Call or text 262-893-1523 or email marc@mdmrecruitingllc.com.
I place finance and accounting professionals at insurance organizations across Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Carriers, agencies, brokerages, and managing general agents. Wisconsin is one of the country’s real insurance hubs, and these companies need finance people who understand how an insurer actually makes and holds money.
Insurance accounting is a specialty of its own. Premium accounting, loss reserves, and the split between statutory and GAAP reporting are not footnotes, they are the heart of the job. A finance hire who has never worked in insurance can be underwater fast, and it becomes obvious in the first real conversation about reserves.
Why hiring finance talent for insurance is different
An insurer’s books do not look like anyone else’s. You are accounting for premiums earned versus written, setting and analyzing loss reserves, and often keeping two sets of numbers, statutory for the regulators and GAAP for everyone else. Add reinsurance and the picture gets more complex. Finance people who have lived in that world think about risk and timing differently, and you can tell quickly who has and who has not.
There is also heavy regulatory oversight. State examinations, statutory filings, and solvency requirements mean the finance function has to be precise and defensible. I screen for people who are comfortable in that environment and can keep the numbers clean under real scrutiny.
What insurance organizations in this region need
Southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois host a dense cluster of insurance companies, from large national carriers headquartered here to mutual insurers, independent agencies, and specialty brokerages. Some have sophisticated finance functions with deep statutory expertise, others are agencies and MGAs professionalizing their accounting as they grow.
Whether you are a carrier that needs a controller fluent in statutory reporting, an agency building out FP&A around commission revenue, or a brokerage tightening its books, the pattern is the same. You need finance people who understand premiums, reserves, and the rules insurers live under.
The roles I fill in insurance
The seats I recruit for map directly into an insurance setting. Controllers and assistant controllers who know statutory and GAAP reporting. CFOs and VPs of Finance who can speak to regulators and reinsurers. FP&A analysts who can model premium, loss ratios, and commission revenue. Accounting managers and senior accountants who keep a clean, exam ready set of books. Each search is built around how your business earns and holds premium.
The kind of hire this matters for
This matters most when the regulatory stakes are real and the numbers have to hold up. A controller who does not understand reserves or statutory filings is a genuine risk at an insurer. When you need someone who knows insurance accounting cold and can stand behind the numbers in an exam, that is the search I am built for.
Hiring finance talent for an insurance company? Let’s talk about it.
Tell me about the company and the role, and I will tell you honestly whether I can help and what a realistic search looks like. No pressure and no obligation.
Call or text 262-893-1523 or email marc@mdmrecruitingllc.com.