Business Analyst in Finance IT

About the role

In this role you will support a unit responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of our Reinsurance Financial Data Store for Life & Health, which acts as an integration layer and connects the reinsurance contract management systems, technical accounting systems with the accounts payables/receivables modules, the general ledger and the closing and actuarial engines. You are willing to grow into an important role in the business analysis team.

The position holder is accountable for supporting and contributing to IT solutions which meet the strategic, financial and operational needs of Swiss Re stakeholders and to support business partners. You will be involved in all steps of the project. Similarly, you will be involved in the entire application lifecycle after the project including the change management, support and maintenance of the delivered solutions.

In your role, you will…
-Help gather, document and clarify business requirements
-Participate in creating and refining technical specification documents
-Work closely with programmers in the realization phase and ensure correct understanding and implementation of business requirements
-Develop a working understanding of the business applications and the functional processes they support
-Work on sub-projects and change requests together with a project lead or expert business analyst
-Prepare test cases, carry out IT testing and participate in UAT
-Contribution to the respective change management process
-High level of maintenance and support
-Guarantee a high application availability

About the team

We are an international team of business analysts and application engineers based in Slovakia and Switzerland. Our team has a wide variety of technical and business backgrounds and our excellent technical know-how is complemented by a strong team spirit striving to deliver the best solution for our customers.

You can look forward to extra rewards and benefits including:
- Attractive performance-based bonus
- Ultra flexible working time in hybrid setup, allowing you to work also from home
- Modern office spaces in attractive location
- 5 additional days of holiday
- Lunch allowance fully paid by Swiss Re
- Referral bonus
- Pension & risk insurance contribution
- Sick days and sick leave support
- Public transport benefit
- Multisport card

Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.

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This is an external temporary position for 1 year with a potential extension.