Senior Life Reinsurance Controller 80-100%
Description
Your Role
Within Group Reinsurance Finance department, this role is responsible for managing and analyzing a complex reinsurance environment. This includes the analysis on the assigned Life portfolio as well timely delivery of the reporting formats according the group deadlines.
As a Senior Life Reinsurance Controller your main responsibilities will involve:
- Managing the assigned Life reinsurance portfolio, including analytics and reporting
- Claims and Cash management
- Various Finance topics (Intercompany Differences, Currency Balance Sheet etc.)
- Ensuring the quality and accuracy of the Income Statement and Balance Sheet for the assigned Life reinsurance portfolio
- Coordination of cedents’ reporting processes in order to adhere to Group Guidelines in respect of reinsurance finance quality assurance and controls (including association to audit tasks)
- Bringing in additional reinsurance expertise and increasing the quality of the reinsurance finance processes
- Providing reinsurance accounting and finance support to Business Units and various stakeholders
- Assists the Group Re Finance department in upcoming projects (e.g. IFRS 17) and ad hoc requests
Your Skills and Experience
As a Senior Life Reinsurance Controller your skills and qualifications will ideally include:
- Bachelor degree (or equivalent) and at least 5 years of reinsurance accounting / financial reporting (Life) / controlling experience
- Thorough understanding of the (re-)insurance industry and corresponding accounting standards
- Good understanding of balance sheet and income statement
- High standard of management reporting
- Knowledge of SAP, Microsoft Office suite and reinsurance accounting system
- Good team player attitude and proactive approach
- Strong analytical skills and flair for numbers
- Reliable and trustworthy individual with result oriented working style
- Global thinking personality with holistic view
- Strong communication skills in German and English- written and verbal (every further language an asset)
Additional Information
Primary work location is Zurich. If you value an exciting and varied working environment and meet the above requirements, then our recruiter Christina Wichmann is looking forward to receiving your application by clicking on the button “Apply online”.
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Who we are
Zurich is a strong brand - more than 1.4 million Swiss customers place their trust in our products and services. Our 53,000 employees worldwide form the basis of our success, helping our customers in 210 countries and territories to understand and protect themselves from risk. In order to deliver our services, we offer our employees flexible working models and interesting opportunities for further training & development. As a Zurich employee you benefit from a multitude of advantages as well as a strong culture, characterized by acceptance, diversity and team spirit.
At Zurich we are an equal opportunity employer. We attract and retain the best qualified individuals available, without regard to race/ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability.
Information for recruitment agencies
Zurich accepts no unsolicited applications from recruitment agencies for this position. We therefore request that recruitment agencies do not submit any candidate documents neither via our employees nor through our online career portal.
We refuse any responsibility for unsolicited applications as well as any associated fees. Thank you for your understanding.
Primary Location:Switzerland-Zurich-Zurich
Schedule:Full-time
Travel:No
Job Posting:06/13/18
Unposting Date:Ongoing