How to Apply to Generali

11 min read Last updated April 20, 2026 23 open positions
Blake Crosley
Blake Crosley Researched using publicly available information, hiring data, and ATS analysis.

Key Takeaways

  • Generali hires through a single Workday portal at generali.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com that covers group, Italy, Germany, Austria, and most subsidiary roles, with France and CEE maintaining localized feeder portals into the same backbone.
  • Italian-language CV and working proficiency are effectively required for Trieste, Milan, and Mogliano Veneto roles; French for Paris; German for Munich. English is universal at group level but rarely sufficient alone for country positions.
  • The insurance hiring rhythm is measured. Expect six to ten weeks from first contact to offer for mid-level roles, longer for senior and group-level positions. Patience and consistent follow-up matter more than pressure tactics.
  • Actuarial, underwriting, claims technical, asset management, and regulated-role candidates should lead with quantified, euro-denominated portfolio and regulatory experience. Generic finance or consulting framing converts poorly.
  • Compensation is heavily shaped by the CCNL ANIA collective agreement in Italy and by equivalent frameworks elsewhere. Understand your target contract level before you negotiate, and treat thirteenth- and fourteenth-month payments and pension contributions as part of the total package.
  • The culture values technical depth, regulatory literacy, long-term thinking, cross-country mobility, and diplomatic collaboration. Candidates who over-index on individual heroics or short-horizon metrics tend to miss.

About Generali

Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A., universally known as Generali Group, is one of the largest insurance and asset management companies in the world and the undisputed heavyweight of Italian finance. Founded in Trieste in 1831 during the late Habsburg era, Generali has operated continuously for nearly two centuries, an unusual continuity in an industry defined by consolidation. The group is headquartered at Piazza Duca degli Abruzzi 2 in Trieste, with its commercial and investment nerve center in Milan and major regional hubs in Paris, Munich, Madrid, Prague, and Mumbai. Generali is listed on Borsa Italiana under the ticker G.MI and is a component of the FTSE MIB index. In its most recent fiscal year the group reported gross written premiums in the range of eighty-two billion euros, employed approximately eighty-two thousand people across more than fifty countries, and served roughly seventy million clients worldwide. CEO Philippe Donnet has led the group since 2016 and was reconfirmed for a third mandate in 2025, making him one of the longest-serving chief executives in European insurance. The business is organized around three core pillars. The Insurance arm covers life, property and casualty, health, and employee benefits, with dominant positions in Italy, France, Germany, and Central and Eastern Europe. The Asset and Wealth Management division, anchored by Generali Investments, Conning, and the Banca Generali private bank, manages roughly seven hundred billion euros of assets across proprietary and third-party mandates. The Global Business Lines division runs Generali Global Corporate and Commercial, Generali Employee Benefits, and Europ Assistance. Retail distribution in Italy runs through a proprietary tied-agent network of more than thirteen thousand financial advisors and agents, while the German and French operations lean more heavily on bancassurance partnerships. Lifeplan, the group's integrated digital advisory platform, is Generali's primary bet on the future of retail insurance distribution in Europe. Strategically, Generali is in the final stretch of its Lifetime Partner 2027 plan, which emphasizes disciplined profitable growth, a pivot toward capital-light protection and unit-linked products, and continued expansion of the asset management platform. The group completed the integration of Cattolica Assicurazioni in 2024 following the 2022 tender offer and, in early 2025, announced a landmark joint venture with BNP Paribas Cardif to create one of Europe's largest asset managers, a deal that also reshaped the Mediolanum cross-shareholding overhang. Climate and parametric insurance products, cyber coverage for small and medium enterprises, and longevity-linked life products are the three product areas absorbing the most corporate attention. For job seekers this context matters: Generali is a traditional, well-capitalized insurer that is undergoing a deliberate, multi-year digital and asset-management transformation, and hiring reflects both sides of that posture, steady actuarial and underwriting recruitment alongside targeted investment in data, platform engineering, and wealth management.

Application Process

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    Navigate to https://www

    Navigate to https://www.generali.com/careers which is the single global entry point. The landing page aggregates country hubs, Lifetime Partner programme graduate opportunities, internships, and thematic campaigns such as SheLeads (women in leadership) and We Act (sustainability roles).

