Middle Office Accounting Senior Expert

Position Summary

In this role, you will ensure the integrity and quality of accounting data while managing key accounting calculations, closing activities, regulatory reporting, and accounting systems administration for the entities or business units under your scope. You will also act as an expert key user in accounting transformation initiatives—such as system rollouts, process harmonization, and new business onboarding—helping shape and improve the organization’s financial landscape.

What You Will Do

Proficiency in leveraging AI tools like ChatGPT and technologies to enhance productivity and drive innovative solutions in daily tasks is essential for this role. 

Experience in Information Security Management and Data Protection to safeguard sensitive information and maintain compliance.

Accounting Calculations

• Perform calculations related to bad debts• Manage provisions and accruals
• Execute fixed asset–related calculations

Closing Review

• Safeguard data quality, accuracy, and timeliness of postings in accounting systems• Evaluate the performance of AP/AR and other departments, providing feedback to enhance transactional accounting activities
• Conduct sanity checks on suspense accounts, premiums, service revenue, claims, commissions, payroll, investments, FX, and tax
• Ensure closing quality assurance and compliance with standard booking schemes and global accounting policies
• Review balance sheet reconciliations
• Monitor and report closing progress
• Supervise or perform ECCS uploads
• Lead post-mortem reviews to identify issues, track resolutions, and implement process improvements

Regulatory Reporting

• Prepare statutory reports• Deliver regulatory reports
• Produce specific regulatory or business-required reporting

Accounting Systems Administration

• Manage access rights, including user and account setup• Configure and administer GRP (tables, interfaces, and settings)
• Oversee incident management related to accounting systems

Other Responsibilities

• Coordinate with cross-functional teams involved in closing, reporting, or transformation initiatives• Contribute as an expert key user in accounting transformation projects, including system rollout, process harmonization, and new business onboarding
• Support additional month-end closing tasks or ad-hoc accounting matters

What You Will Bring

Efficiency

• Strong analytical skills• Ability to synthesize and translate large data volumes into clear, actionable insights
• Strong prioritization and decision-making skills
• Ability to collaborate effectively across all levels of the organization
• Solution-oriented mindset
• Flexibility and openness to approaching challenges from different angles

Accountability

• Curiosity and willingness to learn• Proactive attitude and initiative
• Customer-oriented approach
• Ability to innovate and explore new technologies and practices

Communication

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English required; Italian is a plus)• Strong networking abilities and ease in collaborating with multiple functions
• Ability to work effectively across cultures, seniority levels, and global teams
• Comfortable working in remote and distributed environments

Finance

• Solid finance acumen• Strong accounting and tax knowledge
• Experience with SAP
• Familiarity with Solvency II regulation

What we offer 

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey. We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

92614 | Finance & Accounting | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us. 

At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust. 

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations. 

Great to have you on board. Let's care for tomorrow. 

Note: Having different strengths, experiences, perspectives and approaches is an integral part of Allianz‘ company culture. One means to achieve this is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company expects from its employees a general openness and a high motivation to regularly change positions and collect experiences across Allianz Group.