Senior Accountant

Job Title: Senior Accountant Location: Westlake, TX

Department: Accounting Status: Exempt

Reports to: Accounting Manager

About Goosehead

Goosehead Insurance has been disrupting the insurance industry by giving clients the power of choice, utilizing a smarter marketing approach, and delivering world class service. This is all powered by our focus on hiring and retaining extraordinary people. Our clients trust us with their most valuable possessions so, we’re more than just a bit selective when it comes to hiring new team members.

Job Summary

The Senior Accountant plays an integral role in helping our accounting organization achieve its mission to deliver timely, accurate, and insightful financial information to management and investors so they can make timely, informed, and decisive decisions. The Senior Accountant is a subject matter expert in accounting for operating expenditures and ensures monthly and quarterly financial results and processes are GAAP and SOX compliant. To be successful in this role, you must be a motivated self-starter who can easily adapt in a high-growth, rapidly-changing environment.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepare and review monthly journal entries and account reconciliations, ensuring accuracy and adherence to GAAP and SOX requirements

• Prepare monthly financial statement analyses and assist team in appropriately preparing and documenting their analyses

• Prepare ad hoc analyses to support management decision making, including proactively identifying and delivering key insights to financial performance

• Assist in the preparation of quarterly SEC filings, including preparation of supporting schedules, analyses, external documentation, and audit requests

• Identify opportunities for process improvement and initiate and lead special projects designed to improve processes within the Accounting and Finance organization

• Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support financial initiatives and provide guidance

• Ensure accounting activities are completed with the highest level of control and integrity

• Demonstrate emotional intelligence in handling potentially stressful situations, including managing competing priorities, change, tight deadlines, and conflict