Swiss Re

Principal Auditor

Swiss Re

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Hong Kong • Hong Kong

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Provide independent assurance to the Board of Directors of Swiss Re Group and relevant Legal Entities in the Asia Pacific region.
  • Work with Audit Managers and Directors to ensure robust execution of the continuous and bottom-up risk assessment processes, which underpin our risk based auditing approach.
  • Own audit task delivery, and play a key role in the end-to-end audit process, including planning, scoping, fieldwork and reporting.
  • Ensure all audit reports and outputs are delivered with robust quality, offering valuable and compelling insights to Senior Management and stakeholders.

Requirements

  • University degree in Accounting, Business or Finance.
  • 5+ years of related work experience in external and/or internal audit.
  • External Audit experience with a Big 4 with exposure to (re)insurance audits, or internal audit experience in an (re)insurance organisation preferred.
Benefits
  • Professional certification in either CPA, CA, CIA or CISA preferred.
  • Proficient in written and spoken English.
  • Strong awareness of internal audit methodologies and current/emerging issues for the (re)insurance industry, particularly within Asia.
  • Good knowledge of (re)insurance (L&H and P&C), and its governance, risks and controls, particularly for actuarial, finance and other technical domains (costing, claims, underwriting, reserving, ESG, IFRS 17, RBC, C ROSS).
  • Good understanding of regulatory requirements in Asia, particularly for Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Australia and Japan.
  • Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access).
  • Data analytics experience a plus, with track record in adopting data analytics for risk assessment, scoping and testing.
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Soft Skills
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