Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Aflac is hiring a Director, Client Accounting - Tax Services to lead client accounting for its Life, Absence, Disability, and VB product lines. The role oversees billing, premium collection, remittance, reconciliation, controls, and reporting while partnering with internal teams and clients to resolve financial issues and improve accounting services.
Responsibilities
- Provides leadership for client accounting functions supporting Life, Absence, Disability and VB product lines
- Partners closely with operations, product, finance, tax and sales teams to ensure alignment and seamless delivery of accounting services
- Lead initiatives to enhance financial accuracy, streamline procedures, and improve client outcomes across multifaceted product portfolios
- Oversee end-to-end client accounting processes including billing, premium collection, remittance, and reconciliation
- Ensures compliance with internal controls, accounting standards, product-specific regulatory requirements, and applicable tax rules
- Strengthens accounting controls to reduce risk, enhance audit readiness, and ensure accuracy across all product lines
- Maintain strong internal controls over client billing, cash handling, and revenue recognition processes
- Prepare or oversee reporting packages, including client financial summaries, performance metrics, and audit documentation
- Support sales and leadership by providing financial insights for client renewals, pricing and revenue forecasting
- Work with key stakeholders in Product, Actuary and Distribution to develop and deploy alternate funding arrangements (i.e. participating, level-funded, hybrid, and non-participating) for applicable Aflac product offerings
- Collaborate with IT/Systems teams to enhance financial system capabilities, reporting tools, and automation
- Support internal audits, SOC controls, compliance reviews, and regulatory documentation
- Serves as the senior financial partner for key or complex clients; leads resolution of escalated financial issues with professionalism, transparency, and urgency
- Participates in client meetings to review billing performance, resolve issues, and discuss financial trends
- Represents client accounting in cross-functional steering committees and business reviews
- Enhances decision-making through data-driven insights and operational best practices
- Contributes financial service expertise to industry leading value proposition as a preferred leave administrator for existing and prospective state clients
- Performs other duties as required
Skills
- Familiarity with absence and leave programs (FMLA, state leaves, employer policies) and how they influence premium and eligibility management
- Strong knowledge of GAAP premium accounting, cash application, account reconciliation, and financial adjustments
- Ability to manage complex account structures, retroactive billing, premium corrections, and detailed client-level financial records
- Proficiency with tools such as Excel (advanced), Power BI, tableau, or similar financial/data platforms
- Strong ability to interpret data to monitor account health, identify issues, and support client or broker conversations
- Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills for a client facing financial environment
- Bachelor's Degree Accounting, Finance, or job related field
- 10+ years of job-related experience with 5+ years of management experience
- Knowledge of group insurance financial structures including, but not limited to premium administration, claims funding arrangements, product-specific billing requirements, dividend accounting
- Or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Master's Degree job related field
- Certification job related field
Benefits
- Remote work from home within the continental US; occasional office attendance may be requested based on business need, with advance communication.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Prescription drug coverage
- Health care flexible spending
- Dependent care flexible spending
- Aflac supplemental Accident, Cancer, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity policies offered at no cost to the employee
- 401(k) plans
- Annual bonuses
- Opportunity to purchase company stock
- 11 paid holidays annually
- Up to 20 days of PTO annually, to be used for any reason
- State-mandated sick leave, if eligible (Washington employees accrue 1-hour sick leave for every 40 hours worked)
- Other leaves of absence, if eligible, including adoption and parental leave
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