Senior Business Analyst

About the Role

The Olympus Programme is a multi-year program, which will transform and harmonize the financial accounting and reporting platform and operating model for the three Swiss Re Business Units: Reinsurance, Corporate Solutions and IptiQ. The programme consists of a number of projects including financial reporting and analysis, one common general ledger (SAP) and a market leading approach to multi-valuation insurance accounting (SAP Financial Products Sub-Ledger – FPSL). Using this groundbreaking technology we are enabling the implementation of both the IFRS Local and Group Financial reporting as well as other integrated valuations. We are a global and highly motivated team that takes pride in being innovative and delivering the highest quality, applying a Scaled Agile approach. Would you like to make a difference in the re/insurance industry? Then this is the place to be.

Your main responsibilities:

Translation of accounting standard requirements into IT requirements; with a current focus on IFRS 17
Negotiation of business requirements with group accounting partners
Specify financial statement reports based on SAP FPSL data model
Specify general ledger account mappings based on SAP FPSL data model
Configuration of SAP FPSL system according to elicited requirements
Support the development of automated unit test cases
Collaborate closely with other project teams to develop solutions or support problem resolution
Analyse accounting results and identify error pattern in large data volume
Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of user stories as prioritized in the backlog
Support any end-to-end integration testing of FPSL
Nurture knowledge transfer to run organisation and collect their input/feedback

About the Team

As part of the Olympus Programme you will have the opportunity to be a part of a Finance software implementation that has become the new industry standard for (Re)Insurance. As a Senior Business Analyst within (Re) Insurance Accounting, you will be a member of a multidisciplinary team consisting of Accounting and Actuarial Business Experts, an information Architect, Business Analysts and Developers. The team will be responsible for the design, implementation and testing of an efficient and effective end-to-end system and process. Within this team you´ll be focussing on the implementation/configuration/testing of accounting Deltas generation and (re)insurance accounting across all valuations for all types of traditional L&H or P&C business, with main focus on the development of an IFRS17 compliant accounting treatment.

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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.