Senior Accountant

Job Family

Financial Accounting & Reporting

About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

    

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information,  visit www.transamerica.com. 

 

Who We Are 

  

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services. 

 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology). 

Job Description Summary

Performs complex accounting functions. Utilizes general accounting and financial principles and techniques, and assists in obtaining, assembling, evaluating, interpreting, recording and analyzing financial data. Prepares financial reports and performs financial analysis.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the accounting of complex transactions typically associated with advanced accounting such as verifying the accuracy of journal vouchers and accounting classifications assigned to various records; processing and summarizing financial transactions; preparing income and balance sheet statement; assisting in the preparation of financial reports (e.g., for shareholders, policy owners, regulatory authorities and management) and state and federal tax returns.

• Works with both internal and external sources to ensure proper reporting of financial data.

• Completes and provides a complete analysis of accounting topics relevant to the area.

• Identifies, researches and recommends solutions to areas of concern in relation to accounting information.

• Seeks out potential areas of improvement (for example, workflow, automated processes), by documenting business processes, identifying controls and deficiencies, testing identified controls, and mapping internal financial statements to business processes.

• Develops nonstandard reports and statements.  Prepares information for use by a higher authority; communicates methodology and areas of concern.

• Participates on project teams or leads project teams.

• Responsible for adherence to the company's framework of internal controls.

• Reviews and analyzes budget to actual variances and related operation reporting for Division managers.

• Assists with the preparation of the divisional budget.

• May be responsible for the quarterly and annual preparation and review of statutory financial reporting.

• May have supervisory responsibilities, or review work or train other accountants.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Accounting or equivalent education/experience. 

• Minimum of 5 years of experience, with degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Solid knowledge of accounting area preferred (for example, investments, insurance products, premium, tax).

• Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing, ability to handle multiple projects, willingness to take on new projects, c