Are you a critical thinker who thrives on leading complex audits, challenging the status quo, and turning risk insights into meaningful actions? Do you want to work in a diverse, dynamic team that embraces innovative techniques and bold ideas? Join Swiss Re's Group Internal Audit (GIA) team and play a pivotal role in advancing Swiss Re's resilience - from the inside out.

About the Role

As Finance Audit Manager within Group Internal Audit, you'll be at the heart of Swiss Re's audit activities - leading, contributing to, and delivering end-to-end audits across the Finance value chain. You'll bring your insurance business and finance expertise to a broad range of audit engagements, evaluating the effectiveness of governance, risk management, and control processes, coaching and coordinating the audit teams, while regularly engaging with senior stakeholders and functional leaders across multiple business units.

This is a role with enterprise-wide impact. You'll help shape and strengthen Swiss Re's risk culture, gain a deep understanding of operations across all divisions and functions, and deliver value-added recommendations that truly matter.

Key Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end audit engagements across Finance processes, providing assurance over governance, risk management, internal controls, regulatory compliance, and the achievement of business and strategic objectives

Plan, supervise, and review audit work, ensuring timely execution of process walkthroughs, control testing, substantive procedures, and advisory engagements in accordance with Internal Audit methodology and professional standards

Prepare and present concise, high-quality audit reports, ensuring observations are evidence-based, balanced, and agreed with stakeholders - communicating complex findings with clarity and confidence

Build and maintain trusted relationships with management, communicating audit progress, findings, and recommendations while influencing sustainable business insights and improvements in processes and control effectiveness

Continuously assess emerging risks and business developments, contributing to the ongoing risk assessment process and the development of the biannual Internal Audit Plan

Coach and develop team members, promote knowledge sharing, and foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and high performance within the audit function

About the Team

GIA provides independent and objective assurance to support Swiss Re's Board of Directors and Group Executive Committee in protecting the company's assets, reputation, and long-term sustainability.

Our vision is 'Advancing Swiss Re's Resilience'. We are an international team of problem solvers who lead from every seat, challenge the status quo, understand risk and are responsive to risk. We apply innovative and risk-focused techniques to ensure that our audit effort is proportionate to risk, and we continuously expand the use of data analytics and automation within our processes.

Our Finance Audit team is highly collaborative, bringing together professionals with diverse expertise - partnering closely with colleagues across actuarial, IT, and data analytics disciplines. With team members based across EMEA, Americas, and Asia Pacific, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate globally, learn from a rich variety of perspectives, and build meaningful professional connections that span continents.

About You

You are a curious, delivery-oriented professional who is passionate about innovation and transformation. You think critically, communicate with confidence, and are comfortable navigating ambiguous environments. A natural collaborator, you're always looking for better ways to do things - and you inspire those around you to do the same. You combine deep technical expertise in financial reporting, accounting, and audit with strong interpersonal skills and a genuine interest in risk and governance.

We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:

Deep knowledge of IFRS 17/9 accounting standards and financial reporting, supported by a degree in accounting, actuarial science, business, or a related finance field

Proven experience in external and/or internal audit, or related finance roles within the insurance industry, with demonstrated ability to manage audit engagements as audit lead and perform planning, testing and reporting procedures

Strong understanding of risk, governance, and internal controls, including internal audit methodologies and continuous risk assessment frameworks

Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including experience with interviewing and presentations; fluency in English (written and spoken) is essential

Strong documentation skills, including process walkthroughs, narratives, flowcharts, and transactional testing

Experience managing stakeholders and teams in a global, matrixed organization

Commercial mindset with strong attention to detail and a proactive, self-starter approach

Strong knowledge of project management and risk management practices

Professional certification such as CPA, CA, CIA, or another relevant credential

Compensation

For Switzerland, the base salary range for this position is between CHF 128,000 and CHF 192,000 for a full-time role.

The specific salary offered considers:

The requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role

The applicant's own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience

In addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance-based variable compensation component, designed to recognise your achievements. Furthermore, you will enjoy a variety of global and location specific benefits. Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.

Our company has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office at least three days per week.

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. 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 15,000 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.

We may use AI-powered tools to support the review and evaluation of applications for this position. These tools provide additional insights to our recruitment teams, but all hiring decisions are carefully reviewed and made by people. To learn more about how we use AI in recruitment and how we handle your personal data, please review our Data Privacy Statement before applying.

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