Accounting Associate

Title: Accounting Associate

Position Summary

This accounting associate position will support various general accounting, treasury, and

financial reporting duties associated with Axcelus Financial and various affiliate entities.

Responsibilities

• Daily maintenance of the companies’ bank account activity:

+ Monitoring daily bank account activity

+ Ensuring activity is entered into the general ledger system on a timely basic

+ Ensuring daily book and bank balances are in balance and investigating/resolving

reconciling items

+ Preparing monthly bank account reconciliations

• General accounting and accounts payable functions

+ Initiating vendor payments from the company’s Accounts Payable System (Brex)

+ Initiating vendor payments that may occur outside the company’s Accounts Payable

System (Brex)

+ Organization and maintenance of the company’s process for scanning/saving check

disbursements and documentation of disbursements that occur outside of the company’s

Accounts Payable System (Brex)

+ Organization and maintenance of the logging and documenting of check deposits and/or

other manual deposits received by the companies.

• Role in the monthly/quarterly close processes to include:

+ Preparation of certain month/end journal entries

+ Preparation of individual general ledger account reconciliations

• Assist in the daily initiation of policyholder disbursement wires and other general

company wire and ACH disbursements

• Support investment accounting functions as necessary
• Assist in the preparation of annual 1099 forms
• Assist in fulfilling Audit requests as needed
• Provide assistance as necessary with quarterly and annual state insurance department

compliance filings

Desired Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field
• Experience of 1+ years in a similar role preferred
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Outlook, Excel, and Word
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to develop positive working relationships within

finance team and other teams in the organization

• Willingness to work extended hours as required

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employees may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.