Ameritas Hiring for Investment Accountant Job at Lincoln, NE Full Time

This is a hybrid role working partially in-office and partially from home.

At Ameritas, our mission is Fulfilling Life. We do that in many ways, but especially by helping people invest in themselves by offering trusted financial products and advice. Because we believe everyone should be happy, healthy and financially secure, we work hard to provide trusted financial products and valued guidance, including individual life and disability insurance, employee benefits, retirement planning, investments, and wealth management services.

The Investment Accountant provides accounting professional support for the general financial accounting activities for the organization in compliance with regulatory policies. This position will be responsible for assisting the delivery of accurate, timely and reliable financial operations, data and reporting. Specifically, in this role, it is responsible for the accounting and financial reporting/record keeping for commercial mortgage loan investments.

What you do

• Responsible for processing, accounting, and reporting of the commercial and residential mortgage loan investment portfolios
• Utilize and maintain Precision loan software for commercial mortgages loans
• Handle wire and ACH requests and accounting for loan fundings
• Prepare various month end loan reporting
• Accounting for income accruals, suspense, and balancing of portfolios
• Prepare Statutory Schedule B on a quarterly basis
• Prepare commercial and residential mortgage loan footnotes within the financial statements
• Prepare quarterly cash flow reports for commercial and residential mortgage loans
• Assistance with bond and stock trade activity as needed
• Works with Investment Portfolio Managers to ensure timely and accurate reporting
• Suggest and document improvements to existing processes and solutions
• Ensure transactional accounting accuracy and resolve or escalate as needed
• Consistently meet financial reporting, tax and other various deadlines
• Identify technical and operational issues as it relates to own work area and resolve or escalate as needed
• Provides support as needed for audits/exams by working directly with the auditors/examiners in providing data and responses to inquiries
• Ensure controls are in place and adhere to these controls to maintain the financial integrity of the business area and systems
• Assist management with projects and system testing as needed

What you bring

• Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in Accounting
• 0-2 years’ experience
• Strong communication skills
• Consistently demonstrates initiative and a professional, self-directed approach to responsibilities

What we offer

• Our company motto is “Fulfilling Life” and we take that job seriously, with a heavy commitment to volunteering and community support, employee well-being, and providing quality products and services that help our customers create a brighter future.
• Being a mutual-based organization, the return on our investment goes back into the company, to benefit our members/customers.
• We’re committed to professional development, opportunity, inclusion and diversity. Team building and collaboration are also priorities.
• A total rewards package with all the comprehensive health and welfare benefits you’d expect, including competitive pay and incentives, 401(k), flexible work schedules and time off to care for yourself and others.
• Additional popular benefits, including tuition reimbursement, and student loan repayment, an incentivized well-being program, adoption assistance, paid time off for volunteering, training and career development opportunities.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Ameritas has a reputation as a company that cares, and because everyone should feel safe bringing their authentic, whole self to work, we’re committed to an inclusive culture and diverse workplace, enriched by our individual differences. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer that hires based on qualifications, positive attitude and exemplary work ethic, regardless of sex, race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

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