Project Specialist, Reinsurance Accounting

3 months ago

Dartmouth, Canada Intact Full time

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Our hybrid work model provides the balance between working from home and enjoying meaningful in-person interactions.

Read on to see how you can shape the future, win as a team, and grow with us.

**About the role**

Join our team and be part of the excitement.

We are seeking a highly skilled, talented and detail-oriented **Project Specialist** to join an innovative environment where creativity knows no bound.

As a key member of the dynamic reinsurance finance team, you will play a crucial role in building process for complex reinsurance accounting activities, contributing to improve closing activities, and driving multiple process enhancements. Your expertise will be pivotal in simplifying and standardizing controls to elevate our reporting and accounting processes.

If you are passionate about making a difference, thrive on challenges and want to work with a team that value fun as much as hard work, this is the opportunity for you. Embrace the energy, ignite your passion and let’s create something extraordinary together.

In this role you will be working on large scale projects that have impacts on the reinsurance finance department and managing a portfolio of complex projects.

In your new role, you will act as a key stakeholder to make sure that the team is well represented in these initiatives and that the need of the reinsurance finance team is well covered by preparing requirements, proposing and reviewing proposed solutions.

This is a fulltime permanent position that can be based in any city across Canada.

**You’ll succeed at what you do because**_:_**
- You are concise and a specialist in complex problem solving.
- You drive for continuous improvement and challenge status quo.
- You are truly versatile, ingenious, and innovative.
- You show initiative, interest to learn and to understand processes.
- You are an ace of teamwork, interpersonal skills, communication, and tact.
- You have a great ability to organize and prioritize workload.

**What you’ll do here**:
**As a member of the accounting and reporting team**:

- Perform the analysis of complex reinsurance instruction, provide key recommendation in the preparation of complex reinsurance journal entries and ensure the accuracy of the financial results under your responsibility.
- Perform key reconciliations to ensure accuracy and completeness of the reinsurance balance and perform reinsurance settlement with key reinsurers.
- Provide insight and recommendations to your leader about reinsurance result.
- Ensure to implement, perform and improve all key controls to ensure high quality of improvement provided to our leader.
- Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to ensure alignment in the month-end closing process.

**As a member of the project team**:

- Make the life of our reinsurance finance team easier by participating in financial systems and accounting processes improvement initiatives as a key lead by understanding the multiple challenges and business needs, proposing solution, implementing and testing these solutions and ensuring operational readiness for our key stakeholders. Provide warranty support after deployment.
- Identify area of improvement on various topics, documents and monitor progression on the proposal.
- Ensure efficient and optimal use of our different reinsurance & reporting systems as the primary source of data for the production and analysis of reinsurance results.
- Manage your project portfolio and provide regular, timely and pertinent update to your manager to ensure group alignment on decision and action.
- Perform ad hoc and/or recurring reinsurance request to support the reinsurance accounting team.

**What you bring to the table**:

- Post secondary **education in Finance or Accounting** - is required
- 5+ years experience in **accounting, IFRS accounting standards or finance related positions**
- Experience in **Insurance/Reinsurance accounting** - is required
- ** Involved in Finance and Accounting project work**
- Professional accounting designation (CPA) - is an asset
- Demonstrated experience in fast learning environment requiring agility and adaptability to change
- Discipline, autonomy and professionalism
- Strong oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
- Can interact with various people at all levels of the organization, including management and some external stakeholders

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