Vertafore

$100,000 - $120,000 / year

Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business, boost their productivity and efficiencies, and lower costs while strengthening relationships.

Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation, technology partnerships, and focusing on customer success.

Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better.

We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.

The Manager, General Accounting, is a key member of our accounting team. This role’s primary responsibilities include leading a team of 2 staff to close our books while ensuring compliance with US GAAP. This leader is responsible for accounting for our expenses, fixed assets, and intangible assets, among other areas during our 4-day close and report process. The successful candidate will work directly with FP&A and others in the business to ensure the accounting team provides accurate accounting. Managing accounts payable processing is also part of this role, which will require the manager to work with Procurement and other Vertafore employees throughout the organization to ensure timely and accurate payments. Documentation of all applicable processes, procedures, and SOX controls for the team’s areas is also part of this role. As an integral leader in the accounting and finance organization, this person will provide leadership to the team by managing deliverables, setting expectations, meeting deadlines, providing ongoing performance feedback, and developing goal setting.

Core Requirements and Responsibilities:

Essential job functions include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Meet our 4 day close and report deadline
• Apply US GAAP to the areas of responsibility
• Manage the accounts payable process to ensure timely and accurate vendor payments.
• Assist with business combinations
• Design and rationalization of internal controls
• Accurate monthly variance analyses and account reconciliations
• Assess and change processes to balance operational effectiveness and efficiency with effective internal control
• Key point person for internal and external audit on related areas
• Partner with FP&A to develop forecasts
• Provide variance explanations for monthly reporting package
• Lead system implementations to automate processes

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge and experience with US GAAP over the mentioned areas and business combinations
• Ability to manage related month-end close activities, including prepare and review journal entries, reconcile between systems, analyze results, understand trends and develop expectations, report on relevant matters, and prepare and review account reconciliations
• A background in understanding, designing, implementing, and rationalizing internal controls under SOX
• Excellent communication skills; able to communicate effectively with senior leadership and across functional teams from around the company
• Ability to track and prioritize competing tasks to meet deadlines
• Exceptional knowledge of Excel and MS Office applications
• Strong problem-solving skills, high attention to detail, and a bias for action

Skills & Requirements

Qualifications:

• Minimum 8 years of work experience, including managerial experience
• Bachelor’s in Accounting or Finance required
• CPA is required
• NetSuite experience is a plus
• Public accounting experience is a strong plus

Additional Requirements and Details:

• Travel required up to 5% of the time
• Hybrid in-office/remote work schedule
• Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds
• Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.)
• Frequent sitting and/or standing

THE VERTAFORE STORY

Over the past 50 years, Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today, we’re proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster, reduce costs, and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure, cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics, delivering actionable insight— right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.

The Vertafore Way

Insurance is about relationships, and technology should make those relationships stronger. That’s why, at Vertafore, it’s our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers, becoming better every day, and delivering results you can see, we provide the level of trust and security that insurance is all about.

• Bias to Action: We're united by an innate drive to take action and make a difference in the technology and insurance spaces.
• Win Together: We work together as one team, showing empathy and respect along the way.
• Show Up Curious: We work to challenge one another to push boundaries and think beyond the box.
• Say It, Do It: We honor every one of our commitments because integrity is important to us.
• Customer Success is Our Success: We cultivate authentic relationships and follow up by actively listening to their needs.
• We Love Insurance: We appreciate the impact insurance has on the world.

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Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.

The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.

Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters, or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.

Vertafore is a Flexible First working environment which allows team members to work from home as often as you’d like, while using our offices as a place for collaboration, community, and teambuilding. There are times you may be asked to come into an office and/or travel for specific meetings for a specific business purpose and this varies by job responsibilities.