Accountant

Be Here. Be Great. Working for a leader in the insurance industry means opportunity for you. Great American Insurance Group's member companies are subsidiaries of American Financial Group. We combine a "small company" culture where your ideas will be heard with "big company" expertise to help you succeed. With over 30 specialty and property and casualty operations, there are always opportunities here to learn and grow.

At Great American, we value diversity and recognize the benefits gained when people from different cultures, backgrounds and experiences work collaboratively to achieve business results. We are intentionally focused on fostering an inclusive culture and know valuing diversity is an essential leadership quality. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered and enabled to perform at their best.

Great American's Reinsurance department ensures that Great American complies with all of the accounting requirements under its various reinsurance agreements. It also ensures that all internal and external financial statements fairly and accurately reflect all such reinsurance transactions in accordance with statutory accounting principles. In addition, the department is responsible for purchasing the Corporate Catastrophe Covers and for performing portfolio-level catastrophe modeling.

Our Reinsurance department is looking to bring on an accountant to join their team! This position will be located in downtown Cincinnati, OH and will operate on a hybrid schedule.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities

• Compiles, consolidates, and analyzes accounting and finance information for the production of statements, schedules, filings, and reports. May assist in the preparation of more complex reports.
• Assists in the day-to-day maintenance of standardized accounting reports.
• Participates with the review and evaluation of existing procedures and operations in assigned area for management decision-making regarding improvements.
• Reconciles and adjusts, as necessary, journal entries and accounting classifications assigned to various records.
• Coordinates accounting matters and reporting with other departments, locations, divisions, and external customers.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Field of Study: Accounting, Finance or a related discipline.

Experience: Generally, 6 months to 2 years of related experience.

Business Unit:

Reinsurance

Benefits:

We offer competitive healthcare, retirement, and paid time off benefits for full-time and part-time benefit eligible employees.