Accountant

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Cincinnati, OH
Junior
Insurance
The Role
The Accountant in the Reinsurance department will compile, consolidate, and analyze accounting information to produce financial statements and reports. Responsibilities include maintaining standardized accounting reports, reconciling journal entries, coordinating with other departments, and assisting in evaluations for process improvements.
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Be Here. Be Great. Working for a leader in the insurance industry means opportunity for you. Great American Insurance Group's member companies are subsidiaries of American Financial Group. We combine a "small company" culture where your ideas will be heard with "big company" expertise to help you succeed. With over 30 specialty and property and casualty operations, there are always opportunities here to learn and grow.

At Great American, we value diversity and recognize the benefits gained when people from different cultures, backgrounds and experiences work collaboratively to achieve business results. We are intentionally focused on fostering an inclusive culture and know valuing diversity is an essential leadership quality. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered and enabled to perform at their best.

Great American's Reinsurance department ensures that Great American complies with all of the accounting requirements under its various reinsurance agreements. It also ensures that all internal and external financial statements fairly and accurately reflect all such reinsurance transactions in accordance with statutory accounting principles. In addition, the department is responsible for purchasing the Corporate Catastrophe Covers and for performing portfolio-level catastrophe modeling.

Our Reinsurance department is hiring an Accountant to join their team! This position will be located in downtown Cincinnati, OH and will operate on a hybrid schedule.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities

  • Compiles, consolidates, and analyzes accounting and finance information for the production of statements, schedules, filings, and reports.  May assist in the preparation of more complex reports.

  • Assists in the day-to-day maintenance of standardized accounting reports.

  • Participates with the review and evaluation of existing procedures and operations in assigned area for management decision-making regarding improvements.

  • Reconciles and adjusts, as necessary, journal entries and accounting classifications assigned to various records.

  • Coordinates accounting matters and reporting with other departments, locations, divisions, and external customers.

  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Field of Study: Accounting, Finance or a related discipline.

Experience: Generally, 6 months to 2 years of related experience.

Additional Job Description

Scope of Job: Performs work under moderate supervision.  Relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job. 

Business Unit:

Reinsurance

Benefits:

Compensation varies by role, position level, and location. Individual pay is influenced by skills, education, training, certifications, experience, and the role's scope and complexity, along with business needs.

We offer a competitive Total Rewards package, including medical, dental, and vision plans starting on day one, PTO, paid holidays, commuter benefits, an employee stock purchase plan, education reimbursement, paid parental leave/adoption assistance, and a 401(k) plan with company match. These benefits are available to eligible full-time and part-time employees.

Your recruiter can provide more details about our total rewards and specific compensation ranges during the hiring process.

Top Skills

Accounting
Finance
The Company
HQ: Cincinnati, OH
4,738 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, the operations of Great American Insurance Group are engaged primarily in property and casualty insurance, focusing on specialty commercial products for businesses. We have more than 30 specialty property and casualty insurance businesses, and in 2021, approximately 50% of our gross written premium in our property and casualty operations was generated by business units with a Top 10 market ranking.

Great American Insurance Company has received an "A"​ (Excellent) or higher rating from the AM Best Company for more than 110 years (most recent rating evaluation of "A+"​ (Superior) affirmed December 3, 2021). The members of Great American Insurance Group are subsidiaries of American Financial Group, Inc. (AFG), also based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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