Investment Accountant

Responsible for investment accounting across statutory, GAAP, and NAIC requirements, including monthly close activities, reconciliations, reporting, audit support, internal controls, and process improvements. Communicate accounting results, key drivers, risks, open items, and process issues clearly to finance partners, auditors, and cross-functional stakeholders.

Investment Accountant


Job Summary

Responsible for investment accounting across statutory, GAAP, and NAIC requirements, including monthly close activities, reconciliations, reporting, audit support, internal controls, and process improvements. Ensures accurate, timely, and well-documented investment accounting results that comply with regulatory and reporting requirements.

Responsibilities

• Manage monthly investment accounting close activities, including journal entries, reconciliations, roll-forwards, supporting schedules, and related reporting.
• Prepare and review statutory, GAAP, and NAIC investment schedules, footnotes, regulatory reports, and management reporting deliverables.
• Ensure investment accounting data is accurate, complete, properly classified, and supported by clear documentation.
• Apply knowledge of securities, investment income, realized and unrealized gains and losses, impairments, fair value, and statutory reporting requirements.
• Monitor statutory, NAIC, regulatory, and internal policy requirements and assess their impact on investment accounting and reporting processes.
• Support internal and external audits by coordinating requests, preparing documentation, resolving issues, and providing timely responses.
• Maintain and strengthen internal controls over investment accounting, reconciliations, reporting, and close activities.
• Assess risks and recommend control enhancements, remediation activities, and process improvements.
• Maintain current process documentation and update it for regulatory, business, system, or control changes.
• Prepare concise analyses, schedules, and explanations of investment accounting results for management and finance leadership.
• Communicate accounting results, key drivers, risks, open items, and process issues clearly to finance partners, auditors, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy, documentation, consistency, automation, and data quality.
• Partner with Treasury, Finance, Actuarial, Tax, Compliance, Technology, and other stakeholders to support accurate investment accounting and reporting.
• Manage multiple priorities, plan close and reporting activities, meet deadlines, and escalate issues with recommended solutions.
• Promote collaboration, resilience, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Seven or more years of progressive accounting or finance experience, including investment accounting, statutory reporting, GAAP reporting, regulatory reporting, internal controls, audit support, or related financial reporting responsibilities.
• Bachelor s degree in accounting, business, or a related field.
• Experience with investment accounting, including securities, investment income, realized and unrealized gains and losses, fair value, impairments, reconciliations, and management reporting.
• Experience with insurance accounting, statutory reporting, GAAP, NAIC requirements, and regulated industry reporting.
• Experience with internal controls, SOX or similar control frameworks, audit support, process documentation, and issue remediation.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience, including coaching, reviewing work, setting expectations, and managing accountability for deadlines and deliverables.
• Ability to prioritize, organize, and lead work in a high-volume close and reporting environment.
• Strong judgment and decision-making skills, including the ability to assess issues, evaluate options, and recommend appropriate actions.
• Ability to translate business activity into accurate accounting and reporting outcomes.
• Ability to prepare executive-ready analyses and communicate complex accounting and regulatory matters clearly to financial and non-financial stakeholders.
• Preferred: Ten or more years of investment accounting or finance experience in a regulated insurance or financial services environment.
• Preferred: Experience managing statutory, GAAP, NAIC, or investment accounting reporting functions.
• Preferred: Master s degree in accounting, business, or a related field.
• Preferred: Certified Public Accountant certification.

Skill

• Investment accounting and financial reporting
• Statutory, GAAP, and NAIC reporting
• Regulatory reporting and compliance
• Reconciliations, journal entries, roll-forwards, and monthly close procedures
• Internal controls, audit support, and issue remediation
• Advanced analytical, data mining, and data manipulation skills
• Microsoft Office proficiency
• Experience with Oracle ERP, Oracle ARCS, Oracle Task Manager, and Clearwater
• Strong attention to detail and variance analysis skills
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management
• Planning, organization, deadline management, and problem-solving
• Preferred: Artificial intelligence proficiency

Summary Qualification

• Experienced investment accounting professional with expertise in statutory, GAAP, and NAIC reporting.
• Strong knowledge of insurance investment accounting, regulatory requirements, internal controls, and audit processes.
• Proven ability to manage monthly close activities, reporting deliverables, reconciliations, and process improvements.
• Effective leader and cross-functional partner with strong analytical, communication, and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated ability to improve accuracy, efficiency, documentation, automation, and data quality.

 

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