Senior Accountant

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Full Time Headquarters, San Francisco, CA, US

4 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $94,000.00 To $ Annually

For over a century, the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California (WCIRB) has been California's trusted, objective provider of actuarially based information and research, advisory pure premium rates and educational services integral to a healthy workers' compensation system. The WCIRB is a California unincorporated, private, nonprofit association comprised of all companies licensed to transact workers' compensation insurance in California. The operations of the WCIRB are funded primarily by membership fees and assessments;

no state money is used to fund its operations. The WCIRB is a stable company and a proven leader in the workers’ compensation insurance industry nationwide.

The WCIRB performs a number of functions to accurately measure the cost of providing workers' compensation benefits and ensure a healthy workers’ compensation system. To learn more about our company, please visit About Us | WCIRB California . The WCIRB employs approximately 175 people with the average tenure of over 10 years. We are committed to fostering a healthy, safe and diverse work environment leading to a dedicated, collaborative and innovative workforce This is a hybrid position where approximately 40% of the work time is spent at the home office in San Francisco, California.

Summary

The Senior Accountant
is an experienced accounting professional responsible for supporting the WCIRB’s core finance and accounting functions, including monthly financial close, financial reporting, budgeting, projections, capital project and fixed asset accounting, vendor payables, audit support, tax schedules, and financial systems operations. This position helps ensure financial records, reconciliations, reports, schedules, and supporting documentation are accurate, timely, complete, and prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), WCIRB policies, and Finance Department standards.

The
Senior Accountant is a key member of the Finance team who provides accounting expertise, financial systems support, budget and projection analysis, capital project reporting, fixed asset accounting, and process documentation. The position works collaboratively with Finance colleagues, department leaders, vendors, internal stakeholders, and external auditors to support effective financial stewardship, reliable reporting, and well-documented accounting processes. The role also provides technical guidance, training, and cross-training support to employees and less experienced accounting staff on assigned Finance processes.

The Senior Accountant reports to the Accounting Team Leader and works independently on assigned responsibilities, with guidance, review, and oversight from the Accounting Team Leader.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead assigned areas of the monthly financial close process, including preparation and review of journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, financial schedules, management reports, and supporting documentation to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting in accordance with GAAP and Finance Department standards.
• Analyze and reconcile assigned balance sheet and income statement accounts, investigate variances and discrepancies, and prepare adjusting or reversing journal entries to maintain accurate and complete accounting records.
• Prepare and analyze the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting packages, including Statement of Activities reporting, capital purchase reporting, variance analyses, and supporting schedules for Finance leadership, senior leadership, relevant WCIRB Committees, and external auditors.
• Prepare and maintain budget templates, overhead expense worksheets, forecasting schedules, variance analyses, and documentation of assumptions and methodologies to facilitate the annual capital and operating budget and quarterly forecast processes.
• Partner with department leaders to gather budget and forecast inputs, evaluate assumptions, analyze variances and provide financial insight to support planning and decision-making.
• Maintain fixed asset, capital project, and work-in-process accounting records, including additions, disposals, depreciation, amortization, asset lives, roll-forward schedules, and related analysis in accordance with WCIRB capitalization policies and GAAP requirements.
• Serve as a senior Finance resource for accounting and budgeting systems, including system administration, report development, troubleshooting, testing, process documentation, and user support. Partner with Finance and business stakeholders to evaluate opportunities to enhance processes, reporting capabilities, and system functionality, and support the implementation of Finance technology initiatives and…