Senior Accountant

We employ 6,100 people across underwriting, claims, actuarial, IT and customer service. Our claims organisation handles more than 400,000 claims a year, including catastrophe response after hurricanes and hail. Hail season means long days for field adjusters.

The role

The Senior Accountant handles month-end close tasks, journal entries and account reconciliations for a multi-entity company. This role supports the annual audit and works with AP, payroll and FP&A every month. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Sri Lanka, with a local contract and salary paid in Sri Lankan rupees. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

Key responsibilities

• Investigate P&L variances and explain them to the Controller
• Document close procedures and keep the close checklist current
• Clean up legacy account balances that do not tie out
• Prepare and post monthly journal entries for accruals, prepaids and allocations
• Process intercompany transactions and eliminations across three entities
• Track prepaid expenses and amortization schedules

Qualifications

• 5+ years of general ledger or public accounting experience
• Experience with month-end close and balance sheet reconciliations
• Strong Excel: XLOOKUP or VLOOKUP, pivot tables, SUMIFS
• Available for extra hours at month-end and year-end
• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance

Preferred qualifications

• ASC 842 lease accounting
• Public accounting audit background
• FloQast or BlackLine experience
• Power BI or Tableau

Pay: LKR 450,000-LKR 530,000 per month

Compensation and benefits

• Annual salary review
• Home office setup budget
• Flexible hours
• 24 days paid time off

We look at every application, usually within a week.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Bayhurst Assurance.