Accounting Operations Specialist

Lockton; Overland Park (KS); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Lockton’s Accounting Operations team is seeking a detail-oriented analyst to triage incidents, resolve issues, and maintain clear documentation. You will collaborate with Account Teams, IBA teammates, and the Global Finance Service Center to keep transactions flowing and to surface insights for upstream fixes.

You will contribute to pattern recognition, share trends, and help design permanent fixes with offshore teams.

Qualifications

• Detail orientation, curiosity, and accountability.
• Clear written communication and stakeholder empathy.
• Proficiency with Excel, Word, Outlook.

Responsibilities

• Triage incidents and resolve issues using documented playbooks and processes.
• Maintain clear case notes and publish/refresh Knowledge Base entries for common IBA issues to improve first time resolution.
• Partner with Account Teams, IBA teammates and the Global Finance Service Center to remove blockers and keep transactional work flowing.
• Identify recurring patterns across incident categories; quantify impact and share trends.
• Collaborate with Accounting Operations Team, Automation/Systems, and offshore teams to design permanent fixes and reduce repeat tickets.
• Contribute to decision trees/SOPs that improve speed, consistency, and controls; help socialize changes through training moments.

Skills

Detail orientation

Curiosity

Accountability

Clear written communication

Collaboration

Tools

Excel

Word

Outlook

Job description

Your Responsibilities

Lockton’s Accounting Operations (AO) team is responsible for troubleshooting and error prevention for daily accounting operations. You will be the responsible for incident resolution and pattern detection—keeping Insurance Brokerage Accounting (IBA) transactions reliable while surfacing insights that drive upstream process fixes.

IBA is the transactional accounting function that ensures client monies are accurately and timely applied to Agency Bill (fiduciary), Direct Bill, and Fees, and remitted to insurers—processing billions in cash transactions annually. Your work helps keep that engine running and improves it over time.

Qualifications

Service excellence (day to day)

• Triage incidents and resolve issues using documented playbooks and processes
• Maintain clear case notes and publish/refresh Knowledge Base entries for common IBA issues to improve first time resolution.
• Partner with Account Teams, IBA teammates and the Global Finance Service Center to remove blockers and keep transactional work flowing

Process engineering (continuous improvement)

• Identify recurring patterns across incident categories; quantify impact and share trends
• Collaborate with Accounting Operations Team, Automation/Systems, and offshore teams to design permanent fixes and reduce repeat tickets.
• Contribute to decision trees/SOPs that improve speed, consistency, and controls; help socialize changes through training moments.

What you’ll bring

• Detail orientation, curiosity, and accountability, you close cases accurately and look for why they occurred.
• Clear written communication and stakeholder empathy (notes, status updates, expectation management).
• Proficiency with Excel, Word, Outlook and comfort working in a fast paced, complex environment.
• Collaboration skills to work across teams

Growth path

You’ll have clear progression as you shift from closing tickets to fixing systems:

Specialist, Senior Specialist, Analyst, Senior Analyst

Competencies expand from ticket accuracy and documentation to pattern recognition, root cause skills, and cross functional influence.

Workplace & culture

This role is hybrid in Kansas City, MO within Lockton Management, LLC. At Lockton, you’ll join a culture grounded in growth, inclusion, and wellbeing—and benefit from professional development opportunities, associate resource groups, and comprehensive benefits.

Equal Opportunity

Lockton is proud to provide equal opportunities for all. We foster an inclusive culture built on respect and belonging and recruit, develop, and retain people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.