Accountant - Associate

Posted 22 Days Ago
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Oakville, ON
Entry level
Insurance
The Role
The role involves a range of accounting tasks, including journal entries, reconciliations, audits, and maintaining state insurance records, with supervision.
Summary Generated by Built In

Established in 2021, Independence Pet Holdings is a corporate holding company that manages a diverse and broad portfolio of modern pet health brands and services, including insurance, pet education, lost recovery services, and more throughout North America.

 

We believe pet insurance is more than a financial product and build solutions to simplify the pet parenting journey and help improve the well-being of pets. As a leading authority in the pet category, we operate with a full stack of resources, capital, and services to support pet parents. Our multi-brand and omni-channel approach include our own insurance carrier, insurance brands and partner brands. 

PetPlace, a subsidiary of IPH, is building a digital first pet e-commerce platform with the aim of connecting key market services such as adoption, lost pet and insurance to make pet care easy. 

 

Job Summary: 

Responsible for a broad range of accounting, re-insurance and/or investment accounting support 

and analysis. Functional areas may include, but not limited to: Insurance Accounting, Capital Modeling, Reinsurance Accounting, Investment Accounting, Statutory, GAAP, accounts payable, and/or accounts receivable. 

 

Job Location: Hybrid Oakville,Ontario 

 

Main Responsibilities:      

  • Prepares journal entries. 

  • Assists in preparing reconciliations. 

  • Assists with preparation of monthly, quarterly, and year-end closing processes. 

  • Documents policies, procedures, and workflow for assigned areas of responsibility. 

  • Assists with external and regulatory reviews, audits, and examinations, as needed. 

  • As requested, files with various government bodies, records insurance transactions, and reinsurance transactions. 

  • Assists with the completion of state filings, and forms, including necessary payments to states, if applicable. 

  • Researches and responds to state requests or questions. Maintains relationships with the state insurance 

  • departments. 

  • Assists in processing transactions, cash receipts, credit card disputes and policy cancellations. 

  • May assist with commission accruals, billings, and payments. 

  • Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned. 

 

Basic Qualifications:   

  • Education: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience (One-year relevant experience is equivalent to one-year college) 

  • Advanced knowledge with Excel, V look ups, Pivot Tables, and X look up

 

Accountability/Complexity: 

  • Work is of limited scope, typically on smaller, less complex projects, task-related activities, or routine assignments. 

  • Work is closely supervised and follows specific instructions 

 

#li-Hybrid 

#PetPlace 

 

All of our jobs come with great benefits including healthcare, parental leave and opportunities for career advancements. Some offerings are dependent upon the location of where you work and can include the following:

  • Comprehensive full medical, dental and vision Insurance
  • Basic Life Insurance at no cost to the employee
  • Company paid short-term and long-term disability
  • 12 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Personal Paid Time Off
  • Paid holidays and company-wide Wellness Day off
  • Paid time off to volunteer at nonprofit organizations
  • Pet friendly office environment
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Group Pet Insurance
  • On the job training and skills development
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Top Skills

Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Capital Modeling
Gaap
Insurance Accounting
Reinsurance Accounting
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The Company
Chicago,, IL
13 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Established in 2021, Independence Pet Holdings is a corporate holding company that manages a diverse and broad portfolio of modern pet health brands and services across insurance, pet education, lost recovery services, and beyond across North America.

As a leading authority in the industry, we operate with a full stack of resources, capital, and services that support a multi-brand and omni-channel approach. We operate our own insurance carrier and partner successfully with other carriers, as needed. We believe that pet insurance is more than a financial product and build solutions to simplify the pet parenting journey and help improve the well-being of pets

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