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Senior Accountant role at Zurich in Luxembourg – oversee financial reporting, IFRS 17 compliance, and support audits.
Join a dynamic team, enjoy competitive pay, flexible hours, and growth opportunities in the insurance sector.
Zurich is one of the world’s leading insurance groups, and one of the few to operate on a global basis. Our mission is to help our customers understand and protect themselves from risk. With about 53,000 employees serving customers in more than 170 countries, we aspire to become the best global insurer as measured by our shareholders, customers and employees. We help individuals, small and medium sized companies and global corporations around the world understand and protect themselves from risk by offering a wide range of insurance products, solutions and advisory services.
Senior Accountant (m/f/d)
Your role
You act as the Senior Accountant and report to the Accounting and Reporting Supervisor. You have to collaborate with various departments. The position will be based in Luxembourg. As Accountant your main responsibilities will be as follows:
- Ensure accurate and timely accounting and reporting in line with local and group requirements.
- Prepare financial and regulatory reporting files, analyses trends, and ensure correct system reporting.
- Maintain and further develop accounting policies, manuals, and local frameworks, ensuring regulatory and statutory compliance.
- Analyses financial data, identify issues or inefficiencies, and contribute to improving controls and processes.
- Act as a technical point of reference within Finance for accounting and reporting topics.
- Support month ‑ end and year ‑ end closing activities.
- Contribute to internal and external audits and respond to audit queries.
- Provide ad ‑ hoc accounting and finance support to operational and business teams.
Your skills and experience
- University degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
- Minimum of 3–6 years’ experience in accounting and/or finance, ideally in a regulated environment.
- Sound knowledge of accounting principles; IFRS 17 knowledge is a strong advantage.
- Experience in the insurance sector (Life & Risk) is an asset.
- Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus.
- Strong Excel and MS Office skills.
- Analytical, structured, and detail ‑ oriented approach.
- Reliable, proactive, and comfortable taking ownership.
- Strong communication skills and professional judgment.
We offer
- Full‑time position in our friendly and motivated team in Luxembourg.
- International working environment.
- Compensation packages to high standard market rates.
- A high standard Group health insurance & Pension plan.
- Flexible working policy to support your work life balance.
- Career path and opportunities within Zurich Group.
- Executive Managers whose doors are always open.
- A work model based on transparency and recognition.
- Training & Development for upskilling your future experience.