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Locations:Kansas City, MO, US |Armonk, NY, US

Join us as a strategic finance leader who will shape the financial future of our Property & Casualty Reinsurance business across the Americas region. This pivotal role offers an exceptional opportunity to drive financial excellence while partnering with senior leadership to deliver sustainable growth and profitability in one of our most dynamic regions.

About the Role:

As Head of Financial Planning & Analysis for P&C Re in Americas, you operate at the intersection of finance and strategy, providing critical insights that inform business decisions and drive performance across the region.

Leading a high-performing regional finance team, you will act as a trusted advisor to market leadership while advancing our finance transformation agenda. You will report directly to the Global CFO for P&C Re and play a key role within the P&C Re Finance Leadership Team.

Key Responsibilities



Strategic Business Advisory

• Lead the regional strategic and financial planning processes, ensuring alignment between financial targets and business ambitions
• Provide rigorous financial analysis and reporting to support underwriting, renewal steering, and portfolio optimization
• Advise on business initiatives, large transactions, and capital allocation decisions
• Identify growth and continuous improvement opportunities based on data-driven insights

People Leadership

• Lead and develop a diverse team of finance professionals across the region
• Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, and solutions-orientation
• Attract and retain top talent while fostering succession readiness

Financial Reporting

• Ensure clear, consistent communication of financial performance across the Americas through insightful and transparent reporting.
• Deliver insightful variance analysis, projections, and scenario planning
• Link business outcomes to financial results and KPIs, translating them into a clear IFRS-aligned narrative that strengthens profitability steering through actionable insights.

Governance, Risk & Controls

• Establish financial procedures and controls in accordance with Group guidelines
• Partner effectively with internal and external auditors to ensure strong financial controls and transparency across your areas of responsibility
• Uphold transparency, integrity, and financial discipline

Process & Transformation Leadership

• Simplify and enhance financial processes to enable market teams to focus on business origination
• Lead and contribute to strategic projects supporting Market Units in assessing and delivering on large transactions

About the Team:

P&C Re Americas is a key contributor to our global reinsurance portfolio, serving clients across North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The business spans a broad range of Property & Casualty lines and operates across diverse market environments, balancing growth, profitability, and capital discipline.

As Head FP&A P&C Re Americas, you will act as a strategic finance partner to regional market leadership, supporting performance steering across multiple markets and product lines. You will work closely with underwriting, actuarial, and portfolio management teams to translate business performance into forward-looking financial insights.

Reporting to the CFO P&C Re and serving on the P&C Re Finance Leadership Team, you will collaborate with regional finance colleagues and leverage centralized support to advance transparency, profitability steering, and finance transformation across the Americas platform.

About You:

You are a commercially minded finance executive with the ability to connect financial rigor with business ambition. You bring strategic clarity, exceptional business acumen, strong leadership presence, and the confidence to influence senior levels.

You translate complexity into actionable insights, balance risk and opportunity, and thrive in collaborative environments that demand both analytical depth and strategic foresight. You bring a passion for developing and empowering high-performing teams, underpinned by a proven track record of leadership success across diverse, multicultural environments.

Professional Experience & Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant finance experience, including at least 5 years in leadership roles
• Extensive experience within the insurance or reinsurance industry is essential, including a demonstrated understanding of underwriting performance drivers, reserving methodologies, and capital implications
• Proven track record in Financial Planning and Analysis
• Strong understanding of financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning processes
• Solid understanding of Americas market dynamics
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or related field; professional qualification (CPA, ACCA, CFA) preferred

Additional Experience & Competencies

• Experience leading finance transformation initiatives and financial system implementations
• Knowledge of IFRS 17 implementation and implications
• Experience in leading remote/distributed teams across multiple locations
• Technology affine, using AI to accelerate delivery and improve outcomes
• Proficiency in relevant Americas languages
• Background in risk management or actuarial concepts
• Solutions-oriented mindset

The position is flexible to our Armonk, NY or Kansas City, MO offices. Our company has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office three days per week.

For Armonk, NY, the estimated base salary range for this position is $188,000 to $282,000. The specific salary offered for this or any given role will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to job location, scope of role, qualifications, complexity/specialization/scarcity of talent, experience, education, and employer budget. At Swiss Re, we take a "total compensation approach" when making compensation decisions. This means that we consider all components of compensation in their totality (such as base pay, short-and long-term incentives, and benefits offered), in setting individual compensation.

For Kansas City, MO, the estimated base salary range for this position is $176,000 to $264,000. The specific salary offered for this or any given role will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to job location, scope of role, qualifications, complexity/specialization/scarcity of talent, experience, education, and employer budget. At Swiss Re, we take a "total compensation approach" when making compensation decisions. This means that we consider all components of compensation in their totality (such as base pay, short-and long-term incentives, and benefits offered), in setting individual compensation.

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 14,000 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.

Swiss Re is an equal opportunity employer. It is our practice to recruit, hire and promote without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, pregnancy, sexual orientations, marital status, military status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Decisions on employment are solely based on an individual's qualifications for the position being filled.

During the recruitment process, reasonable accommodations for disabilities are available upon request. If contacted for an interview, please inform the Recruiter/HR Professional of the accommodation needed.

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