Reinsurance Accounting and Financial Reporting Manager

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* Job Description:

** Pacific Life is investing in bright, agile, and diverse new talent to ensure we continue to innovate and strengthen relationships with our policyholders. That’s why we’re actively seeking a talented Financial Reporting Manager to join our team to support our Reinsurance Financial Reporting function. (This role is an individual contributor position.)If you’re experienced professional in the financial services industry with strong technical grasp of insurance and reinsurance, you’re a great fit for this role.

Technical capabilities aside, if you’re a mission-driven self-starter who’s comfortable with ambiguity, and who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative culture, you’re a perfect fit for Pacific Life.

This role is based in our brand-new Charlotte, NC office, to be connected with a team spanning across the continental US.
• This role is hybrid. We believe in empowering our employees to get work done both in and out of the office.

** How you’ll help move us forward:
*** Drive key initiatives that support the Reinsurance accounting and financial reporting function
* Design, plan, and execute monthly, quarterly, and annual deliverables and related internal controls
* Develop and provide concise, relevant, meaningful reporting and analysis to facilitate management’s review of the financial results.
* As a Reinsurance subject matter expert, contribute interpretation, advice, and perspective especially on highly technical and complex subject matters
* Communicate issues and the business impact to management, offer perspective and solutions
* Communicate our agreements, business, and accounting considerations and perspective to key business partners throughout the organization at various levels

Stay at the cutting edge of reinsurance accounting issues:
* Lead efforts to design accounting entries and reporting requirements for new transactions, treaties, and events
* Coordinate with SMEs and stakeholders in actuarial, accounting, reporting, tax, and technology teams
* Develop a network to draw on expertise and ask the right questions
* Draw conclusions and make recommendations in accordance with technical guidance and knowledge of industry practice

Lead analysis and reporting initiatives:
* Design and prepare quarterly analysis of results and trends to drive business insights
* Understand and communicate key drivers and divisional impacts and impacts to key stakeholders throughout financial close process
* Ensure impacts of specific business events are clearly represented appropriately in our accounting results and documented in our financial reporting

Support the controllership function:
* Prepare or approve journal entries as needed
* Prepare or approve account reconciliations as needed
* Prepare or review settlements
* Support audit requests
* Support Finance projects and initiatives, both small scale and transformative

Serve as a SME:
* Be recognized as an expert within the organization both within and beyond own function
* Interpret internal or external business issues and recommends process, product, or service improvements
* Contribute to the development of functional strategy
* Solve unique or complex problems that have a broad impact on the business
* Take a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions
* Explain technical concepts, adapted to various levels, including subordinates, peers, and management, with varying levels of familiarity with reinsurance accounting

Factors for Success:
* Work independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations.
* Regularly exercise patience, willingness to learn, due care, technical thoughtfulness
* Understand and apply accounting and financial reporting principles, insurance and reinsurance knowledge, and general business acumen
* Apply best practices and knowledge of business issues to improve services and solve long-term problems
* Lead efforts to tackle complex problems, applying ingenuity and creativity to develop solutions.
* Proactively learn relevant systems, products, and business models
* Proactively engage in knowledge sharing and peer training.
** The experience you bring:
*** Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel, Teams,…