Technical Accountant

Job description

The Technical Accountant oversee the administration of reinsurance accounts and contracts from establishing and maintaining contractual data, processing the reinsurance accounts and manage the related cash flow. They support the underwriters in all administrative activities related to the underwriting process. 

Experience: 

·  Multi-year working experience in (re-/insurance) accounting and underwriting assistance and/or controlling
·  Advanced MS Office skills (focus on MS Excel)
·  Business Objects, PowerBI, Tableau and Power Query skills beneficial

Personal Competences:

·  Basic reinsurance knowledge and eagerness to deepen expertise
·  Advanced analytical skills and accuracy
·  Advanced communication and team collaboration skills
·  Sense of reliability and responsibility

Required Education:

·  At least completed commercial apprenticeship (ideally in re-/insurance company) or equivalent

At SCOR we create the conditions that will make you want to work with us:

·  Flexibility for on-site and remote work
·  Encouraging professional mobility
·  Ensuring an attractive compensation policy
·  Supporting our pool of talent in their professional goals while doing our best to promote a healthy work-life balance
·  Helping our employees to apply and develop their skills by creating an innovative and empowering working environment that facilitates the transmission of knowledge and know-how.

 

Why Join Us?
SCOR supports your career and helps you develop your skills by encouraging mobility, blended learning through the SCOR University and offering a dynamic, innovative working environment in beautiful, light-filled offices overlooking Lake Zurich.

Our compensation includes attractive benefits (such as participation to public transportation, fitness, delicious meals and preferential insurance rates) and we promote a healthy work life balance through numerous initiatives and a hybrid working model.

As a socially responsible employer, our teams participate each year in projects around civic engagement, wellbeing and diversity in the workplace, environmental protection, and many others.

SCOR promotes diversity and equal treatment in all aspects of employment, from recruitment to evaluation, compensation, and talent management. The Group is proud to employ people who care about each other, their community and society. We do everything we can to encourage these attitudes in our employees and to empower them to make a difference.

We accept applications for full time and part time (80-100%) and are looking forward to receiving your application!

·  You are responsible for entries (treaties and/or facultative) in OMEGA and all further modifications
·  You check contractual documents, submit them to Underwriters for signature and draw their attention in case of ambiguities or changes
·  You check and process of reinsurance accounts and claims advices (OMEGA)
·  You clarify discrepancies of reinsurance accounts with underwriters/cedents/brokers
·  You manage cashflow incl. the processing of outgoing/incoming payments and the follow up on pending payments and open balances
·  You perform ICS controls (Internal Control System) according to relevant guidelines, where needed, pro-actively support Underwriters in the performance of these controls
·  You monitor client accounts / statistics by using internal reports (Business Objects) and perform own data analysis
·  You support Underwriters with tailored reports and statistics (Business Objects)
·  You ensure compliance with sanctions and embargos by scanning respective lists (Bridger) and forward to Underwriter for further investigation if needed
·  You ensure completeness and proper filing of underwriting and accounting documentation (DMS) as well as physical archiving, where electronical signature is legally not permitted.
·  You attend meeting / workshops with clients (internal/external) if required by the underwriter
·  You do quarterly adjustments of EGPI and Loss Ratio according to Underwriters’ instruction (OMEGA)