Remote-Eligible Lead, Ceded Reinsurance Administration

Equitable; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Equitable is seeking a Lead, Ceded Reinsurance Administration to lead a team in supporting the Reinsurance Treaty Administration function within Finance Operations. You’ll manage settlements, reporting, and compliance with treaty provisions, partnering with cross-functional teams to optimize processes and automate where possible.

You will guide treasury and accounting close activities, analyze treaty results, and drive continuous improvement across administration, reporting, and settlements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• 6+ years reinsurance operational experience working with life and/or annuity products.
• 2+ years of people leadership experience, including coaching, mentoring, and empowering team members to achieve shared goals.
• Demonstrated understanding of reinsurance administration, treaty mechanics and accounting implications.
• Continuous improvement mindset with experience analyzing reinsurance administration processes, identifying control and efficiency gaps, and leading initiatives to improve treaty administration, reporting, and settlement activities.
• Skilled at using quantitative and qualitative data to diagnose issues, evaluate alternatives, and communicate recommendations that drive informed business decisions.
• Established user of reinsurance technology applications (e.g., TAI), Microsoft suite, particularly Excel.
• Ability to work collaboratively and efficiently with a diverse group of subject matter experts.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain deep understanding of reinsurance treaty provisions and serve as a subject matter expert for various inquiries.
• Lead a team supporting treaty administration and analysis activities.
• Prepare and/or review and analyze monthly and quarterly treaty settlement statements and manage reinsurance receivables and payables with counterparties.
• Partner with accounting and financial reporting teams to support financial close processes.
• Analyze and monitor actual treaty experience in accordance with corporate risk sharing and retention limits.
• Prepare and analyze reinsurance treaty financial results and analyze trends relative to prior periods, annual budget and strategic plans.
• Manage and monitor reinsurance claims processing, including responding to reinsurance counterparty inquiries regarding validation of complex claims to validate accuracy and ensure alignment with treaty parameters.
• Provide input in design of new treaties and amendments to existing treaties and lead implementation of administrative function.
• Provide analysis to support treaty negotiations and arbitrations.
• Design efficient, effective and scalable processes and controls with focus on continuous improvement.
• Coordinate required communication and documentation gathering to support internal and external audits.

Skills

Attention to detail

Coaching

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis

Decision making

Knowledge of reinsurance

Managing priorities

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

TAI

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Equitable is seeking a Lead, Ceded Reinsurance Administration to lead a team in supporting the Reinsurance Treaty Administration function within Finance Operations. You’ll manage settlements, reporting, and compliance with treaty provisions, partnering with cross-functional teams to optimize processes and automate where possible.

You will guide treasury and accounting close activities, analyze treaty results, and drive continuous improvement across administration, reporting, and settlements.