Senior Financial Accountant

Join our team. Your future starts here.

Swiss Life Group is one of Europe’s leading comprehensive life, pensions and financial solutions providers.

Within the Group’s International Division and with its two business lines, Swiss Life Global Solutions offers a broad range of tailored cross-border life insurance solutions to wealthy individuals for a suitable integrated wealth planning (Global Private Wealth Solutions) and to international companies to address the benefits needs of their local and mobile employees (Global Employee Benefits Solutions).

Swiss Life Global Solutions is located in Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Zurich and Singapore.

At Swiss Life, our purpose is to enable people to lead a financially self-determined life. Join us if:

• you enjoy working in a truly international and entrepreneurial environment
• you have strong business acumen and are able to think consistently from the customer’s point of view
• you are willing to work in an efficient, committed and agile manner, in the best interests of our company
• collaboration, trust and self-development are key elements for you in your future position.

Your Role

Working for the elipsLife business, with our Finance/Accounting team, your accountabilities will be:

• Be a dynamic and open-minded team member of an international team
• Work independently on day-to-day activities for the elipsLife business (such as booking and reconciling broker commissions, technical accounting, bank reconciliations, quarterly fees, reinsurance…)
• Proactively analyze and propose areas of automation to improve the day-to-day process
• Participating in projects in coordination with other team members and technical experts
• Support the Team in improving processes to deliver the best quality accounts in a control minded environment
• Leading the monthly closing and quarterly technical closing processes
• Preparation of periodic reporting (regulatory reporting, financial reporting, tax reporting)
• Liaise with external auditors for statutory and consolidated results

Your Profile

• Graduate in accounting with a very significant experience in an international environment or in an insurance company
• Fluent in English. Good communication skills (written and verbal) in German are an advantage
• Computer literate (MS Office) with a sound knowledge of excel, a previous SAP experience would be considered as an advantage
• Rigorous, organized, reliable and flexible
• Self-driven individual with strong analytical and conceptual skills and ability to understand different perspectives
• Highly motivated team player, able to deliver results and to cope with tight deadlines and high workload in a fast-changing environment

Our Offer

• A varied work within a multicultural team where you can shape your career
• A company culture characterized by its agility, expert know-how, customer-centricity and collaborative mindset
• After trial period, home working is possible according to our internal rules
• An attractive remuneration package in line with your position and responsibilities, including fringe benefits such as lunch vouchers, pension scheme and additional health insurance

Please note that a criminal record extract and a copy of your diplomas will be required in case of hiring.