Finance Manager, Ceded Reinsurance

Aviva; Markham; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Aviva is looking for a Finance Manager to lead the ceded reinsurance team, ensuring compliance with IFRS and delivering excellence in financial reporting. The role involves strategic leadership, project management on technical accounting issues, and fostering collaboration across departments. A compelling rewards package and career development opportunities are included.

Benefits

Compelling rewards package including base compensation and eligibility for annual bonus

Outstanding Career Development opportunities

Competitive vacation package with option to purchase extra days off

Corporate wellness programs

Employee driven programs focused on diversity and inclusion

Hybrid flexible work model

Qualifications

• Proven IFRS technical expertise; IFRS 17 experience preferred.
• Experience with Property and Casualty insurance operations.
• Audit firm experience required.

Responsibilities

• Successfully lead the ceded reinsurance accounting team.
• Ensure timely and accurate reinsurance accounting.
• Act as key liaison to external audit function.

Skills

Strong technical and analytical skills

Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills

Strong Excel capabilities

Leadership skills

Education

Accounting/Finance related University Degree

CPA designation

Job description

Individually we are people, but together we are Aviva. Individually these are just words, but together they are our Values – Care, Commitment, Community, and Confidence.

We need a Manager in our Finance department leading the ceded reinsurance team in order to deliver excellence in end-to-end accounting processes; timely and accurate deliverables for regulatory Financial Reporting, and to ensure appropriate application of IFRS and OSFI guidelines. We will need you to take responsibility for leading the ceded reinsurance team and ensure accurate accounting, reconciliations, financial reporting and application of accounting policy.

Come join us!

What you’ll do:

• Successfully lead the ceded reinsurance accounting team and provide the necessary training and support to team members;

• Ensure timely and accurate reinsurance accounting for ceded reinsurance transactions of Aviva Canada;

• Lead the preparation of reinsurance schedules for P&C-1 reporting and provide these to the Reporting team at Aviva for each insurance entity;

• Lead projects on special technical accounting issues relating to IFRS standards as needed (i.e. unlicensed reinsurers, collateral requirements, internal/external reinsurance, multi-year reinsurance, structured solutions);

• Lead and/or support the implementation and development of accounting policy memorandums under IFRS and Solvency II working with the Reporting team at Aviva;

• Review Aviva Group Reporting Instructions and establish, quarterly, half-year and year-end closing procedures;

• Prepare and coordinate the year-end reporting timetable, meetings and deliverable task list;

• Act as key liaison to the reporting to external audit function, which includes preparing and acquiring schedules, completing substantive procedures and ensuring requested deliverables from reinsurance are submitted by the agreed timelines;

• Lead the updating and executing the Financial Reporting Control Framework controls and sign-offs for reinsurance;

• Set priorities and establish outstanding practices within the Reinsurance accounting team;

• Work with other departments to provide coordinated solutions to the business and other areas of Finance;

• Collaborate with business partners to gather requirements and understand reporting needs;

• Build and improve management reports by effectively applying system capabilities and minimizing run time;

• Ensure internal controls and quality measures are in place to maintain accounting quality;

• Consistently and accurately provide MI reports to collaborators in the business and finance departments;

• Ensure Finance MI initiatives are delivered on time as related to reinsurance;

• Maintain a seamless accounting process to meet the customer needs in finance management information;

• Implement governance and control on new process creation;

• Provide change leadership and functional guidance to streamline processes for the production of reporting schedules through systems automation; and

• Ad hoc project support as required.

What you’ll bring:

• Accounting/Finance related University Degree;

• CPA designation with audit firm experience;

• Proven IFRS technical expertise; IFRS 17 experience preferred

• Experience with Property and Casualty insurance operations, accounting and regulatory reporting;

• Strong technical and analytical skills;

• Highly developed communication (written & verbal) and interpersonal skills;

• Ability to translate complex analysis and recommendations into simple communication;

• Strong Excel capabilities; and

• Strong leadership skills.

What you’ll get:

• Compelling rewards package including base compensation, eligibility for annual bonus, retirement savings, share plan, health benefits, personal wellness, and volunteer opportunities.

• Outstanding Career Development opportunities.

• We’ll support your professional development education.

• Competitive vacation package with the option to purchase 5 extra days off per year

• Employee driven programs focused on gender, LGBTQ+, origins, diversity and inclusion

• Corporate wellness programs to support our employees’ physical and mental health

• Hybrid flexible work model

Please note that we may use AI tools to help us through the recruitment process. This is an existing position which has been posted both internally & externally.

Aviva Canada has an accommodation process in place to provide accommodations for employees with disabilities. If upon commencement of employment you require a specific accommodation because of a disability, please contact your Talent Acquisition Partner so that an appropriate accommodation can be arranged. This process applies throughout your career with Aviva Canada.

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