(Senior) Financial Analyst (m/f/d)

Job Level:  Professional
Location: 

London, GB, EC2N 3AR

Area of Expertise:  Finance & Accounting
Unit:  Allianz Commercial
Employing Entity:  Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE
Job Type:  Full-Time
Remote Job:  Hybrid working
Employment Type:  Permanent
ID:  108560
Position Cluster:  Non-Executive

 

Let’s care for tomorrow. 

Your ambitions.  Your dreams.  Your tomorrow 

Whether it’s aircraft, international business or offshore wind parks, Allianz Commercial has an extensive range of risks covered when it comes to protecting businesses.   

 

Your Team 

Within CFO Global Performance Steering (GPS), the Business Partnering & Steering team is a key contributor to foster bold and proactive steering towards Allianz Commercial’s growth plans as well as provide consistent and comprehensive business steering along the annual steering cycle. 

 

The Impact You Will Have 

Based in the London office, you will be responsible for the steering of the financial performance in your assigned underwriting portfolio.  You will perform planning, reporting and analysis to ensure your stakeholders’ understanding of monthly results, and support the decision-making process and portfolio steering by continuously challenging financial performance. 

 

You will play a key role in building bridges between our Finance and Underwriting departments as well as sharing best practice within GPS and the wider finance community.  

 

This is an excellent career opportunity for a commercially minded professional from the insurance or reinsurance industry. You don't need to be a qualified accountant — we welcome candidates from any discipline where you have developed strong numerical and analytical capabilities, whether that's actuarial, underwriting, broking, claims, or another commercially focused function. What matters most is that you bring significant insurance sector experience, superior stakeholder management skills, and the business acumen to translate financial data into meaningful insight that drives decision-making. 

 

Some of your specific responsibilities could include: 

  • Provide consistent and comprehensive business steering support 

  • Identify key drivers, risks and opportunities and provide recommendations to senior management 

  • Drive and ensure quality assurance for financial reporting and enabling both global business steering as well as transparency on financial performance 

  • Present transparent conclusions and robust financial commentary to enable decision-making 

  • Coordinate regular reporting, forecasting and planning processes  

  • Support Business Partnering & Steering leadership team on ad-hoc topics and projects 

 

What You’ll Bring to the Role 

  • Experience in the financial services industry, ideally in insurance or reinsurance 

  • Proven expertise in planning and performance management, in particular analysis of financial statements and performance metrics specific to insurance or reinsurance  

  • Ability to understand, elaborate and convey information clearly and effectively, to a variety of stakeholders including senior management 

  • At ease working in a global team, maintaining effective remote relationships  

  • Analytical and problem-solving ability, able to provide insight in complex situations 

  • Ability to manage projects (milestone and task planning, managing resources, controlling, monitoring, reporting, moderating) and to develop solutions while considering complex stakeholder structures and requirements  

  • Advanced Excel/PowerPoint skills, as well as SAP experience for reporting 

  • Experience in applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to improve business processes and decision-making is highly beneficial. 

 

If this role sounds appealing and suited to your profile, please submit an application to join our talent pool. We will then contact you when a suitable position is available. 

 

108560 | Finance & Accounting | Professional | Allianz Commercial | Full-Time | Permanent

 

What’s in it for you? 

 

Let’s care about everything that makes you, you 

We are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong.  We offer a hybrid working model, which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working.  Please feel free to discuss flexible working arrangements with us. 

 

Let’s care for your financial wellbeing 

We believe in rewarding performance with a great compensation and benefits package (details vary by location), including a generous bonus scheme and pension. 

 

Let’s care for your opportunities to progress 

From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered. 

 

Let’s care for life’s twists and turns 

From our support for flexible working, health and wellbeing (including private healthcare and generous parental leave benefits), to helping people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach. We've got your back. 

 

Let’s care for our society and our planet 

With opportunities to be engaged in shaping a future that is safe, inclusive and sustainable, we care for the tomorrows of our people, our industry and our clients. 

 

Care to join us? 

Allianz Commercial is the center of expertise of Allianz Group, insuring mid-sized businesses, large enterprises, and special risks. Our customers include top consumer brands, financial institutions, industry leaders, the global aviation and shipping industries, as well as family-owned and medium-enterprises. We also cover unique risks such as offshore wind farms, infrastructure projects and film productions. Our clients trust us to provide a wide range of traditional and alternative risk transfer solutions, outstanding risk consulting and multinational services, and seamless claims handling. Allianz Commercial helps customers to prepare for what's ahead.

 

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At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matters, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust. 

 

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations. 

 

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow. 

 

People with disabilities: 
We want to give all our candidates the best opportunity to succeed.  If you need any adjustments to be made during the application and selection process, please email agcsglobalcareers@allianz.com

 

Recruitment Agencies:  
Allianz Commercial has an in-house recruitment team, which focuses on sourcing great candidates directly.  Allianz Commercial does not accept unsolicited resumes from agency or search firm recruiters.  Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired.  When we do use agencies, we have a PSL in place, so please do not contact managers directly.  Failure to comply could/may result in the disqualification of the candidates and/or the termination of our contract and/or fees not being paid.

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