Finance Process and Systems Expert

Location: Douglas, Isle of Man

Closing date for applications: 6th August 2025

The opportunity:

Join our team as a Finance Process and Systems Expert and play a pivotal role in transforming and optimising Zurich’s finance processes. You’ll lead initiatives to streamline reporting, drive automation, and champion best practices—helping to shape a brighter, more efficient future for our finance function. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of Finance and Accounting Systems and be well versed in working on or alongside large sale change programmes within a finance setting. Hold excellent leadership skills, a self-starting work style and the ability to work collaboratively across various departments and regions.

Key responsibilities:

• Drive process improvement initiatives within finance aligned to Zurich Group best practice.
• Act as a change agent, supporting a culture of continuous improvement and digital transformation across finance.
• Analyse current reporting processes to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Lead and implement process optimisation projects, introducing automation and best practices to reduce manual work and save time.
• Develop and enforce data quality standards to ensure accurate, consistent, and reliable reporting outputs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather feedback, streamline data flows, and promote process ownership.
• Design and document efficient workflows for data collection, validation, and reporting.
• Monitor the effectiveness of improvements, using data-driven metrics to demonstrate time savings and enhanced performance.

Your skills and experience:

• Expert in Zurich Group financial reporting processes, systems and expectations.
• Expert Zurich SAP knowledge.
• Finance transformation experience translating Zurich project and change activity into Zurich BAU effectively.
• Demonstrated experience and strong background in international best practice finance, accounting, and reporting processes.
• Strong existing network of finance experts relevant to financial process optimisation, preferable aligned to Zurich Group.
• Qualified accountant.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and process improvement skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and drive cross-functional collaboration.
• Effective communicator with experience presenting to senior management.
• Awareness of Zurich’s sustainability commitments and ability to integrate sustainable practices into finance operations.

Who are we? 
We are Zurich International Life!   
  
We support our fellow business units who provide life and savings products to markets around the world.  Based out of the Isle of Man since 1982, Zurich has built a strong reputation as a reliable, dependable yet innovative insurer and regularly receives recognition and awards from the industry.  
  

This role is based in our state-of-the-art Isle of Man office alongside a further 360 employees at this location. 

 
Our culture:       

At Zurich on the Isle of Man, our sense of community is strong and we’re particularly passionate about diversity and inclusion. We want our people to bring their whole selves to the workplace and ensure everybody is made to feel welcome, regardless of their background, race, gender or sexual identity, beliefs, or culture. We are committed to treating all our applicants fairly and with respect, irrespective of their actual or assumed background, disability, or any other protected characteristic.     
 

We have an environment that places a real importance on our people’s wellbeing from a physical, mental, social and financial perspective. We work with our wellbeing partners and industry experts to provide the best advice and access to a wealth of lifestyle support. We’re also committed to continuous improvement, and we offer access to a comprehensive range of training and development opportunities.        
  

We’re passionate about supporting employees to help others by getting involved in volunteering, charitable and community activity. Our charitable arm, Zurich Community Trust, is one of the longest-established corporate trusts in the UK. In that time, we’ve awarded grants and volunteered time to deserving causes in the UK valued at over £90 million.     

Why Zurich?  
Aside from our fantastic office space, which we demonstrate in our video, we have a great benefits and reward package.   
  

Please take a look at the video for an insight into Zurich:  

https://players.brightcove.net/5768412917001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6318953386112  

So, make a difference. Be challenged. Be inspired. Be supported. Love what you do. Work for us.