with Sr. Management on financial matters, provides recommendations/solutions, and carries out resolutions through to completion.
• • Ensures financial reporting is in accordnance with professional standards, and provides useful and relevant financial data that enables management to make strategic business decisions.
• • Evaluates accounting processes and identifies solutions to ensure internal controls are adequate to mitigate financial statement risk & compliance. Committed to continuous improvement and embraces leading technical accounting change through innovation.
• • Analyzes, conducts testing, and identifies technical issues in accounting systems; meets with impacted departments in a lead role to resolve the issues.
• • Assumes a lead role with independent auditors and insurance department auditors to fulfill requests and ensure compliance with financial reporting requirements.
• • Provides technical guidance and training opportunities to junior staff. Responsible for overseeing, reviewing, and ensuring the quality of work produced by junior staff.
• • Develops financial reports and metrics to present to management and makes recommendations based on results to ensure strategic initiatives are accomplished.