Accounting Reconciliations Manager

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The Opportunity

Root is looking for an Accounting Manager to own the enterprise-wide reconciliation framework, serving as a key point person ensuring accuracy and efficiency across Root’s financial ecosystem.  In addition to overseeing the reconciliations, in this role, you’ll partner with the Director of Accounting Operations, CFO team members,  and non-accounting team members to drive strategic finance transformation initiatives, improve financial controls, and implement process enhancements. The right candidate will have experience with account reconciliations, continuous improvement and thrives in a fast-paced, complex, and growing accounting environment.  

Root is a “work where it works best” company. Meaning we will support you working in whatever location that works best for you across the US. We will continue to have our headquarters in Columbus to give more flexibility and more choice about how we live and work.

Salary Range: $105,500 - $129,000 (STI & LTI Eligible)

How You Will Make An Impact

• Manage and oversee the monthly reconciliation process across a wide breadth of complex accounts, including deferred acquisition costs, cash transactions, fixed assets, leases, investments, and many others.

• Enable accurate and timely financial reporting, including periodic SEC and statutory filings.

• Develop and maintain a uniform reconciliation template and framework.

• Improve current reconciliation processes and advise teams of up-stream process improvements that would enable reconciliation improvement and automation.

• Establish and maintain strong relationships with auditors and other third-party vendors.

• Lead a global team of accounting staff, ensuring strong training, clear process adherence, and performance development to foster a collaborative team environment.

• Lead and participate in strategic financial projects such as process automation.

• Identify and document key controls.

• Various ad hoc projects as needed.

What You Will Need To Succeed

• 3-5 years of relevant accounting and/or finance experience.

• Exposure to property and casualty insurance accounting or other highly regulated industries preferred.

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance; current pursuit of CPA designation a plus.

• Exceptional root cause analysis and variance resolution skills.

• Proven ability to design and implement a standardized reconciliation framework to build scalable processes.

• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills, especially with a global workforce.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and an ability to tailor it to a wide range of audiences.

• Proficient with Microsoft Office products and reconciliation systems like FloQast.

• Approaches problems with an open mind.

• Great attention to detail.

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Root, Inc., we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway!

At Root, we judge people based on the merit of their work, not who they are. If you are passionate about what this role entails and solving real problems, we encourage you to apply. We want to learn about you and what you can add to our team.

We’re harnessing the power of technology to revolutionize insurance. Using machine learning and mobile telematic platforms, we’ve built one of the most innovative FinTech companies in the world. And we’re just getting started.

Our success is in large part due to our unwavering standards in hiring. We recognize that our products are only as good as the people building and promoting them. We want individuals who find solutions by going through the cycle of ideation to implementation with curiosity, rigor, and an analytical lens. Ask anyone who works here and you’ll hear similar reasons for why they joined:

Autonomy—for assertive self-starters, the opportunities to contribute are limitless.

Impact—by challenging the way it’s always been done, we solve problems that have a big impact on our business.

Collaboration—we encourage rich discussion and civil debate at every turn.

People—we are inspired by the collection of crazy-smart people around us.