Director Accounting Policy

Description Highlights

Job ID: SUNJBDAPET

Position Type: Not Indicated

Location: CA-Woodland Hills

Relocation: No

Requirements:

Professional/Technical training or knowledge: Strong knowledge of accounting and external reporting issues. Excellent organization, PC skills. Strong work ethic, self starter and ability to re-engineer/improve reporting processes. Creative thinker. Ability to communicate/work up, down and across the organization. Clear oral and written communication skills are a must.
Requires 5 + years experience in financial reporting process with major insurance and/or financial services company. Supervisory experience preferred. Minimum 7 years total business experience preferred.

License required: CPA

General education or equivalent: BS Accounting/CPA preferred.

Education: Bachelors

Experience: 6-9 years

Description:

Purpose of the Position:
Ensure AIG Retirement Services compliance and documenting of accounting under GAAP and AIG Accounting Policy.

Essential Functions:
Candidate will be responsible for reviewing significant investment accounting and hedging transactions, implications of new GAAP reporting pronouncements, and determining that proper documentation exists for key adjusting entries and GAAP disclosures. The candidate will become involved in a variety of different areas of accounting, including, but not limited to, partnership accounting (hedge funds, private equities), affordable housing accounting issues, derivative transactions, insurance accounting issues, special purpose entities, etc. In this role, the candidate will be expected to develop close working relationship with AIG’s Office of Accounting Policy (OAP). Other duties include implementation of new accounting standards & policies as they relate to AIG Retirement Services, Inc. (AIGRS). Candidate will be expected to keep current on new Accounting Standards (FASB, EITF, SEC, etc.) as it relates to AIGRS. Candidate will be expected to work with various areas of the organization including Finance, Treasury, Investments, Affordable Housing, Actuarial, AIG Comptrollers Group, etc., and will also assist with special projects as needed.

About Us:

Retirement Services serves more than five million customers with retirement savings products and services through its vast distribution network of registered representatives, independent broker-dealers, national and regional securities firms, banks and insurance agencies.

The six major businesses that comprise Retirement Services include:

Advisor Group, Inc., one of the largest independent broker-dealer networks in the United States and consists of FSC Securities Corporation, SagePoint Financial, Inc. and Royal Alliance.

SunAmerica Affordable Housing Partners, Inc. (SAAHP), one of the nation's leading investors in low-income housing tax credit transactions and the fifth largest apartment investor in the nation.

SunAmerica Asset Management Corp., a mutual fund and asset management business.

SunAmerica Retirement Markets, Inc., specializing in marketing and distributing retirement savings products through an extensive national network of registered representatives at independent broker-dealers, securities firms and banks.

VALIC, who, for more than half a century, has served as a leading plan provider for K-12 schools and school districts, as well as for higher education and healthcare institutions.

Western National Life Insurance Company, the largest issuer of fixed annuities in the United States and the leading provider of annuities sold through financial institutions.

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