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    Click through to the global jobs portal, which redirects to the Workday-hosted c

    Click through to the global jobs portal, which redirects to the Workday-hosted careers site at generali.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com. Most permanent corporate, actuarial, underwriting, and technology requisitions in Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and at group level flow through this instance. Some country subsidiaries, notably Generali France, Generali CEE Holding, and Europ Assistance, maintain localized satellite portals that feed into the same Workday backbone.

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    Create a Workday candidate profile

    Create a Workday candidate profile. Use a name format that matches your passport or national ID exactly (important for Italian codice fiscale and German Steuer-ID verification later). Upload a PDF CV under five megabytes. The parser handles both Europass and standard chronological formats, but it strips tables and multi-column layouts, so test your CV by reviewing the auto-populated profile fields and correcting anything the parser mangled.

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    Set language preferences deliberately

    Set language preferences deliberately. For Italy-based roles (Trieste, Milan, Mogliano Veneto) the expected CV language is Italian, with an English version attached as a secondary document. For France the expected primary language is French. For Germany expect German CVs for Munich (Allianz-style Lebenslauf format), and English-acceptable for group-level roles advertised out of Trieste or Milan.

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    Complete the data protection and candidate consent forms carefully

    Complete the data protection and candidate consent forms carefully. Generali, as an Italian insurer and processor of financial data, follows GDPR plus Italian Garante della Privacy supplementary guidance. You will be asked to consent separately to CV retention, background checks (often performed by First Advantage or Sterling in Europe), and future job alerts. Opting in to talent-pool retention materially improves your chances of being surfaced for roles that never publish externally.

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    Submit to specific requisitions rather than generic open applications

    Submit to specific requisitions rather than generic open applications. Generali's Workday instance does accept speculative profiles, but conversion rates on those are very low. Identify two to three specific requisition IDs and tailor your profile summary to each before submitting.

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    Expect an acknowledgment email within twenty-four hours and a first recruiter sc

    Expect an acknowledgment email within twenty-four hours and a first recruiter screen within two to four weeks. Corporate roles in Trieste and Milan often move more slowly than technology roles in Milan or Munich because of the traditional hiring rhythm and the need to coordinate across business line and country HR.

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    Prepare for background and reference checks to begin only after a verbal offer

    Prepare for background and reference checks to begin only after a verbal offer. Unlike some US employers, Generali does not usually run pre-offer background checks in Europe. Expect verification of education, prior employment, criminal record (casellario giudiziale in Italy, Führungszeugnis in Germany), and for regulated roles an IVASS, ACPR, BaFin, or FMA fit-and-proper screening.

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    Sign the offer and onboarding paperwork through Workday or DocuSign

    Sign the offer and onboarding paperwork through Workday or DocuSign. Italian contracts are typically governed by the CCNL ANIA (the insurance sector collective agreement), which dictates probation length, notice periods, and thirteenth- and fourteenth-month salary payments. Understand that structure before you negotiate, because much of your compensation is standardized by contract level rather than individually negotiable.

Resume Tips for Generali

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Lead with a professional summary that names your specialization in insurance lan

Lead with a professional summary that names your specialization in insurance language. Generali recruiters scan for terms like non-life actuarial, life and health pricing, P&C underwriting, claims technical, reinsurance treaty, Solvency II, IFRS 17, embedded value, and bancassurance. A generic finance summary gets deprioritized.

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Quantify in euros and in portfolio units

Quantify in euros and in portfolio units. Instead of saying you managed a book of business, write that you managed a seventy-million-euro SME property portfolio with a combined ratio of ninety-two percent. Generali is a data-disciplined insurer and expects candidates to speak in underwriting and actuarial units of measure.

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Name the regulatory and reporting frameworks you have worked under

Name the regulatory and reporting frameworks you have worked under. Solvency II Pillar 1, 2, and 3, IFRS 17 and IFRS 9, ORSA, IDD, PRIIPs, DORA, and GDPR are all table stakes for anyone above junior level. For actuarial candidates also list the technical provisions method (best estimate liabilities, risk margin) and any internal model experience.

