What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Accountant - Financial Reporting position at Central States Health & Life Co. of Omaha?
Job Summary: Perform complex accounting functions requiring minimal supervision and a thorough knowledge of general accounting methods, principles, and practices and a broad understanding of the company’s business units. Utilize accounting and financial principles and techniques associated with advanced accounting and develops and implements solutions to daily accounting issues where procedures may not be well defined.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Reconcile and analyze financial information utilized by Accountants and Accounting Analysts to prepare entries to accounts, such as general ledger accounts, documenting business transactions.
- Examine and perform analysis on a variety of financial information and documents for completeness, accuracy and conformance with accounting requirements. Prepare projections and determines trends on accounting data to show effects on income and financial condition.
- Perform statistical analysis to determine trends, estimates, and significant changes in financial statements, budgets, or tax returns, and writes narrative reports explaining findings.
- Identify accounting problems, independently researches solutions and forms conclusions to present to management or appropriate party. Determine proper handling of financial transactions and approves transactions.
- Monitor compliance with statutory accounting principles, generally accepted accounting principles and company procedures. Review, investigate and correct errors and inconsistencies in financial entries, documents and reports.
- Prepare monthly department reports for management and assist with department wide projects.
- Review and provide back-up coverage preparing premium tax estimated deposits and annual returns, guaranty associations, other state assessments, survey and fees, city taxes, and other miscellaneous state surveys and fees for CSO and subsidiary companies.
- Review and provides back-up coverage reconciling fixed assets including the preparation of the lease maturity schedule.
- Interact with other department members to resolve problems and inquiries and to allow for efficient data and information flow.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent in Accounting, Finance or other complimentary discipline.
- Minimum five years of progressively responsible post college accounting experience required.
- Ability to interact effectively and professionally with both internal coworkers and external contacts.
- Solid understanding of MS Excel and strong attention to detail and organizational abilities.
- Must be a self-starter with the ability to work independently, prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.
Preferred Education and Experience:
- Previous insurance industry experience.
- Knowledge of Statutory Accounting Principles.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work:
This is a full-time position. CSO’s overall business workdays are Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with the incumbent’s actual work hour schedule to be determined by their supervisor. Attendance is required with employee working their scheduled hours of work at the employee’s designated work location, which may be office or remote based, or a combination thereof.
Work Environment:
This job operates in a corporate office environment. Incumbent is expected to reasonably work through necessary stressors of the job and work well with others.
It is CSO’s practice to communicate pertinent information on job duties, company policies and benefit disclosures via its email system. Thus, employees are required to access their company email account as an integral part of their job responsibilities.
Physical Demands:
This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, cell phone, laptops, photocopies, filing cabinets.
The work performed is sedentary with the employee seated, and standing intermittently, to perform most duties. Less than 10% of the time will be spent performing physical activities and the job does not involve stooping, crawling or kneeling except in occasional situations. However, a negligible amount of lifting, pulling and pushing may be required to perform the work and some walking, standing, and manual dexterity may be required in routine activities such as carrying papers, opening file drawers, operating basic office equipment.
Travel:
This position requires no overnight travel.
The above job description has been designed to indicate the general nature of work performed; the level of knowledge and skills typically required; and usual working conditions of this position. It is not designed to contain, or be interpreted as a comprehensive listing of all requirements or responsibilities that may be required by employees in this position.
To perform this job successfully, the incumbent must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the minimum knowledge, skill and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
CSO is a smoke and drug free workplace and requires post offer drug testing. Those applicants in need of reasonable accommodations to the application, the hiring process or the position applied, should communicate the request to Human Resources at 402-399-3336, toll-free at 1-800-826-6587, ext. 3336.
Job offers are contingent upon the successful completion of our post-offer drug screen and a background check which includes criminal, education, and past employment. Some positions may also include credit and/or motor vehicle report where those checks are related to the position. Criminal convictions do not necessarily prevent employment. Various factors may be considered including, but not limited to, the type of conviction and its relationship to the job, the nature and seriousness of any offense and the length of time since conviction. Applicants are not obligated to disclose any sealed criminal record.
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