Manager, Insurance Accounting

Overview

Frontdoor is reimagining how homeowners maintain and repair their most valuable asset – their home. As the parent company of two leading brands, we bring over 50 years of experience in providing our members with comprehensive options to protect their homes from costly and unexpected breakdowns through our extensive network of pre-qualified professional contractors. American Home Shield, the category leader in home service plans with approximately two million members, gives homeowners budget protection and convenience, covering up to 23 essential home systems and appliances. Frontdoor is a cutting edge, one-stop app for home repair and maintenance. Enabled by our Streem technology, the app empowers homeowners by connecting them in real time through video chat with pre-qualified experts to diagnose and solve their problems. The Frontdoor app also offers homeowners a range of other benefits including DIY tips, discounts and more. For more information about American Home Shield and Frontdoor, please visit frontdoorhome.com .

Responsibilities

Summary: The Manager of Accounting is a financial leader reporting to the Senior Director of Accounting, within the Chief Accounting Officer organization, responsible for overseeing core monthly accounting operations and reporting for our new home and insurance accounting operations while driving standardization, scalability, and strong process discipline.

The Manager will manage a team of two accounting professionals and partners closely with the business operations and internal back‑office stakeholders to ensure accurate, timely, and SOX‑controlled financial reporting in accordance with U.S. GAAP and SAP (Statutory Accounting Principles).

Insurance Accounting

• Lead the accounting and reporting processes for insurance operations in accordance with ASC 944 and applicable SAP accounting rules as prescribed by the NAIC (National Association of Insurance Commissioners).

• Oversee accounting for premiums, losses and loss adjustment expenses (LAE), policy acquisition costs, reinsurance transactions, and other insurance-specific transactions.

• Coordinate with underwriting and claims teams to ensure accurate recording and reporting of reinsurance activities.

• Serve as the primary point of contact between Accounting and the external actuarial firm.

• Review monthly, quarterly, and annual journal entries, reconciliations, and financial reporting deliverables

• Drive close acceleration, automation, and process consistency.

• Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting in compliance with U.S. GAAP and SOX internal control requirements.

• Partner with FP&A and senior leadership to support management reporting, variance analysis, and executive‑level financial insights.

Regulatory & Statutory Reporting

• Lead the preparation, review, and filing of NAIC Annual Statements, Quarterly Statements, Risk-Based Capital (RBC) reports, and other statutory filings.

• Oversee the completion and accuracy of statutory disclosures, including Schedule F, Schedule P, Notes to Financial Statements, and other required regulatory schedules.

• Serve as the primary accounting liaison with insurance regulators, coordinating responses to financial examination requests, inquiries, and regulatory reviews.

• Monitor, evaluate, and communicate emerging NAIC guidance, statutory accounting principles (SAP), and regulatory developments to ensure timely implementation and compliance.

• Partner with actuarial, regulatory compliance, legal, and finance teams to support accurate statutory reporting and regulatory compliance initiatives.

• Partner with internal and external auditors to support audits and ensure audit‑ready documentation, controls, and issue resolution.

Team Leadership & Management

• Directly manage two Accountants, providing coaching, performance management, and professional development while setting clear expectations for accountability and quality.

• Provide functional oversight of the broader corporate accounting team with respect to close execution, analysis, and reporting standards.

• Build foundational accounting and SOX controls capability across the organization through targeted training, standardized workpapers, and repeatable processes.

• May assume other duties as applied.

Digital and Automation Transformation

As a part of our priority and focus on finance transformation and modernization of the accounting and finance team, we require that our team members embrace the evolution to digital capabilities within finance and throughout the organization.

• Be a thought leader and a change agent to drive the adoption of digital capabilities and automation within the accounting/finance teams. Embed digital-first thinking throughout the finance organization.

• Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies into financial reporting, SOX business process management and accounting

• Train and mentor accounting and finance team members on digital tools, automation opportunities and best practices in reporting

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Deep expertise in close management, financial systems, and team leadership, including experience in high‑growth or transformation environments.

• Demonstrated experience leading financial systems initiatives, including close tools, ERP‑adjacent platforms, and shared EPM environments. (Great Plains,JDE, Jedox, Blackline, Sovos). Also, demonstrate the ability to rapidly understand, adopt, and optimize internally developed systems to support business objectives.

• Demonstrated experience with financial reporting and analysis tools (PowerBI, Looker)

• Proven ability to manage and transform teams

• Clear, confident communicator with the ability to partner effectively with senior finance leadership and cross‑functional stakeholders.

Physical Role Requirements

Be seated at a computer intermittently for up to eight hours a day. Move up to 10 pounds occasionally, by lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, or otherwise repositioning objects. Sitting for long periods of time while using office equipment such as computers and phones. Repetitive motions using hands and digits; such as movement of wrists, hands and fingers while picking, pinching and typing during your normal working environment.

Minimum Education, Licensure and Professional Certification requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA required; prior experiencewith big fouror national public accounting firmpreferred.

Minimum Experience required

5 years experience in the related area as an individual contributor. 1 - 3 years supervisory experience may be required.

Travel

Ability to travel up to one time per quarter

Other/State Specific

This role pays between $105k to $130k, and your actual base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, responsibilities, experience, and location.

At Frontdoor certain roles are eligible for additional rewards and incentives. Speak directly to your recruiter to learn more.

Our approach to benefits is holistic, and includes health, wellbeing and financial components including: insurance for medical/pharmacy, dental, vision, life, and disability, weight loss and smoking cessation programs, matching 401(k) and ability to participate in our employee stock purchase plan.

Job Locations

US

ID

2026-4152

Category

Accounting/Finance

Type

Full Time

Company

AHS American Home Shield Corp

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