Senior Business Analyst

Are you passionate about transforming complex financial data into actionable insights? Join Swiss Re's dynamic Reporting Solutions team where you'll leverage your expertise in reinsurance accounting and reporting systems to drive excellence in our global financial reporting landscape.

About the Role

As a Senior Business Analyst in our Reinsurance Liabilities Reporting team, you'll be at the intersection of finance, technology, and innovation. You'll analyze, design, and build sophisticated reporting solutions across multiple platforms while ensuring regulatory compliance and operational excellence. Your expertise will directly impact how Swiss Re manages its financial reporting across IFRS valuations, statutory requirements, regulatory filings, and operational analytics.

Key Responsibilities

Lead subject matter expertise for Reinsurance Liabilities Reporting around IFRS Valuation and support design decisions across FPSL, EFR, and GL systems, mentoring junior team members

Manage reporting aspects of quarterly financial close in the subledger and support operational readiness during month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing cycles

Define and implement consistent reporting capabilities based on SAP S/4HANA General Ledger/Financial Products Subledger, Analysis for Office (AfO)/Fiori, Microsoft Azure and PowerBI

Drive functional testing for enhancements, new developments, and system upgrades (e.g., FPSL/GL integrations)

Partner with IT colleagues following their guidance on reporting architecture, data modeling, report design, and performance optimization

Develop business prototypes that lead to comprehensive end-to-end solutions

Ensure documentation quality by maintaining well-documented reports, training materials, and support documentation

Identify optimization opportunities across processes, systems, mappings, and data enrichment logic

Facilitate effective communication within the team and across the organization

About the Team

We are a diverse team based out of Zürich, Bratislava, and Bangalore, committed to bringing alive the Finance of the Future within the Group Finance Operations & Transformation (GFO&T) organization. We transform our Finance operating model by standardizing, automating, and integrating our Reporting & Processes along the Value Chain.

The Reinsurance Liabilities Reporting team, within the Finance Reporting Solutions product area, delivers performant, scalable, and maintainable solutions that enable our stakeholders to quickly extract knowledge from large and disparate financial datasets. Our solutions support financial reconciliation, steering, and auditing based primarily on subledger data from the SAP S/4 HANA and Microsoft Azure Data platforms. You'll act as a business lead with end-to-end responsibility for development, maintenance, and operations throughout the full solution lifecycle.

About You

You're a detail-oriented professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment where technical expertise meets financial acumen. You excel at translating complex business requirements into functional specifications and can communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Your analytical mindset and problem-solving abilities allow you to navigate ambiguity while delivering high-quality results.

We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:

8+ years of hands-on experience in monthly/quarterly/annual entity closing, business analysis, and preparing financial statements and disclosures

Hands-on experience with SAP financial systems (FPSL, GL)

Strong understanding of insurance accounting, specifically reinsurance liabilities, with familiarity with IFRS valuation frameworks including IFRS 17

Proven expert knowledge in various Reporting & Analytics technologies with a focus on SAP and Microsoft

Strong analytical/problem-solving skills to interpret accounting, data, and reporting requirements

These are additional nice to haves:

Experience in reinsurance or insurance domain

Strong experience in all phases of Analytics solution development including requirements gathering, architecture design, implementation, testing, and documentation

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, or Computer/IT Science

Experience in Finance at Swiss Re or with other major players in the re/insurance/financial services industry, ideally with consulting background

Excellent command of English, with additional languages being a plus

Experience working in an agile environment

Swiss Re company information

The Swiss Re Group is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance, and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. It anticipates and manages risk – from natural catastrophes to climate change, from ageing populations to cybercrime. The aim of the Swiss Re Group is to enable society to thrive and progress, creating new opportunities and solutions for its clients. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, where it was founded in 1863, the Swiss Re Group operates through a network of around 80 offices globally. It is organized into three Business Units, each with a distinct strategy and set of objectives contributing to the Group's overall mission.

Our company has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office at least three days per week