Finance Business Partner

Allianz is the home for those who dare - a supportive place where you can take the initiative to grow and to actively strengthen our global leadership position. By truly caring about people - both its 83 million private and corporate customers and its 142,000 employees - Allianz fosters a culture where its employees are empowered to collaborate, perform, push the boundaries and challenge the industry. Allianz Partners (AWP) provides diverse expertise in automotive, international health & life, travel insurance, assistance and direct sales and is at the forefront of the Allianz B2B2C offering. United under one brand, Allianz Global Assistance, Allianz Global Automotive and Allianz Worldwide Care are specialist areas combining forces to push boundaries and create tomorrow`s solutions to deliver an enhanced experience to our clients. Our 15,000 employees are based across 34 countries and combine 58 different languages and 60 nationalities, reflecting the truly diverse nature of Allianz Worldwide Partners. Our DNA is unique: we dare and care, anytime, anywhere. If this sounds like you, come and join us. Allianz Care are the international health experts at Allianz Partners. Our focus is on addressing the health and wellbeing protection needs of clients worldwide, through the delivery of straightforward, innovative solutions that make each client feel understood, confident and valued. The dedicated multicultural teams who deliver this service and support have a clear culture of making a positive difference to clients in every interaction, by taking a personal and solution oriented approach. Allianz Care offers health, life and disability insurance as well as a wide range of health and protection services to employers and insurance partners worldwide. Finance Business Partner The purpose of this role is to work alongside the business in offering financial advice on new business opportunities and providing ad hoc business support. The successful applicant will work with the senior management team to ensure Finance considerations are appropriately addressed in all new opportunities and projects, and provide financial advice to senior management to support the decision-making process on new projects Responsibilities Technical requirements: -Act as trusted business partner to the Allianz Care Senior Management -Team, working on new transactions / projects and other ad hoc requests Build robust process around Finance transaction and business project review process, including: -Working with Sales and Underwriting to develop key sales and pricing assumptions, including challenging their assumptions -Working with Actuarial to review experience on targeted business, to ensure it is in line with future assumptions -Working with Finance Projects Team, to ensure operational aspects of new transactions have been appropriately considered -Present proposals to Allianz Care executives -Work with Expense Controller to develop expense assumptions that should be applied to new projects -Develop document to be used for all new transactions, including key assumptions, results and risks -Develop financial models to enable scenario testing on new transactions -Ensure high standards of accuracy and attention to detail in the preparation of all outputs -Enhance processes and procedures to strengthen the control environment around production of results -Promote high Customer Service and Quality ethos on the team and in the company as appropriate. Promote both the Finance department values and the Company values and the `I make a difference` initiative -The role will also be expected to provide support to the rest of the Planning & Controlling team to enable them to meet current reporting requirements Experience Required -Qualified accountant with at least five years` post-qualification experience in a Financial Planning, Risk or Business Support role -Insurance industry background, with experience of working on cross-functional projects -Strong interpersonal skills with ability to manage relationships, both internal and external -Ability to influence senior management team on financial and non-financial issues -Ability to build financial models to support business decision-making -Excellent verbal and written communication skills; -Proven experience in delivering financial results under tight deadlines; -Strong financial and analytical skills; -Strategic thinker with strong commercial acumen; -Strong Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint skills; -Ability to work to strict deadlines on particular projects -Ability to manage a busy workload -Ability to work well as part of a team -Ability to influence/support and build relationships -High standards of accuracy and attention to detail -Strong leadership qualities with ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders in multi-disciplinary teams -Strong communication skills (verbal and written) -Ability to work effectively within a team environment -Ability to work well under pressure and to strict deadlines -Honesty and Integrity -Customer focused The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work in growing multicultural company committed to empowering its employees and furthering their development. A competitive remuneration and benefits package is offered, including healthcare, pension, life & disability, travel subsidy, discounts on home and car insurance, sports & social club and support for professional studies Further information on Allianz Care can be found at: https://www.allianzworldwidecare.com/en/about-us/ To apply direct click here