Reinsurance Accountant

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.

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Job Description

About this job:

This role is based in our PartnerRe Dublin office and will report to the Team Leader of Reinsurance Accounting Non-Life based in Paris. The Reinsurance Accounting Department is responsible to handle premiums and claims accounts received from reinsurance brokers and cedents.

Your mission will be to manage an assigned broker/cedent reinsurance facultative and treaty portfolio, which you will verify, process, monitor and analyse.

In more detail your responsibilities will include:

• Identify, verify and process regular accounts, commutation accounts, cash losses, profit & loss calculations as well as year-end related documents against treaty terms and contractual conditions
• Cedant premium and loss reserve handling, cedant statistic analysis and Letter of Credit & Pledged Securities handling
• Monitoring and managing of cash statements including confirmation letters as well as active communication with brokers and cedants
• Close collaboration with the Claims Department, Payments & Collections Department, Underwriting Administration Department and other functional areas
• Electronic messaging management and archiving of accounting relevant documents in the DMS
• Performing periodic SOX and operational controls and assuring correctness of quarterly closing tasks as assigned

Qualifications

About you:

To be successful in this role, you should have the following background, skills and mindset:

• Working experience in the reinsurance accounting field would be a plus
• Good technical and analytical skills, comfortable with data analysis, problem solving, and the ability to make decisions
• Advanced knowledge of Excel, good knowledge of Word and PowerPoint
• Experienced in eMessaging (electronic messaging) and the reinsurance data system SICS is a plus.
• Strong communication and interaction skills
• Fluent in English (verbal and written), other languages are a plus
• Able to work on common goals both independently and as part of a team
• Well-organized, attention to detail is critical, you like change and to be challenged, and openness to new ideas and a can-do attitude are part of your strengths

Additional Information

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Thank you,

PartnerRe Hiring Team