The Support Analyst provides end-user support in creating documentation for recurring tasks as well as assisting the team in setting up user accounts. This person diagnoses, troubleshoots and resolves basic and moderate technical problems. This person operates under defined processes and procedures and makes decisions regarding short-term priorities and work activities requiring interpretation of guidelines, policies and procedures. The Support Analyst will work closely with our Helpdesk, Desktop Technology, and ATS teams in supporting users in general IT problems.  This is a Night Shift role.

• Performing day-to-day support work for the company’s end users.
• Creating and deleting user accounts
• Assisting with Ad Hoc projects and backup support for the US Support team

The finance analyst is responsible for organization, interpretation, analysis, scrubbing, documentation, and dissemination of complex data sets. The candidate will provide analysis, and data reconciliation for premium reporting. The candidate will provide support and be part of the Cash Management team under UK Finance.

Job Responsibilities

• Work closely with onshore Finance & Underwriting Operations department in respect of resolving unallocated cash queries.
• Support transformation projects.
• Develop process improvements as necessary.
• Execute daily finance operational activity and document management.
• Perform financial analysis, reconciliation, and generate key reports.
• Guide junior team members and perform peer reviews.

The finance analyst is responsible for organization, interpretation, analysis, scrubbing, documentation, and dissemination of complex data sets. The candidate will provide analysis, and data reconciliation for premium reporting. The candidate will provide support and be part of the Cash Management team under UK Finance.

Job Responsibilities

• Work closely with onshore Finance & Underwriting Operations department in respect of resolving unallocated cash queries.
• Support transformation projects.
• Develop process improvements as necessary.
• Execute daily finance operational activity and document management.
• Perform financial analysis, reconciliation, and generate key reports.
• Guide junior team members and perform peer reviews.

The Business Operations Associate is responsible for interpreting, analyzing, and processing various activities in support of property and casualty insurance operations. The candidate will need to perform activities with a high degree of accuracy and consistently meet service level requirements.

Job Responsibilities

• Interpret data, analyze results and process transactions in various systems in support of the following areas:
  • Submission Clearance
  • Policy & Endorsement Issuance
  • Other operations, as needed
• Prepare and issue documents and reports accurately, as per specifications
• Interact with team and customers as required to complete deliverables
• Communicate issues or queries on a timely basis to ensure quick resolution
• Assist with troubleshooting and improving processes, as needed

The operations analyst is responsible for collection, organization, interpretation, analysis, scrubbing, documentation and dissemination of complex data sets. The candidate will provide analysis, will process and normalize the data to ensure data integrity and will create queries, views and reports. 

Job Responsibilities

• Interpret data, analyze results, and provide ongoing reports
• Develop and implement data collection systems and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and data quality
• Acquire data from primary or secondary data sources and maintain databases/data systems
• Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in a complex data sets
• Filter and scrub data, and review reports and performance indicators to locate and correct code problems
• Locate and define new process improvement opportunities

The operations analyst is responsible for collection, organization, interpretation, analysis, scrubbing, documentation and dissemination of complex data sets. The candidate will provide analysis, will process and normalize the data to ensure data integrity and will create queries, views and reports. 

Job Responsibilities

• Interpret data, analyze results, and provide ongoing reports
• Develop and implement data collection systems and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and data quality
• Acquire data from primary or secondary data sources and maintain databases/data systems
• Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in a complex data sets
• Filter and scrub data, and review reports and performance indicators to locate and correct code problems
• Locate and define new process improvement opportunities

The operations analyst is responsible for collection, organization, interpretation, analysis, scrubbing, documentation and dissemination of complex data sets. The candidate will provide analysis, will process and normalize the data to ensure data integrity and will create queries, views and reports. The candidate will provide support and be part of the Cash Management team.

The Reinsurance Administrator will assume responsibility for all aspects of administration for the reinsurance accounting team.

Job Responsibilities

• Triaging of technical accounting inbox
• Prepare claim payment packs
• Cash identification and logging in finance system
• Save support for all cash transactions.
• Investigate and solve cash queries.
• Monthly reconciliation of cashbook to the bank.
• Support the reinsurance accounting team in their management of their portfolios.
• Correspond with clients and internal stakeholders to complete administrative tasks (e.g. complete forms, provide required documentation ,tax certificates).
• Complete call back procedures for new bank details
• Review excess of loss contracts against the underwriting system and save down paperwork.
• Other projects and/or tasks as required

The Business Systems Analyst is responsible for collaborating with the digital product managers (DPM), business system owners, and users to capture the right business requests and accurately translating them to specifications that aid design, coding and testing of complex software and/or data warehouse applications within the organization.

