Senior Accountant, Retail
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Job Location:
Iselin, NJ - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 95000 - 105000
Posted on:
05-11-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Summary
Founded in 2011 World is one of fastest-growing insurance brokers in the U.S. with over 2200 employees in over 210 offices across North America. We specialize in personal and commercial insurance lines surety and bonding employee benefits financial and retirement services and human capital management solutions.
Position Summary
As part of the corporate accounting function the Senior Accountant will support the preparation of the monthly quarterly and annual financial statements on the GAAP basis of accounting.
Your Duties and Responsibilities include but not limited to:
Required Qualifications:
Equal Employment Opportunity
At World Insurance Associates (WIA) we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts experiences and opinions allows our employees our products and our community to flourish. WIA is honored to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity sexual orientation or Veteran addition WIA makes reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.
Compensation
This position is located in New Jersey. The base salary for this position at the time of this posting may range from $95000 to $105000. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors including business needs experience level of responsibility and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package and variable pay programs please visit more details.
To Executive Search Firms and Staffing Agencies:
World does not accept unsolicited resumes from any agencies that have not signed a mutual service agreement. All unsolicited resumes will be considered Worlds property and World will not be obligated to pay a referral fee. This includes resumes submitted directly to Hiring Managers without contacting Worlds Human Resources Talent Department.
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Founded in 2011 World is one of fastest-growing insurance brokers in the U.S. with over 2200 employees in over 210 offices across North America. We specialize in personal and commercial insurance lines surety and bonding employee benefits financial and retirement services and human capital management solutions.
Position Summary
As part of the corporate accounting function the Senior Accountant will support the preparation of the monthly quarterly and annual financial statements on the GAAP basis of accounting.
Your Duties and Responsibilities include but not limited to:
- Maintain appropriate general ledger entries and account reconciliations.
- Ensure necessary journal entries are booked all underlying roll forwards and account reconciliations are accurate.
- Prepare and/or review various P&L and Balance Sheet adjusting or monthly closing entries.
- Review accounts payable bills for proper GL coding.
- Prepare and/or review monthly memos summarizing P&L activity.
- Communicate with other corporate functions as needed.
- Prepare and/or review entries for entities not utilizing Worlds centralized agency management system.
- Work on monthly consolidation of newly acquired agencies. Ensure all accounting tasks are performed correctly according to GAAP and company policy.
- Monitor and review financial transactions in the general ledger to ensure accuracy and completeness.
- Work on P&L variance explanations for monthly reporting deliverables to senior management and the Board.
- Participate in the mid-year and annual audit process.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes and controls to be more efficient and effective.
- Perform ad hoc projects and/or financial analysis.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in accounting
- Required Minimum of 3-5 years experience in accounting insurance industry and/or auditing experience a plus
- Computer Applications Proficiency with general ledger systems and Microsoft Office applications including Excel and Word. Intermediate or better skill level in Excel is a must
- Oracle NetSuite or similar GL experience a plus
- Workflow - High attention to detail including proven ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously and meet deadlines.
- Communication Ability to clearly communicate with peers.
- Ability to multitask prioritize tasks work independently and handle sensitive information with discretion.
Equal Employment Opportunity
At World Insurance Associates (WIA) we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts experiences and opinions allows our employees our products and our community to flourish. WIA is honored to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity sexual orientation or Veteran addition WIA makes reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.
Compensation
This position is located in New Jersey. The base salary for this position at the time of this posting may range from $95000 to $105000. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors including business needs experience level of responsibility and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package and variable pay programs please visit more details.
To Executive Search Firms and Staffing Agencies:
World does not accept unsolicited resumes from any agencies that have not signed a mutual service agreement. All unsolicited resumes will be considered Worlds property and World will not be obligated to pay a referral fee. This includes resumes submitted directly to Hiring Managers without contacting Worlds Human Resources Talent Department.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- General Ledger Reconciliation
- Accounting Software
- Account Analysis
- GAAP
- Journal Entries
- QuickBooks
- General Ledger Accounting
- Accounting
- Account Reconciliation
- SOX
- Microsoft Dynamics GP
- NetSuite
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