Accounting, Senior Analyst

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Global Atlantic Financial Group is a leader in the U.S. life insurance and annuity industry, serving the needs of individuals and institutions. Global Atlantic is a wholly-owned subsidiary of KKR, a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management across multiple strategies and capital markets solutions. 

We are looking for a diverse team of talented individuals who reinforce our culture of collaboration and innovation. We are dedicated to the career development of our people because we know they are critical to our long-term success. Join our team and come grow with us. 

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Global Atlantic is currently searching for a Senior Analyst to join our high performing Balance Sheet Substantiation (BSS) team within our Finance Department.  The Senior Analyst will be a strong team player who can work across the organization, partnering with many different teams across Finance and Operations to execute our BSS compliance and reporting requirements. This position works directly with functional team owners on the preparation, review, and reporting of account reconciliations, including variance research, data flows, process and efficiency improvements, chart of accounts rationale, and more.

In particular, job responsibilities include:

• Understand the Global Atlantic organization and reporting structure, as well as GAAP and STAT reporting, and how BSS supports Global Atlantic’s reporting needs
• Become a Blackline subject matter expert
• Collaborate with external consultants on process improvements
• Perform QC checks of account recs to ensure compliance with BSS policy
• Work with functional teams to research and resolve variances
• Work with functional teams to identify areas of improvement, and assist in implementing changes
• Run Blackline status reports, mine data to identify areas of improvement.
• Ensure BSS controls are meeting SOX/MAR compliance requirements
• Liaise with the external auditors and support the BSS audit
• Participate in additional special projects and initiatives as required including Automation
• Build strong relationships with functional teams and account rec owners, internal audit team and SOX team, and external auditors

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• Minimum 2 years of experience in the insurance/asset management industry or public accounting
• Accounting and/or Finance experience; experience with account reconciliations
• CPA a strong plus
• Strong data mining knowledge with medium to advanced Excel skills
• Knowledge of Blackline or other account rec management tools
• Proactive, organized with sense of urgency
• Ability to operate as part of a larger functional team
• Strong analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills, with strong attention to detail
• Strong written and verbal communication, collaboration, and time management skills

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Various jurisdictions have passed pay transparency laws that require companies provide salary ranges for any positions for which they are accepting applications. Global Atlantic has offices in Atlanta, Batesville, Bermuda, Boston, Des Moines, Hartford, Indianapolis, and New York City. The base salary range posted below is inclusive of the lowest cost of living geography to the highest in which we have a Global Atlantic office. 

Global Atlantic’s base salary range is determined through an analysis of similar positions in the external labor market. Base pay is just one component of Global Atlantic’s total compensation package for employees and at times we hire outside the boundaries of the salary range. Other rewards may include annual cash bonuses, long-term incentives (equity), generous benefits (including immediate vesting on employee contributions to a 401(k), as well as a company match on your contributions), and sales incentives.  Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Compensation for our more senior positions have a larger component of short-term cash bonus and long-term incentives. 

The base salary range for this role is$60,000—$114,000 USD

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