The BSA performs a liaison function between the DPM, business users, software engineers and QA analysts for implementing software solutions in order to accurately realize business goals.

• Works with the business users and DPM/Proxy DPM to accurately capture all stakeholder requests and translate them into system specifications. Writes user stories based on the epics or larger scope stories created by the DPM/Proxy DPM. Meets INVEST and DOR criteria for stories. Works with the Sprint team on breaking stories down into smaller vertical slices.
• Identifies and captures Acceptance Criteria for user stories. Works with the testers to ensure that all software components are tested adequately. Reviews test cases in Test Rails, collaborates with Developers and Testers on the right number of tests, types of tests applicable for the story, and the story DOD. Accepts the story on behalf of the DPM/Proxy DPM, confirms it meets the DOD.
• Collaborates with QA on documenting bugs found in non-production environments, captures them in Jira, meets DOR for bugs. Helps PDM/Proxy DPM prioritize non-prod bugs and issues, based on potential Production impact.
• Assists Support group with identifying DOR for Production bugs.
• Leads the end-to-end/integration testing, assists DPM in planning of the test effort. Collaborates with the business users/SMEs/stakeholders on the use cases and test cases.
• Maintains product and system documentation in Confluence, Miro, and other tools. Collaborates with BPMs, analyzes, maps, and communicates current state and future state business processes.
• Continuously builds relationships with business users (key and designated stakeholders, business users, BPMs), obtains and grows knowledge about the business process. Serves as an SME on the Product Team.
• Leads or assists DPM/Proxy DPM in sprint ceremonies like backlog refinement and sprint review/demo.
• Assists DPM/Proxy DPM in in providing Release notes with a specific use case, screen shots, detail on the changes, etc.

Responsibilities

• Be the SME for the application area your team owns. Have deep understanding of the current workflow, rules, dependencies, potential impacted areas. Always continue learning your application, understand new features being developed, be the gatekeeper of the consistency and cohesiveness across screens, actions, data, etc.
• Speak the Business language. Understand and be able to articulate the business process from the user’s standpoint. Remember, they are not limited to our application, their process involves multiple systems, as well as manual components (excel, email, verbal communication). Build relationship with users and business SMEs, keep learning from them - shadow, ask for their training documents.
• Create and maintain documentation, take initiative, refer other team members to your documents.
• Write great user stories - small, concise, well defined, with just enough number of details. Refine and break them down with the team, be the champion of the vertical story split.
• Be the gatekeeper of quality on the team. Create Acceptance criteria, help QA understand the system’s expected behavior. Review the test cases in Test Rails, help QA find a way to figure out the system’s actual behavior and make sure it marches the AC. Create plans for end-to-end testing, document use cases, hep QA plan. Decide what needs to be automated as part of the regression test suite.

• Maintain the general ledger activity for multiple corporate companies, which includes recording operating expenses, preparing accruals, and validating GL coding for Accounts Payable postings.
• Prepare monthly balance sheet and expense account analyses including detailed reviews of expenses and ensuring appropriate accruals are recorded.
• Assisting with the preparation of monthly and quarterly operating expenses variance analysis for multiple periods and provide concise insightful commentary.
• Analyze and explain quarterly balance sheet movements.
• Analyze quarterly operating expenses for 35+ cost centers, including how those costs get allocated to affiliates.
• Participate in the quarterly preparation and distribution of intercompany invoices to affiliate subsidiaries. Work with operating entity customers to explain the charges, including variances over periods.
• Support the delivery of accurate and timely services and reporting to affiliate client companies.
• Work on special projects including inactivating GL accounts, fixed asset subledger projects not limited to retiring fixed assets with zero book value, etc.
• Track legal, audit and other expenses.
• Maintains accounting controls by following policies and procedures, updating documentation as needed.

