SwissRe
Business Analyst Financial Accounting Corporate Tax Zurich, Switzerland February 2016 - June 2016
The Swiss Re Group is a leading wholesale provider of reinsurance, insurance and other insurance-based forms of risk transfer. Dealing directly and working through brokers, its global client base consists of insurance companies, mid-to-large-sized corporations and public sector clients. In 2015, they reported net income of USD 4.6 billion.
Since a long time, they have been looking for a Business Analyst with very strong technical background to materialize and bring the Corporate Respository project into completion. The project was initially set for one year. The illustration below summarizes the project scope in simplified manner.
» Initial Tasks Business analysis, requirements specification, and implementation of to-be processes, data dictionaries, and requirements in general as key member of the project team Support the coordination of the future Tax application landscape and its integration with downstream/ upstream systems Work closely with system engineers to ensure correct understanding and implementation of business requirements Plan and execute change management activities including testing and user trainings Business and technical end user consulting; monitoring, maintenance and second level user support of productive processes Support the Project Management (Board of Directors) » Other Deliverables The base intial tasks were completed within three months. Afterwards, to utilize my knowledge in my functions to support the board of directors, I completed: Analysis of the Investment business Drafting of Management Reporting proposal to streamline the Investment and Corporate Tax Consolidation activities Assisting the panels recruiting and awarding suppliers bidding for worldwide ERP (Oracle/ SAP) implementation for the core Insurance business line
Final note on this rather short term assignment is that after six months, the job is becoming not challenging enough since I completed the project plan way too advance and that it would not be to anyone benefits to find non-existing challenges on a weekly basis. Also, for personal reasons, I would prefer to be based in Vienna rather than commuting to Zurich every week. Therefore, after a thorough discussion with the board of directors we cordially parted in June 2016.