Financial Analyst - Graduate (Hybrid, m/f/x/d)

Are you looking to start your career in Finance, dealing with the most important valuation and reporting frameworks at Swiss Re? Do you love to work in a creative, interdisciplinary, and international environment? If yes, find out more about our open position in the Financial Assumptions team! 

We are looking for graduates with strong interpersonal skills, who are eager to learn, broaden their knowledge and expertise and want to make a difference. You have a Bachelor, Master, or PhD degree with less than 3 years of professional experience – we invite you to apply to our Graduate Programme which officially starts on 1 September 2025. 

The programme offers you the chance to join the dynamic, fast-moving world of a leading risk knowledge organisation. Over an 18-month period, you will receive on- and off-the-job training, including a job rotation that gives you the opportunity to work across different lines of business and departments. 
 

About the Role

As part of the Financial Assumptions team you will dive into the world of economic financial assumptions and related methodologies used for Group financial reporting (IFRS) as well as regulatory reporting, Swiss Solvency Test (SST) in particular, working closely together with different stakeholders.

Key responsibilities:

• Regular review of financial assumptions used for IFRS and SST with particular focus on the compensation for risk
• Maintaining our framework for SST Available Capital to ensure alignment with regulatory requirements
• Applying new technologies, analytical methods and programming to develop products and tools that streamline the process from data transformation to insight generation
• Presenting your results in front of senior stakeholders (internal and external)
• Support trainings that the team provides on financial assumptions

About the Team 

We are a small and dynamic team within Group Finance, responsible for the key financial assumptions used in external reporting and the maintenance and development of the methodology for the SST Available Capital. Based in Zurich and Bratislava, our team's focus is on developing meaningful financial assumptions and acting as a center of competence for everything related. Our team collaborates with different functions within Swiss Re (e.g., Risk Management, Treasury, Asset Management) to achieve our goals and regularly reports to various senior management functions and external stakeholders, in particular regulators and auditors. 

As a team, we value openness, teamwork and reliability. Facing complex problems every day, we challenge our ideas and appreciate constant feedback to find the best solution and grow individually but also together as a team. Having flat hierarchies, all input is welcome and valued. We thrive for continued development and constantly try to improve ourselves – either by gaining more knowledge in a specific topic or by improving current processes.

About You 

We are looking for a creative problem solver with strong analytical skills and a comprehensive financial thinking. The perfect candidate is detail-oriented with a high degree of autonomous work ethics who at the same time also enjoys collaborating with others to achieve the best results possible. You should be a curious person who is motivated to discover, discuss and rethink new concepts and ideas on a regular basis. If this description applies to you, then this role might be a perfect fit!

Essentials:

• University degree, preferably in economics, finance, or other equivalent business-related field. Actuarial skills as an asset
• Passionate about the (re-)insurance business, economics and financial reporting 
• Mature and self-confident, with the aptitude to express him-/herself efficiently in one-on-one conversations and in small groups
• Excellent oral and written English skills
• Proficiency in MS Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word). Knowledge and interest in data science and programming complete your profile
• Very good communication and interpersonal skills

Please note that the application process will be open until beginning of November. The active selection and interview process will start afterwards, and you may not hear from us in the meantime. This does not mean you application is ignored. Please keep this in mind in case you do not hear from us within upcoming weeks. We will keep you informed of any updates or changes to the schedule. Thank you for your understanding. #LI-Hybrid