Finance Business Analyst

Company Description

PartnerRe is a leading, privately owned, multi-line global reinsurer with a reputation of financial stability and strength, and a commitment to rebuilding businesses and communities after risk events around the world.

Our mission is to continue to be a financially stable and predictable business partner, supporting our clients with solutions tailored to their needs, delivering superior returns to our owner, providing rewarding opportunities for our people and making a positive contribution to society. To achieve this, we live by our values of Integrity, Performance, Collaboration, Straightforward Communication and Respect and Care.

Core to The PartnerRe Experience is our global nature. No matter where you sit in the company, you are part of something bigger. Our teams represent our truly international mindset, forging connections across office locations and all levels of the organization and building a network of mutual success. The result is a day-to-day experience that will allow you to:

Shape your own career

Grow in a supportive environment

Connect with a community of experts

Make an impact

View Home - PartnerRe Experience e-book to find out more about what it’s like to work at PartnerRe.

We are always looking for bright, proactive individuals to join our team!

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PartnerRe is an equal opportunities employer.

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Job Description

About this job:

• Reporting to the Head of IT Finance & Investments Services this role will lead the PeopleSoft General Ledger support and enhancements to ensure reliable internal and external reporting.
• As a member of the IT department combine strong multigap accounting and international tax business analysis with project management and technical expertise in configuration, support and implementation.
• Guide and coach the continuous improvement and evolution of the in-scope applications together with internal stakeholders and external service providers located across the globe.
• Contribute to the management of Finance initiatives in IT business analysis by following a governance model for reviewing, prioritizing and monitoring these initiatives.
• Coordinate between IT, finance, consultants and developers on all aspects of application management.  
• Manage various support processes at a distance across multiple time zones and cultures.
• Formalize business cases for new functionalities or specific developments, conduct gap analysis, process re-engineering sessions, propose functional solutions, build related specifications for developers, develop and execute test scripts, provide trainings and support testing processes.

Qualifications

About you:

• 5 or more years’ experience in PeopleSoft Financials.
• Post graduate or master qualification in Finance and Accounting with strong interest in Information systems or in Information systems with strong interest in Finance and Accounting.
• General Ledger, Multicurrency, Consolidation, Closing, Allocations, Journal entry processing, VAT and Withholding Tax, Trees & Queries, GL Workflow, GL integrations a must.
• Tax provisioning, account payables and receivable key concepts.
• Implementation, testing, training and high problem-solving experience with the core PeopleSoft Financials modules.
• Enterprise application, interfaces, SQL for problem-solving and analysis.
• Notions of Nvision, Business Object, Power BI a plus.
• Some Knowledge of the PeopleTools suite, PeopleSoft Security Administration, SQR, Autosys & Job scheduler type of tools.
• Understandi