Manager, Financial Reporting

5 months ago

Toronto, Canada Foresters Financial Services, Inc. Full time

Career Opportunity

Role Title

Manager, Financial Reporting

Purpose of role

Reporting to the AVP, Financial Reporting and Investment Services, the incumbent will lead a team of Senior Financial Analysts supporting the day-to-day financial reporting including quarterly and annual regulatory reporting. This role will also work closely with various business units and subsidiaries to produce consolidated financial results in compliance with IFRS, including the new IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts standard. As IFRS 17 impacts the entire enterprise, this role will require interaction and coordination with other Finance, Actuarial and IT leads through various work streams established impacting the various functional areas. The incumbent will also have exposure to senior management and future opportunities for career advancement.

**Job Description**:
Key Responsibilities

Financial Reporting
- Review and approve monthly account reconciliations and journal entries of the Corporate Finance team
- Preparation and review of annual consolidated financial statements and note dislcosures including financial statements of subsidiaries, pension plans and segregated funds
- Manage the quarterly OSFI Life-1 and LICAT regulatory reporting process including coordination with UK subsidiary
- Lead the preparation of audit schedules, prepared by client listings and coordination of year end timelines with auditors
- Assist other business areas with implementating operational processes including understanding risks and development of key controls and documentation of downstream accounting impacts
- Lead the quarterly end to end process for Risk Integrity (IFRS 17) runs for Finance and work closely with the Actuarial team to produce the quarterly financial results
- Review and analyze inputs to and outputs from Risk Integrity to ensure accuracy and completeness
- Assist in optimizing financial reporting and operational processes to streamline the close process
- Manage the integrity and accuracy of financial and non-financial information in the general ledger and financial reporting systems
- Review data requirements and the impact on the source systems feeding the general ledger
- Review and approve all changes to information feeding the general ledger and other financial systems including new Foresters product development changes

Policy Documentation
- Assist with researching accounting policy treatment and documenting impact assessment for the company
- Review, assess and update procedural documentation impacting the corporate general ledger, financial reporting and the close process
- Implement all new accounting/reporting policies or changes to existing policies including training staff and assisting them to develop new procedures and controls to support these policies; monitor adherence to policies

Other
- Ability to deal directly with senior management on various special projects and accounting/actuarial issues as required
- Deal directly with auditors and regulators to resolve issues
- Initiate process improvements as necessary for all accounting and reporting processes, within Finance and in other areas of the company

Key Qualifications
- University graduate with a major in finance/accounting preferred and professional accounting designation (CA, CPA)
- 5 - 10 years' experience in a life insurance/financial institution reporting environment; public company experience is an asset
- Sound knowledge of IFRS insurance accounting policies
- Exposure to OSFI Life-1, LICAT and/or NAIC
- Experience with Workiva WDesk and Oracle Essbase
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills (e.g. writing business proposals, accounting policies and delivering presentations to senior management)
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Well organized, innovative with a high level of initiative
- Detail oriented, able to manage several complex processes and tasks with a high level of accuracy
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and deal with changing priorities while meeting tight deadlines
- Strong leadership and management skills, with the ability to motivate, negotiate and influence effectively
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships and work in a team environment

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