Job Description

Are you a highly organized, proactive professional with a passion for governance, operational excellence, and strategic coordination? Do you thrive in complex, fast-moving environments where your work directly shapes how a global function operates? If so, this could be the role for you.

Join Swiss Re's Group Legal & Compliance (L&C) function and play a central role in driving critical governance, operational, financial and reporting processes across a truly global organization. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with senior stakeholders making a real, visible impact every day.

About the Role

As L&C Operations Manager, you'll be a trusted operational partner and coordinator at the heart of Swiss Re's Legal & Compliance function. You'll own and manage key governance, risk, operational and financial processes while actively contributing to the continuous improvement of the function's operating model.

Acting as a central connector between Legal & Compliance (L&C) and stakeholders across the organization, you'll ensure transparency, consistency, and timely delivery of critical activities and reporting requirements. This role offers significant exposure across the Legal & Compliance function and provides the opportunity to contribute to strategic initiatives, operational effectiveness and risk governance at Group level.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Frameworks & Governance

• Own and continuously improve entrusted operational frameworks (e.g., the Outside Counsel Framework, Legal Contractors Framework, Records Management Framework, Professional Credentials Framework, and/or Operational Risk Management Framework within L&C) and ensure they remain aligned with Group policies, governance expectations, and supporting systems
• Coordinate, execute, and oversee framework-related processes, controls, approvals, and reporting activities
• Proactively manage deadlines and dependencies across all framework activities
• Engagement with the most senior stakeholders within L&C, building trusted relationships and driving alignment

Budget Planning & Oversight

• Coordinate and oversee budget planning and forecasting activities across the L&C function
• Engage regularly with cost center owners and support them on financial, accruals and FTE topics
• Acting as the central point between L&C and Finance department for any financial queries
• Coordinating all financial activities across L&C and support ongoing financial transparency and cost management across the function

Internal Reporting

• Coordinate and reconcile data supporting Legal & Compliance internal reporting requirements
• Prepare and oversee reporting deliverables and key performance indicators throughout the year
• Support management decision-making through timely, accurate, and insightful reporting

About the Team

The Legal & Compliance Operations team is a newly established team based in Switzerland and Slovakia, on an exciting mission to enable the Group Legal & Compliance function through governance, operational excellence, and financial stewardship. We own selected operational frameworks within Legal & Compliance and lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting to support informed decision-making across the function. The role offers broad exposure to senior stakeholders across Swiss Re and provides a unique platform to contribute to the strategic and operational effectiveness of Legal & Compliance. If you're looking for a role where your contributions are seen, valued, and impactful — this is it.

About You

You are a highly organized, detail-oriented professional who genuinely enjoys bringing structure to complex processes and collaborating across diverse stakeholder groups. You're comfortable managing multiple priorities simultaneously and have a strong sense of ownership and accountability. You combine sharp analytical thinking with excellent communication skills and are motivated by driving continuous improvement and operational excellence. You bring both the rigor to get the details right and the confidence to engage credibly with senior stakeholders.

We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:

• University degree in Business Administration, Finance, Law, or a related field
• Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience in governance, operations, risk management, compliance, finance, or a similar corporate function
• Strong understanding of risk and control frameworks, governance processes, and operational risk management principles
• Proven experience coordinating cross-functional processes involving multiple senior stakeholders
• Excellent project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines effectively
• Strong analytical capabilities and hands-on experience working with data, reporting, and performance metrics
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills across all organizational levels

These are additional nice to haves:

• Experience within Legal, Compliance, or Risk Management environments
• Familiarity with governance frameworks, and regulatory reporting processes
• Experience managing budgets, forecasts, and financial planning activities
• A continuous improvement mindset with a track record of optimizing operational processes

For Slovakia the base salary range for this position is between 2,900 EUR and 4,900 EUR per month (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 addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance-based variable compensation component, designed to recognise your achievements.

Further you will enjoy a variety of global and location specific benefits. Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.

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