Most Important Skills For An Accounting Operations Manager At A Liability Insurer
Jared, an Accounting Operations Manager, emphasizes that meticulous attention to detail is paramount, stating "you really have to go through and double and triple check your work," to avoid jeopardizing past calculations. Equally crucial are integrity and effective time management, as rushing compromises the quality of work and risks missed deadlines; "you gotta pump the brakes if you're not certain," he advises.
Attention to Detail, Integrity, Time Management, Problem-Solving, Communication
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Jared Dodson
Accounting Operations Manager
Liability Insurance Provider
Missouri Southern State University
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Accounting
Insurance
Finance
Honors Student, Took Out Loans, Transfer Student
Video Highlights
1. Attention to detail is critical to ensure accuracy and prevent errors that could impact other calculations.
2. Integrity and transparency are essential for building trust and making sound decisions, even under pressure.
3. Effective time management is crucial to meet deadlines and deliver high-quality work without rushing or compromising accuracy.
Transcript
What skills are most important for a job like yours?
The top thing is attention to detail. You really have to go through and double and triple check your work from multiple angles and every side you can think of to prove it out.
If you don't take the time to check all the angles, somebody else somewhere will. If they find holes in your logic or your math, it begins to draw a question to other calculations you may have made in the past. It becomes very important that you take the time to cover all bases. You can't rush it.
The next thing, which is almost equally as important, is integrity. In this kind of position, you have to be honest and transparent. You have to let people know if something doesn't seem right.
You have to let people know if you're not sure of what you're doing or how to handle it. You have to pump the brakes, even if it's super busy and everybody's highly stressed out and there are crazy deadlines lurking. You gotta pump the brakes if you're not certain.
A lot of people make mistakes because they think they have to make decisions without all the information, and that's where things can go wrong.
Lastly, time management is critical. If you're not properly balancing your time, you're going to find deadlines are unforgiving, and you have to meet them. So you're either working insane hours to make up for time that was lost, or the work is incomplete, and that can be even worse.
It could come back later on to haunt you. You always want to provide your best work when you're providing it to reporting agencies, board members, anybody like that. You want to put your best work forward. You don't want to have rushed, unfinished work getting submitted. So time management is critical.
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