Treasurer EME and Life (100%)

Senior Leadership Opportunity in Group Treasury & Capital Management

Join a stimulating and challenging environment within Group Finance to serve as a key financial leader for the EME and Life businesses. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence critical financial decisions, working directly with senior business and finance leaders to shape capital allocation, balance sheet strategy, and shareholder value creation across a broad international portfolio. Operating at the intersection of strategy, finance, and capital and liquidity management, this is a highly visible position with significant influence across multiple businesses and jurisdictions.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary Treasury and Capital Management partner to the EME and Life businesses, collaborating closely with business CFOs and finance leaders to support strategic decision-making and execution.
• Support business planning and strategic initiatives by ensuring capital, liquidity, and balance sheet implications are appropriately reflected in decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to improve capital efficiency, optimize liquidity positions, and enhance returns on deployed capital across the EME and Life portfolio.
• Build a clear and comprehensive picture of each balance sheet regarding regulatory capital requirements, liquidity, financial risk, leverage, return on capital, and legal entity structure to identify opportunities for enhanced efficiency.
• Provide insight and challenge on matters relating to capital allocation, ensuring the efficient deployment of capital across EME and Life balance sheets while balancing growth opportunities, risk appetite, and shareholder returns.
• Oversee capital and liquidity management activities across the portfolio of entities, ensuring businesses remain appropriately capitalised and liquid under both business-as-usual and stressed conditions, whilst maximising dividends and other liquidity repatriations where appropriate.
• Work closely with relevant balance sheet CFOs to identify and resolve issues relating to Treasury and Capital Management, ensuring relevant information and issues are escalated at local, regional, and Group levels as appropriate.
• Monitor industry and marketplace developments, including regulatory changes, and promote a market-leading approach to capital and liquidity management within EME and Life.
• Lead and develop a team of Treasury professionals, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Build strong relationships across Group, regional, and local teams.

Required Qualifications

• Significant experience within insurance finance, treasury, capital management, corporate finance, or related disciplines.
• Strong understanding of insurance balance sheets and value drivers.
• Experience working with insurance regulatory capital frameworks and capital management processes.
• Commercially minded with strong strategic judgements.
• Strong communicator with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Solution-oriented, pragmatic, and comfortable operating in a dynamic environment.
• Able to challenge constructively and influence without using formal authority.

Workplace and Culture

Imagine working in one of the world’s most sustainable workplaces. At Quai Zurich Campus, you will enjoy an environment designed to help you thrive, with benefits that support your well-being and impact, and opportunities to perform at your best, surrounded by top talent and supportive colleagues.

You will have access to healthy food options, fitness facilities, and bright, collaborative spaces that spark creativity. Located in the heart of Zurich on the shores of Lake Zurich, the campus offers excellent public transportation links, making your commute simple.

Grow with us through access to learning resources, on-the-job development, and continuous empowerment and support. Be part of a team that is creating a brighter future together.

About Us

Zurich is a leading multi-line insurer, serving over 82 million customers in more than 200 countries and territories with more than 65,000 employees. For over 150 years, Zurich has been transforming insurance – offering not just protection, but also prevention services that promote well-being and climate resilience. Guided by our purpose to ‘create a brighter future together,’ we aim to be one of the most responsible and impactful businesses in the world.

At Zurich, we like to think outside the box and challenge the status quo. We take an optimistic approach by focusing on the positives and constantly asking What can go right? We are an equal opportunity employer who knows that each employee is unique - that’s what makes our team so great! Join us as we constantly explore new ways to protect our customers and the planet.