Job Description

Are you ready to build a meaningful career at the crossroads of accounting, risk governance, and financial reporting? This is your chance to join a globally respected organization, work alongside senior experts, and make a real impact on the quality and reliability of financial reporting — all within a collaborative, international team.

About the Role

As a Junior Risk Governance Analyst in Accounting Operations (Liabilities), you will play a hands-on role in supporting the risk and control framework for liabilities accounting. Working closely with a senior risk governance lead, you'll contribute to strengthening the control environment, enhancing documentation quality, and ensuring robust, audit-ready processes across Accounting Operations — with direct exposure to IFRS 17 / IFRS 9-related processes.

This is a two-year temporary role crafted as a powerful learning opportunity at the intersection of accounting, risk, and governance. If you're curious, detail-oriented, and eager to grow in a complex international environment, this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the risk governance and internal control framework for Liabilities Accounting within Accounting Operations, ensuring processes are clearly defined and consistently applied
• Contribute to operational risk activities related to internal controls over financial reporting, including risk/control self-assessments, control descriptions, and evidence quality reviews
• Maintain and improve risk and control documentation, ensuring clarity, consistency, and audit-readiness across all relevant processes
• Analyse financial reporting risks related to liabilities, including process changes, new controls, or remediation actions, and communicate findings clearly to stakeholders
• Coordinate with Accounting Operations teams to track control execution issues, findings, and remediation plans, supporting timely resolution
• Prepare high-quality materials for internal stakeholders, risk functions, and auditors — including summaries, analyses, and governance artefacts
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives aimed at simplifying controls, improving governance processes, and reducing operational risk

About the Team

This role sits within Accounting Operations, with a focus on Liabilities Accounting, and works closely with colleagues across Global Finance Operations & Transformation, risk governance functions, and internal assurance teams.

You'll be part of a dynamic, international, and collaborative environment that values strong technical foundations, clear documentation, and pragmatic governance solutions. The team operates at the interface between accounting execution and risk oversight — ensuring that financial reporting risks are clearly understood, well controlled, and transparently documented. It's a team that thrives on intellectual curiosity, mutual support, and a shared commitment to excellence.

About You

You are a junior professional with a genuine interest in accounting, risk, and governance. You enjoy working with structured frameworks, documentation, and analysis, and you're comfortable navigating complexity while keeping a sharp eye for detail. You bring a proactive mindset, a curiosity to learn, and the confidence to engage effectively with senior stakeholders.

We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:

• A degree in accounting, finance, economics, or a related field
• First professional experience (internship, trainee role, or junior position) in accounting, audit, risk, or finance operations
• Knowledge of internal controls and governance, with a strong interest in financial reporting risk frameworks
• Basic understanding of IFRS, with any exposure to IFRS 17 / IFRS 9 considered a strong advantage
• Strong analytical and organizational skills, with the ability to structure and communicate complex information clearly and concisely

These are additional nice to haves:

• Experience working in an international or matrix organization
• Familiarity with risk and control self-assessment (RCSA) methodologies
• Exposure to audit processes or working with internal/external auditors
• Proficiency in additional languages beyond English (German is a plus given the Zurich location)
• Comfort working with digital tools for documentation, data analysis, or governance tracking
• A collaborative, team-oriented approach combined with the ability to work independently on structured tasks

Salary Information

For Switzerland, the base salary range for this position is between 77.000 CHF and 115.000 CHF for a full-time role.

The specific salary offered considers:

• The requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role
• The applicant's own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience

In the situation where you do not meet all the requirements or you significantly exceed these, the offered salary may be below or above the advertised range. In addition to your base salary, you may be eligible for additional rewards and benefits including an attractive performance-based annual bonus.

Why Swiss Re?

At Swiss Re, you will work in a purpose-driven organization that values expertise, integrity, and collaboration. This role offers a unique opportunity to:

• Build a solid foundation in risk governance and accounting operations
• Gain hands-on experience with real financial reporting risks in a global context
• Develop skills that are highly valued across finance, risk, and assurance functions
• Work alongside experienced professionals who are invested in your growth

Join us and take the first step toward a rewarding career in risk governance and financial reporting. We look forward to hearing from you!

Our company has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office at least three days per week.

About Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.

If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.

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