Business Management Officer - French speaker

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

The CIO Office is a transversal department, working for the IT of the group. This aim of this area is foster a consolidated view of IT, that is split in various business units, enabling enhanced management and communication for the scope.

The CIO Office operates in close connection with the support functions, to promote more efficient channels of communication for management control.

The main areas of scope of the CIO Office are: Project based management, associated with resources, activities and planning control. In addition, it includes control activities associated with KPI implementation and monitoring, financial and Budget control. As well, the CIO Office aims to harmonize the practices and rules, to facilitate a cross-cutting understanding of the challenges and the needs.

Main tasks and goals:

The Business Management officer will work within the CIO Office in close connection with the DSI Corporate business unit, that is responsible for the internal IT of Groupe BPCE. It covers three main functions: CIO Office, covering the development of transversal tooling for activities such as budgeting and resources management, IT Finance, that supports all accounting, regulatory and management reporting and IT Risks, which supports the development and maintenance of tooling used for the trading activities monitorization, as well as the regulatory requirements compliance.

You need a clear understanding of the business, activities, and processes of DSI Corporate. Based on that, you will be capable of traducing their needs, contributing to the CIO global processes, sharing the ways of working, in fitting the needs of the entire IT. You will also work in close connection with the teams in France. As such, you’ll need to be fluent in French.

Some activities described:

• Produces, delivers, and maintains financial/budget reports and indicators for their department and/or team activities either locally or globally.
• Prepares and supports the process related with budget reviews, forecasts, P&L either locally or globally as well as invoice management.
• Preforms gap analysis between defined targets and the targets completed in order to identify discrepancies and propose corrective measures
• Liaises with multiple departments and stakeholders (e.g. Finance, IT, Operations, Compliance, among other) to solve issues and collect/implement requirements related with the team financial related topics.
• Is the main point of contact in their department/team for all finance topics in order to give visibility to local and onshore management about topics at hand when needed.
• Identifies department/team's staffing needs, as well as maintains the staffing data consistently with all joiners, exits, mobilities for the audit trail to ensure an accurate tracking of existing resources and identify future needs.
• Controls cockpit (organizational KPI review and update, project KPI follow-up)

Qualifications

With a higher education background, you have acquired through an experience of 4 to 8 years, an operational understanding of management control, and financial activities, as well as experience in project management.

Only CV´s in english will be considered.

Additional Information

At Natixis, we are committed to fostering a working environment where each and every one of our people is treated with dignity and respect and where every voice is heard. Our differences make us collectively stronger and are a source of fulfilment, innovation and performance.

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