Sr. Accounting & Data Analyst

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Job Summary:

We’re looking for a sharp, systems-savvy Senior Accounting & Data Analyst to join our AMG Retirement Plans finance team. This is a high impact role for someone who thrives in complexity, owns outcomes, and brings clarity to ambiguity. You’ll be the connective tissue between Finance, IT, and data systems — ensuring our financial reporting is accurate and reconciled as we continue to integrate a reinsurance acquisition and transform processes across the finance team.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:

Acquisition Integration and Ongoing Analysis

• You will be the Senior Analyst supporting the financial integration of a complex reinsurance acquisition, in addition to ongoing support.
• Reconcile data across source systems and two separate entities’ general ledger systems (Workday and SAP), identifying and resolving variances through root-cause analysis and adjusting journal entries.
• Partner with the Senior Manager to ensure seamless monthly closes, intercompany reporting, and data integrity.

Process Optimization and Continuous Improvement

• Play a key role in finance transformation by evaluating existing processes, identifying inefficiencies, and recommending enhancements that improve accuracy, scalability, and efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with the Finance and IT teams to design and implement solutions and actively champion change across the organization.

Data Flow Expertise

• Develop deep expertise in financial data movement from source systems to the general ledger.
• Develop and maintain documentation of data flows and reconciliations.
• Work across Finance and IT to solve complex data challenges.

Skills and Background You’ll Need:

Education: Bachelors in Accounting or Finance

Experience:

• 5+ years experience in accounting/finance including hands on experience in reconciliations, controls and financial close processes.
• GAAP Accounting expertise and general ledger management.  STAT accounting experience is a plus.
• Proficiency in financial systems (ERP systems including data flows from source systems to GL.)  Excel, PowerPoint and data query tools (e.g. SQL), Workday/SAP experience is a plus.

Key Behaviors of a Successful Candidate:

Winning together: Excellent communication skills — able to translate complex ideas across Finance and IT with clarity and confidence. Collaborative and trusted — you build alignment across teams and drive shared outcomes.

Driving success: Approaches the work with a “builder’s mentality” — when inefficiencies are uncovered, proactively designs better processes. Constantly pursues exceptional results that take us “next level.”

Adaptability: Excellent problem-solving skills and a track record of navigating ambiguity with confidence and creativity. Approaches the work with a “detective’s mindset” and digs into the data, asks the right questions, and doesn’t stop until the issue is solved.

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We have built an enduring legacy of stability, financial strength and exceptional customer service through the contributions of the service-oriented people who choose to work at The Standard. To ensure we can attract and retain the best talent, when you join The Standard you can expect:

• A rich benefits package including medical, dental, vision and a 401(k) plan with matching company contributions

• An annual incentive bonus plan

• Generous paid time off including 11 holidays, 2 wellness days, and 8 volunteer hours annually — PTO increases with tenure

• A supportive, responsive management approach and opportunities for career growth and advancement 

• Paid parental leave and adoption/surrogacy assistance

• An employee giving program that double matches your donations to eligible nonprofits and schools

In addition to the competitive salary range below, our employee-focused benefits support work-life balance. Learn more about working at The Standard.

• Eligibility to participate in an incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program and plan. Any award depends on a variety of factors including individual and organizational performance.

The actual compensation for this role will be based on a combination of education and experience, knowledge and skills, position budget, internal equity, and market data.

Salary Range:

Standard Insurance Company, The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York, Standard Retirement Services, Inc., StanCorp Mortgage Investors, LLC, StanCorp Investment Advisers, Inc., and American Heritage Life Insurance Company and American Heritage Service Company, marketed as The Standard, are Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability or veteran status or any other condition protected by federal, state or local law. Except where precluded by state or federal law, The Standard will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. The Standard offers a drug- and alcohol-free work environment where possession, manufacture, transfer, offer, use of or being impaired by an illegal substance while on The Standard's property, or in other cases which the company believes might affect operations, safety or reputation of the company is prohibited. The Standard requires a criminal background investigation and employment, education and licensing verification as a condition of employment. All employees of The Standard must be bondable.