Manager, Accounting Quality Assurance

James River Group Holdings - Alpharetta, GA

Full-time - Manager

Alpharetta, GA

Management of Companies and Enterprises

About the position

The Manager, Accounting Quality Assurance at James River Insurance is a pivotal role within the Finance department, responsible for indirectly overseeing the quality of the company's core accounting functions. This encompasses a wide range of activities including journal entries, reconciliations, financial reporting, and the execution of monthly and quarterly close procedures. The position also involves the documentation of business processes, accounting methodologies, and the execution of financial controls. A key aspect of this role is the performance assessment, training, and development of accounting staff across these areas, ensuring that the team is equipped to meet the company's high standards of financial accuracy and integrity. In this capacity, the Manager will design and implement methods and procedures aimed at inspecting, testing, evaluating, and improving the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of the company's financial reporting. This requires a high level of technical accounting competence and critical thinking skills, as the role necessitates collaboration across all functional areas within the Finance department. The ability to maintain organization while managing multiple priorities is essential, as is the capacity to communicate effectively with, influence, and hold accountable staff and managers at all levels of seniority. The Manager will also be responsible for continuously upholding the Core Values of the organization, which include Integrity, Accountability, Communication, Teamwork, Innovation, and Customer Service. This role is integral to ensuring that the Finance department operates efficiently and effectively, contributing to the overall success of James River Insurance.

Responsibilities

• Oversee quality assurance in the monthly account reconciliation process and serve as an additional level of quality review to ensure accuracy, completeness, and effectiveness.
• Manage, update, and maintain the company's accounting policy and memo library, including researching complex accounting topics and preparing memos or policies to support accounting positions taken by the Company.
• Oversee quality assurance in execution of the accounting methodologies and processes performed by the Finance team, and provide feedback to strengthen controls and improve effectiveness.
• Assess performance quality of Finance department staff and identify and provide training opportunities to aid in future improvement of performance and processes.
• Coordinate with groups across the enterprise to ensure business partners have a clear understanding of accounting policies and operational impacts of transactions.
• Establish strategy/vision, goals/targets, and key performance indicators to reflect successful performance and continuous improvement, and provide monthly management reporting, analysis, and communication of performance results.
• Keep current on industry accounting issues and literature to ensure group-wide compliance and application.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting required; Master's Degree preferred.
• Minimum of eight (8) years' hands-on accounting experience with GAAP, statutory accounting, or related required; minimum three (3) years' experience in a SOX compliant environment preferred.
• Broad working knowledge of multiple insurance industry finance and accounting operations preferred; alternatively, experience in a highly-regulated and/or financial services environment required.
• Strong understanding of generally accepted accounting principles required; understanding of statutory accounting principles preferred.
• Working knowledge of successful accounting operations and internal control processes, including familiarity with enterprise-level financial systems and data architectures.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong analytical skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong work ethic with a drive to succeed; high level of initiative and motivation; proactive self-starter with a bias toward teamwork.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple deadlines; desire to embrace flexibility in a rapidly changing environment.
• Intermediate to expert level proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.).

Nice-to-haves

• CPA preferred.
• Prior accounting management experience preferred.