The AVP, Senior Portfolio TA&A; SME supports Technical Accounting teams by managing and administering insurance portfolios, coordinating with cross functional stakeholders, and ensuring effective governance and processes. This role involves overseeing insurance and/or reinsurance accounts, contract intake, technical accounting, claims handling, cash flow management, and ensuring compliance with internal controls and regulations.
About SCOR: As a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying "The Art & Science of Risk," SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.
Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry - actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others - as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.
As an international company, our common culture is defined by "The SCOR Way." Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.
SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.
Job Summary: The AVP, Senior Portfolio TA&A; SME, is responsible for providing technical support to Technical Accounting teams,
managing entities and portfolios, and ensuring effective governance and processes. This role involves establishing and maintaining contractual data, processing the insurance and/or reinsurance account bookings, claims handling and managing the related cash flow, while facilitating communication with stakeholders. Additionally, the Senior Portfolio SME (SPS) ensures compliance with internal controls and regulations.
The role will be primarily supporting the SCOR Business Solutions (SBS) portfolio. The role provides critical support and strategic guidance to underwriters in administrative activities relating to the underwriting and technical accounting process.
This role is responsible for ensuring high-quality service delivery across core operational and underwriting processes, maintaining compliance with contractual and regulatory requirements, and driving efficiency and continuous improvement. As a SPM, there will be expectations around coaching, training and supporting other PMs within the team (and globally) to support the Head of Technical Accounting & Administration.
Showcasing agility and change management while continue their learning and development will help support the adoption of new tools and process improvements, which align with SCOR's Operational priorities.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the portfolio management of facultative policies while ensuring accurate updates within underwriting and accounting platforms. Maintaining high standards of data governance, with collaborative accountability.
- Ensure contract management through correct input and audit of Terms & Conditions in the accounting system and implementing robust quality assurance protocols.
- Align with underwriters on policy language/terms and condition changes.
- Ensure completeness and accuracy in the recording of account and claims advices, driving accountability across teams.
- Serve as a senior liaison between Underwriting, Claims, Finance, brokers, cedents, and outsourced teams to resolve complex discrepancies and ensure alignment across stakeholders.
- Manage independently his/her own portfolio with medium to complex accounts. Resolve complex problems or problems where precedent may not exist.
- Manage cashflow including setting-up of client bank accounts in the accounting system, processing of outgoing/incoming payments and follow up on pending payments and open balances.
- PerformICS controls (Internal Control System) according to relevant guidelines and pro-actively support Underwriters in the performance of these controls.
- Ensure compliance with sanctions and embargos by scanning respective lists and forward to Underwriter/Legal for further investigation if needed.
- Ensure completeness and proper filing of underwriting, accounting and claims documentation DMS (Document Management System)
- Maintain positive communication with clients by attending internal and external meetings and workshops as required.
- Be accountable for internal and external audit purposes and support regulatory requests.
- Create/monitor reports
📌 AVP, Senior Portfolio Manager TA&A (Toronto)
🏢 SCOR
📍 Toronto