Financial Controller

Title:

Financial Controller

Company:

Everest Insurance Chile

Job Category:

Finance

Job Description:

Everest is a leading global Reinsurance and Insurance organisation with extensive product and distribution capabilities, a strong balance sheet and an innovative culture. Throughout its history, Everest has maintained its discipline and focus on creating long term value through Underwriting excellence and strong Risk and Capital Management. 

Everest Insurance International (EII) is a fast-growing division of Everest Insurance, which is looking to expand into new geographies and new classes of business. At Everest, we believe that our future is determined by the actions we take today. Actions that go beyond business strategy and encompass the values important to our employees and the communities in which we operate.

We are seeking a bilingual (English and Spanish), skilled, and experienced Financial Controller to lead the development and maintenance of a strong financial control environment in Chile. This role will require hands-on involvement in day-to-day accounting, reporting, and finance-related processes.

Key responsibilities:

• Supervise production of quarterly and annual financial close processes for Chile, ensuring compliance with IFRS, US GAAP, and local statutory regulations.
• Lead and support the automation, standardization, and redesign of finance processes to improve efficiency and accelerate financial close cycles.
• Oversee the maintenance of general ledger accounts (CoA) and ensure accurate eliminations and group consolidation.
• Prepare technical accounting papers to support both local statutory and US GAAP accounting.
• Manage the reconciliation process between local and corporate reporting. Oversee account analysis prepared by local accounting teams.
• Collaborate to ensure that delivered systems comply with corporate and local regulations.
• Collaborate closely with the international/global finance team and key stakeholders to ensure alignment on financial reporting, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
• Support ad-hoc finance projects, including the implementation of new systems, processes, or regulatory changes.
• Oversee the preparation of regulatory returns in compliance with local laws.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to local teams, ensuring high performance and professional development.
• Maintain a high level of awareness of emerging industry trends and regulatory changes that may impact financial reporting.
• Control and validate the FECU notes of the reinsurance financial statements, in order to report reinsurance accounts/items, complying with current regulations.

Qualifications, Education & Experience:

• Qualified accountant with a minimum of 6 years of post-qualification experience in insurance sector in Chile.
• Extensive experience with group financial consolidation and statutory reporting under IFRS and US GAAP.
• Proven experience working in multi-entity, multi-country environments, ideally across the LATAM region.
• Experience in communicating complex financial information to senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a financial team across diverse geographies, including coaching and mentoring staff.

Knowledge, Skills & Competences

• Fluent in both English and Spanish, with strong written and verbal communication skills in both languages.
• Highly organized, with a proven ability to prioritize workloads in a dynamic environment.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to dive into details while also seeing the big picture.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to interact with senior management and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to challenge the status quo, identify improvement opportunities, and drive change.
• Strong leadership qualities with the ability to lead and develop teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Desirable knowledge of local accounting regulations across the Latam region.

- Understand the data structures used in systems that generate accounting information (ERP, Reporting, etc.).

The role holder will be required to embrace the Everest Core Values: Agility, Be a champion of company success, Collaboration, Development.

The Everest Core Values are the foundation upon which we (a) conduct our work, and (b) conduct ourselves both internally with our colleagues, and externally with clients/customers. 

The Company's success and that of our employees begins with these values. All employees are expected to support and exhibit these values in their interactions with others and through their day-to-day responsibilities.

Everest is committed to recruiting and retaining the most talented individuals in the industry. We offer a dynamic work environment and a competitive compensation and benefit package which includes a Pension Scheme, Medical, Travel Loans, Gym Subsidiary and Professional Qualifications Support.

Equal Opportunity Employment: 

Everest is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, genetics, physical or mental disability, age, marital status, civil union status, family or parental status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. As part of this commitment, Everest will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Everest Talent Acquisition at 0203 887 2500 or [email protected]

Type:

Regular

Time Type:

Full time

Primary Location:

Santiago, Chile

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