Senior Premium Accounting Manager

Position Summary

The Senior Accounts Payable Manager leads Global Accounts Payable across entities Wholesale (Brokerage & Binding) RSUM and RSUM International with end-to-end accountability for carrier payments bordereaux reporting and managed claims. The role owns the strategy controls talent and vendor relationship for carrier payables at scale ensuring fiduciary funds are safeguarded and disbursed only to their legal owners.

Leading through managers and supervisors across multiple geographies and a managed-service (BPO) workforce the Senior Manager sets direction strengthens the control environment and drives the transformation and automation agenda for AP. The role partners with executive leadership corporate front-office and back-office business units and uses analytics and AI to scale performance and resilience.

What will your job entail

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Global Accounts Payable across entities owning strategy service levels controls and outcomes.

• Lead and develop a multi-layer organization of managers supervisors and senior individual contributors across geographies.

• Own the strategy controls and outcomes for managed-claims payment and reporting across entities.

• Own the AP managed-service (BPO) relationship and vendor governance including performance scope and continuous improvement.

• Ensure a strong control environment and full compliance with fiduciary duties market agreement terms and applicable regulations.

• Set the strategy and roadmap for carrier payables including standardization automation treasury integration and resilience.

• Define and govern enterprise AP metrics SLAs and risk indicators; drive corrective action and improvement.

• Partner with executive leadership corporate front-office and back-office business units on cross-functional strategy and major initiatives (including M&A integration).

• Own budgeting capacity planning and workforce strategy across onshore captive and BPO populations.

• Lead succession planning and capability building developing the next generation of AP leaders.

• Leverage advanced analytics and artificial intelligence tools (e.g. Microsoft Copilot and approved GenAI platforms) to scale performance insight and decision-making.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Core Skills & Proficiencies

• Leadership of leaders across multiple geographies and delivery models

• Enterprise ownership of carrier payables strategy controls and risk

• Strategic vendor / BPO relationship and governance ownership

• Workforce capacity and budget strategy across onshore captive and BPO

• Executive partnership and influence across functions

• Analytics- and AI-driven performance insight and transformation leadership

Experience

• 12 years of experience in premium accounting accounts payable or a related discipline with significant leadership experience.

• Proven leadership of large multi-geography teams and managed-service delivery.

• Deep expertise in insurance fiduciary operations controls and complex funds flows.

Education

• Bachelors degree in Accounting Finance Business or a related field required; advanced degree a plus.

• Relevant certifications (e.g. CPA APA/AAP or insurance designations) preferred.

Ryan Specialty is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building and sustaining a diverse workforce throughout the vision is an inclusive and equitable workplace where all employees are valued for and evaluated on their performance and contributions. Differences in race creed color religious beliefs physical or mental capabilities gender identity or expressionsexual orientation and many other characteristics bring together varied perspectives and add value to the service we provide our clients trading partnersand policy extends to all aspects of our employment practices including but not limited to recruiting hiring discipline firing promoting transferring compensation benefits training leaves of absence and other terms conditions and benefits of employment.

Ryan Specialty seeks to offer our employees a comprehensive and best-in-class benefits package that helps them and their family members achieve their physical financial and emotional well-being addition to paid time off for company holidays vacation sick and personal days Ryan offers paid parental leave mental health services and more.

The target salary range for this position is $112000.00 - $140000.00 annually.

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