Accounting Specialist- Reinsurance
Intact Financial
- Montreal, QC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- You are concise and a specialist in complex problem solving.
- You drive for continuous improvement and challenge status quo.
- You are truly versatile, ingenious, and innovative.
- You show initiative, interest to learn and to understand processes.
- You are an ace of teamwork, interpersonal skills, communication, and tact.
- You have a great ability to organize and prioritize workload.
- Perform the analysis of complex reinsurance instruction, provide key recommendation in the preparation of complex reinsurance journal entries and ensure the accuracy of the financial results under your responsibility.
- Perform key reconciliations to ensure accuracy and completeness of the reinsurance balance and perform reinsurance settlement with key reinsurers.
- Provide insight and recommendations to your leader about reinsurance result.
- Ensure to implement, perform and improve all key controls to ensure high quality of improvement provided to our leader.
- Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to ensure alignment in the month-end closing process.
- Makethe life of our reinsurance finance team easier by participating in financial systems and accounting processes improvement initiatives as a key lead by understanding the multiple challenges and business needs, proposing solution, implementing and testing these solutions and ensuring operational readiness for our key stakeholders. Provide warranty support after deployment.
- Identify area of improvement on various topics, documents and monitor progression on the proposal.
- Ensure efficient and optimal use of our different reinsurance & reporting systems as the primary source of data for the production and analysis of reinsurance results.
- Manage your project portfolio and provide regular, timely and pertinent update to your manager to ensure group alignment on decision and action.
- Perform ad hoc and/or recurring reinsurance request to support the reinsurance accounting team.
- Professional accounting designation (CPA) or any combination of equivalent education and experience
- Minimum 5 to 8 years of relevant experience in accounting, IFRS accounting standards and/or finance
- Experience in Insurance/Reinsurance accounting is a strong asset
- Demonstrated experience in fast learning environment requiring agility and adaptability to change
- Discipline, autonomy and professionalism
- Strong oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
- Can interact with various people at all levels of the organization, including management and some external stakeholders
- For candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism is required considering the necessity to interact on a regular basis with English-speaking colleagues across the country.