Investment Accountant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Arizona.

📋 Description

• Execute monthly investment accounting close activities along with related reporting tasks, which include journal entries, reconciliations, roll forwards, and supporting schedules.

• Generate statutory, GAAP, and NAIC investment schedules, footnotes, regulatory reporting, and management reporting outputs.

• Ensure the accuracy, completeness, appropriate classification, and clear documentation of investment accounting data.

• Oversee statutory, NAIC, regulatory, and company policy requirements, evaluating their impacts on investment accounting and reporting procedures.

• Assist in internal and external audits by coordinating requests, providing documentation, resolving issues, and ensuring timely responses.

• Sustain and enhance internal controls over investment accounting, reconciliations, reporting, and close activities.

• Keep process documentation up to date and adjust it for any regulatory, business, system, or control modifications.

• Prepare and review analytics, schedules, and explanations of investment accounting outcomes for management and senior finance leadership.

• Convey accounting results, key drivers, risks, unresolved items, and process challenges to finance partners, management, auditors, and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Lead remediation initiatives and process updates related to audit findings, control improvements, regulatory modifications, or reporting adjustments.

• Identify opportunities to enhance efficiency, accuracy, documentation, consistency, automation, and data quality.

• Collaborate with Treasury, Finance, Actuarial, Tax, Compliance, Technology, and other stakeholders.

• Manage multiple priorities, plan close and reporting tasks, adhere to deadlines, and escalate issues with proposed solutions.

• Foster a collaborative, resilient, and continuous improvement-focused team atmosphere.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in accounting or finance, specifically in investment accounting, statutory reporting, GAAP reporting, regulatory reporting, internal controls, audit support, or similar financial reporting roles.

• Proven leadership experience in managing people, including coaching, reviewing work, setting expectations, and ensuring accountability for deadlines and deliverables.

• Bachelor's Degree in accounting, business, or a related field.

• Residency and work performed within the State of Arizona.

• Proficiency with Oracle ERP, Oracle ARCS, Oracle Task Manager, Clearwater, and Microsoft Office.

• Strong analytical capabilities with meticulous attention to detail, enabling the identification of issues, variance research, option evaluation, and appropriate follow-up recommendations.

• Experience in investment accounting, covering securities, investment income, realized and unrealized gains and losses, fair value assessments, impairments, reconciliations, and management reporting.

• Knowledge of insurance company accounting, including Statutory, GAAP, NAIC, and regulated industry reporting mandates.

• Familiarity with internal controls, including SOX or similar frameworks, audit support, process documentation, and issue remediation.

• Capability to prepare high-level analysis for executives and clearly communicate complex accounting and regulatory issues to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.

• Ability to prioritize, organize, and lead tasks in a high-volume close and reporting environment.

• Technical and functional expertise in investment accounting, statutory reporting, internal controls, and regulatory reporting.

• Sound judgment and decision-making skills, with the ability to assess issues, evaluate options, and recommend actions effectively.

• Understanding of business operations and the ability to translate those activities into accurate accounting and reporting results.

• Proven ability to achieve outcomes through planning, accountability, collaboration, and effective deadline management.

• Capacity to serve both internal and external customers with prompt, accurate, and professional support.

• Strong teamwork, cross-functional collaboration, and effective interpersonal and communication skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity for remote work with no regular onsite obligations.

• Health insurance products and services provided by AZ Blue.

• Flexible work options through the Workability hybrid workforce strategy.

• Possible onsite attendance for staff meetings, one-on-ones, training, and team-building activities as requested by leadership.