GROUP BNP PARIBAS
BNP Paribas Group is the top bank in the European Union and a major international banking establishment. It has close to 185,000 employees in 65 countries. In Spain we are more than 5,100 employees within 13 business lines.
Infinity Finance HUB
BNP Paribas EMEA Finance employs 500 employees, of which more than 325 are based in Madrid. We manage more than 250 BNP Paribas entities from all over Europe, covering +60% of Group’s balance sheet and all group’s banking activities (Corporate & Investment Banking, Retail Banking, Personal Finance and other financial services activities…).
Our mission is to measure, control and explain all the financial indicators required to monitor accounting, tax, regulatory, liquidity, credit risk reporting and management result activities.
ABOUT THE JOB
MISSION
The Finance EMEA Teams is looking for someone to join the team as part of the Discovery Program, based in Madrid.
About Finance EMEA: Our mission is to measure, control and explain all the financial indicators required to monitor accounting, tax, regulatory, liquidity, credit risk reporting and management result activities. Our team members can build a strong competence on all aspects of banking activities (retail, investment banking and capital markets), building a 360° vision through their career path.
About BNP Paribas’s Infinity Platform: The purpose is to propose services that cover the whole financial dimensions: accounting production activities, reporting, control, transformation projects and IT
The journey of the successful candidate will ensure a high level of expertise throughout EMEA Finance Value Chain: from analyzing data sourced in Finance systems to delivering all financial reporting on actuals, including providing support to entities and interacting with external stakeholders.
RESPONSIBILITIES
During the first 13 months, you will be part of an accounting production team (Subject Matter Streams). SMS teams constitute the initial component of the Finance Value Chain, bearing responsibility for ensuring the quality of financial data utilized in subsequent processes that generate comprehensive financial reporting across various domains including financial accounting, management accounting, liquidity reporting, regulatory reporting.... The Madrid Subject Matter Streams (SMSs) teams are experts on 2 types of products:
Corporate Accounting & Expenses, related to all processes linked to general accounting and cost accounting, including HR topics and tax on non-French entities. You would be assigned to different scope such as Fixed Assets & leases, Personnel Expenses, General Expenses, transfer pricing & Tax or Management Accounting. The team ensures an accurate, reliable and comprehensive set of segmented financial data required for the production of all Reporting streams through a solid control framework that covers oversight on upstream processes, Finance own processes and controls on data quality.
Banking Products, related to financing activities, including the area of credit risk provisioning. You would notably be assigned to measure and book the required adjustments in accounting to ensure completion and accurateness through all reporting axes, to review & perform the Suspense Provisioning and to ensure the oversight of accounting controls performed by Back Offices as well as to control and analyze the data that contribute to the regulatory reporting
The second assignment of 4 months will be in one of the Reporting (Financial Synthesis teams) or Controls team. The Financial Synthesis teams are mainly responsible to produce financial reports, including comprehensive synthesis and analysis related to accounting, tax, regulatory, liquidity, credit risk, ESG, relying on the expertise of specialist teams, including Subject Matter Streams. The Controls team brings an independent assessment on the control framework surrounding the regional processes.
The third assignment will be dedicated to a 2 months´ experience in one of the transversal teams on Infinity Platform, such as the Projects team, being dedicated to a project development for the Subject Matter Stream teams.
After these 3 rounds, you will join back for the next 2 years the initial Subject Matter Stream team, you were part of during for the assignment.
You will benefit of a support from day-one notably through:
- a training path to support your development
- the expertise and the references of an Infinity member, as a buddy
- networking sessions with the other participants of the programme with management catch up.
REQUIREMENTS
Soft Skills and behaviors
· Effective analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
· Ability to learn new systems and products quickly
· Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
· Self-starter and team player, able to work independently and collaboratively with various teams in a matrix organization and deadline-focused environment
Methodologies, Tools & Technologies
· Business Objects
· SAP/Oracle knowledge a plus
· Excel (including pivot tables, VLOOKUP, SUMIF)
· Programming knowledge a plus
Training and occupational experience
· Business school, University Graduate, Master Degree preferably in Accounting or Finance Degree
· Up to 2 years’ experience in Finance performing similar activities for multinational companies, including audit and consultancy firms
· Experience of working in an international environment appreciated
· Working knowledge and understanding of generally accepted accounting principles, especially in IFRS. French GAAP a plus
BENEFITS
• Training programs, career plans and internal mobility opportunities, national and international thanks to our presence in different countries.
• Diversity and Inclusion Committee that ensures an inclusive work environment. In recent years, several employee communities have been created to organize diversity and inclusion awareness actions (PRIDE, We Generations and MixCity).
• Corporate volunteering program (1 Million Hours 2 Help) in which employees can dedicate time out of their working hours to volunteer activities.
• Flexible compensation plan.
• Hybrid telecommuting model (50%).
• 31 vacation days.
Diversity and inclusion commitment
BNP Paribas Group in Spain is an equal opportunity employer and proud to provide equal employment opportunity to all job seekers. We are actively committed to ensuring that no individual is discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Equity and diversity are at the core of our recruitment policy because we believe that they foster creativity and efficiency, which in turn increase performance and productivity. We strive to reflect the society we live in, while keeping with the image of our clients.
