Senior Manager, IFRS & Insurance Accounting

Senior Manager, IFRS & Insurance Accounting

Reporting to the Controller, the Senior Manager, IFRS & Insurance Accounting is responsible for the technical application, interpretation, ongoing compliance with IFRS, with a key focus on IFRS
17 insurance accounting. This role serves as the technical accounting lead supporting the Controller, providing guidance on complex and judgmental accounting matters and ensuring consistent application of IFRS standards within the established finance governance framework.

• Lead the interpretation and application of IFRS standards across the organization, providing guidance on complex, technical, and judgmental accounting matters.
• Serve as the technical accounting lead within the finance function, supporting the Controller in evaluating and determining appropriate accounting treatments.
• Develop, maintain, and recommend accounting policies, technical position papers, and interpretations for approval within the finance governance framework.
• Monitor emerging accounting developments and industry practices and assess their impact on financial reporting.

• Develop, maintain, and recommend IFRS
  17 accounting policies, methodologies, and position papers.
• Apply IFRS
  17 measurement models (e.g., GMM, PAA), including contract boundary assessments, coverage units, and discounting methodologies.
• Oversee the recognition and measurement of insurance revenue, insurance service expenses, and insurance finance income or expenses.

• Prepare monthly management reporting dashboards including commentary focused on financial statement results.
• Provide financial variance commentary related to accounting movements (e.g. timing differences, accruals, reclassifications).
• Ensure consistency, completeness, and accuracy of results across entity-level and consolidated reporting views.

• Oversee the calculation, analysis, and roll‑forward of the Contractual Service Margin (CSM).
• Lead the review and challenge the risk adjustment methodologies and movements in collaboration with actuarial team.
• Perform analytical review of CSM drivers, assumption changes, experience variances, and new business impacts.
• Ensure consistency between actuarial outputs and accounting treatment under IFRS 17.

• Lead coordination with actuarial team to validate inputs, assumptions, and outputs used in IFRS
  17 and other accounting areas.
• Translate actuarial and operational data into accounting entries, reconciliations, and technical analysis.
• Oversee and enhance data flows between actuarial models, sub-ledgers, and the general ledger.
• Drive resolution of data issues, reconciliation differences, and system‑related discrepancies.

• Lead the preparation and review of complex accounting entries, reconciliations, and supporting schedules as part of monthly and quarterly close.
• Provide technical accounting oversight and support in the preparation of IFRS financial statements and disclosures in coordination with the Senior Reporting Analyst.
• Perform and oversee the quarterly transition from IFRS to HGB using Group‑approved, tool‑based processes, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Lead collaboration with Group Finance to identify, assess, and explain differences between IFRS and HGB, including impacts from IFRS
  17 and broader IFRS topics.
• Prepare technical analysis and explanations for Group, Supervisory Board, and external audit requests.
• Ensure all technical accounting working papers are complete, well‑documented, and audit‑ready.

• Act as the primary point of contact for internal and external auditors on technical accounting matters.
• Lead preparation of technical accounting memos, position papers, and audit responses.
• Support the design and operation of internal controls over accounting processes, estimates, and data flows.
• Ensure compliance with internal governance frameworks, policies, and regulatory expectations.

• Drive improvements in accounting processes, controls,…