Controller

Brief Summary

Title: Controller

You'll Report To: Chief Accounting Officer

The Controller leads the Company's accounting operations, ensuring accurate financial records, timely financial reporting, and effective internal controls. This role oversees the financial close, general ledger, account reconciliations, and preparation of financial information in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Statutory Accounting Principles (SAP).

As a key member of the Accounting & Finance leadership team, the Controller develops people, strengthens processes, and supports the financial reporting requirements of a publicly traded property and casualty insurance organization. The successful candidate combines technical accounting expertise with sound business judgment and a practical, collaborative leadership style.

What You'll Do

Accounting Operations and Financial Close

• Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, ensuring accurate, complete, and timely financial results.
• Oversee general ledger accounting, journal entries, account reconciliations, intercompany transactions, and consolidation activities.
• Establish and maintain consistent accounting policies, procedures, and documentation across the Company's entities.
• Review financial statements, account analyses, and supporting schedules; investigate unusual balances and resolve discrepancies.
• Oversee key financial statement line items, including premiums, losses and loss adjustment expenses, reinsurance, commissions, deferred acquisition costs, net investment income, and taxes.
• Coordinate with actuarial, claims, underwriting, reinsurance, information technology and other business partners to ensure financial activity is appropriately recorded.

Financial and Regulatory Reporting

• Support quarterly and annual SEC reporting, including financial statements, footnotes, earnings releases, and supporting documentation for Forms 10-Q and 10-K.
• Oversee the preparation and review of statutory financial statements, supporting schedules, and related regulatory filings.
• Ensure consistency and appropriate reconciliation between GAAP and statutory financial results.
• Evaluate accounting issues, research applicable guidance, and prepare or review technical accounting documentation and memos.
• Assess new accounting standards and regulatory reporting requirements and lead implementation within the accounting function.
• Partner with Financial Planning & Analysis to explain financial results, identify trends, and support forecasts and business decisions.

Internal Controls and Audit

• Own relationship with external auditors
• Maintain and enhance internal controls over financial reporting, including controls supporting Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
• Ensure accounting processes include appropriate review, approval, segregation of duties, and documentation.
• Coordinate accounting support for external audits, statutory audits, internal audits, and regulatory examinations.
• Address audit findings and control deficiencies through timely, sustainable corrective actions.
• Promote financial integrity, accountability, and adherence to Company policies.

Leadership and Process Improvement

• Lead, coach, and develop accounting team members, establishing clear expectations and supporting professional growth.
• Manage team priorities, staffing, and workloads to meet recurring deadlines and changing business needs.
• Identify and implement improvements that increase accuracy, strengthen controls, and improve the efficiency of accounting and reporting processes.
• Partner with Information Technology and other stakeholders on accounting systems, automation, data quality, and reporting capabilities.
• Support strategic initiatives, new products, organizational growth, and other projects requiring accounting expertise.
• Communicate financial matters clearly to senior leadership and cross-functional partners.

What You'll Need to be a Top Candidate

The ideal candidate will bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
• Ten or more years of progressive accounting experience, including at least five years in property and casualty insurance or serving property and casualty clients
• Strong technical knowledge of GAAP, statutory accounting, insurance financial statements, and NAIC reporting requirements.
• Experience managing financial close processes, consolidations, and complex account reconciliations.
• Experience supporting public-company financial reporting and internal controls over financial reporting.
• Working knowledge of reinsurance accounting (both quota share and excess of loss)
• Demonstrated ability to interpret accounting guidance and translate technical requirements into effective processes.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Proficiency with accounting systems, financial reporting tools, and Microsoft Excel.

Preferred Qualifications

• Public accounting experience serving property and casualty insurance or financial services clients.
• Experience implementing accounting systems, automating workflows, or improving close and reporting processes.
• Knowledge of Workiva and Blackline systems, or other similar systems.
• Active CPA license.

Key Competencies

• Financial integrity: Exercises sound judgment and maintains high standards of accuracy and accountability.
• People leadership: Builds a capable team through clear expectations, coaching, and development.
• Business partnership: Works effectively across functions and connects accounting decisions to business outcomes.
• Execution: Manages competing priorities and delivers reliable results under tight deadlines.
• Continuous improvement: Anticipates challenges and implements practical, sustainable solutions.
• Communication: Explains complex financial matters clearly and raises issues promptly.

Schedule: 8:30-5:30, Monday-Friday. #LI-Onsite

Working Conditions: Normal business office environment. Must be able to remain in a stationary position for periods of time while constantly operating a computer and other office productivity machinery such as a calculator or telephone. The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery or communicate with coworkers.

Travel: Occasional travel required.