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Senior Accountant

W. R. Berkley Corporation
Manassas, VA, US Posted Oct 28, 2026
Full-time

About this role

Company Details

BerkleyNet is an innovative workers compensation insurance provider that does all of our business online. Our Goal? To make doing business “Ridiculously Fast. Amazingly Easy.”

Responsibilities

  • The Senior Accountant owns complex accounting, reporting, and control responsibilities while using data, technology, and process-improvement methods to strengthen financial operations. This role analyzes financial and operational results, identifies risks and performance drivers, and translates findings into actionable business insights. In partnership with Finance, Operations, Technology, and other stakeholders, the Senior Accountant improves processes and leverages automation to increase the speed, accuracy, and usability of financial information.

  • As BNET continues to streamline selected finance activities, this position will operate across both current-state execution and future-state improvement. The Senior Accountant will maintain reliable day-to-day financial operations while helping simplify workflows, strengthen controls, document procedures, and support evolving responsibilities in a dynamic and changing environment.

  • Key Functions/Duties of Position: Describe the overall job responsibilities (including any decision-making authority) for this position.

  • Own assigned areas of the monthly, quarterly, and annual close, including preparation and review of complex journal entries, account reconciliations, supporting schedules, and management reporting.

  • Apply sound accounting judgment to ensure compliance with GAAP, statutory, regulatory, internal-control, and corporate reporting requirements.

  • Investigate unusual activity, reconcile differences, identify root causes, and resolve accounting or data issues at the source; clearly communicate risks, impacts, and recommended actions.

  • Combine financial, policy, claims, and operational data to perform trend, variance, exception, and root-cause analyses that explain business performance.

  • Develop clear dashboards, visualizations, and management-ready narratives that translate analytical findings into decisions and actions for financial and non-financial audiences.

  • Define and maintain trusted metrics, data definitions, and validation controls to improve the completeness, accuracy, consistency, and usability of financial information.

  • Identify repetitive, manual, or control-sensitive activities suitable for redesign or automation; map current processes, quantify effort and risk, and help implement sustainable solutions using approved tools.

  • Test automated outputs, establish appropriate controls, document procedures, maintain implemented solutions, and measure benefits such as reduced cycle time, errors, or manual effort.

  • Partner across Finance, Operations, Technology, Underwriting, Claims, and Corporate functions to frame business questions, improve processes, and deliver reliable outcomes.

  • Support audits, regulatory requests, special projects, system implementations, and other initiatives requiring accounting, analytical, or process expertise.

  • Share knowledge, create clear documentation, and help strengthen the Finance team’s accounting, analytical, automation, and technology capabilities.

  • Constructively challenge inefficient practices, test new ideas, and foster a collaborative, innovative, and psychologically safe workplace.

Qualifications

  • Three to five years of progressive professional accounting or finance experience, including ownership of complex close, reconciliation, reporting, or analytical responsibilities.

  • Knowledge of GAAP and internal controls; insurance accounting, statutory reporting, or workers compensation experience is preferred.

  • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and demonstrated ability to organize, analyze, validate, and communicate information from multiple data sources.

  • Experience with data-preparation tools and with improving or automating a financial process

  • Experience with analytics and workflow automation tools. Familiarity with Power BI and SQL, and the ability to retrieve data from a data warehouse is preferred.

  • Ability to learn and use approved AI-assisted tools responsibly, validate outputs, exercise professional judgment, and protect confidential information.

  • Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, including the ability to identify patterns, isolate root causes, assess risk, and recommend practical solutions.

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain accounting and analytical conclusions to non-financial audiences.

  • Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, meet deadlines, and maintain accuracy in a fast-paced environment.

  • Demonstrated curiosity, learning agility, collaboration, and willingness to challenge existing processes constructively.

  • Education Requirement

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field is required; Accounting is preferred.

  • CPA license, CPA eligibility, or demonstrated progress toward a relevant professional credential is preferred.

Additional Company Details

The Company is an equal employment opportunity employer. Important Outside Agency Notice: Only solicited resumes/candidate profiles that are submitted by a Berkley Preferred Agency Partner that have been requested by Berkley Internal Recruiting to engage in a particular search will be subject to the payment of Agency fees as defined in the formal agency agreement. Any unsolicited resumes/candidate profiles are not subject to payment of the agency fees. The company offers a competitive compensation plan and robust benefits package for full time regular employees. Base salary & Benefits include Health, dental, vision, life, disability, wellness, paid time off, 401(k) and profit-sharing plans.

Salary

Range: $85k-99k The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment.

Additional Requirements

Travel

Requirements

  • Low level of domestic U.S. travel required (up to 5% of time).

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