AI Controller, Reinsurance

Relevant Search; Texas; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Relevant Search is seeking a senior accounting leader to own the accounting for all reinsurance entities on the platform, from data modeling to financial statements. You will define accounting logic, balance hands-on work with rule testing, and drive process improvements with engineering.

You will handle shadow closes, design subledgers, and ensure NAIC SAP and ASC 944 reporting accuracy, while coordinating audits and providing clear memos on complex treatments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of accounting at a reinsurer, carrier, intermediary, or Big 4 insurance practice, including controller-level responsibility.
• Hands-on treaty reinsurance accounting: assumed and ceded, quota share and stop-loss, funds withheld, retrocession, bordereaux, settlements, and risk-transfer testing
• Strong NAIC SAP and ASC 944 knowledge, including Annual Statement preparation and Schedule F
• Hands-on role in a full ERP implementation or rebuild (NetSuite preferred), and comfort working across more than one GL
• You still do the work yourself. If your team disappeared tomorrow, you could book the entries, read the contract, and close the books.
• You understand why each step in the close exists, not only how it is done

Responsibilities

• Run a shadow close for reinsurance clients and own quarterly close within two quarters.
• Design the reinsurance subledger: COA mapping, journal entries, and controls with engineers.
• Own NAIC SAP and ASC 944 outputs, including Qtr/Annual statements and schedules.
• Final review before client delivery; write position memos on complex treatments.
• Manage auditor relations: PBC lists, walkthroughs, tie-outs, and questions.
• Write specs with inputs, logic, and edge cases for engineers.
• Help hire and mentor the accounting team; hands-on role, not management.

Skills

Accounting expertise

NAIC SAP knowledge

ASC 944 knowledge

ERP implementation experience

Close process understanding

Attention to detail

Education

CPA certification

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

Dallas-Fort Worth preferred. Other US or Puerto Rico locations considered, with regular travel to Dallas.

Accounting is going to change more in the next few years than it has in the last fifty. If you want a normal accounting job, this isn’t it. If you want your work built into a platform instead of filed in a folder, read on. Insurance experience is REQUIRED!

About the company

Relevant Search is partnering with an AI-native accounting and finance company that runs the back office for insurers, MGAs, and reinsurers. They are not a consulting firm. They replace manual, people-heavy processes with a system that does the work. Their reinsurance engine is already running live treaty contracts.

About the role

You will own the accounting for every reinsurance entity on the platform, from the data model to the reviewed financial statements. You will also decide how the platform’s accounting logic works. At the start, about 60% of your time goes to doing the accounting and 40% to defining and testing rules with engineering. The balance shifts toward rules over time. Every manual step you perform becomes a written rule and test case.

What you’ll do

• Run a shadow close on reinsurance clients alongside the current provider, tie out prior-quarter entries, and take full ownership of the close within your first two quarters
• Own the accounting design of the reinsurance subledger: chart of accounts mapping, journal entry design, and controls, working with engineering
• Be accountable for US Statutory (NAIC SAP) and GAAP (ASC 944) outputs, including Quarterly and Annual Statements, key schedules, and the statutory-to-GAAP bridge
• Act as the final reviewer before anything goes to a client. Write the position memos on complex treatments.
• Run the auditor relationship day to day: PBC lists, walkthroughs, tie-outs, and auditor questions
• Write specs (inputs, logic, expected entries, edge cases) clear enough that engineers can build from them without follow-up questions
• Help hire and develop the accounting team as it grows. This is a hands‑on role, not a management one.

What you bring

• 10+ years of accounting at a reinsurer, carrier, intermediary, or Big 4 insurance practice, including controller-level responsibility
• Hands‑on treaty reinsurance accounting: assumed and ceded, quota share and stop‑loss, funds withheld, retrocession, bordereaux, settlements, and risk‑transfer testing
• Strong NAIC SAP and ASC 944 knowledge, including Annual Statement preparation and Schedule F
• Hands‑on role in a full ERP implementation or rebuild (NetSuite preferred), and comfort working across more than one GL
• You still do the work yourself. If your team disappeared tomorrow, you could book the entries, read the contract, and close the books.
• You understand why each step in the close exists, not only how it is done

Nice to have

• CPA (deep statutory reinsurance experience counts for more than the credential)
• Puerto Rico, Bermuda, or other non-NAIC regimes
• MGA, program, fronting, or delegated-authority business
• Startup, insurtech, or newly formed insurer experience

Travel and how we work

Travel is part of the job and is not negotiable. It includes client sites in Puerto Rico and other US locations, plus time at the Dallas headquarters, where client workshops and the automation work happen. Some months there is no travel, other months there will be much more. The pace is fast and ownership is high. The company wants people who are excited to change how insurance accounting is done.