Chief Compliance Officer, Zurich North America
About the position Responsibilities • Deep regulatory expertise and experience across a prescribed but diverse range of compliance topics applicable to the business, its product portfolio, and its markets. • Considerable experience managing the compliance risks resulting from U.S. insurance regulation. • Demonstrates strong strategic orientation and a business partner mind-set, and able to execute a compliance strategy that enables Zurich to achieve its strategic objectives while protecting it from regulatory and reputational risk. • Proven track record of excellence in counseling and advising senior management. • Comfortable making decisions in ambiguous situations, has outstanding compliance and business judgment, and exhibits the highest degree of professionalism and ethics. • Proactively anticipates, identifies, and evaluates regulatory and governance risks and opportunities, and champions pragmatic and business-oriented solutions. • Is agile and always ready to pivot for the unexpected and find creative and innovative solutions as well as mitigating actions. • Maintains a customer-oriented attitude, and an intellectual curiosity that inspires others. • Takes smart risks, understands the bigger picture, adapts well to change, prioritizes, simplifies, takes ownership, embraces learning and is a thought leader. • Self-aware, authentic, and motivating leader with inspirational leadership skills and able to form a best-in-class Compliance team, with a strong purpose, clear strategy, and ability to translate it into day-to-day operational excellence. • Builds, leads, and empowers diverse, collaborative, and inclusive teams that are keen to develop and grow to ensure stable succession planning. • Fosters a performance-driven, innovative, and forward-looking function that leverages innovative technologies and tools to minimize risks and inefficiencies to ensure operational excellence and successful execution of the Global Compliance framework and mandate. • Appreciates how Sustainability impacts strategy and delivery and demonstrates a passion for advancing and supporting Zurich's Sustainability journey. • Understands common accounting concepts and principles, can read financial statements, and is familiar with other relevant Finance topics. • Proficient in budget development, forecasting and execution. • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to synthesize and communicate complex ethical and regulatory topics to different audiences and stakeholders. • Has the right balance between an independent voice and a sensitivity to finding consensus. • Cultivates collaboration within Zurich and builds and maintains trusted relationships with senior management and the Board, as well as other stakeholders, such as regulators, industry organizations and other external audiences. • Unwavering commitment to integrity, ethics, and responsible business conduct. • Demonstrated record of successfully navigating through ethical, regulatory and/or governance challenges faced by global companies. • Strong cross-cultural competence and understanding, ideally with international working experience and/or education, and an ability to work seamlessly and enthusiastically with colleagues across disciplines, cultures, and jurisdictions. Requirements • Bachelor's Degree or Juris Doctor and 15 or more years of experience in the Compliance area. • Experience in developing, implementing, managing, and monitoring corporate compliance programs and working with code of conducts and ethical issues. • 5 or more years of leadership experience. Nice-to-haves • Experience as a Chief Compliance Officer, Vice President, or Senior Leader within a global compliance function. • Experience managing U.S. insurance regulation initiatives. • Global experience including knowledge of common regulation. • Proven track record in managing investigations, audits, and process reviews. • Working knowledge of the COSO framework and experience in developing or improving controls. • Proactive, open-minded leader with the ability to think innovatively and drive significant business impact. • Experience in building and implementing key strategies. • Strong skills in collaboration, conflict resolution, and influencing. • Experience in building and managing cross-functional teams. • Strong executive presence with the ability to interact effectively at all organizational levels. Benefits • Competitive compensation package including short-term incentive bonuses and merit increases. • Ongoing career development opportunities. • Comprehensive employee benefits package for employees and eligible dependents. Apply tot his job