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For technology and data roles, frame experience around insurance use cases, not

For technology and data roles, frame experience around insurance use cases, not generic software. Strong signals include pricing engines, claims triage automation, actuarial modelling platforms (Prophet, AXIS, ResQ, Moses, RAFM), underwriting workbenches, telematics, and rating APIs. Generic full-stack experience without an insurance or financial services context converts poorly.

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List languages with honesty and precision

List languages with honesty and precision. Use the Common European Framework levels (A1 through C2) rather than vague labels like fluent. Italian at B2 or higher is effectively required for Trieste, Mogliano Veneto, and most Milan commercial roles. French at C1 is required for Paris commercial roles. German at C1 is required for most Munich roles. English at C1 is the lingua franca for group-level functions.

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Show stability

Show stability. Generali values long tenures and internal mobility, and recruiters are wary of candidates with a pattern of sub-two-year stints. If you have short tenures, explain them briefly under the role (contract end, restructuring, parental leave) rather than leaving them to look like flight risk.

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Include relevant certifications prominently

Include relevant certifications prominently. For Italy these include IVASS registration (Sezione A, B, C, D, E depending on role), IAI (Istituto Italiano degli Attuari) membership, ANRA for risk management, and AIAF for financial analysis. For Germany, DAV membership, Versicherungsfachmann IHK, and BaFin fit-and-proper clearances. For France, Institut des Actuaires, and for the UK and cross-border work, FIA or FCAS. Professional CFA, FRM, PRM, and ACCA or CPA are broadly respected across the group.

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Keep the CV to two pages for most roles and three pages only for senior position

Keep the CV to two pages for most roles and three pages only for senior positions with a long publication or regulatory record. Use Europass-style layout if you are less than five years out of university or if you are applying from outside the EU, but switch to a clean chronological format for mid- and senior-level roles because Europass reads as too entry-level for experienced hires.

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Explicitly mention mobility and willingness to relocate when applicable

Explicitly mention mobility and willingness to relocate when applicable. Generali's internal career culture assumes geographic and business-line mobility as a mark of leadership potential, and a candidate who signals openness to a Trieste, Milan, Paris, or Prague stint is seen as more promotable.

ATS System: Workday

Generali runs its global applicant tracking on a Workday instance at generali.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com, branded as Generali Careers. The system is used for group functions, Italian domestic roles, and most subsidiaries feeding into the central talent platform. Verified live in April 2026, with an active CXS job search API endpoint. Country entities including Generali France, Generali Deutschland, Generali CEE, and Europ Assistance publish to the same Workday instance under regional site configurations, though some localized portals and agency-network recruitment channels still run in parallel. Workday parses PDF and DOCX uploads, auto-populates profile fields, and will treat the structured profile data, not the uploaded CV, as the record of truth for initial screening. Recruiters typically filter by a combination of keyword match, language proficiency, authorization to work in the relevant country, and location tags.

  • Upload a single-column PDF CV. Tables, sidebars, and multi-column layouts confuse the Workday parser and cause fields to merge or drop. Review every auto-populated field after upload.
  • Write every job title in the profile using the same phrasing a Generali recruiter would search for. Do not leave creative titles like Growth Ninja. Translate them to Underwriting Analyst, Actuarial Consultant, Data Engineer, and similar.
  • Fill the skills section with the literal keywords from the job description that actually apply to you. Workday's match scoring privileges exact-string hits, especially on technical skills like Prophet, SAS, Python, SQL, and specific regulatory frameworks.
  • Use the questionnaire section honestly. Generali's Workday configuration often includes EU work authorization, CCNL level, language certifications, and notice period questions that are used as hard filters. A mis-answered question routes your profile to an auto-reject queue that a recruiter rarely reviews.
  • Reapply thoughtfully. The system keeps your profile indefinitely unless you withdraw it, and applying to more than three open roles in a short window without clear fit downgrades your overall candidate score. Target two or three best-fit requisitions and invest in tailoring each.

Interview Culture

Expect a formal, structured, multi-round interview process that mirrors Generali's Italian corporate culture: polite, patient, hierarchical, and thorough.

