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About the role
The ambition is a platform where experts spend more time on judgment and relationships, supported by software that handles the work around them. Join us to build systems whose decisions help real projects get built. We are investing in new insurance products, our underwriting team, and the path toward autonomous underwriting. For the people joining Shepherd, that means the chance to shape both the technology and the business it makes possible. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 4 to 7 years in accounting, including time in public accounting (audit preferred) and time in industry running a monthly close
- Insurance accounting experience at an MGA/MGU, broker, carrier, or insurtech, including commission revenue, premium receivables, carrier payables, and fiduciary or premium trust accounts
- Experience moving a close in house from an outsourced firm, or building a close at a company that hadn't had one
- Supported a financial statement audit, including preparing schedules and working through the PBC list
- Strong knowledge of US GAAP, especially ASC 606
- Comfort working with large data sets in Excel or Google Sheets, and willingness to learn SQL or work with our data team to pull from our platform
More about this role
The world is building data centers, energy projects, hospitals, schools, and critical infrastructure. Every one of those projects needs insurance to move forward. Yet the process of getting that insurance still depends on scattered documents, manual work, and weeks of back-and-forth.
Shepherd is rebuilding commercial insurance with software, data, AI, and deep underwriting expertise. We started in construction and energy, where understanding the specifics of a project matters and better decisions have consequences far beyond a screen.
We develop insurance products, decide which risks to insure and how to price them, and partner with established insurers to back the coverage. We own the platform our team uses to turn complex submissions into coverage for the builders and operators shaping the world around us.
Our engineers, designers, underwriters, CX, and actuaries build together. The problems span turning messy documents into reliable data, making pricing more precise, and designing AI agents that can take on increasingly complex underwriting work.
The ambition is a platform where experts spend more time on judgment and relationships, supported by software that handles the work...
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