Accounting controller Officer Financing

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:

As part of the Finance Direction, you will integrate the Financial Data Integrity department which is in charge of the production and the justification of accounts for CIB activities of Natixis.

This department counts about 100 people with a target to be bilocated (40 in Porto and 60 in Paris).

You will join a team of 20 people in Porto.

As a Financial controller, you will be in charge of the certification of financial statements, i.e. produces, analyses, makes any corrections and validates the accounting results and exposures, as part of the monthly and quarterly closings, of the activities in one area of the CIB (Equity & Commodity, Financing or Fixed Income activities) of a major French banking institution with international dimension.

You will be in contact with Support trade (middle and back offices), the other Finance departments (Financial Permanent Control LoD2, Norms, Statutory and Social Accounting) and of course the Financing business teams.

Perimeter:

Within this division, you will be part of the team in charge of monitoring Financing activities.

Your future mission in FDI/Closing controls & certification (loD1.1)

Finance accounting Controls:

• Reconciliation between back-office inventories and accounting exposures. Identification and substantiation of discrepancies in detail, explanation of any differences
• Investigate the necessity to post accounting/financial adjustment to render the accurately data.
• Justification of the alert controls: unnormal balance, consistency of monthly balances, Inversal of debit and credit balance
• Contribute with quarterly closing controls to enhance ensuring the quality of data.
• Analysis and justification of the accounting standard differences (between French Gaap and IFRS Gaap)
• P&L control per Financing business line: analysis of the margin, level and consistency of the commissions, individual and IFRS 9 provision, funding...

Analysis & Reporting Task: 

• Manual entries;
• Internal transactions; 
• Audit trials production for some notices.  

Restoration of accounting keys (interim mission) 

Additional information:

• Work carried out at the end of each month according to a shared schedule with other departments of Finance (on quarterly closings, calendars are more squeezed), and in interim periods;
• You will be part of a bilocalised team with a local manager and a functional manager Paris based: regular interactions with Paris team: daily quick points and weekly team meeting;
• Support the development of Natixis internal Finance tools (Matisse accounting tool, Ematch reconciliation tool) and management tools (Loan IQ, FBTI, SUMMIT…) or repository internal tools. 

Qualifications

• Higher education in accounting, with a first professional experience in banking or accounting;
• Advanced knowledge of accounting and ideally bank accounting;
• Knowledge of CIB products and activities would be appreciated;
• Good knowledge of database management;
• Audit (advanced knowledge);
• Financial products (bonds and repos, Forex operations, IRS, CCYIRS...) (notions);
• IFRS Accounting Standards;
• Office tools (Excel) (advanced knowledge);
• PowerBI, Easymorph;
• English (mandatory) and French (as a plus). 

Soft Skills:

• Good behavior of leadership;
• Rigor;
• Analytical skills & Critical thinking;
• Autonomy;
• Availability;
• Team spirit. 

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