AI-Driven Reinsurance Controller - Platform Accounting Lead

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

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.