Pacific Life Re Looking for Senior Financial Analyst at Toronto, Ontario, Canada Full Time

The Role – Senior Finance Analyst – 12 month Fixed Term Contract

Pacific Life Re (“PL Re”) is dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of quality and operational excellence across the organization. After a significant global expansion and a strategic push to standardize systems and platforms worldwide, PL Re is embarking on a comprehensive back-office transformation program. Simultaneously, the finance unit is implementing multiple initiatives to enhance capabilities in response to evolving business demands and complex transactions.

Within the Financial Reporting workstream, there is a pivotal need for support as the project progresses through its various stages. This role will collaborate directly with the core team leading the charge in system and process changes, contributing to the achievement of key objectives for both the overall project and the specific financial reporting workstream.

Key outcomes involve standardizing reporting processes globally to enhance transparency and talent mobility, automating manual procedures, and fostering improved cross-functional collaboration and integration.

The role holder will cultivate close relationships with subject matter experts and teams across different regions and workstreams, maintaining consistent communication throughout the project lifecycle.

The financial reporting workstream benefits from support by cross-functional teams established as part of the extensive global transformation project. The teams provide essential change management support and guidance, ensuring a systematic, controlled, and efficient approach to change within the company.

This role represents a compelling opportunity to join the finance team during a dynamic period of transformation. As a finance analyst, you will play a critical role in documenting, testing, and delivering on the finance project objectives.

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Qualifications & Experience

• Working towards or achieved Professional accounting designation (CPA/ACA/ACCA or equivalent)
• Minimum of 1 to 3 years accounting experience with core exposure to accounting, financial reporting and analysis, project management and change management
• Experience with Oracle finance modules is an asset
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and technical accounting skills
• Demonstrated strength in the use of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP AFO, PeopleSoft, Oracle Fusion, and advanced MS Excel capability
• Good understanding of different bases of accounting (IFRS, USGAAP, US Tax)
• Good understanding of reinsurance/insurance accounting and knowledge of actuarial concepts is an asset
• Strong interpersonal/negotiation skills with the ability to build relationships with different functional areas and work effectively within a team environment
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a deadline driven environment
• Demonstrate flexible and efficient time management skills and ability to prioritise workload and at times flexibility to accommodate global working hours (primarily in the UK or California)
• Ability to deal with non-standard requests/work
• Proactive, adaptable individual with strong leadership, and process evaluation abilities, with a holistic view to technology integration and automation
• Excellent business writing and documentation skills

Pacific Life Re – Who are we?

We work with clients in Europe, Asia, Australia and North America, specialising in risks associated with Life, Critical Illness, Income Protection, Hospital Cash and Longevity products. Our clients are insurance or reinsurance companies looking for a new and innovative approach to taking risks.

With the security and financial strength of a parent company that’s been around for over 145 years and a mutual holding company as our ultimate parent, we are not constrained by short-term thinking; therefore, allowing us to be free to pursue the right course for our clients and our business.

Underlying our philosophy is an intelligent approach to taking risks. By recruiting top quality staff and investing in the latest analytical technologies, we believe we are well placed to make those decisions.

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.