Shape Your Future with Us
General Re Corporation, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., is a holding company for global reinsurance and related operations, with more than 2,000 employees worldwide. Its direct reinsurance companies conduct business as Gen Re.
Gen Re delivers reinsurance solutions to the Life/Health and Property/Casualty insurance industries. Represented in all major reinsurance markets through a network of more than 40 offices, supported by over 2,000 employees worldwide, we have earned superior financial strength ratings from each of the major rating agencies.
Gen Re currently offers an excellent opportunity for an IT Business Analyst (d/f/m) to work in the Finance team based in our Cologne office. This is a hybrid role.
Your Role
Be the Functional Specialist/Lead for Solvency II application framework including RiskIntegrity, the application that Gen Re uses for the SCR calculation and QRT reporting. This includes the following tasks:
- Specify the necessary change and maintenance requests to adjust the data processes and/or RiskIntegrity due to changes in the source systems or changes in the standard by providing end to end support to translate these requirements into IT solutions
- Coordinate the implementation of new RiskIntegrity patches and releases including test approach
- Take the lead in case of system errors & aborts
- Coordinate and support the end-to-end test approach including definition of test cases and scenarios
- Support the actuaries and finance specialist in case results seem not to be reasonable
- Drive forward the development of an automated SII Closing Calendar and Process Control that is planned for the near future to make the SII closing process as efficient as possible
- Track data issues and satisfy ad hoc analysis requests
- Be the contact to IT, including Gen Re’s external service providers, as well as Finance for the SII system landscape including QlikView/Power BI Reporting
- Discuss/Support decisions on the technical concepts with IT representatives
For the IFRS and LDTI reporting:
- Take over backup functions
- Support the process of identifying synergies between the processes of Gen Re’s various regulatory reporting obligations with the aim of simplifying and streamlining them.
Your Profile
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, or finance preferred
- The ideal candidate must be self-motivated and willing to quickly learn our financial applications and processes to become a subject matter expert in this area and should have also have technical knowledge around ETL and SQL.
- Experience with the regulatory requirements for Solvency II and ideally IFRS/LDTI
- At least partially experience with the technical platforms used by Gen Re that are listed above
- Knowledge of Finance subledgers systems preferred
- Experience with writing SQL queries and reporting applications such as PowerBI
- Confident communicator
- Ability to contribute to the team culture and success
- Attention to detail and continuous improvement mindset
We offer you
- An international and highly professional working environment in a central location in Cologne
- A pleasant working environment with flat hierarchies and a friendly and cooperative corporate culture
- Attractive benefits, e.g. flexible working hours, home office within the framework of our company agreement on mobile working, company pension scheme, Deutschland-Ticket for public transport, jobbike, underground parking, daycare facility for children, canteen and in-house sports activities
Does this sound exciting?
If you want to shape your future with us, we look forward to receiving your complete application including your salary expectations and the earliest starting date.
Contact
Anne Elli Traeger, Tel. +49 221 9738 298
Our Address
General Reinsurance AG
Theodor-Heuss-Ring 11
50668 Cologne (Germany)