Finance Project Specialist

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 Partners Health & Life offers health, life and disability insurance as well as a wide range of health and protection services to employers and insurance partners worldwide. Finance Operations Project Specialist Work with the Global Allianz company across multi departments in the business and technical teams, to create deliverables such as Process Maps, Business Requirements, Functional Requirements (including Use cases), User Stories and User Acceptance Tests, to enable the delivery of these outputs impacting financial operations across the company Delivering high quality results and collaborative creative solutions in a face paced, demanding and deadline orientated environment. Maintaining both individual and team morale & motivation. Ensuring consistent performance development at both an individual and team level. Increase company knowledge in relation to other areas which have a direct link to Financial Operations Responsibilities -Roles and Tasks - Deliver a customer centric solution through day to day tasks working on small to large financial operations projects. Part of your role will be supporting the business in delivering clear technical solutions in line with the business requirements. You will aid the business in identifying and breaking down the current state of the business processes. Documenting models/maps of processes. As part of business requirement elicitation, you will facilitate workshops with the business and IT stakeholders to identify and document the design and business changes. -In addition you will support the Finance system structure as Allianz enters global new markets, the setting up of new ledgers, process documentation and process maps. You will be the Finance Operations subject matter expert in the cross departmental projects teams, defining the finance operations processes. Working on the efficient on-boarding of new clients in relation to invoicing, payment cycle and reporting. -As the technical specialist you will be the go to person between IT and the Finance community ensuring the project is fit for purpose through the project life cycle and supporting the requirements, design, UAT and delivery -Team Responsibilities - Act as a key participant within both own team and wider Company by taking part in department initiatives providing feedback/updates, promoting collaborative solutions and supporting colleagues/department. As a result driving the successful development of the team and the wider department forward. -Day to day - Responsible for high quality output of day to day activities in line with role & policies and procedures such as but not limited to; Projects New Bus, Technical ,E-mail,Reporting,Testing, Operational & Technical support - Drive & document on personal development/performance by utilizing on the job experience, the PMAD process and coaching/feedback ensuring alignment with set goals and objectives. Culture - Promote positive, engaged, supportive customer centric and quality ethos in the department ensuring culture aligns with Company Culture. -Ownership & Problem solving - Taking ownership of all errors/problems identified ensuring prompt remediation action is taken while applying problem solving and innovation skills. Also ensuring team/line management are kept up to date on potential issues/escalations. Innovation - Drive and implement process efficiencies within the department, devising collaborative creative customer centric solutions in line with the Finance processes. -Building Relationships- Develop a strong trusting relationship within own team and line management promoting an honest two way communication environment. -Support/Drive the delivery of and progress towards the Finance department`s goals and objectives. -Drive & monitor the development of team through coaching & feedback, to ensure development of their team and in order to identify & develop individuals for succession planning. -Communicate and act as a focal point of dissemination of information from management to team and vice versa. -Manage critical department issues in the absence of the senior management team, taking steps to resolve the issue in the best interests of the department. Ensuring management is fully informed on all aspects of issue. -Drive and monitor the efficiency and consistency of department PMAD process and team meetings under remit. -Responsibility for Health, Safety and Welfare within team (please refer to the Company`s Safety Statement for full list of responsibilities). Responsible for process evolvement for relevant functions to ensure the most efficient quality customer focused output is delivered Accountable for review and approval of quality output under remit such as but not limited to extended workbench team/ payment & suspension release approvals. -Co-ordinate and lead projects including the management and distribution to assigned person based on team capacity. -Leading the teams through Finance Transformation, including introduction of further automation, robotisation and shared services teams. Ensure the current control environment is maintained and continuously enhanced in line with new system and market changes. Experience Required -Experience leading teams within a in Financial Operations capacity. -Demonstrate experience identifying and implementing problem solving skills for complex queries. -Project management and successful delivery experience. -Previous experience dealing with the challenges faced in a customer focused role while in an financial operational capacity. -Highly numerate and have experience in complex reconciliation work with strong attention to detail. -Experience effectively dealing with high volumes and quick turn around times within pressurised environment -Hold a third level business degree or appropriate professional qualification preferable -Fluency in a second European language would be an advantage -Valid EU work permit -Effective communication skills and self initiative. Further information on Allianz Care can be found at: https://www.allianzworldwidecare.com/en/about-us/ To apply direct click here