Company Description
Natixis 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 Description
Team presentation and main goal:
Financial Permanent Control (FPC) acts as a second line of defense (LOD2) covering Finance activities, directly attached to Natixis CFO.
Our mission is to ensure the consistency and the reliability of the financial information and data quality control (BCBS 239) by deploying a relevant and robust control framework.
FPC performs controls on the financial data produced by the remaining teams of the Finance Department.
FPC is composed by four teams:
Accounting and Tax;
Regulatory and Prudential;
Supervision and Control Framework;
EMEA.
As a Senior of the Accounting & Tax team, the candidate will be part of an extended team based in Porto which is fully integrated into the Head Office team.
Our main activities consist in conducting quarterly closing monitoring controls and ad hoc assignments which cover the scope of accounting, tax and financial information (statutory, consolidated accounts and tax declarations).
Main tasks and goals:
As part of the Finance Department the candidate will work with the 1st and 2nd level control teams with Paris and/or Porto and evaluate Natixis Control framework in various areas, namely:
Reconciliation on B/S and Off Balance Sheet between inventory and accounting;
Reconciliation economic PNL with accounting PNL;
Bank account reconciliation;
Review Financing operations PNL control;
Custodian reconciliation (Equity, Bond and Tofu);
Treatment of accounting netting;
Treatment of internal operations;
Employee expenses;
Reconciliation between IFRS and French GAAP.
As a Senior member of the team, the candidate is expected to perform the more complex tasks and to have an active role in supervising the work performed by the more junior members of the team. It is also expected that the candidate could give his/her contribution to the improvement of the control framework, mainly via developing automatizations in the processes performed.
Finally, the candidate should be aware of the status of the work performed by the whole team and communicate to the team leader any potential issues.
Frequent interactions will be necessary with Paris colleagues.
Additional information:
The position may involve travelling to Paris to facilitate the training and meet with the other colleagues.
The achievement of the role will require to work tightly with the other teams of the department.
Qualifications
Master's Degree in Accounting, Audit or equivalent with bank accounting knowledge;
Audit (3+ years);
Accounting (advanced knowledge);
Control environment (advanced knowledge);
Data management (advanced knowledge);
IFRS9 (notions);
Power BI;
MS Office;
Fluency in English and French (big plus).
Soft Skills:
Result oriented;
Team spirit & communication skills;
Proactivity & critical thinking;
Analytical & organizational skills.
Only CV´s in English will be considered.
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