Accounting Manager

About Pacific Life

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About the Role

The Accounting Manager is responsible for leading and overseeing enterprise-wide bank reconciliation and transactional matching processes within Account Reconciliation Cloud Service (ARCS) and PeopleSoft. This role is also responsible for the Enterprise governance of ARCS for the reconciliation compliance function and related internal controls. This includes monitoring team accountability during the financial close process, metrics monitoring, and ensuring proper reporting and escalation for aged reconciling items.

The manager directs day-to-day operations and owns the end-to-end book-to-bank reconciliation process, ensuring strong control alignment, process integrity, and effective execution. This role requires a deep understanding of upstream and downstream impacts, design of appropriate controls, and the development of scalable, well-governed processes.

In addition to operational leadership, the role is responsible for driving process development and continuous improvement initiatives, enhancing reconciliation standardization, and strengthening control environments. The manager partners closely with various accounting teams, Treasury, Tax, Investment Operations, and other cross-functional stakeholders to ensure alignment, resolve discrepancies, and support control compliance.

The role also delivers key insights and performance metrics to senior leadership, translating complex reconciliation and control data into clear, actionable recommendations that improve efficiency, reduce risk, and support decision-making.

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