Group IFRS & SII Reporting Lead

Team Leadership: Manage the Group IFRS & SII Reporting team, set objectives, review performance, and provide guidance and mentorship.

Supervision of External Reporting: Oversee the production of URD, HYR, and SII narratives, ensuring collaboration with cross-functional teams, compliance with regulations, and process improvements.

Quarterly Analytical Review: Supervise the production of quarterly reviews of IFRS  accounts, ensuring accuracy, relevance, and stakeholder interaction, including the management of the touchpoint process with legal entities

Group Central Accounting: Oversee the Chart of Account governance and provide technical guidance and training.

Experience:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in finance.
• Knowledge of IFRS and SII.
• Ability to analyze requirements and simplify complex factual content.
• Proficiency in English and French.

Personal Competencies:

• Clear verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to build constructive relationships across the Group.
• Team-oriented with a collaborative attitude.
• Organized, efficient, and independent.
• Strong analytical abilities.
• Detail-oriented and curious.
• Adaptable and responsive to a changing environment.
• Reliable and honest with high ethical standards.

Required Education 

• Master's degree in finance.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in the reporting department of an insurance/reinsurance company or with an audit firm.

Team Leadership:

• Manage a team of 4 people
• Manage the Group IFRS & SII Reporting team, setting objectives, reviewing performance, and ensuring timely deliveries.
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and performance feedback to team members.

Supervise the team responsible for managing the production process for the external reporting :  Universal Registration Document (URD) and Half Year Report (HYR), SII narratives (SFCR and RSR)

• Oversee the coordination of the production of the different external reports
• Be proactive to improve process and develop automatization, IA,..
• Ensure efficient collaboration with cross-functional teams (Finance, Risk, Legal, Compliance) to gather necessary information, ensure quality and consistency of the reports.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies.
• Liaise with external auditors as needed.
• Coordinate cross-functional processes to obtain contributions from various teams across the Group, ensuring quality and consistency of the reports.
• Stay informed about regulatory changes and ensure timely updates.

Secure the production of a Quarterly Analytical Review of Group Accounts:

• Supervise the production of a quarterly analytical review of IFRS group accounts to ensure that financial statements produced are consistent and accurate.
• Challenge analyses produced to improve relevance and control efficiency
• Interact with all relevant stakeholders to ensure that main changes in financial statements are related to known events and correctly reflected in group accounts.
• Coordinate the touchpoint process with local entities to ensure that standalone packages contributing to group accounts are correctly reviewed.
• Organize within the team the review of clearance packages produced by local entities to identify key topics and produce a group synthesis.
• Ensure the correct maintenance and development of reports used by local entities for their clearance packages or for group analytical review purpose in relation with finance delivery teams.

Quality Assurance and Process Improvement:

• Implement quality control procedures to maintain the integrity of financial reports.
• Continuously assess reporting processes and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Streamline workflows and enhance efficiency, including proactive participation in the design of new potential tools.
• Follow up after each quarter to improve/automate the process and increase knowledge and feedback to local entities.

Oversee the Group Central Accounting function:

• Prioritize and oversee any issues related to Chart of Account.
• Secure the Chart of Account governance process to allow you to approve changes in Chart of Account  and ensure a consistent and reliable Chart of Account between all systems.
• Review the technical guidance or training for legal entities on the Chart of Account to ensure a good understanding of cross-systems interactions.
• Ensure the implementation and the accuracy of accounting shemes for complex or major operations/transactions, in close relation with the Reporting Standards Center of Excellence team

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Manage, engage with, and communicate with the community of internal stakeholders involved in the end-to-end production process, including contributors, reviewers, and approvers.
• Prepare documentation for presentation/validation of key reports to senior management and audit committees.
• Engage with external auditors on topics related to URD/HYR and specific topics