Job Description

The CFO, Bermuda Reinsurance acts as both a Strategic Business Partner and Chief Financial officer on all finance matters to the CEO, Bermuda Reinsurance. This role has a focus on Regulatory Reporting and legal entity financial management.

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Partner with the CEO, Reinsurance to understand their businesses from an integrated financial perspective, provide insight into potential improvements, and give your perspective on the feasibility of various strategic initiatives.
• Help to look at the business through an analytical lens and drive the increased analytical culture and mindset within the business and finance. Challenge and coach the business on the financial impact of their decisions. Work alongside the controllership function, to enable accuracy, consistency and efficiency in our planning and reporting processes, and "one set of numbers" in relation to the Reinsurance business.
• Responsible for all regulatory reporting of the main Reinsurance legal entities domiciled in Bermuda, including Quarterly and Annual submissions.
• Repsonsible for the preperation of the Annual IFRS AXA XL Re Ltd consolidated Financial Statements
• Working alongside the Reinsurance Head of Capital Management and Regulatory Reporting - in understanding the capital requirements of the Bermuda legal entities and how these impact and affect the overall requirements of the Reinsurance Business unit.
• Responsible for forecasting the Business unit's financial standing based on financial and operational data and reports and advising the CEO and respective boards on strategic direction.
• Actively monitor expense drivers and work with the business to ensure most efficient cost structure.
• To encourage and foster strong working relationships with FinOps, ERM, Capital Management, Treasury, Compliance, Investment Accounting, Internal Audit and Tax, and feed into their processes where appropriate.
• To actively participate in Board of Director roles for appropriate entities.
• Review and at times, be involved in the production of internal Board and Management MI related to the legal entities alongside all external reporting requirements.
• Manage and lead the Reinsurance Bermuda regulatory team
• Other ad hoc duties and projects as required

Working relationships:

• Will interact with AXA XL Divisional Finance, Legal, Tax, Compliance, Actuarial, ERM and Treasury Teams on various matters, as AXA XL Re Ltd is the top regulated reinsurance entity and owner of significant subsidiaries within the Reinsurance Business Unit.
• External interactions will include external auditors and local regulator

Position Reports to: CEO Bermuda Reinsurance.

Qualifications

We're looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• Qualified accountant (CA, CPA, ACA or equivalent) with at least ten years post-qualification experience in the excess property and casualty insurance and reinsurance industry
• Must have a strong knowledge and experience with US GAAP and/or IFRS accounting and reporting
• Extensive working knowledge of current statutory requirements and experience with Bermuda Statutory reporting requirements for a Class 4 Company
• Working knowledge and experience with Oracle, Hyperion and PeopleSoft Financials
• Must possess strong analytical and report writing skills as well as solid organizational and communication skills

FIND your future

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don't just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business - property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

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At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success. That's why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most diverse workforce possible, and create an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and can reach their highest potential. It's about helping one another -- and our business -- to move forward and succeed.

Our enterprise I&D mission is to become the most inspiring company to work for. We're achieving this through our three areas of focus:

• Drive an Inclusive Culture--create a global workplace that works for everyone, with a culture that values all individuals, backgrounds and ideas, and where every colleague feels safe, valued and respected.
• Diversify Our Workforce--increase the representation of women in leadership, achieving 50% by 2023, and focus on underrepresented populations by region, positioning AXA XL as an employer of choice for all talent.
• Support Our Marketplace & Communities--support our communities and visibly and thoughtfully champion equity around the globe.

Learn more at . AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Corporate Responsibility

At AXA XL our approach to corporate responsibility (CR) is the same as our approach to business; constantly seeking to provide innovative solutions to the world's most complex problems. From offering our expertise, products and services to help build more resilient communities, to advancing understanding and response to climate change, our strategy - Our Impact. Our Future. - aligns key issues that are pertinent to our business - climate, water and financial resilience - and contributes to AXA Group's purpose to "Act for human progress by protecting what matters."

• Climate: We're reducing our carbon footprint, protecting ecosystems and exploring how our business can help build a better world.
• Water: We're developing water resilience where it is -- and will be -- needed most.
• Financial resilience: We're helping create opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed, so they can be better prepared for unexpected changes.
• Hearts in Action: We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as our "Hearts in Action" programs.

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