The Senior Accountant owns complex accounting, reporting, and control responsibilities while using data, technology, and process-improvement methods to strengthen financial operations. This role analyzes financial and operational results, identifies risks and performance drivers, and translates findings into actionable business insights. In partnership with Finance, Operations, Technology, and other stakeholders, the Senior Accountant improves processes and leverages automation to increase the speed, accuracy, and usability of financial information.
As BNET continues to streamline selected finance activities, this position will operate across both current-state execution and future-state improvement. The Senior Accountant will maintain reliable day-to-day financial operations while helping simplify workflows, strengthen controls, document procedures, and support evolving responsibilities in a dynamic and changing environment.
Key Functions/Duties of Position: Describe the overall job responsibilities (including any decision-making authority) for this position.
- Own assigned areas of the monthly, quarterly, and annual close, including preparation and review of complex journal entries, account reconciliations, supporting schedules, and management reporting.
- Apply sound accounting judgment to ensure compliance with GAAP, statutory, regulatory, internal-control, and corporate reporting requirements.
- Investigate unusual activity, reconcile differences, identify root causes, and resolve accounting or data issues at the source; clearly communicate risks, impacts, and recommended actions.
- Combine financial, policy, claims, and operational data to perform trend, variance, exception, and root-cause analyses that explain business performance.
- Develop clear dashboards, visualizations, and management-ready narratives that translate analytical findings into decisions and actions for financial and non-financial audiences.
- Define and maintain trusted metrics, data definitions, and validation controls to improve the completeness, accuracy, consistency, and usability of financial information.
- Identify repetitive, manual, or control-sensitive activities suitable for redesign or automation; map current processes, quantify effort and risk, and help implement sustainable solutions using approved tools.
- Test automated outputs, establish appropriate controls, document procedures, maintain implemented solutions, and measure benefits such as reduced cycle time, errors, or manual effort.
- Partner across Finance, Operations, Technology, Underwriting, Claims, and Corporate functions to frame business questions, improve processes, and deliver reliable outcomes.
- Support audits, regulatory requests, special projects, system implementations, and other initiatives requiring accounting, analytical, or process expertise.
- Share knowledge, create clear documentation, and help strengthen the Finance team’s accounting, analytical, automation, and technology capabilities.
- Constructively challenge inefficient practices, test new ideas, and foster a collaborative, innovative, and psychologically safe workplace.