Country Controller, Italy

Country Controller, Italy

Join us as Country Controller to take your career to the next level.

Make your mark in Finance

Our Finance team plays an essential role in maintaining a healthy balance sheet at AIG. It delivers significant finance support for the overall enterprise, optimizing operations, controllership, funding, and capital structure to honor our stakeholder commitments. The team’s work is invaluable to informing leadership decision making, complying with regulatory requirements, and maintaining financial discipline, transparency and controls, while providing timely and meaningful information.

The responsibilities for this role include:

• Responsible for meeting the timely and accurate reporting of USGAAP results for the branch including:
  • Managing the communication of, and monitoring adherence to, the periodic close calendar by Accenture and local finance teams
  • Providing USGAAP subject matter advice including ensuring accounting policy changes are implemented consistently
  • Responsible for the quality of USGAAP ledger postings including monitoring the consistent use of SAP code blocks and charts of accounts
  • Monitoring and report progress and quality of balance sheet reconciliations for all entities in the branch.
• Key contact in the support of the transformation of the Controlling teams to achieve
  • Increased data quality in the ledgers to reduce manual intervention through process consistency and effectiveness.
• Responsible for production of and support for queries for all Local GAAP regulatory reporting and local tax process and audit of same.
• Responsible in the coordination of the preparation of country statutory returns including communication with local finance teams, outsourced professional service firm (EY) and Accenture.
• Contact point for External Audit (PWC), Actuarial, Risk and Tax teams for all USGAAP controllership financial reporting topics and issues.

What we’re looking for:

• Post graduate experience in a “Big 4” accounting firm and/ or relevant corporate or business finance role in a complex, multinational corporation.
• Proven controllership experience within an insurance organization
• Finance project or transformation experience
• Technical accounting expertise with understanding and interpretation of accounting policies under US GAAP and European GAAPs
• English (fluent) and Italian (fluent).
• Graduate Qualified Accountant or equivalent

Prior work experience in a multinational organization with varied geographical location and matrix reporting structure preferred.

Reimagining insurance to make a bigger difference to the world

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a global leader in commercial and personal insurance solutions; we are one of the world’s most far-reaching property casualty networks. It is an exciting time to join us — across our operations, we are thinking in new and innovative ways to deliver ever-better solutions to our customers. At AIG, you can go further to support individuals, businesses, and communities, helping them to manage risk, respond to times of uncertainty and discover new potential. We invest in our largest asset, our people, through continuous learning and development, in a culture that celebrates everyone for who they are and what they want to become.

Welcome to a culture of belonging

We’re committed to creating a culture that truly respects and celebrates each other’s talents, backgrounds, cultures, opinions and goals. We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging through our flexible work arrangements, diversity and inclusion learning, cultural awareness activities and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). With global chapters, ERGs are a cornerstone for our culture of inclusion. The diversity of our people is one of AIG’s greatest assets, and we are honored that our drive for positive change has been recognized by numerous recent awards and accreditations.

AIG provides equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, age, gender, gender expression, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected categories.

Functional Area:

FA - Finance

AIG Europe S.A.- General Representative for Italy