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About the Role
The Senior Financial Solutions Manager will drive Swiss Re’s Life & Health Transactions business in Japan, focusing on originating, developing, and executing structured reinsurance and capital management opportunities with Japanese life insurers. This client-facing role requires building strong relationships, understanding client challenges, and creating tailored solutions in collaboration with various internal teams.
Responsibilities
- Originate and execute L&H Transactions in Japan.
- Build trusted relationships with senior client decision-makers to understand their financial objectives and translate them into reinsurance solutions.
- Partner with Client Management, Pricing, and other functions to advance opportunities through execution.
- Drive commercial and transaction structuring discussions and support negotiations.
- Identify, originate, and develop opportunities across various structured reinsurance solutions.
- Maintain a strong understanding of the Japanese regulatory, capital, accounting, and market environment.
- Maintain a strong understanding of the competitive landscape and emerging transaction structures in Japan.
- Represent Swiss Re externally and contribute to strengthening its position as a thought leader.
- Contribute to strengthening Financial Solutions capability in Japan by fostering collaboration and sharing expertise.
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant Life & Health insurance, reinsurance, actuarial, or financial services experience.
- Strong knowledge of the Japanese life insurance market.
- Strong understanding of life insurer financials, balance-sheet dynamics, and structured reinsurance solutions.
- Proficiency in Japanese accounting and solvency standards such as JGAAP and J-ICS.
- Demonstrated ability to identify client needs, develop strategic solutions, and advance complex opportunities.
- Strong commercial judgment, negotiation, and influencing skills.
- Credibility and confidence in engaging senior client stakeholders.
- Ability to build trusted relationships, take ownership, and operate independently.
- Proven ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments within a global organization.
- Ability to mobilize multidisciplinary teams and foster collaboration.
- Strong Japanese and English communication skills.
Skills
- Life & Health insurance
- Reinsurance
- Actuarial
- Financial services
- Japanese life insurance market
- Life insurer financials
- Balance-sheet dynamics
- Structured reinsurance solutions
- JGAAP
- J-ICS
- Commercial judgment
- Negotiation
- Influencing skills
- Client relationship building
- Stakeholder management
- Collaboration
Location
- Japan
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Education Level
- Actuarial, CFA, Accounting or equivalent professional qualification is preferred.
Salary/Compensations
- Base salary range to be shared during the interview process.
- Attractive performance-based variable compensation component.
- Variety of global and location-specific benefits.
Benefits
- Attractive performance-based variable compensation component
- Variety of global and location-specific benefits
About the Company
- Swiss Re is a leading provider of reinsurance, insurance, and risk transfer solutions, focused on making the world more resilient.
- We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, including natural catastrophes, climate change, and cybercrime.
- We operate in both Property & Casualty and Life & Health sectors.
- Our approach combines experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise to create new opportunities and solutions for clients.
- We have over 15,000 employees worldwide.
- We foster an inclusive culture that encourages fresh perspectives and innovative thinking.
- We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally.
- We encourage applications from experienced professionals returning to the workforce after a career break.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.