Country Controller, Italy

Country Controller, Italy

Join us as Country Controller to take your career to the next level.

Make your mark in Finance

Our Finance team plays an essential role in maintaining a healthy balance sheet at AIG. It delivers significant finance support for the overall enterprise, optimizing operations, controllership, funding, and capital structure to honor our stakeholder commitments. The team’s work is invaluable to informing leadership decision making, complying with regulatory requirements, and maintaining financial discipline, transparency, and controls, while providing timely and meaningful information.

The responsibilities for this role include:

• Ensuring the timely and accurate reporting of USGAAP results for the branch, including managing communication and monitoring adherence to the periodic close calendar by Accenture and local finance teams.
• Providing USGAAP subject matter advice, including ensuring consistent implementation of accounting policy changes.
• Maintaining the quality of USGAAP ledger postings, including monitoring the use of SAP code blocks and charts of accounts.
• Monitoring and reporting on the progress and quality of balance sheet reconciliations for all entities in the branch.
• Supporting the transformation of the Controlling teams to achieve increased data quality in the ledgers, reducing manual intervention through process improvements.
• Producing and supporting queries for all Local GAAP regulatory reporting and local tax processes, including audits.
• Coordinating the preparation of country statutory returns, communicating with local finance teams, outsourced professional services (EY), and Accenture.
• Serving as the contact point for External Audit (PWC), Actuarial, Risk, and Tax teams regarding USGAAP controllership financial reporting issues.

What we’re looking for:

• Postgraduate experience in a “Big 4” accounting firm and/or relevant corporate or business finance role in a complex, multinational corporation.
• Proven controllership experience within an insurance organization.
• Experience with finance projects or transformations.
• Technical accounting expertise with understanding and interpretation of US GAAP and European GAAPs.
• Fluent in English and Italian.
• Graduate Qualified Accountant or equivalent qualification.

Prior experience in a multinational organization with a varied geographical scope and matrix reporting structure is preferred.

Reimagining insurance to make a bigger difference to the world

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a global leader in commercial and personal insurance solutions; we are one of the world’s most extensive property casualty networks. It is an exciting time to join us — across our operations, we are thinking in new and innovative ways to deliver better solutions to our customers. At AIG, you can go further to support individuals, businesses, and communities, helping them manage risk, respond to times of uncertainty, and discover new potential. We invest in our people through continuous learning and development, fostering a culture that celebrates everyone for who they are and what they aspire to become.

Welcome to a culture of belonging

We’re committed to creating a culture that respects and celebrates each other’s talents, backgrounds, cultures, opinions, and goals. We foster inclusion and belonging through flexible work arrangements, diversity and inclusion learning, cultural awareness activities, and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). Our ERGs, with global chapters, are a cornerstone of our inclusive culture. The diversity of our people is one of AIG’s greatest assets, and our efforts for positive change have been recognized through numerous awards and accreditations.

AIG provides equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, age, gender, gender expression, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected category.

AIG is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants and employees with disabilities. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us via email.

Functional Area: FA - Finance AIG Europe S.A.- General Representative for Italy

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