The CompanyCover Genius is aSeries D insurtechthat protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak andBooking.com, Intuit, Uber,Hopper,Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re alsoavailable at Amazon,Flipkart,eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee. Our partners integrate withXCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year.Our team and products have been recognized with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times which ranked Cover Genius as the#1 fastest-growing company in APACin 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commit itself to diverse cultural programs, in particularCG Giveswhich makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.
Our People areBold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired
Our People are notPerfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious
As a Junior Accountant at Cover Genius, you will be working amongst a rapidly expanding Global Finance team, based in Sydney, New York, Amsterdam, and our growing shared services center in Bangalore. This role will require you to be a knowledgeable and resourceful member of the Accounting team who supports the day-to-day accounting function across the organization including key financial processes that continually support and enable all areas of the business and its rapid growth. We are looking for a driven, reliable, and self-starting person who works exceptionally well with others and wants to be part of a global insurtech company with the vision to protect all customers of the world’s largest digital companies. This role reports into the Associate Finance Director- EMEAI.Key Responsibilities:
- Play a key support role in the global finance function, including responsibilities for various accounting processes, accounts payable and accounts receivable, cash/treasury management, expense management, compliance, and internal controls.
- Perform month-end close activities such as accruals, bank and credit card reconciliations, journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, fixed assets, and intercompany transactions.
- Identify opportunities for automation, standardization, and overall process improvement as we build and scale the global team.
- Support financial statement audits with Big Four auditors, which includes working with accountants in other regions to ensure completeness of supporting workpapers.
- Support in global indirect tax filing preparations.
- Partake in ad hoc accounting or finance projects and analyses.
What you will bring:
- 3-5 years of Accounting experience.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong ability to quickly identify both risks and opportunities while maintaining a strong focus on both process improvements and results.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Proactive self-starter, resourceful with a strong work ethic.
- Capable of working independently as well as working in a team.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel.
- Experience with Netsuite.
- Fluent in spoken and written English.
What you will have:
- Thrives on collaboration and operates with a strong internal stakeholder mentality.
- Uncanny organizational skills and the ability and drive to solve complex problems every day.
- Expert multitasker, self-prioritizer, and project manager.
- Strong ability to quickly identify both risks and opportunities while maintaining a strong focus on both process improvements and results.
- Unimpeachable integrity, maturity, strength of character, and professionalism.
- Ability to efficiently and accurately process high transaction volume tasks.
- Able to cope with a dynamic and high change environment.
- Takes ownership for responsibilities with a positive attitude.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel.