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About the Role

Empower business leaders with insights, analytics, and financial planning to make informed decisions. Develop a deep understanding of the business to identify and communicate financial performance drivers, and produce financial plans reflecting strategic ambitions. This role requires a pragmatic, curious, and collaborative individual who can extract meaning from complex data, connect organizational dots, and communicate findings with clarity and confidence.

Responsibilities

• Build a detailed understanding of financial performance drivers each quarter by cultivating strong relationships across client markets, reporting and controlling, and actuarial/pricing functions.
• Ensure timely and accurate analysis and submissions of financial performance to senior stakeholders, including pipeline information, dashboards, and quarterly performance reports.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to respond to ad-hoc requests and present findings and recommendations to management.
• Support and develop requirements for New Business projections and the business plan in close collaboration with the BU FP&A team.
• Facilitate change activities related to IFRS-17 performance reporting by maintaining a full end-to-end understanding of business and finance operations, ledger closing, and financial reporting.
• Analyze business results and system outputs, ensuring consistent valuation compared to the business plan and costing.
• Drive business input into IFRS-17 KPI and business plan development, serving as the key connection point between Finance Americas and the BU L&H team.
• Act as a trusted finance partner in strategic discussions, supporting the business in commercial decision-making.
• Provide clear, actionable insights into the financial impact of transactions and other business actions.

Requirements

• Experience with L&H IFRS Financials is required, with a solid understanding of multi-valuation concepts, in particular IFRS 17/9.
• 5–7 years of relevant work experience (5+ years in insurance), with strong knowledge of insurance/reinsurance business and performance drivers.
• Academic background encompassing elements of Mathematics, Computer Science, financial modelling, actuarial sciences, and/or finance.

Skills

• Strong computing and data management skills.
• Knowledge of multiple financial systems and programming languages is a significant advantage.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills — the ability to translate complex financial data into clear, engaging storylines for diverse audiences.
• Experience working in a global, matrixed organization and navigating cross-functional collaboration across geographies.
• Familiarity with FP&A processes including business planning, forecasting, and performance reporting in a reinsurance or insurance context.
• A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver under tight deadlines.

Location

• Toronto

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• 5-7 years

Education Level

• Mathematics
• Computer Science
• Financial Modelling
• Actuarial Sciences
• Finance

Salary/Compensations

• CAD $122,000 to $154,000

Benefits

• Total compensation approach considering base pay, short- and long-term incentives, and benefits.

About the Company

• 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 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.

Equal Opportunity

• Swiss Re is an equal opportunity employer.
• It is our practice to recruit, hire and promote without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, pregnancy, sexual orientations, marital status, military status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
• Decisions on employment are solely based on an individual's qualifications for the position being filled.
• During the recruitment process, reasonable accommodations for disabilities are available upon request.
• If contacted for an interview, please inform the Recruiter/HR Professional of the accommodation needed.