The internationally experienced finance manager Vinzenz Benedikt is taking over as Head of Group Finance at UNIQA Insurance Group AG. The 44-year-old Austrian has already spent 14 years at UNIQA, where he was most recently responsible for international performance management and Group-wide mergers and acquisitions. In this role, he was responsible for the successful takeover of the AXA companies in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, among other things. The previous Head of Group Finance, Petra Umbrich, is taking on new challenges at her own request.
"With Vinzenz Benedikt, we have been able to recruit an experienced and internationally accomplished leader for this key position - and from within our own ranks. Vinzenz brings in-depth expertise in financial management and transactions and will now use this at Group level to play a key role in shaping our economic development as part of our growth strategy UNIQA 3.0 - Growing Impact," says Kurt Svoboda, CFO of UNIQA Insurance Group AG.
A graduate in business administration with a doctorate from the University of St. Gallen, he has been in the insurance industry since 2003 and joined UNIQA in 2011 after initial career stops at the Austrian Financial Market Authority and the Zurich Insurance Group, where he has since held various management positions in Austria and abroad. Vinzenz Benedikt is also a regular lecturer at various Austrian universities.