Job Description

Your Role

The Corporate Financial Accounting & Reporting team is responsible for recording and reporting financial information for Blue Shield of California and its subsidiaries. The Senior Accountant will report to the Accounting Manager and support accurate, timely financial reporting through journal entries, account reconciliations, analyses, regulatory filing support, internal control documentation, and audit-ready support. In this role, you will independently research and resolve accounting matters, maintain desk-level procedures, partner with internal departments to address issues that impact financial reporting, and support process improvements that strengthen reporting accuracy and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Accounting, Close, and Reconciliations
  • Own assigned journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules for month-end close
  • Ensure account balances are supported by appropriate documentation, and reconciling items are researched and resolved timely
  • Prepare close-related reports and analyses to explain account activity, trends, fluctuations, and discrepancies
• Reporting, Analysis, and Research
  • Prepare internal reporting packages, monthly results analyses, regulatory filings, and supporting schedules, ensuring deliverables are accurate, complete, and appropriately documented
  • Perform trend and fluctuation analyses using business judgment, materiality considerations, and account-specific knowledge
  • Research discrepancies and complex accounting issues, prepare correcting entries when appropriate, and recommend improvements to strengthen accuracy and efficiency
• Controls, Audit Support, and Process Improvement
  • Provide auditors with schedules, supporting documentation, and responses for year-end, business-specific, and account-specific audit requests
  • Maintain reconciliations, desk-level procedures, and process documentation in accordance with internal control expectations, knowledge transfer needs, and audit readiness standards
  • Partner with internal departments and IT to resolve system interface and data integrity issues, support root-cause analysis, and implement sustainable process improvements
• Business Partnership and Project Support
  • Keep management informed of potential issues, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions
  • Support strategic projects, new products, system implementations, and process changes by helping define accounting and reporting requirements
  • Collaborate with accounting team members and business partners to resolve account-related matters and support accurate financial reporting

Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor's degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree
• Requires 5 years of prior relevant experience in an accounting specialization either tax, accounting and/or financial analytics
• Requires proficiency in US GAAP and experience applying accounting guidance to journal entries, reconciliations, fluctuation analyses, accruals, and financial reporting deliverables
• Requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to independently identify, analyze, and resolve complex accounting issues
• Requires the ability to work effectively through ambiguity, learn new concepts quickly, and translate process and system changes into desk-level procedures and consistent execution
• Requires strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate accounting matters to various levels and business departments across the organization
• Requires being highly proficient in Microsoft Excel
• Experience with regulatory reporting preferred
• Certified Public Accountant, Certified Management Accountant, or other related certification preferred
• ERP experience preferred

Our Workplace Model

We believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility - providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce. Our workplace model is designed around intentional in-person interaction, collaboration, connection, creativity and flexibility:

• For most teams, this means coming into the office two days per week.
• Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location, out of state employees, and employees in certain member-facing roles should work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
• For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.

The Company reserves the right to require more presence in the office based on business needs, and requirements are subject to change with periodic reviews.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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