Regional Head Of Payments & Collections

Description:

This position is embedded in our worldwide Payments & Collections department, belonging to our Non-Life Operations Unit within Finance. Our mission is to provide timely cash flow for PartnerRe, clients, and brokers. In this role you will be responsible for executing the global Payments & Collections strategy aligned with PartnerRe’s overall business goals. In addition, you will be leading and mentoring a team of professionals across two locations (Dublin and Zürich); supporting staff planning, budgeting, and professional development within the department.

About The Role

Furthermore, your duties will be as follows:

• Supervising and enhancing effective and efficient Payments & Collections operations:
• Ensuring timely and secure payments to and from reinsurance brokers.
• Overseeing reconciliation and monitoring of unsettled balances.
• Maintaining and managing payment partner bank accounts.
• Ensuring adherence to global regulations and maintaining a well-controlled environment and internal control framework to mitigate risks.
• Identifying and implementing new technologies to improve payment operations; including the implementation of eMessaging and ongoing maintenance and development of the Technical Accounting workflow tool.
• Working closely with internal and external stakeholders on all payment-related matters to streamline processes.
• Establishing performance metrics and preparing regular management reporting.
• Participating in or leading special tasks or projects.

Qualifications

You bring minimum of 5 years of experience in Payments & Collections, in Reinsurance Accounting or in a similar role, including a minimum of 5 years people management experience. Ideally, you hold a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, Finance or a related field is considered an asset, but an equivalent professional experience will also be taken into account.

In addition, your profile is surrounded by the following skills and knowledge:

• Experience in managing teams remotely
• Well developed communication skills and ability to build effective working relationships with internal and/or external parties
• Strong analytical and organizational skills
• SICS and eMessaging experience would be an asset
• Advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge
• Advanced understanding of processes, guidelines and controls and capability to determine and enforce them
• Good training skills
• Excellent verbal and written English language skills