FinSolns Health - Senior Tech Proj Specialist - Financial Reporting

JOB OVERVIEW:

As a member of the Finance Solutions - Health team, this role ensures accounting requirements are captured and delivered in company-wide change projects. The priority of this role will be to participate in numerous projects, both technical system projects and strategic new business implementations, representing the Finance Factory and Accounting teams ensuring requirements are delivered and processes documented.
This role will also participate in other Health Finance projects if required, providing accounting expertise and support.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

Accounting process specialist:
o Engage with the key teams in Core Accounting and Finance Factory (including Transactional Accounting, Middle Office Accounting and Reporting) to gather and understand Accounting & Financial Reporting requirements, processes, deadlines and key outputs.
o Participate in knowledge building sessions and job shadowing in order to document (process maps, procedure documents, overview documents) the accounting and booking processes
o As one of the Finance Solutions SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) participating in on-going projects, provide Accounting input to the various stages of IT projects, including Defining Requirements, Reviewing and signing off User Stories, Reviewing User Acceptance, Testing output, preparing process documentation to support Go Live and Run Mode
o Provide input on all aspects of insurance accounting including Premium, Claims, Commission, UPR, DAC, Reinsurance, Cash, Tax, etc; including specifying or confirming booking schemes (accounting postings)
o Provide input on the financial reporting requirements for data, eg requirements for regulatory or tax reporting
o Ensure accounting transactions are in line with Allianz and Allianz Partners accounting policies. Engage with Allianz Partners Global Office teams and Head of Accounting Policy where required
o Review and participate in user acceptance testing to ensure outputs from the system are as expected - eg postings and reports; and that the data transfers correctly into the accounting system (SAP)
o Ensure appropriate documentation is maintained to support the accounting requirements and decisions taken/approvals given.

Participate in other finance projects and team activities as required
o Support across the Finance Solutions - Health team, if required, with the onboarding of new arrangements (frontings, partnership, TPA etc) or new large clients. Support with the identification of booking scheme changes and related SAP requirements.
o Participate in process improvement projects where relevant to delivery efficiencies in the accounting processes
o Support other ad-hoc projects where necessary
o Actively participate in team communications and engagement initiatives

REQUIREMENTS :

To be successful in this position you will need to have the following skills/ experience:

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Demonstrable knowledge of the following tools & languages:

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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.
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