Finance Governance Manager

As a Finance Governance Manager, you will play a key role in supporting our internal customers to better understand risks and strengthen controls over the end-to-end financial reporting value chain. This role will give you an excellent overview of and insight into the workings of the Finance and Reserving Functions as well as our business in general. You will also interact frequently with Internal Risk Management and internal or external auditors to understand and mitigate the company's financial reporting risks and their implications on day-to-day operations.

About the Role
 
Besides the required financial acumen and understanding of risk, communication plays a fundamental role for successfully delivering our day-to-day work. You will collaborate across different seniority levels with various internal customers, mostly within Finance and Reserving but also with further critical areas such as Claims, Operations or Underwriting. This provides you with a great platform to have an impact and strengthen your profile. Essential for your success is furthermore your personal ability to create an alignment on sometimes diverging interests between a diverse group of stakeholders. 
You will also need to be pragmatic. Governance over financial reporting is always striving for a zero-tolerance environment but we also must consider our impact on the business and find solutions which address governance requirements in a business-friendly way. We understand our Governance role as hands-on delivery rather than an advisory on the side line.

Main responsibilities

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•    You are going to prepare and be responsible for the control and process framework documentation for the financial reporting process in Swiss Re systems and work on improvements of the internal control and process framework
•    You will oversee and advise on Finance Corporate Solutions' open issues, Operational Incident reporting, and prepare summary explanations for the management
•    You will oversee the Business Unit CFO's quarterly financial reporting sign-off 
•    You will facilitate internal as well as external audits 
•    You will be responsible for CorSo Finance Governance's deliverables in projects and strategic initiatives such as the accounting standard change to IFRS
•    You will guide and develop team members 

About the Team

The CorSo Finance Governance team supports the Business Unit's CFOs to maintain a sound control environment that forms the basis for being compliant with the financial reporting standards and regulatory requirements for financial reporting. The team has a global responsibility for the Finance function and the Reserving Actuaries. 
We are looking forward to bringing you on board and deliver on our goals together.
 

About You
 
•    Minimum 7 years' experience in a Governance role (1st, 2nd or 3rd line of defence)
•    Minimum 7 years' experience in a Finance function 
•    Insurance industry experience is plus
•    Problem solver who can independently deliver excellent output
•    Strong communication skills and outstanding interpersonal skills 
•    Desire to build up knowledge spanning various disciplines

This job offer is suitable for people who have been impacted by the invasion of Ukraine.

The minimum gross monthly base salary for this role is 2800 EUR full time. Our final offer to you will be set up fairly, considering the skills and experience that you bring to the Swiss Re Group. You can look forward to extra rewards and benefits including an attractive performance-based bonus.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.

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