About The Team
Finance Governance is a team within Group Finance. The strong, multi-cultural team environment within the team provides an environment to succeed. Team members have a direct influence on how we operate and are encouraged to bring and develop new insights and solutions. Being part of the Group Finance, staffed globally, will give you experience of a truly multi-national, multi-cultural environment. You will also have opportunity to see the larger picture of Swiss Re as a multi-national company.
About The Role
Do you like inspiring change and enabling risk insights through powerful analytics? Then you are best placed to apply for this position. The teams directive is to use its technical and analytical capabilities to steer the identification, quantification and mitigation of the Division and groups operating risks through digitisation. This is a position where one can actively apply their technical expertise and help the team progress on its directive, while also building functional expertise in governance and Finance operations.
You will be part of the Enablement and Integration team within Financial Governance, collaborating closely with financial governance experts, collaborating closely in functional and technical domains. The team focuses on developing scalable data solutions and tools to support Financial governance operations and analysis.
This role involves working together very closely with our dedicated global governance teams across Bangalore, Bratislava, and Zurich.
Key Responsibilities Include
- Supporting the entire Finance Governance team by applying your technological and analytical skills
- Strongly contribute to develop and drive Financial Governances overall digitisation strategy in automated controls and IT audits
- Working with your colleagues from across the globe to identify focused control areas and conceptualise pre-emptive and digital controls; you will then take a leading role in automating/digitising those controls and prepare necessary documentation
- Evaluating the teams current manual and semi-manual controls to develop automation capabilities/solutions
- Taking the ownership on specific projects, relevant to Finance Governances digitisation efforts
- Own Governance-specific applications, tools, etc.
- Your can-do demeanour will help you and the team further improve processes by applying smart approaches and implementing technical solutions.
About You
- Bachelors in a quantitative field, e.g. Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Finance or similar. Those with data science or masters degree would be preferred
- Minimum 5 years of analytical experience in data analytics, business intelligence or similar role
- Certification / Expertise in advanced analytics tools not limited to SQL, R, Python, Machine Learning and, or data integration platforms e.g. Palantir Foundry
- Strong knowledge on visualisation tools – mainly PowerBI
- Ability to work across the organisation to understand an identified risk area and then developing/implementing a concise solution to quantify and mitigate the risk
- Support the development of the Financial Governance data model and associated reporting
- Contribute to GenAI/LLM use cases in Financial Governance using Palantir Foundry (Stargate).
- Maintain and improve existing Financial Governance tools and applications.
- Design and build robust data pipelines in Palantir Foundry (ETL layer), working with structured and semi-structured data.
- Develop logic to enrich, align, and transform data from multiple source systems into integrated data models.
- Drive and own development of dashboards and automation tools (Power BI, PowerApps, Power Automate).
- Perform data quality checks and support ongoing change management.
- Actively contribute to simplifying the data & tools landscape by identifying automation opportunities.
- Review existing Stargate analytic capabilities and applications to (i) support in optimising the performance and (ii) provide feedback and coaching to team members on best practices
- Translate functional needs into clear, actionable data requirements and technical specifications
- Perform other ad-hoc tasks as required from time to time
- A positive and independent personality who enjoys taking ownership and not shy to expand your own role/portfolio
- Ability to work on your own initiative and implement solutions
- Good communication and social skills
- Ability to work in a multi-cultural and multi-location environment
- Fluency in English is required
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 and their passion for sustainability.
If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.
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