Senior Treaty Accountant

We are seeking a Senior Treaty Accountant to join our Life Reinsurance Accounting Team, reporting to the Head of Life Accounting.

This team is responsible for the complete technical accounting process, including reporting requirements, accounting system maintenance, and credit control for the Life Portfolio.

Your Role:

1. Perform senior level tasks and provide backup support for team leaders.
2. Serve as a knowledge leader on technical accounting topics and processes, transferring knowledge and upskilling team members.
3. Ensure technical accounting quality assurance, adhering to internal standards to meet audit and compliance requirements.
4. Handle tasks related to quarterly and annual close-offs, ensuring compliance with deadlines.
5. Provide guidance or assume responsibility for complex treaties as needed.
6. Act as a local automation expert, representing the team in the Global Automation Forum and driving process automation initiatives.
7. Take on local/global topic ownership in Reinsurance Accounting (RIA).
8. Actively contribute to or lead cross-unit projects and working groups.
9. Monitor key performance indicators (e.g., missing accounts, overdue balances, unmatched cash) and escalate issues to management as needed.
10. Assist in updating and optimizing internal accounting and claims handling processes and interfaces.
11. Participate in testing new systems/tools related to global Reinsurance Accounting.

Your Profile:

1. Bachelor's degree in Commerce or a related accounting qualification.
2. Minimum of 7 years of experience in a Reinsurance Accounting environment, preferably within the Life industry.
3. Proven experience with automation tools that support technical accounting processes.
4. Advanced Excel skills.

Benefits:

1. Life and Health Benefits.
2. Hybrid working environment.
3. Bonus Scheme.
4. Employee Assistance Program.
5. Global Mobility.

At Munich Re, we embrace and value the interaction of diverse backgrounds, experiences, perspectives and thought. This interaction is our foundation of our open culture and spirit of partnership. It shapes how our teams are built and cultivated and how we are supported and developed. And at the center of this interaction is each of us.