Company DescriptionNatixis is part of the Global Financial Services business unit, the global arm of Groupe BPCE, specialized in Asset & Wealth Management and Corporate & Investment Banking and counts nearly 16,000 employees across 38 countries.The Groupe BPCE, the second-largest banking group in France through its two retail banking networks, Banque Populaire and Caisse d'Epargne.Natixis in Portugal mission is to transform traditional banking services by developing innovative solutions for the bank's business, operations and work culture, being a key driver of the company's culture of agility and innovation. Teams of IT and Banking Support Activities work in an integrated, inclusive and transversal way, supporting all the business lines and country platforms.Job DescriptionTeam presentation and main goal:Join the Data Sourcing team, within the Financial Data Integrity (FDI) division at Natixis, as part of the Finance Direction dedicated to upholding the integrity and accuracy of financial data across CIB activities (balance sheet and off-balance sheet). Our team is split between Paris and Porto, part of a department of around 150 professionals, and is on the frontline of labelling financial data for both balance sheet and off-balance sheet activities.The Data Sourcing team is split between Paris and Porto, and you'll be an integral part of a 10-member team.Main tasks and goals:As a Financial Controller for a major French banking institution with international dimension, you will:Support accounting closings, ensuring monthly and quarterly financial accuracy across various products like bonds, stocks, commodities, loans, and derivatives. This involves reconciliations, identifying discrepancies, and adjusting as needed.Participate in data monitoring for the bank's financial activities (Equity, Commodities, Financing, Fixed Income), which includes data collection, error analysis, making corrections, and automating quality checks.Directly involved in handling Critical Data Elements (CDEs) to ensure data accuracy and integrity for reporting and analysis.Perimeters:The main tasks are organised along two axes:Assistance with accounting closure work:Anticipating and ensuring the reliability of monthly and quarterly closings via weekly reconciliations on all perimeters (bonds, shares, commodities, financing, rates, derivatives), analysing the discrepancies between accounting balances and inventories and adjusting accounting or inventories;Ensuring a system of complementary manual entries in the event of disqualify of the closing processes such as late entries, adjustment of BO entries (basket swaps, collateral securities);Ensuring and adjusting irregular accounting positions on the accrual's accounts, leading to an abnormal RWA position, on a monthly basis;Automating of manual processes of data retrieval & control, in a context of efficiency and with an expectation of digital approach;Writing and updating of operational procedures.Qualifications:Bachelor's degree in a Finance or Accounting field, with a first professional experience in the finance department of a mid/large cap company or audit, preferably as a Financial Controller;Accounting or Financial Controller (1-3 years);Financial Products (advanced knowledge);Data Viz & Data Prep Tools (preferred);Python (preferred);SQL (preferred);Excel Power Pivot;Other Programming Languages (preferred);Fluent English (mandatory);Good level of French is a plus.Soft Skills:Rigor and accuracy;Ability to analyse, summarise and report;Critical thinking, flexible and problem solving;Personal commitment and team spirit;Autonomy, curiosity, and willingness to move the issues forward.
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