Senior Accountant - Insurance

Ally and Your Career

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. We love this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion.

From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. We love this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion.

From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?

Ally designates roles as (1) fully on-site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role's specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.

This Senior Accountant will be a member of Ally's Controller's Team. Reporting to the Director or Manager, the position will be responsible for assisting in the preparation of the consolidated financial statements of a public company and key responsibilities include gathering information from the various groups, pulling the information into the quarterly and annual financial statements and working thru the various levels of review from a number of business owners

• Assist in the preparation of the quarterly and year-end financial statements (10-Q/10-K) and under NAIC accounting principle.
• Support qualitative improvements in control operations to reduce /eliminate control deficiencies.
• Analyze and reconcile more complex accounts, researching discrepancies and taking action to ensure accounts are balanced.
• May have supervision responsibility, which would include providing training and development to direct reports and performance evaluation.
• Provide insight into potential process improvements.
• Coordinate with a number of groups across the enterprise in gathering all the necessary materials.
• Participate in gathering the review comments and making any necessary changes to the financial statements.
• Assist in analytical accounting support to the internal business partners.
• Assists in the resolution of accounting problems thru the appropriate channels leaders, to aid in the understanding of accounting activities.
• Drive audit compliance within the areas for which you are responsible.

• 3+ years work experience in Accounting or related field with general technical accounting and/or functional skills for area of expertise.
• CPA (or equivalent) and /or MBA.
• Strong preference to public accounting experience.
• Advanced MS Excel skills (pivot tables, v-lookups, etc.).
• Workday experience.
• Exhibit a strong work ethic and high degree of self-motivation.
• Sound oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to organize data, perform…