Finance Manager

job description:
Hiscox is an international specialist insurer and reinsurer. We provide market leading products and excellent service to individuals and businesses with unusual and often complicated insurance needs. A FTSE 250 company, we can trace our roots to the Lloyd’s market in 1901. We employ over 3,400 highly professional staff, have offices in 14 countries and customers all over the world. Hiscox SA with its head office in Luxembourg is the insurance company focusing on retail business in Europe, a key retail division within the Hiscox Group that has seen good growth and profitability over a number of years and has ambitious plans for the future.

Hiscox SA employs a team of circa 500 people located in Luxembourg and its branches in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom. **To strengthen our team in Luxembourg, we are looking for a**

**Finance Manager (gn)**
The Luxembourg Finance Manager is a role that reports into the European CFO, marks the Finance presence in Luxembourg while being the link between the Head-office of the Insurance Company, Hiscox, S.A. (HSA) and the wider Europe Finance team.

This role will also require interaction with a number of senior stakeholders, including the Board of HSA.

**Key responsibilities**

**75% - External Financial Reporting**
- Maintenance of the local accounting ledgers (Lux GAAP), reconciliation and control disciplines to ensure the GL at all times accurately reflects the insurance company performance, assets and liabilities, with appropriate robust and independent controls.
- Support the Tax team and the External Reporting team with the submissions of fiscal and regulatory bodies including tax authorities and financial regulators.
- Contribute to the Luxembourg reporting including but not limited to CAA reporting.
- Support the external audit assistance and management of audit queries from external auditors that are based in Luxembourg, along with the Internal Reporting Manager.

**10% - Internal Management Reporting**
- To support the EU Head of Legal and Compliance with expense variance tracking, budgeting and forecasting, quarterly financial consolidation packs and general financial analysis.
- Provide monthly analysis on expenses to both the European Finance Team and Head Office team investigating and commenting on significant variances and trends and integrating these into subsequent business forecasts.
- Maintain and support the interaction between internal and external reports.

**10% - Accounting**
- Recommend and implement methods and procedures to improve accounting processes for either Luxembourg or on a European basis as required.
- Review and post Investments in General Ledger (IFRS and Lux GAAP).
- Be able to independently review the numbers generated from ERP in IFRS and Lux GAAP and business systems and deviances to plan.
- Support the CFO with HSA, SA reports required for the Internal stakeholders
- Represent CFO is some local insurance associations, when required and as fit

**5% - Other tasks**

person specification:
**Key requirements**
- 3 to 5 years of experience minimum in a big four or similar.
- Lux GAAP and IFRS accounting experience.
- Degree Financial Management with Master Degree.
- Experience with Lux Regulatory Reporting.
- Knowledge of non-life insurance accounting would be a plus.
- Experience/knowledge on certain areas such as Actuarial, Capital Management, Risk, Audit is a plus.
- Be able to work in a matrix environment and a team player. This may involve some flexibility of working hours to accommodate business needs.
- Fluent in English and French. Other Languages - German, Dutch, Spanish would be welcome.
- Able to work to across geographical lines on a daily basis, both from a stakeholder and team perspectives.
- Excellent accuracy and attention to detail and ability to produce high quality output even when dealing with high volume and under time pressure.
- Good analytical Skills.
- Results driven, with the energy and determination to succeed in a very fast environment where the pace and quality of response is critical to succeed.
- Creative, proactive, logical and innovate - you have a can do attitude and do not accept the status quo.
- Critical thinking, with an analytical ability to interpret the results of an analyses, and identify the key information that needs to be communicated.
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships in and outside Finance team and manage different level of stakeholders.
- Experience of working in an office environment, ideally in a multinational, multi lingual environment.
- Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Outlook, Excel and ERP systems (Oracle and Power BI knowledge is a plus)
- Numerate and comfortable in analysing significant quantities of complex data within tight deadlines combined on a “right first time basis”.
- Good communication skills and ability to initiate and facilitate process c