The General Accounting Associate will be in charge of:

• The monthly closing of the books of accounts
• Adjustments/Corrections for all accounts
• Accruals recording
• Bank Reconciliation
• Preparation of financial statements per store level
• Tax reconciliation
• Accounts Reconciliation
• AP and AR Aging and reconciliation
• Preparing the working papers and schedules for every account monthly
• Assisting the External Auditors in conducting their Audit

About the Role

Job Title: Accounting Manager

Reports To: Top Management

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 6:00pm

Work Location: Steelworld Tower NS Amoranto cor Biak na Bato, Quezon City

Summary:

• Managing and overseeing the daily operations of the department
• Preparing monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements
• Monitoring and analyzing financial data, reports, and/or statements
• Hiring, training, and supervising accounting associates
• Assigning projects to ensure the execution of tasks and compliance
• Establishing and enforcing proper accounting methods, policies, and procedures
• Providing recommendations and meeting financial accounting objectives

• Assist in the deployment of a Lean Transformation with specific responsibility of initiatives and continuous improvement practices and routines.
• Guide the current state and future state, implementation plan, along with impact and value of changes (in strong cooperation with business or service unit experts).
• Develop and nurture strong partnerships to understand specific business issues and priorities to effectively integrate continuous improvement into their organization.
• Use a standard set of Lean/Problem Solving tools and analyses to develop insight, solutions and drive the consistent use of Lean standards in the delivery of Value Stream or Function.
• Responsible for the consistent and successful delivery of agreed standard work.
• Assist in training and problem-solving workshops with senior managers & teams.

Job Responsibilities

• Diversity & Inclusion Aptitude
• Ability to work well with a variety of different individuals
• LEAN Transformation experience
• Operational and Analytical thinking
• Effective communication, listening and facilitation skills
• Insurance knowledge and strong business acumen
• Strong organizational skills with high level of attention to detail
• High Emotional Quotient and Professionalism

• Responsible for preparation of various monthly reports required by Department Head
• Supervise and control subordinates to discharge their duties in an effective and efficient manner
• Daily review and posting of general cashier's report and back office collection
• Monthly preparation  and online filing of the business taxes of the Hotel on a timely manner 

The actuarial analyst is responsible for collection, organization, interpretation, analysis, scrubbing, documentation and dissemination of complex data sets. The candidate will be responsible for modeling complex problems, reconciling data sets, analyzing trends and summarizing data for review and analysis. The candidate will provide analysis, will process and compile data for reporting and analysis through creating queries, views and reports. The candidate will provide support and be part of the US Actuarial team.

The Actuarial Analyst provides Reserving and Pricing support as part of the UK General Insurance Actuarial team.  The candidate will process, validate and interpret data to statistically model and determine results for the business. The candidate will be required to develop, maintain and update reports and communicate results into the Senior members of the Actuarial team.

Business Systems Analyst

The Business Systems Analyst is responsible for collaborating with the digital product managers (DPM), business system owners, and users to capture the right business requests and accurately translating them to specifications that aid design, coding and testing of complex software and/or data warehouse applications within the organization.

The BSA performs a liaison function between the DPM, business users, software engineers and QA analysts for implementing software solutions in order to accurately realize business goals.

• Works with the business users and DPM/Proxy DPM to accurately capture all stakeholder requests and translate them into system specifications. Writes user stories based on the epics or larger scope stories created by the DPM/Proxy DPM. Meets INVEST and DOR criteria for stories. Works with the Sprint team on breaking stories down into smaller vertical slices.
• Identifies and captures Acceptance Criteria for user stories. Works with the testers to ensure that all software components are tested adequately. Reviews test cases in Test Rails, collaborates with Developers and Testers on the right number of tests, types of tests applicable for the story, and the story DOD. Accepts the story on behalf of the DPM/Proxy DPM, confirms it meets the DOD.
• Collaborates with QA on documenting bugs found in non-production environments, captures them in Jira, meets DOR for bugs. Helps PDM/Proxy DPM prioritize non-prod bugs and issues, based on potential Production impact.
• Assists Support group with identifying DOR for Production bugs.
• Leads the end-to-end/integration testing, assists DPM in planning of the test effort. Collaborates with the business users/SMEs/stakeholders on the use cases and test cases.
• Maintains product and system documentation in Confluence, Miro, and other tools. Collaborates with BPMs, analyzes, maps, and communicates current state and future state business processes.
• Continuously builds relationships with business users (key and designated stakeholders, business users, BPMs), obtains and grows knowledge about the business process. Serves as an SME on the Product Team.
• Leads or assists DPM/Proxy DPM in sprint ceremonies like backlog refinement and sprint review/demo.
• Assists DPM/Proxy DPM in in providing Release notes with a specific use case, screen shots, detail on the changes, etc.

