Description
Within CFO Global Performance Steering (GPS), the Business Partnering & Steering team is a key contributor to foster bold and proactive steering towards Allianz Commercial's growth plans as well as provide consistent and comprehensive business steering along the annual steering cycle.
Responsibilities
•Provide consistent and comprehensive business steering support
•Identify key drivers, risks and opportunities and provide recommendations to senior management
•Drive and ensure quality assurance for financial reporting and enabling both global business steering as well as transparency on financial performance
•Present transparent conclusions and robust financial commentary to enable decision-making
•Coordinate regular reporting, forecasting and planning processes
•Support Business Partnering & Steering leadership team on ad-hoc topics and projects
Requirements
This is an excellent career opportunity for a commercially minded professional from the insurance or reinsurance industry. You don't need to be a qualified accountant — we welcome candidates from any discipline where you have developed strong numerical and analytical capabilities, whether that's actuarial, underwriting, broking, claims, or another commercially focused function. What matters most is that you bring significant insurance sector experience, superior stakeholder management skills, and the business acumen to translate financial data into meaningful insight that drives decision-making.
•Experience in the financial services industry, ideally in insurance or reinsurance
•Proven expertise in planning and performance management, in particular analysis of financial statements and performance metrics specific to insurance or reinsurance
•Ability to understand, elaborate and convey information clearly and effectively, to a variety of stakeholders including senior management
•At ease working in a global team, maintaining effective remote relationships
•Analytical and problem-solving ability, able to provide insight in complex situations
•Ability to manage projects (milestone and task planning, managing resources, controlling, monitoring, reporting, moderating) and to develop solutions while considering complex stakeholder structures and requirements
•Advanced Excel/PowerPoint skills, as well as SAP experience for reporting
Nice to have
•Experience in applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to improve business processes and decision-making
We offer
•Hybrid working model, balancing in-person collaboration and remote working; flexible working arrangements can be discussed
•Competitive compensation and benefits package (details vary by location), including a generous bonus scheme and pension
•Career development and digital learning programs, international career mobility, lifelong learning opportunities
•Support for flexible working, health and wellbeing, including private healthcare and generous parental leave benefits
•Support for returning from career breaks
•Opportunities to help shape a future that is safe, inclusive and sustainable
