Lead Finance
Premium, Claims & Commissions | Supporting the US Finance Business Group
Must Have skills-
- Accounting and reconciliation: Explains how to investigate unmatched items, support reconciliations and clear balances appropriately.
- Accuracy and control: Demonstrates disciplined review habits, documentation quality and appropriate approvals.
- Prioritization and communication: Manages recurring controls, stakeholder requests and close deliverables while escalating with facts and options.
- Improvement mindset: Identifies recurring failure points and suggests practical improvements without weakening controls.
Function US Finance - Operational Accounting
Location: Gurugram
Business scope: Premium | Claims | Commissions
Designation: Lead - Finance
Working model: Hybrid
Reports to: Senior Manager - Finance
Shift Timings : 3:30 pm 12 am/
5:30 pm 2 am
Alignment with US stakeholders
Role Type: Individual Contributor
About Role:
Every premium collected, claim paid and commission earned must land in the right account, at the right time. As a Lead - Finance, you will be a key control point in the US Finance accounting ecosystem. You will monitor cash clearing, control and suspense accounts, investigate unmatched transactions, prepare reconciliations and journal entries, and work directly with Business Unit partners to resolve issues before they affect close quality or financial control outcomes.
This role is built for an accounting professional who combines precision with pace, takes ownership of exceptions, and wants broad exposure to insurance operations, balance-sheet controls and cross-border business partnership.
Your mandate: Keep the accounts controlled, the exceptions moving and the balance sheet decision-ready.
As an Operational Accounting Analyst,
you will support the accuracy and integrity of US Finance by monitoring cash clearing, control and suspense accounts, investigating unmatched transactions, preparing reconciliations and journal entries, and resolving issues with Business Unit partners. This role is ideal for an accounting professional who combines precision, ownership and strong control discipline with the ability to work effectively across a global finance environment.
Preferred skills
- Experience in insurance, employee benefits, group perks, stop-loss or another regulated financial-services environment.
- Exposure to Frontier or a comparable ledger, sub-ledger, reconciliation or account-control platform.
- Experience supporting premium, claims, commissions, receivables, cash application or operational accounting processes.
- Experience working in a shared-service, global capability centre or cross-border stakeholder environment.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills and an interest in automation, root-cause analysis, process standardization and control improvement.
Qualifications
- 7+ year of relevant experience
- Bachelors degree in accounting, Finance, Commerce or a related discipline; a professional accounting qualification, or progress toward one, is an advantage.
- Experience in operational accounting, general accounting, balance-sheet reconciliation, cash accounting, financial control or a comparable finance operations role.
- Practical knowledge of cash clearing, control and suspense account reconciliation,
including investigation and ageing of reconciling items.
- Working knowledge of manual journal preparation, supporting documentation and balance-sheet clearing concepts.
- Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and ability to work accurately with transaction-level data.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and recurring daily or month-end deadlines while maintaining accuracy and control.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to follow up, constructively challenge and explain accounting issues to stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Monitor cash clearing and control accounts, including relevant accounts maintained outside Frontier, and identify unmatched, offsetting, aged or unusual transactions.
- Investigate outstanding transactions, determine likely root causes, obtain supporting information, and coordinate timely resolution with Business Unit partners.
- Prepare accurate monthly balance-sheet reconciliations with complete supporting documentation and clear explanations of reconciling items.
- Prepare standard and approved non-standard manual journal entries with appropriate support and approvals.
- Review business activity and reports to identify patterns, breaks or control concerns, and escalate issues with clear facts, impact and recommended next steps.
- Manage assigned mailboxes and workflow requests, respond within agreed timelines and proactively communicate progress.
- Follow established accounting procedures, approval requirements and evidence standards while maintaining organized, audit-ready workpapers.
- Identify opportunities to simplify recurring work, improve data quality, strengthen controls and reduce avoidable manual effort.
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