Global Head Financial, Reporting, Governance & Transformation (m/f/d)

74478 | Finance & Accounting | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Services | Full-Time | Permanent

Allianz Services is proud to serve and be part of Allianz Group, one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers. Our global footprint, with more than 7,300 employees located across ten countries and four continents, enables us to unlock value for our partners across the insurance value chain and deliver superior client experience within Allianz Group. At Allianz Services, we have a strong specialization in core insurance operations, shared services, business analytics, engineering, and management consulting. Our people and our trusted relationships with partners are what matter most. These are rooted in our values of compassion, integrity, and expertise and we strive to continuously evolve, improve, and deliver excellence while contributing successfully to the transformation of Allianz. Caring actively for the environment, for people, and for our customers is what makes us a great place to work and together we are shaping a better and more caring tomorrow.
Allianz Services is a company which belongs to the legal entity, Allianz Technology SE.   

Role Overview

The Global Head Financial Reporting, Governance & Transformation is responsible for consolidating AZ Services financial results and communicating financials to relevant stakeholders. Moreover, he/she functionally governs and manages all AZ Services financial systems and tools as well as transforms existing internal financial processes and tools for efficiency and usability. In this role he/she collaborates with cross-functional departments, and ensures that finance-related commercial disputes between suppliers/clients and AZ Services are resolved.

What you do:

Financial Reporting
- Quality assure and consolidate monthly financial results and provide AZ Services Financials report to the EMT
- Provide quarterly input to FRDC
- Conduct plan/actual deviation analysis for cost categories, e.g., on IT costs, travel costs, non-IT consulting spend, and steer adherence to the budget
- Provide non-financial reporting (e.g., ESG KPIs)

Financial Technical Governance & Transformation
- Functionally govern and manage all AZ Services financial systems and tools, e.g., SAP master data governance (Global Standard SAP CO/BW hierarchy in line with Service Taxonomy), financial software governance, technical support for month-end closing 
- Business-wise own financial modules in MS Dynamics
- Transform existing reporting into real-time and centralized self-service reporting solutions (e.g., Power BI dashboards) 
- Increase efficiencies of internal financial processes (pricing, planning/budgeting, reporting and forecasting) through standardization and leveraging (AI-augmented) automation solutions
- Contribute to building a holistic data cube that enables AZ Services to steer the customer portfolio in terms of growth, profitability, and services portfolio development
- Resolve finance-related commercial disputes between suppliers/clients and AZ Services

What you bring:

- At least 8 year(s) of working experience in related field of Finance, Accounting and/or Controlling Financial & Management reporting and analysis experience desired
- Technical Proficiency: The candidate should have experience with financial systems and tools, such as SAP master data governance, financial software governance, and MS Dynamics. They should also be capable of transforming reporting into real-time, centralized self-service solutions using tools like Power BI 
- Process Understanding: Understanding of the existing process landscape, standards, and organization, as well as relevant products, services, and applications
- Communication Skills: Effective communication skills, including the ability to negotiate with a diverse audience, often at a senior level
- Allianz People Attributes: Customer & Market Excellence, Collaborative Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Trust
- We highly welcome candidates with a genuine interest and affinity for Information Technology (IT) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), as these attributes are considered valuable assets to our team

What we offer:

- We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad
- We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location)
- 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
- Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us. 

We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in. We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.

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