Senior Accountant, Financial Reporting

About this role

Summary
World Insurance Associates is a unique insurance organization offering top products and services from major providers, combined with attentive service from local agents.
Founded in 2011, World is one of fastest-growing insurance brokers in the U.S. with over 2,200 employees in over 210 offices across North America. We specialize in personal and commercial insurance lines, surety and bonding, employee benefits, financial and retirement services, and human capital management solutions.

Position Overview
An exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing company seeking a dynamic candidate to join its Technical Accounting team. The ideal candidate must be detail-oriented, driven, a quick learner, possess strong communication skills and be capable of taking ownership of complicated technical accounting matters. Additionally, the candidate will assist annual financial statement production process and other ad hoc projects as needed.
This role provides exposure to business combinations, earnouts, hedge accounting, equity and incentive plan accounting and revenue recognition. The candidate will utilize NetSuite to record complex intercompany entries and translate complex legal agreements into GAAP-compliant journal entries. This person will be joining a high performing team that believes in team-work, coaching and development and works collaboratively on new/complex matters.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities

- Assist, under the direction of the manager, with the allocation of purchase prices for newly acquired entities and determine fair values, including contingent consideration, while maintaining associated schedules.
- Read and interpret diverse asset and equity purchase agreements, along with associated closing statements and wiring instructions for ASC 805 business combination recording.
- Review new and amended debt agreements in order to record transactions according to GAAP and estimate monthly principal/interest payments.
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