Job Responsibilities

• Be the SME for the application area your team owns. Have deep understanding of the current workflow, rules, dependencies, potential impacted areas. Always continue learning your application, understand new features being developed, be the gatekeeper of the consistency and cohesiveness across screens, actions, data, etc.
• Speak the Business language. Understand and be able to articulate the business process from the user’s standpoint. Remember, they are not limited to our application, their process involves multiple systems, as well as manual components (excel, email, verbal communication). Build relationship with users and business SMEs, keep learning from them - shadow, ask for their training documents.
• Create and maintain documentation, take initiative, refer other team members to your documents.
• Write great user stories - small, concise, well defined, with just enough number of details. Refine and break them down with the team, be the champion of the vertical story split.
• Be the gatekeeper of quality on the team. Create Acceptance criteria, help QA understand the system’s expected behavior. Review the test cases in Test Rails, help QA find a way to figure out the system’s actual behavior and make sure it marches the AC. Create plans for end-to-end testing, document use cases, hep QA plan. Decide what needs to be automated as part of the regression test suite.

MS Transverse is looking for a dynamic and engaging Financial & Treasury Analyst who is looking for an opportunity to join an industry-leading Property & Casualty insurance carrier focused on partnering with Reinsurers, MGAs/Program Administrators, and InsurTechs.

We provide access to commercial and personal lines utilizing our admitted and non-admitted capabilities across all US jurisdictions. You would join a deeply experienced and broadly talented operating team where your experience and drive will become instrumental in further growing our business.

The Financial & Treasury Analyst plays a key role within the organization and Finance/ Accounting Department. We are looking for someone who is a fast learner, a proactive thinker, and can thrive in a fast-paced environment. We are looking for someone who is results orientated, a problem solver, with a strong attention to detail.

Job Responsibilities

• Assist with financial planning/budgeting
• Assist with monthly rolling forecast
• Assist with financial modeling and development
• Assist with monthly financial reporting
• Assist with the preparation of financial dashboards and KPIs to support management decision
• Assist with Board and Committee presentations
• Assist with providing internal, external, insurance/reinsurance regulators, and rating agencies with information
• Assist with financial analysis of competitors, reinsurers, MGAs/MGUs
• Gather data from different sources in a highly organized and detail oriented manner
• Document variances in relation to plan and forecast
• Perform cash forecasting and assist in ensuring proper cash flow planning
• Gather key information for cash positions to aid in investing and borrowing decisions
• Develop new and maintain existing banking relationships to update account information, communicate transactional issues and setting up new accounts
• Setup/ process outgoing wires, EFT, and ACH transfers
• Provide timely responses to the Accounting/Finance mailbox inquiries to follow up or escalate issues accordingly
• Prepare/ submit cash activity for the general ledger
• Maintain Bank Reconciliations
• Work closely with the investment team to coordinate activities between the departments
• Aid with tracking alternative investment fund activity
• Assist with internal control risk assessments and documentation related to general finance controls and the banking/ investment processes
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve transactional issues in a timely manner
• Assist with accounting month-end close including journal entries and reconciliations related to cash, and annual audits
• Ensure operational excellence by supporting management and taking on projects as assigned

Perform all cash related aspects of facultative assumed & ceded accounting including cash entry, cash application, cash reconciliation, and assist with collections.

• Enter daily cash receipts and disbursements in the reinsurance system
• Apply cash receipts and disbursements
• Assist in collecting overdue account receivable/payable balances
• Research, document, and resolve unapplied cash issues
• Work closely with other Reinsurance Accounting team members to resolve cash discrepancies
• Prepare monthly cash reconciliation
• Prepare monthly billing statements
• Review and post bound XOL contracts in the reinsurance system
• Ensure effective SOX controls are maintained and followed
• Ad hoc related tasks as needed or other duties as required to support the team

The Catastrophe Modeling Analyst – Junior is responsible for quantifying the catastrophe risk on inward reinsurance contracts of Arch Re. Major tasks will include analyzing catastrophe modeling data from insurance clients in third party software, researching catastrophe risk, and creating reports related to the company’s risk exposure.

• Leverage third-party catastrophe models to obtain estimates of catastrophe risk of Arch Re's cedents.
• Justify and explain the cat model outputs and ensure that they are reasonable and correct.
• Generate other reports to give a complete picture of the cedents' catastrophe exposure.
• Handle independently the cat pricing for simple reinsurance submissions.
• Handle with minimal supervision the cat pricing for more complex reinsurance submissions.

