Accounting and billing · Financial operations

Insurance accounting and billing, run to audit standard.

FOCUS runs the financial back office for P&C carriers and MGAs: premium posting, billing and collections, reconciliation, commissions, refunds, statutory and compliance accounting, and surplus lines taxes and filings. A 100% U.S.-based team, inside your systems, with documentation that is ready for regulators.

95%+QA score100%U.S.-based$3B+Premium managed80+NPS
The closeEvery task tracked and scored
  • Premium posting and check handlingDirect and agency bill, lockbox, and card and ACH receipts applied on your rules
    Billing
  • Collections and refundsInstallments, cancellations for nonpayment, return premium
    Billing
  • ReconciliationCash, bank, and premium reconciled and documented
    Accounting
  • Commission processingAgent and producer statements, calculated and paid
    Accounting
  • Statutory and compliance accountingStatutory reporting and reinsurance reporting, audit-ready
    Statutory
  • Surplus lines taxes and filingsE&S tax calculations, stamping, and state filings, owned end to end
    Filings
Regulator-ready. Documentation that stands up to statutory audits and market conduct exams.
The challenge

The hidden costs of in-house insurance accounting and billing.

Relying on an in-house team for insurance accounting presents challenges that go well beyond payroll, and leadership still expects costs down 15 to 20 percent while the operation scales.

Legacy platforms, manual workflows

Managing complex accounting workflows on legacy platforms creates operational drag and raises the risk of errors in financial reporting, the kind that surface in an audit.

Specialized talent is scarce

For many carriers and MGAs, the biggest challenge is finding and retaining people with insurance accounting skills: statutory, premium, commission, and surplus lines tax expertise in one team.

Peaks and CAT events

The staffing gap becomes a critical vulnerability during seasonal peaks or catastrophic events, which demand immediate surge capacity that is difficult to build internally.

The shift

Handled by an operations partner, accounting and billing move from a fixed cost center to a variable, adaptive operational asset, with more visibility than most in-house setups provide.

What FOCUS runs

A complete financial back office, from premium posting to state filings.

Operational and statutory accounting, billing, and the filings that go with them, run by a team that does this work for carriers and MGAs every day.

Accounting and billing

Premium to payment, reconciled

  • Premium posting and check handling
  • Billing, collections, and refunds
  • Cash and bank reconciliation
  • Commission processing and producer statements
  • Compliance accounting
Run to audit standard, with every task tracked and scored by QA.
Statutory and regulatory

Reporting that regulators accept

  • Statutory accounting and reporting
  • Reinsurance reporting
  • Annual Yellow Book filings
  • Advanced reconciliation and financial reporting for expanding books
Regulator-ready documentation for statutory audits and market conduct exams.
Surplus lines taxes and filings

E&S owned end to end

  • Surplus lines tax calculations
  • Stamping
  • Regulatory filings by state
  • Multi-state expansion support as new authority comes online
The function most MGAs flag as unstaffed, handled as part of the operation.

Print, mail, and imaging are available alongside, so statements, notices, and documents go out on the same schedule as the books close.

Control and security

More visibility than most in-house setups, and every file onshore.

The fear with outsourcing financial work is a black box. The FOCUS model is built to be the opposite.

“Will we lose control?”

You gain it, through data.

End-to-end, audit-ready quality assurance tracks and scores every task, and real-time KPI dashboards replace uncertainty with numbers. Regulator-ready documentation is produced as the work happens, so an audit request is a retrieval, and the operation holds a 95%+ QA score.

95%+ QA score · real-time KPI dashboards
“Is our financial data secure?”

A 100% U.S.-based team.

More than 300 U.S.-based professionals, including licensed agents, handle every transaction inside U.S. privacy and data-security regulations. That removes the security, compliance, and time-zone exposure of offshore models, and every interaction stays aligned with your brand.

300+ U.S.-based professionals
Technology

Inside the billing and accounting systems you already run.

FOCUS is system-agnostic and integrates directly into your existing stack: your policy and billing core, your general ledger, and the payment, document, and data platforms around them. There is no disruptive technology project to get started. One large AWS cloud migration cut client integration time from the typical three to six months to one week.

Optional: the InFOCUS platform
  • Policy, billing, rating, and claims on a modern cloud core
  • You own your data, with full access through the data warehouse and Power BI reporting
  • 30+ integrations and SOC 2 Type 2 controls
Get to know the InFOCUS platform
InvoiceCloud
Authorize.net
Tranzpay
Pitney Bowes
DocuSign
IVANS
ISO
LexisNexis
National Flood Services
Wright Flood
Mueller
i4
Solera
360Value
JLT
Towers Watson

A selection of the platforms FOCUS teams work in today. Yours is welcome.

Scale on demand
17catastrophic events supported since 1992

Resources scaled when clients needed them most.

Scale the back office without increasing fixed headcount.

  • Up for the peak, down after it. Renewal seasons, book rolls, and CAT events are absorbed without hiring full-time accounting staff you then have to carry.
  • No long-term contract lock-in. Services scale up or down as needed, on a variable cost structure.
  • Grows with the book. New states bring new filings, new lines bring new commission schedules. The team already handles both.
5Months

Their agents asked for a service center. Encova Insurance delivered.

Operational in five months. Agents and policyholders experience Encova at every touchpoint.

Read the case study
The FOCUS difference

Tangible results, measured the way your board measures them.

$3B+Premium under management
95%+Quality assurance score
80+NPS, double the industry average
3.5M+Tasks completed annually
300+U.S.-based team members
25+Years in P&C operations
Questions

Outsourcing insurance accounting, answered.

Straight answers to what carriers and MGAs ask first.

What does FOCUS handle in insurance accounting and billing?

Premium posting and check handling, billing, collections, and refunds, cash and bank reconciliation, commission processing and producer statements, compliance accounting, statutory accounting and reporting, reinsurance reporting, annual Yellow Book filings, and surplus lines tax calculations, stamping, and state filings. Print, mail, and imaging are available alongside.

Do we have to move to a new billing or accounting system?

FOCUS is system-agnostic and works inside your existing policy and billing core, general ledger, and payment platforms. For carriers and MGAs that want a modern core, the InFOCUS platform covers policy, billing, rating, and claims, with data-warehouse access, Power BI reporting, 30+ integrations, and SOC 2 Type 2 controls.

How is the work controlled and audited?

End-to-end quality assurance tracks and scores every task, real-time KPI dashboards show status as it happens, and documentation is produced regulator-ready, so statutory audits and market conduct exams are a retrieval rather than a scramble. The operation holds a 95%+ QA score.

Is the accounting team U.S.-based?

Yes. The FOCUS team is 100% U.S.-based, more than 300 professionals including licensed agents, and every transaction is handled inside U.S. privacy and data-security regulations.

Can FOCUS handle surplus lines taxes and filings for an MGA?

Yes. Surplus lines tax calculations, stamping, and regulatory filings by state are owned end to end, and the team supports multi-state expansion as new authority comes online.

Get started

Close the books with confidence.

Tell us about your lines, states, and premium volume. A 30-minute conversation maps the FOCUS accounting and billing model to your operation.

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