Finance Business Partner

**About Swiss Re**

Swiss Re 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. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.
Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.

Are you an experienced Finance controlling professional who loves working in a demanding environment and enjoys navigating the contrast between ad-hoc delivery and standard processes/reporting? Then you might be the person we are looking for.

This position requires an expert controller with a good functional overview of a large operation and some years in a comparable function in a multi-cultural environment. Interaction with senior Stakeholders on financial matters and therefore good communication skills are also required.

About the Role

You will join Finance Corporate Functions (FCF), the Financial Planning & Analysis Group Functions (FP&A GF) team as a Finance Partner. The FP&A Finance Partner manages the planning and controlling and service management. Together with the other FP&A Finance Partners in FP&A GF you play an important role in achieving the financial targets of the entire Group Functions IT unit and providing the management teams with data for improving the steering and financial oversight.

You work closely with the department heads and other cost center or service owners, the operational managers of the departments' units and many partners from finance and sourcing related functions.

Main responsibilities
- Management of all financial planning and controlling related topics, including service cost management, and accruals for the departments in your responsibility
- Resources planning and controlling
- Implementation of budget shifts to and from your departments, manage budget expansions and reductions
- Sparring partner for the Management Team of the department
- Dealing with continuous change and responsible for the planning of financial and people resources during transformations and reorganizations
- Support teams depending on their needs, with both classical and agile budgeting methods
- Support the procurement process with regards to the creation of purchase orders, controlling of cost and budget positions
- Maintain and improve an efficient and proper and at the same time flexible controlling and planning framework
- Analyses and reporting on financials, staffing or service mappings, ensuring Department Heads, cost center owners, sponsors and product owners have relevant information at their fingertips to steer and run their services
- Be the liaison with other finance related areas like Accounts Payables, Sourcing Support, Procurement, and local accounting teams

**Job**
**requirements**
- University degree or diploma in controlling/finance or equivalent
- Several years of experience in a related field
- Self-motivated, proactive and customer focused mentality
- Strong conceptual capabilities
- Excellence in MS Excel/MS PowerPoint (and preferably in Think-cell)
- Above average financial competence
- Attention to detail and accuracy in delivery
- Stature and confidence to interact at Senior Management level
- Fluency in English
- Strong influencing, interpersonal and intercultural skills
- Able to deliver high quality also under pressure

About Finance Corporate Functions

Finance Corporate Functions which is part of the Group Finance organisation in total has around 200 colleagues located worldwide and the FP&A teams in FCF manage together a 1.9 bn USD budget.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.