JOB DESCRIPTION CIB COLOMBIA - BNP PARIBAS
Job Title: Accounting Control Coordinator
Reports to: Head of Finance
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
About BNP Paribas:
BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a presence in 74 countries, with more than 192,000 employees, including more than 146,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. The Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporate and institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, the Group has four domestic markets (Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg) and BNP Paribas Personal Finance is the leader in consumer lending. BNP Paribas is rolling out its integrated retail-banking model in Mediterranean countries, in Turkey, in Eastern Europe and a large network in the western part of the United States. In its Corporate & Institutional Banking and International Financial Services activities, BNP Paribas also enjoys top positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific.
Business Overview:
The Hispanic Latin America region is a key market for BNP Paribas. While Brazil remains the largest economy in Latin America, other major countries in the region are also significant contributors for the business and for long standing relations with clients. For example, BNP Paribas has been uninterruptedly present in Colombia for more than 40 years.
BNP Paribas has a historical footprint in the Hispanic Latin America. The Bank has been in the region since 1914 and is now present in 5 countries with nearly 2000 employees between Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) and International Financial Services.
CIB in Hispanic Latin America has world-class teams of roughly 200 professionals spread among Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Peru and Argentina, thus ensuring an overall coverage of BNP Paribas’ client franchise in the region. All BNP Paribas’ business lines have operations in Hispanic Latin America and are structured in such a way as to provide their clients with the best combination of specialists according to sector, product or geographic region. In the context of growing globalization, they are able to accommodate their clients thanks to their powerful regional platforms: In North America (essentially New York but also other hubs such as Houston and San Francisco) and Brazil (Sao Paulo) with a number of professionals covering Latin America; in the whole of Europe with major hubs such as Paris, London, Frankfurt, Madrid, etc.; and in Asia with a broad coverage of all major economies in the region.
In Colombia, BNP Paribas has presence through 5 entities representing the Group: the Rep. Office, the Corporación Financiera and a Trust company for the Corporate and Institutional Banking pole. As for International Financing Services, an insurance company (Cardif) and a Rep Office for Asset Management Services. BNP Paribas is the European bank with the longest uninterrupted presence in the country.
Job Purpose:
The position represents the central function for Control and supervising the Head Office and regulatory reporting (local reporting) for "CIB Finance and Tax" with the main objective to monitor the compliance for internal accounting control and regulatory reporting norms, maintaining a rigorous account controls framework, oriented to the requirements of the regulators and corporates, which allows the accounting and financial reporting risk to be acceptable according to the complexity of the business, the volume of operations and the size of the balance sheet for each legal vehicle of CIB in Colombia (entities, branches, authorized presences, joint ventures, etc.).
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintain constant operation of the BNP Paribas Group's internal financial reporting standard control system and other activities that are necessary for the full control of accounts, according to the complexity of the entities in charge and their operations.
- Ensure the quality of controls, as a second-level reviewer, of the local financial reporting of the entities under its scope, ensuring the performance of controls in compliance with the internal and regulatory policies in the periodicity, timeliness, technical specificity and quality requirements.
- Ensure the accuracy of the HOR (Head Office Reporting) on a monthly basis and prepare the reports requested by central teams for consolidation purposes.
- Prepare statutory financial statements yearly and interim financial and accounting reporting standards applicable to the entities under its scope.
- Communicate and interact with Internal and External Auditors and control regulators over subjects related to accounting and local regulatory reporting.
- Provide periodic reports to stakeholders of Corporación Financiera related to Financial Statements (balance sheet position, Net Banking Income, information to Board of Directors, internal Committees, IG, external auditors or local regulator).
- Management of projects assigned, handling the test to perform, the participation of the Finance members and monitoring of results and follow up meetings.
- Review the working papers for the SFC annual stress testing framework (EPR) and prepare the report for Board of Directors and SFC.
- Attend regulatory committee meetings ensuring understanding of new rules and regulations and their impact on the company's accounting processes and regulatory reporting.
- CPA person responsible for sign off the financial statements for the local entity (back up).
Qualifications:
- Education: Local CPA.
- Specialized Knowledge:
- Strong knowledge in capital markets.
- Experience in banking process analysis.
- Financial accounting.
- Valuation of financial instruments.
- Risk and controls.
- Skills:
- Strong knowledge of Excel.
- Great communication.
- Capacity to work under pressure.
- Teamwork.
- Focus in control and risk.
- Proactive and great adaptability to change.
- Abilities:
- Proactive.
- Mathematical skills.
- Focus to details.
- Focus to accomplish goals.
- Communication skills.
- Professional Certifications: Has worked in financial institutions in Finance area, auditing and regulatory norms.
- Experience: Minimum 5 years of experience.