The end-to-end timeline from first recruiter contact to verbal offer typically runs six to ten weeks for mid-level positions and can extend to three or four months for senior and group-level roles, because approvals often require sign-off from both the business line and country HR. The sequence usually opens with a thirty-minute screening call from a corporate recruiter, often conducted in Italian for Italy-based roles and in English for group roles. The screener checks motivation, language proficiency, notice period, salary expectations anchored to the CCNL ANIA grid, and willingness to work from Trieste or the relevant hub. Following the screen, expect a first technical or functional interview with the hiring manager, then a second technical round with future peers, and finally a values or leadership conversation with a senior stakeholder. For actuarial, underwriting, investment, and audit roles a written technical exercise or case study is standard, usually completed offline over three to five days, followed by a defense conversation. For technology roles expect a live coding session or system design discussion conducted in English. Dress formally. Italian insurance is a suit-and-tie culture at headquarters, and while the dress code has modernized in Milan and Munich tech hubs, erring conservative is always safer than erring casual. Video interviews should be conducted from a quiet, well-lit space with a neutral background; the culture still reads appearance and presentation as part of the evaluation. Language dynamics are important to plan for. Expect a mix of Italian, English, and sometimes French within a single loop. Interviews for Trieste and Milan roles often begin in English and switch to Italian partway through to test working language proficiency. For Paris, expect at least one round entirely in French. For Munich, German is common but not always mandatory depending on the team. Do not overstate language ability on your CV; the language switch mid-interview is a deliberate check. Panel interviews are standard at the final stage, with three to five interviewers representing the hiring team, HR business partner, and a cross-functional stakeholder. Questions are competency-based but often anchored in concrete past situations, following a STAR-style structure without being prescriptive about it. Expect deep probing into a few experiences rather than shallow coverage of many. The interview culture rewards candidates who are specific, numerate, and comfortable discussing trade-offs rather than those who speak in abstractions. Questions you should prepare answers for include: why Generali specifically rather than Allianz, AXA, or Zurich; how you think about the trade-off between profitable growth and market share; a concrete example of a technically difficult decision you owned end to end; how you adapt your communication style across cultures and languages; and for leadership roles, how you would manage a distributed team across Trieste, Milan, and a third European hub. Bring two or three well-researched questions of your own about Lifetime Partner 2027, the recent BNP Paribas Cardif asset management joint venture, or the specific P&L you would be joining.

