Senior Business Analyst (80-100%)

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 cutting edge 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.

This role is the Senior Business Analyst for the Business Architecture and Dependency Management team within the Olympus programme. Major responsibilities include:

• Work together with the IT Architecture team to support identifying critical areas or topics with an end-to-end character for Olympus. Help with solution finding and built the link to the business requirements.
• Actively manage external programme level dependencies by establishing a governance process that ensures constant monitoring without distracting from delivery focus. Build a common understanding of the detailed dependencies and foster alignment that realizes commonalities to the extent possible.
• Work together with the Roll-In / TOM team to ensure future Finance architecture design aligns with the target operating model "to-be" processes
• Collaborate closely with other teams within and outside the Olympus programme to develop solutions or support problem resolution. Validate resolutions with partners.
• Forster the end-to-end thinking within the Olympus programme by building up knowledge on the E2E Olympus architecture
• Cultivate knowledge transfer to run organization and collect their input/feedback.

About the Team:

This role is in the Business Architecture and Dependency Management team which is part of the Olympus Transformation Office (OTO). The mission of the OTO is to enable high-quality and timely programme delivery by ensuring an end-to-end product & content view, high productivity in operations and consistent involvement and readiness of end users. The specific focus of the Business Architecture and Dependency Management team is to:

• Deliver high quality project management support to Olympus Product Area’s and Center of Excellence’s that goes beyond pure admin support
• Forster the end-to-end thinking within the Olympus programme by building up knowledge on the end-to-end Olympus architecture
• Shift to active dependency management and support dependency owners
• Work closely with the Information Technology Architects and represent the Finance point of view in Program level architectural design, helping to identify critical areas or topics with an end-to-end character that might require tactical solutions.
• Work closely with the Roll-In / TOM team to ensure design aligns with the target operating model "to-be" processes

About you:

• At least 5 years’ experience in finance functions and / or business analysis
• Firm grasp of (re)insurance accounting business requirements and end-to-end finance process. Ability to detail and communicate them optimally with business owner(s), partners and team members
• Good understanding of IFRS 17 financial statements & disclosures and / or experience with IFRS 17 implementation projects is a plus
• Experience in Project Management and related methodologies, scaled agile experience or experience working with Jira is a plus
• Highly organised with good attention to detail
• Good interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build productive working relationships in a global project team and stakeholder community
• Excellent presentation and writing skills
• Good self-management skills and stress resilience
• Proficient in written and spoken English

Swiss Re embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We further collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing all of our employees with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where we work most effectively.