Allstate

Allstate

Accounting Consultant II

USA - IL (Remote) · Mid

No sponsorship$54k-$85kDetected 1 day ago
Financial AnalysisAccountingProcess ImprovementProblem SolvingGAAPFinancial Reporting

About the role

  • At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties.
  • In this role, you'll play a key part in delivering accurate financial reporting, supporting complex accounting processes, and ensuring the integrity of financial results across multiple entities.
  • Joining our team isn't just a job - it's an opportunity.

Responsibilities

  • As an Accounting Consultant II, you will own and execute critical day-to-day accounting and reporting activities, while also contributing to process improvements and cross-functional initiatives.
  • Prepare and support financial statements (GAAP and statutory), including related schedules and disclosures
  • Perform financial consolidations, ensuring accuracy and proper elimination of intercompany transactions
  • Maintain and analyze general ledger activity, ensuring transactions are recorded appropriately
  • Prepare journal entries, account analyses, and variance explanations to support the monthly close
  • Validate system functionality and ensure accounting rules and processes operate correctly
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with multiple finance teams and business units
  • Contribute to and lead process improvement and transformation initiatives
  • This is more than a traditional accounting role-you'll gain broad exposure across business units and finance functions, work on dynamic, high-impact projects, and develop a deeper understanding of how financial statements interconnect across a complex organization.
  • Partner with experienced professionals across finance, accounting, and operations

Requirements

  • Experience with financial reporting and general ledger accounting
  • Strong understanding of how financial statements are constructed and interrelated
  • Knowledge of accounting principles and transaction flows
  • Ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities
  • 2+ years of relevant accounting experience
  • Consolidations experience in a multi-entity environment
  • Experience working in a complex or large-scale organization
  • The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.
  • When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating.

Skills

  • Compensation
  • One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level.
  • Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
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  • Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.
  • Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.
  • Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.

Compensation

  • Compensation offered for this role is 53,500.00 - 84,625.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.
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Benefits

  • CPA or CPA-eligible (actively pursuing or completed educational requirements)

Company info

  • And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs.
  • We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Accounting Consultant II to join our team.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position

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