What Generali Looks For

  • Technical rigor appropriate to the role. Actuaries are expected to demonstrate fluency in pricing, reserving, and capital methods; underwriters in line-of-business technicals and broker relationships; asset managers in portfolio construction and regulatory fit; and engineers in production-grade, auditable systems suitable for regulated financial infrastructure.
  • Language depth. Italian, French, or German proficiency at a genuine working level is a functional requirement for most client-facing and country-based roles, and bilingual or trilingual candidates are meaningfully preferred for group and regional functions.
  • Long-term orientation. Generali expects employees to think in five- and ten-year arcs rather than twelve-month sprints. Candidates who signal comfort with patient execution, cross-business-line mobility, and iterative improvement map well to the culture.
  • Regulatory literacy. Familiarity with Solvency II, IFRS 17, IDD, PRIIPs, DORA, GDPR, and relevant national supervisors (IVASS in Italy, ACPR in France, BaFin in Germany) is a differentiator at every level above entry.
  • Client and distribution sensitivity. Generali is a distribution-led business, and even corporate-center roles benefit from understanding how tied agents, brokers, and bancassurance partners actually work in Italy, France, Germany, and CEE.
  • Collaborative disposition. The group is structured as a federation of strong country entities coordinated by a group center. Candidates who demonstrate diplomacy, structured influence without authority, and comfort operating in matrix reporting lines outperform pure individual contributors.
  • Ethical and reputational carefulness. As an IVASS-supervised insurer and publicly listed company, Generali is sensitive to compliance, conflict of interest, and public disclosure discipline. Candidates who have navigated regulated environments or demonstrated clean judgment under pressure are preferred.
  • Digital and data fluency without over-claiming. The group is actively investing in data platforms, pricing sophistication, and digital distribution through Lifeplan and subsidiary initiatives, and values candidates who can bridge traditional insurance expertise with modern tooling. Over-claiming AI or machine-learning experience that does not stand up to technical scrutiny is a meaningful red flag.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Italian required to work at Generali?
For roles based in Trieste, Milan, Mogliano Veneto, or other Italian offices, working-level Italian (CEFR B2 or higher) is effectively required, and many client-facing and technical roles expect C1. For group-level positions in Trieste that are explicitly advertised as English-working, strong English is sufficient at hire, but Italian is still a meaningful advantage for internal mobility and senior progression. Country roles in France, Germany, Austria, and CEE require the corresponding local language at a similar level.
What ATS does Generali use, and is it really Workday?
Yes. Generali runs Workday at generali.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com, confirmed live in April 2026 with an active Workday CXS job search API endpoint. The site is branded as Generali Careers and covers group, Italy, Germany, Austria, and most subsidiary roles. Generali France, Generali CEE Holding, and Europ Assistance maintain regional feeder portals that funnel candidates into the same Workday platform.
How long does the Generali hiring process take?
Plan on six to ten weeks from first recruiter contact to a verbal offer for mid-level roles, and three to four months for senior, actuarial, regulated, or group-level positions. Delays most commonly occur between the second and final interviews because of cross-functional approvals and holiday calendars, especially August in Italy and around Christmas. Following up politely every ten to fourteen days is culturally acceptable and rarely hurts your candidacy.
Does Generali sponsor work visas for non-EU candidates?
Sponsorship is possible but selective. For senior technical roles in actuarial, asset management, data, and engineering, Generali will sponsor Italian Nulla Osta and EU Blue Card processes, particularly in Milan and Trieste. Sponsorship is far more common for senior and specialist roles than for junior ones, and rarely happens for commercial roles where local language is a functional requirement. If you are non-EU, prioritize the group-level, tech, and actuarial requisitions explicitly marked as English-working.
What is the Lifetime Partner graduate programme and how competitive is it?
The Lifetime Partner graduate programme is Generali's flagship early-career rotation, placing new graduates into eighteen- to twenty-four-month assignments across business lines, countries, and functions. It is highly selective, with thousands of applications for under a hundred annual spots, and typically recruits from top European business and technical universities. The selection pipeline includes a Workday application, online cognitive and behavioural assessments, a digital case interview, and a final assessment centre held in Milan or Trieste, usually run partly in English and partly in Italian.
What are typical salary ranges at Generali?
For Italian roles, compensation is anchored to the CCNL ANIA insurance collective bargaining agreement, which sets a structured grid by role level (impiegato, funzionario, quadro, dirigente) with thirteenth- and fourteenth-month payments. A mid-level actuary or underwriter in Milan typically lands in the sixty to ninety thousand euro range gross annual base, a quadro-level specialist in the ninety to one hundred thirty thousand range, and dirigenti meaningfully above that with variable compensation and long-term incentive plans. Munich, Paris, and Zurich roles pay higher base salaries on German, French, and Swiss market benchmarks respectively. Variable pay is typically ten to thirty percent of base for professional roles and higher for executives and investment professionals.
Does Generali support remote or hybrid work?
Yes, within a clearly hybrid model. Smart working is formalized across the Italian footprint and most European entities, typically allowing two to three days per week remote with the remaining days onsite at the assigned office. Fully remote roles are rare and usually reserved for specialist functions. For candidates outside the country of hire, Generali generally expects relocation within an agreed window rather than permanent cross-border remote work, partly because of employment, tax, and IVASS regulatory constraints.
What kinds of technical interview preparation should I do?
For actuarial roles, expect pricing and reserving case studies, Solvency II and IFRS 17 scenario questions, and a technical exercise in Excel or a pricing tool. For underwriting roles, expect line-of-business case studies, broker-relationship scenarios, and portfolio management discussions. For asset management roles, expect portfolio construction, risk factor attribution, and regulatory fit questions under Solvency II's matching adjustment and volatility adjustment. For technology roles, expect a coding session in Python, Java, or your primary language, plus a system design discussion grounded in a realistic insurance use case such as claims ingestion, policy administration, or pricing APIs.
How should I approach applications if I am coming from outside insurance?
Translate your prior experience into insurance-adjacent language before you apply. If you are from banking, lead with risk management, regulatory reporting, and capital; from consulting, lead with specific financial services engagements and quantified outcomes; from pure tech, lead with regulated-industry, high-availability, or data-platform experience. Identify the closest functional analog in Generali's structure (risk, finance, investments, claims, distribution, or technology) and target two or three specific requisitions there rather than casting a wide net across unrelated roles.

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