Company Description
PartnerRe is a leading, privately owned, multi-line global reinsurer with a reputation of financial stability and strength, and a commitment to rebuilding businesses and communities after risk events around the world.
Our mission is to continue to be a financially stable and predictable business partner, supporting our clients with solutions tailored to their needs, delivering superior returns to our owner, providing rewarding opportunities for our people and making a positive contribution to society. To achieve this, we live by our values of Integrity, Performance, Collaboration, Straightforward Communication and Respect and Care.
Core to The PartnerRe Experience is our global nature. No matter where you sit in the company, you are part of something bigger. Our teams represent our truly international mindset, forging connections across office locations and all levels of the organization and building a network of mutual success. The result is a day-to-day experience that will allow you to:
Shape your own career
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Job Description
This position is embedded in our worldwide Payments & Collections department, belonging to our Non-Life Operations Unit within Finance. Our mission is to provide timely cash flow for PartnerRe, clients, and brokers. In this role you will be responsible for executing the global Payments & Collections strategy aligned with PartnerRe’s overall business goals. In addition, you will be leading and mentoring a team of professionals across two locations (Dublin and Zürich); supporting staff planning, budgeting, and professional development within the department. Furthermore, your duties will be as follows:
- Supervising and enhancing effective and efficient Payments & Collections operations:
- Ensuring timely and secure payments to and from reinsurance brokers.
- Overseeing reconciliation and monitoring of unsettled balances.
- Maintaining and managing payment partner bank accounts.
- Ensuring adherence to global regulations and maintaining a well-controlled environment and internal control framework to mitigate risks.
- Identifying and implementing new technologies to improve payment operations; including the implementation of eMessaging and ongoing maintenance and development of the Technical Accounting workflow tool.
- Working closely with internal and external stakeholders on all payment-related matters to streamline processes.
- Establishing performance metrics and preparing regular management reporting.
- Participating in or leading special tasks or projects.
Qualifications
You bring minimum of 5 years of experience in Payments & Collections, in Reinsurance Accounting or in a similar role, including a minimum of 5 years people management experience. Ideally, you hold a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, Finance or a related field is considered an asset, but an equivalent professional experience will also be taken into account. In addition, your profile is surrounded by the following skills and knowledge:
- Experience in managing teams remotely
- Well developed communication skills and ability to build effective working relationships with internal and/or external parties
- Strong analytical and organizational skills
- Good SICS and eMessaging understanding
- Advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge
- Advanced understanding of processes, guidelines and controls and capability to determine and enforce them
- Good training skills
- Excellent verbal and written English skills.. French verbal and written skills an asset
Additional Information
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Thank you,
PartnerRe Hiring Team