The Catastrophe Modeling Analyst – Junior is responsible for quantifying the catastrophe risk on inward reinsurance contracts of Arch Re. Major tasks will include analyzing catastrophe modeling data from insurance clients in third party software, researching catastrophe risk, and creating reports related to the company’s risk exposure.

• Leverage third-party catastrophe models to obtain estimates of catastrophe risk of Arch Re's cedents.
• Justify and explain the cat model outputs and ensure that they are reasonable and correct.
• Generate other reports to give a complete picture of the cedents' catastrophe exposure.
• Handle independently the cat pricing for simple reinsurance submissions.
• Handle with minimal supervision the cat pricing for more complex reinsurance submissions.

At Umpisa Inc., our mission is to make the Philippines be known globally as a tech hub. 

Umpisa Inc. is a progressive technology services company that partners with select industries, clients and people to work on pioneering and industry-changing solutions via digital transformation, modern software development and venture building.

We create a set of world-class and impactful products and solutions to help organizations and individuals live better lives. We offer demanding, challenging and rewarding careers in software development, product development, emerging technologies, and more for the right candidates.

• Aligns with our values: Excellence, Integrity, Professionalism, People Success, Customer Success, Fun, Innovation and Diversity
• Strong communication skills
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Excellent problem-solving ability
• Would like to work as part of a self-organizing Scrum team in a scaled agile framework
• Must be a self-starter and loves to collaborate with the team and client

He/she shall also be responsible in the preparation of the following deliverables, in connection with assigned PROJECT:

• Creation of detailed user stories (US) and acceptance criteria
• Business Requirements Document (when applicable)
• UAT test scripts, KT Documents, User Manuals, and Training Materials

• Software and/or Product Development Lifecycle
• Agile/Scrum Framework knowledge and experience
• Good analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

NOTE: The list of qualifications is a guide. Best case if the candidate possesses ALL the required/desired criteria, but then again this is a GUIDE. If you think you can do the task and would be a great fit with us, send your professional profile to jointeam@umpisa.co. We accept applicants wherever you are in the Philippines.

The Support Analyst provides end-user support in creating documentation for recurring tasks as well as assisting the team in setting up user accounts. This person diagnoses, troubleshoots and resolves basic and moderate technical problems. This person operates under defined processes and procedures and makes decisions regarding short-term priorities and work activities requiring interpretation of guidelines, policies and procedures. The Support Analyst will work closely with our Helpdesk, Desktop Technology, and ATS teams in supporting users in general IT problems.  This is a Night Shift role.

• Performing day-to-day support work for the company’s end users.
• Creating and deleting user accounts
• Assisting with Ad Hoc projects and backup support for the US Support team

The Business Systems Analyst II is responsible for collaborating with the digital product managers (DPM), business system owners, and users to capture the right business requests and accurately translating them to specifications that aid design, coding and testing of complex software and/or data warehouse applications within the organization.

The incumbent performs a liaison function between the DPM, business users, software engineers and QA analysts for implementing software solutions in order to accurately realize business goals.

1. Work with the business users and DPM to accurately capture all stakeholder requests and translate them into system specifications which typically include functional, non-functional, user interface, reports and external interface specifications.
2. Work with software engineers to ensure that the engineering realization is in accordance with the business specification.
3. Work with the testers to ensure that all software components are tested adequately and Participates in Quality Assurance testing as the IT workload requires.
4. Provides guidance to stakeholders on devising effective and efficient approaches to achieve project and program objectives.
5. Manages requirements risks by proactively tracking and communicating issues, and devising methods to mitigating them.
6. Liaise with other project and program areas to coordinate interdependencies and resolve issues.
7. Analyzes, maps and communicates current state and future state business processes.
8. Supports business units in the resolution of in-depth user questions and issues.
9. Maintains a working knowledge of new technology and business analysis standards & practices.
10. Collaborates with IT management to define and develop documentation & business analysis artifact standards, guidelines, processes, and templates.

The finance analyst is responsible for collection, organization, interpretation, analysis, recording, documentation and dissemination of complex data sets. The candidate will process and reconcile finance related transactions with a strong focus on accuracy, timeliness, customer service and the ability to work in a fast paced environment. The candidate will provide support during night shift corresponding to US EST working hours and be part of the Finance team. 

• Accurate and timely turnaround on all payables for various entities
• Utilize complex cost center and intercompany allocation methodologies
• Assist with projects that entail analysis and reconciliation
• Provide customer service to internal and external customers
• Meet various deliverables for monthly and quarterly financial close 
• Collaborate with the AP team for best practices and process improvement