Reinsurance Accounting Manager
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Reinsurance Accounting Manager at Root, leading accounting and reporting functions. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure accurate financial reporting in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and oversee reinsurance accounting activities including month-end close, journal entries, account analysis, reconciliations, and complex reinsurance transactions.
- Own the relationship, preparation, review, and completion of reinsurance reports for brokers, management, reinsurers, auditors, internal cross-functional partners, fronting arrangements, and other stakeholders.
- Support accurate and timely GAAP, statutory, SEC, quarterly, and annual financial reporting.
- Assist with statutory accounting statements, state filings, and other regulatory reporting requirements related to statistical reporting, reinsurance and insurance accounting.
- Develop, maintain, and improve reinsurance accounting procedures, close processes, reconciliation templates, reporting workflows, and control documentation.
- Identify, document, and enhance key controls related to reinsurance accounting, reconciliations, statutory reporting, and financial reporting.
- Drive process improvements, automation, reconciliation enhancements, and scalable reporting solutions.
- Partner cross-functionally to improve data quality, reduce manual effort, strengthen controls, and shorten the close timeline.
- Lead, influence, develop, and grow the existing team through clear direction, coaching, training, and performance development.
- Navigate ambiguity, coordinate multiple projects simultaneously, accept ownership and accountability, and deliver on commitments.
- Support ad hoc accounting, reporting, regulatory, audit, and strategic finance projects as needed.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of relevant accounting and/or finance experience
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
- Comprehensive knowledge of P&C insurance industry financials
- Strong understanding of GAAP & statutory insurance accounting rules
- Prior people leadership or team management experience
- Strong analytical, root cause analysis, variance resolution, and problem-solving skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office products, data analytic tools, and reconciliation systems such as FloQast
- AI literacy and comfort using approved AI tools to improve efficiency and quality
Benefits:
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities



















