Join Our Client's Team as a Technical Accounting Specialist (SAP FS-RI)
Location: Zurich
Full-time: 100%; m/f/d
As a Technical Accounting Specialist (SAP FS-RI), you will play a key role in supporting technical settlement activities, compliant reporting, and ensuring high-quality claims and accounting processes. You will also coordinate seamlessly with stakeholders and contribute to ongoing process and organizational development.
What to Expect
- Contribute to key work packages for quarterly and annual financial statements for the firm and the Group according to Swiss GAAP/OR and IFRS, including coordination of complex balance sheet items.
- Independently handle specialized accounting topics and contribute to (partial) project management within the SAP FS-RI and accounting landscape.
- Conduct the technical review and finalization of incoming and outgoing (retrocession) technical accounts, considering complex reinsurance contract structures.
- Facilitate the correct and timely processing of payables and receivables, including the clarification and escalation of discrepancies with internal and external partners.
- Support the monitoring and coordination of international payment flows in close collaboration with Treasury and external stakeholders.
- Perform quality-assured reviews, plausibility checks, and accounting of claims reports, along with the analysis of deviations, trends, and reporting patterns.
- Act as a technical point of contact for international business partners and internal stakeholders (underwriting, risk management, actuarial, business process management, etc.) in both German and English.
- Drive the enhancement and further development of internal processes, reporting structures, system functionalities, and automation initiatives.
We Expect
- A completed business or economics degree, ideally with a focus on accounting or insurance.
- Several years of professional experience in technical accounting within the reinsurance sector.
- Very good knowledge of accounting processes, balance sheet relationships, and technical accounting logic.
- Strong SAP experience; FS-RI knowledge as a user and for system support/administration is required.
- Confident use of MS Office (especially Excel) with a very good IT affinity.
- Excellent written and spoken skills in both English and German.
- A high level of initiative, sense of responsibility, and enjoyment in cross-functional collaboration.
- The ability to prepare complex issues appropriately for the target audience, providing technical support to junior team members.
- Strong analytical thinking skills, a structured approach to work, and high problem-solving capabilities.
We Offer
- A dynamic, collaborative, and innovative work environment.
- Competitive compensation and benefits.
- Professional growth and development opportunities.
- Modern offices located in the heart of Zurich.
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