Finance Automation Expert

Location: Bangalore, KA, IN

About the Role 

This position is part of Finance Data Solutions Hub team within Corporate Solutions' Global FP&A and Reporting finance team. You will play an important role as Lead of this team, setting overall mandate, stakeholder interaction and achieving key objectives. 

The team will support other finance stakeholders to enable analysis, insights, automation, digitalization, standardization , closing & reporting activities in relation to performance management/reporting and steering of the regional and product results. We are constantly developing and strengthening our capabilities to act as true business partners and providing insightful and meaningful analysis and reporting to our decision makers.  Working within the Finance Corporate Solution team, you will join a highly motivated and dynamic team within an interesting and complex environment and will get the opportunity to build up analytical capabilities to further enhance reporting / visualization.  

The team's mandate is to be at the forefront of our technical and analytical capabilities to support Finance and the other business units with high-quality financial insights to help better steer our business. The focus will be around streamlining existing processes and tasks and automating where feasible.  

We are looking for a highly motivated candidate who enjoys developing new ideas and who ensures its relevance and value in a very dynamic data analytics' environment. Are you up for the challenge? 

As automation expert, you will have the opportunity to enable corso finance community with automation/digitalization/standardization of processes. This includes data extraction, curation, reconciliation, and bring cost effective measures. This position offers a unique opportunity to get a strong overview of some of the most interesting corporate insurance products of Swiss Re Corporate Solutions (coupled with very close collaboration with regional and product teams). Specifically, you can utilize latest technologies and steer like-minded team members to streamline and deliver high quality quarterly closing outputs. You will be able to identify and pursue Transformation and automation opportunities and steer the team in that direction. You have a passion for data and how we use latest technologies to further streamline processes and improve insights. 

Your key responsibilities will include to: 

• Design and develop process improvement solutions to get productivity and quality edge into existing processes 

• Build quick Proof of Concept through hands on experience with quick turnaround Time 

• Provide multi facet technical implementable options as business solutions. 

• Actively Review all the technical implementation of the projects for team members and provide feedback. 

• Collaborate with global teams and drive cross-functional improvement projects to achieve business efficiency 

• Assessment of viability and feasibility of Process improvement solution during the ideation stage 

• Ensure operational excellence by developing rigorous routines for quarterly closings 

• Ensure proper governance routines are established and followed 

• Act as collaborative business partner to other finance functions and the business, through delivery of high quality and timely financial information and insights 

• Proactively drive new business cases for the finance analytics hub to expand its scope 

The ability to perform the above tasks with a high degree of autonomy, while leveraging on and working closely with all relevant stakeholders 

About You 

Do you find this opportunity interesting? We welcome your application if: 

• You have a university degree with a primary or masters’ degree in a quantitative discipline, e.g. Finance, Accounting, Engineering (Computer, Information Technology, Information Science). 

• You have 11-14 years of relevant working experience in Automation / transformation / digitalization Projects  

• Good knowledge on FP&A and Controlling skills. Ability to gather requirements from stakeholders and translate them into report/presentations design and processes 

• Proficient in Data Analytics Tools like Python, Spark, Excel  

• Well versed with automation tools landscape with hands on experience. 

• Well Versed and hands on experience in Visualization tools like Tableau, PowerBI  

• Prior Experience in working with Stargate, Py Spark is preferred 

• Experience in accounting (US GAAP/IFRS) 

• Good Knowledge about (re)insurance business 

• Strong ability to analyze and interpret financial data  

• Expert in MS Excel including Pivot tables and VBA, Power Automate 

• Sound SQL skills with ability to query and analyze data; understand data complexity, models and structures 

• Have very good understanding of DB design Concepts 

• Experience with data visualization tools and applications such as PowerBI, Tableau, Analytic Data Models, etc. 

To apply for this position, you should have also these skills and knowledge: 

• Experience in agile working style and create an energized and engaged work environment 

• Experience in Leading a team of process automation experts  

• Must have "Hands on knowledge" of creating process improvement solution or preparing/running some of the existing reporting deliverables   

• Strong analytical skills and ability to deliver quality output to short deadlines and handle details without losing sight of the bigger picture 

• Excellent communication skills, ability to interact with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds and experiences 

• Flexibility to work in both a collaborative team environment as well as independently 

• Team player with clear communication skills with demonstrated ability to inspire, motivate, challenge the status quo, and implement change 

• Ability to come up with solutions to loosely defined business problems 

• Strong communication skills, particularly the ability to summarize complex technical issues to non-expert audiences, both written and verbal 

• Comfortable challenging the status quo and/or senior management 

• Strong data skills and analytical acumen 

• Dynamic personality who enjoys taking accountability and ownership 

• Self-starter and able to work cohesively with business and finance stakeholders 

• Fluency in English is mandatory