Staff Accountant I – Financial Accounting

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🔥 19 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $76.7k - $80.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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California FAIR Plan Association

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1968

Insurance

California FAIR Plan Association is an insurance organization that provides basic fire insurance coverage for high-risk properties in California when traditional insurance companies will not offer coverage. The FAIR Plan includes dwelling coverage for owner- or tenant-occupied dwellings with up to four family units, as well as commercial coverage for business-owned buildings. They also offer earthquake insurance through the California Earthquake Authority. The organization helps Californians access necessary fire insurance via licensed brokers and is essentially a temporary insurance solution when coverage is unavailable from traditional insurers.

📋 Description

• Prepare, process and post journal entries timely and accurately. • Assure that financial accounts are reconciled timely and accurately. • Support timely and efficient month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes. • Perform account analysis to identify and explain variances. • Maintaining proper documentation and filing of supporting documents, including approvals. • Assist with internal and external audit requests. • Liaise with the bank and other parties as required. • Perform backup duties within the department as required. • Prepare and file monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements. • Ensures accuracy of journal entries and reconciliations of data sources to the general ledger. • Maintain the general ledger system and reports, including processing and uploading changes to general ledger accounts using Integration Manager (Great Plains). • Responsible for preparation and filing of annual escheat reports including remittance of monies to various states in a timely manner. • Assist in the preparation and submission of compliance and regulatory filings such as statistical and financial data requests from Department of Insurance, data calls, and US census reports. • Perform validity checks on accounting reports from Information Systems to ensure that they are generated accurately and on a timely basis.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Accounting or related field. • 0 to 3 years of relevant work experience. (Staff Accountant I). • Knowledge of systems and processes related to treasury and financial management. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. • Strong attention to detail and ability to operate with a high degree of accuracy. • Strong initiative, organizational skills and ability to self-manage while remaining flexible to changing tasks and priorities. • Excellent Typing skills and 10 Key by touch. • Microsoft Office suite experience required; strong Excel skills preferred. • Microsoft Dynamics GP experience preferred. • Insurance background a plus.