Senior Accounting Analyst

📋 Description

• • Own the month-end close: compile and post journal entries, reconcile dozens of balance-sheet and P&L accounts, and write crisp variance commentary that tells the story behind the numbers for both GAAP and Statutory books.
• • Drive the production of quarterly and annual regulatory filings (Statutory, NAIC, DOI, etc.): gather data from policy, claims, and reinsurance systems, validate for completeness and accuracy, and shepherd each filing through internal review, external audit, and regulator sign-off.
• • Be the primary liaison with external auditors: field PBC requests, design walkthroughs, and ensure clean opinions on both GAAP and Statutory audits while cutting cycle time through automation and clear documentation.
• • Architect and maintain scalable accounting processes: leverage Branch’s proprietary data stack, SQL, R, or Python to automate recurring entries, reconciliations, and flux analyses—reducing close time and freeing the team for higher-value work.
• • Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data Science to translate new product features into accounting requirements—ensuring premium recognition, loss reserving, and commission rules are GAAP and Stat compliant from day one.
• • Lead ad-hoc projects such as purchase accounting for M&A, new state expansion, reinsurance treaty impacts, and system conversions—owning workplans, stakeholder updates, and post-mortems.
• • Build and maintain a robust internal control environment: document narratives, flowcharts, and risk matrices; test controls quarterly; and remediate deficiencies before they become findings.
• • Provide decision-grade insights to Finance leadership: build dashboards that track loss ratios, premium growth, and expense trends; surface anomalies; and recommend actions that directly influence pricing, reinsurance, and capital allocation.
• • Mentor junior analysts and interns: create training materials, review workpapers, and foster a culture of curiosity, accuracy, and continuous improvement.
• • Champion cross-functional collaboration: run monthly syncs with Claims, Underwriting, and Legal to ensure data integrity and alignment on emerging issues such as catastrophe events or regulatory changes.
• • Stay ahead of evolving insurance accounting standards (SSAP, ASU, LDTI) and proactively assess the impact on Branch’s financial statements and systems.
• • Contribute to strategic planning and investor reporting: prepare board-package schedules, investor KPIs, and scenario models that help raise capital and guide executive decisions.
• • Embrace Branch’s remote-first culture: thrive in a Slack-driven, Zoom-heavy environment while occasionally traveling to Columbus HQ or BranchFest for high-impact collaboration.
• • Exhibit a founder’s mindset: question legacy processes, pilot new tools, and celebrate wins that save time, money, or both—because at Branch, every dollar we save is a dollar we give back to members.