Join our team as a Finance Process and Systems Expert and play a pivotal role in transforming and optimising Zurich’s finance processes. You’ll lead initiatives to streamline reporting, drive automation, and champion best practices—helping to shape a brighter, more efficient future for our finance function. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of Finance and Accounting Systems and be well versed in working on or alongside large sale change programmes within a finance setting. Hold excellent leadership skills, a self-starting work style and the ability to work collaboratively across various departments and regions.

Key responsibilities:

• Drive process improvement initiatives within finance aligned to Zurich Group best practice.
• Act as a change agent, supporting a culture of continuous improvement and digital transformation across finance.
• Analyse current reporting processes to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Lead and implement process optimisation projects, introducing automation and best practices to reduce manual work and save time.
• Develop and enforce data quality standards to ensure accurate, consistent, and reliable reporting outputs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather feedback, streamline data flows, and promote process ownership.
• Design and document efficient workflows for data collection, validation, and reporting.
• Monitor the effectiveness of improvements, using data-driven metrics to demonstrate time savings and enhanced performance.

• Expert in Zurich Group financial reporting processes, systems and expectations.
• Expert Zurich SAP knowledge.
• Finance transformation experience translating Zurich project and change activity into Zurich BAU effectively.
• Demonstrated experience and strong background in international best practice finance, accounting, and reporting processes.
• Strong existing network of finance experts relevant to financial process optimisation, preferable aligned to Zurich Group.
• Qualified accountant.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and process improvement skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and drive cross-functional collaboration.
• Effective communicator with experience presenting to senior management.
• Awareness of Zurich’s sustainability commitments and ability to integrate sustainable practices into finance operations.