Accounting Associate - Vendor Payables
Company: Acrisure LLC
Location: Grand Rapids
Posted on: May 16, 2022
Job Description:
Job DescriptionAcrisure is a fintech financial services leader
and among the world's top 10 insurance brokerages. Acrisure has
grown from $38 million to more than $3 billion in revenue since
2013 and deploys the best of Human and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
at scale to reimagine financial service product distribution. As of
October 2021, Acrisure employs over 11,000 employees across 45
states and eight countries. Led by co-founder, CEO and President
Greg Williams, Acrisure provides a broad array of insurance and
financial related solutions, including commercial property and
casualty, personal lines and employee benefits insurance, asset
management, real estate services, and cyber services. Acrisure's
massively valuable, high margin distribution network combines the
strength of trusted advisors with growth and efficiency enabled by
AI. Job Summary:The Accounting Associate is our entry level
accounting role responsible for recording, monitoring, and
reconciling operational transactions on behalf of agency partners.
These transactions may include cash receipts, receivables, transfer
of funds, direct bill commissions, and payables to insurance
carriers, brokers & producers. This is the first role in a
progressively increasing number of levels available to grow into -
two levels of Associate (I & II), two levels of Senior Associate (I
& II), Senior Accountant, Supervisor, Manager, Assistant Controller
and Controller roles.If you have a passion for working with
numbers, providing outstanding customer service, and continually
improving processes and workflows with an awesome career
path/growth potential, our rapidly growing company is for you! No
formal accounting experience required but a passion for learning &
growing, improving processes and learning the operational side of
an insurance brokerage -- no worries, we will teach you all you
need to know!Responsibilities:
- Adaptable to learn team processes independently and agility to
change responsibilities as needed.
- Review processes to determine the tasks needed & timeframe to
complete.
- Handle larger volume & complex processes or tasks for team &
Agency Partners.
- Work can be in various areas within a regional team including
cash application, receivables, direct bill, carrier/broker/producer
payables, depending on assignment.
- Ensure delivery of Service Level Agreements with Agency
Partners - Work with Supervisors/Managers/Controllers to provide
input to the development of associated metrics to ensure high
performance delivery of expected commitments.
- Embrace a culture of continuous improvement developing
strategies to maximize efficiencies and unlock capacity.
- Work on root cause analysis and issue resolution with the team,
escalating timely to Supervisor, Manager, Controller as
needed.
- Perform assigned month end processes & closing procedure with
team & Controller.
- Collaborate with associates on other region pods who are
performing similar functions to ensure consistency, sharing issue
resolutions and best practices.
- Overall provide prompt, accurate, courteous, "best in class"
service to agency partners, insurance companies, leadership team
and all staff.This description is not meant to be all-inclusive and
may be modified from time to time at the discretion of
management.Requirements:To perform this job successfully, an
individual must be able to perform each essential duty
satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of
the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities
to perform the essential functions.
- PC skills including Word, Excel, Outlook, Internet Explorer are
required.
- Efficient operation of 10-key pad.
- Knowledge of various agency management systems extremely
helpful.
- Able to work independently and enjoy a high degree of
interaction with team members
- Ability to contribute to a collaborative environment by
consistently demonstrating teamwork, high motivation, positive
behavior and effort to achieve goals and objectives
- Self-motivated and driven
- Maintain a sense of urgency and ability to work with and meet
deadlines
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication,
including the ability actively listen, and problem solve with
minimal assistance
- Demonstrates excellent time management and prioritization
skills using discretion surrounding sensitive or confidential
information
- Attention to detail and commitment to a high level of
accuracy
- Ability to maintain a professional demeanor and positive
attitudeEducation/Experience:
- Minimum of 2 years of work or college experience,
required.Benefits & Perks:Competitive Compensation
- Industry Leading Healthcare
- Savings and Investments
- Charitable Giving Programs
- Offering hybrid work option
- Opportunities for Growth
- Educational Resources
- Generous time awayAcrisure is equally committed to supporting
social issues. In 2021, the Company co-founded Evolution Advisors,
a joint venture focused on providing greater access and more
effectively distributing insurance products and financial services
to minority-owned enterprises. In its home of Grand Rapids,
Acrisure provided $15 million to create the Acrisure Center for
Innovation in Children's Health at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital.
Acrisure is committed to employing a diverse workforce. All
applicants will be considered for employment without attention to
race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender
identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. To
Executive Search Firms & Staffing Agencies: Acrisure does not
accept unsolicited resumes from any agencies that have not signed a
mutual service agreement. All unsolicited resumes will be
considered Acrisure's property, and Acrisure will not be obligated
to pay a referral fee. This includes resumes submitted directly to
Hiring Managers without contacting Acrisure's Human Resources
Talent
Department.https://www.acrisure.com/acrisureacastaffprivacynotice/
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