Accountant, Financial Reporting

Job Posting End Date: June 29

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Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide: 

• Award-winning culture 

• Inclusion and diversity as a priority 

• Performance Based Incentive Plans

• Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability 

• Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!) 

• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution 

• Mental health support 

• Career advancement opportunities 

• Student loan repayment options 

• Tuition reimbursement

• Flexible work environments 

*All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans.

And that’s just the beginning…  

With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today! 

General Summary:

This position performs intermediate-level accounting and financial analysis specializing in Financial Reporting. The position will provide accounting and financial analyses working individually or with others that serve to inform and ground business decisions. Responsibilities may include leadership and/or participation in the development of, implementation of, and adherence to accounting/financial procedures that will improve operations, consistency, controls, process efficiency, and effectiveness of the functional area.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for basic to intermediate analysis and reporting of financial transactions in accordance with US GAAP, UK GAAP, IFRS, and Statutory accounting standards.
• Prepares, records, analyzes, and reports accounting transactions and ensures the integrity of accounting records for completeness, accuracy and compliance with accounting policies and principals.
• Prepares and distributes periodic financial statements for various governmental and/or regulatory agencies such as NAIC, SEC, or State Insurance Regulators.
• Conducts research regarding the impact to financial statements of potential changes to accounting rules proposed by accounting standards setters.
• Develops, implements, and communicates to management on new policies and processes to comply with newly issues accounting standards.
• Assist with implementation of timely, cost-effective planning strategies designed to create value and enhance the Company’s worldwide financial position.
• Participate in regular monthly, quarterly, and annual financial cycle.
• Prepare, verify, reconcile, and balance accounts related to the specific financial area to maintain control and accuracy over accounting and reporting by identifying discrepancies and their cause and recommendations for corrective action.
• Prepare more complex accounting and financial analysis for designated area and routine reports for manager.
• Assist with tax controversies and notices, by responding to information requests, preparing workpapers, gathering other supporting documentation, and corresponding to exam agents to support the company’s tax position.
• Act as liaison with Treasury when sending quarterly federal and state cash payments to various government agencies, ensuring proper approvals are obtained and payments are made on a timely manner.
• Demonstrate understanding of analysis by applying knowledge and anticipating issues and demonstrate ownership of assigned tasks or processes.
• Make recommendations regarding the process of creating the assigned complex analytics as well as recommendations regarding the results of the analytics.
• Maintain various systems and data assets that support the specific financial areas (e.g., accounting, planning, and administrative systems). Assumes ownership of the data in the system or assets related to the assigned analysis.
• Partner with business areas to provide requested accounting/tax research, analysis, information, and data.
• Maintain a specialized working knowledge in assigned tasks and analysis of Unum’s products, services and business processes including, their sp