Accounting Clerk Job at High Street Insurance Partners
Position Description: Corporate Accounting Associate - Grand Rapids, MI
Background: High Street Insurance Partners
High Street Insurance Partners (HSIP) was founded to grow a successful, people-oriented insurance brokerage that aligns industry and technical experience and specialization to serve and protect its customers and provide its agency partners the opportunity to grow and expand. While utilizing a “buy and build” strategy to grow a national network of independent insurance agencies through acquisitions and synergistic organic growth, the founders of HSIP are committed to building an organization that focuses on excellence in insurance brokerage operations and strategies based on their deep experience in the industry, and that truly represents their values:
- Transparency & Integrity - Be open, be honest, and do the right thing every time
- Respect - Everybody matters
- Collaboration - Working together to be and bring the best we can offer
- Entrepreneurial - Having the courage to do it differently
- Giving Back - Having purpose outside yourself
- Continuous Learning - The better we understand our changing world, the bigger contribution we make
Position Summary
The
Corporate Accounting Associate is a key part of the corporate team. This position works to process and analyze costs and oversees intercompany allocations to agency partners. This position will also work closely with the Corporate Accounting Manager on development and implementation of continuous improvement of processes.
This role provides a competitive compensation and benefit package, including medical insurance, phone stipend, and a 401(k) match of up to 4% of salary.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Manage corporate allocations to agency partners
- Identify and document allocation methods
- Allocate costs to agencies for general insurance, medical benefits, licensing, etc.
- Maintain proforma documentation for agency costs
- Generate ad-hoc proforma vs. allocated costs reports for management, as requested
- Generate monthly/quarterly reports for agency partners identifying allocated costs
- Reconcile all High Street bank accounts on a weekly basis (currently four)
- Perform FSA/HSA account reconciliations
- Approve AP and acquisition wire transactions from AP Coordinator in accounting system
- Perform month-end account reconciliations
- Intercompany
- Prepaid expenses
- Fixed assets
- Review month-end corporate financials, particularly costs by department, and generate budget vs. actual reports for departmental leads
- Coordinate with third party on lease administration for Agency Partners
- Compile lease documentation for new agency partners
- Participate in monthly meetings with 3rd party administrator
- Periodically compare lease database with agency rent costs for reasonability
- Help build and deploy internal corporate accounting best practices
- Help develop and analyze business case processes for unbudgeted corporate expenses and initiatives
- Work cross-functionally for the first 3-6 months, assisting with Agency Accounting and Treasury teams
- Performs other tasks as required
Desired Competencies
- Team-first orientation demonstrated respect for all individuals, high integrity, and mature character.
- 3-5 years of successful experience in a similar position.
- Familiarity and hands-on experience with multiple accounting systems.
- High proficiency with Microsoft Excel, as well as Outlook and Word.
- Flexibility to work in a largely paperless environment.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
Key Personal Attributes
- Strong Leadership: A proactive and passionate advocate for the business.
- Exhibits confidence in self and others; Inspires and motivates others to perform well.
- Effectively influences actions and opinions of others; Accepts feedback from others; Gives appropriate recognition to others.
- Creates a sense of team spirit and helps to create a positive work environment.
- Treats people with respect, keeps commitments; works with integrity and ethically. Upholds organizational core values. Follows through on commitments.
- Strong work ethic, detail-driven and a commitment to doing whatever it takes to get the job done.
- Demonstrates exceptional follow through.
Physical Demands
- Moderate stress due to regular deadlines and daily challenges.
- Moderately sedentary position.
- Above average PC screen time.
- Occasionally lift up to 20lbs.
Work Environment
- Significant use of video and other technologies to improve efficiency
- Work is done in a temperature-controlled, non-smoking office.
- Flexible remote work schedules are supported.
- Workstations are cubicles with low-medium walls.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as described above.
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