About the job

• The Finance & Strategy function (F&S) ensures, for the BNP Paribas Group, the production and publication of accounting and financial management statements necessary for the management of the Group, financial and tax optimization along with the external growth strategy. It also plays an alert role vis-à-vis of the General Management
• F&S count +1800 employees specialized in Accounting, Reporting, Performance Steering, Tax, Control, Regulatory and Project to mention few of them.  F&S is organized around 3 mutualized regional platform (America, Europe and Asia/Pacific), 1 Shared Finance Service center located in India, Central F&S teams located in Paris and decentralized Finance, Tax and Development departments located in each BNPP country presence
• The Infinity EMEA Finance & Strategy Platform is the Regional EMEA Mutualized platform and Group platform delivering services that covers the whole financial dimension: Accounting production activities, reporting, control, transformation projects, IT and GDO. Our platform serves EMEA Countries and CFOs, Group Head Office and also worldwide entities when it refers to projects (Transformations & IT). The Infinity EMEA Finance & Strategy Platform is located in a dual location Madrid and Lisbon
• Credit Chain initiative is a common Finance-RISK undertaking aimed at impactfully improving data quality in the credit chain. Within Standards Implementation Office (SIO), you will act as a project manager in this remediation team, contributing to issues analyses, remediation framing, and robustness definition and their implementation
• Upon Regulators' requests, SIO team also designs reconciliations between accounting and management data, or across various reports, while ensuring a high-quality data. You will be part of the go-to team, performing reconciliations, and acting as the project manager expanding the scope of application upon Regulators' requests

Your Main Activities Are

• Following the Internal Model Investigations (IMI) assessment report on Internal Ratings-Based Approach (IRBA) models by the ECB, the Group is requested to ensure reconciliation of the management data with the accounting data regarding defaults used for RISK modeling and back-testing exercises
• Your role consists in assessing every 6 months, the limit utilization data consistency between the RISK system (Global Vision-GV) and the Finance central system (Shared Reporting Space-SRS), ensuring that the credit decisions taken are consistent with the accounting data
• Reconciliation exercise consists of: Collecting GV and SRS outstanding amounts at closing date; Using Alteryx queries to perform the first comparison step; Analyzing the real remaining gaps if any, client by client; Preparing reconciliation analysis and sharing it with RISK, Chief Data Officer RISK/Finance
• Project management role consists in extending the reconciliation scope in line with ECB requests (write-offs, recoveries, new money…); Ask local teams the outstanding at default date (opening balance); Follow-up on the sourcing project managed by Finance Implementation Projects (FIP) and local teams: collect write-offs, recoveries, new money data (and potentially others); Include new data in the reconciliation exercise: share Business requirements with the Alteryx expert, update operational procedures; Prepare the reconciliation exercise and share it with RISK, CDO RISK/Finance

Profile and Skills to Success

• Background academic in Accounting or Finance regulatory
• Project management: scoping of the project, definition of the governance, ensuring stakeholders’ coordination, manage and respect deadlines, produce project deliverables or coordinate stakeholders in charge of deliverables
• Proficiency in preparing and animating meetings
• Proficiency in MS Office Pack Microsoft Excel 
• Fluency in English

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Why joining BNP Paribas? 

· Leading banking institution

BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank, and key player in international banking. It operates in 63 countries and has nearly 183.000 employees, including more than 146.000 in Europe.

· Our presence in Portugal

In Portugal since 1985, BNP Paribas today has more than 8.700 employees, distributed across the Group's 10 business entities established in the country. Its presence also extends to 11 excellence centres providing value-added services to various countries where the BNP Paribas Group also operates.

· International reach 

Thanks to its international presence and regular and close collaboration among its different entities, BNP Paribas has the resources to support all clients with financing, investment, savings and protection solutions that help make their projects a success. BNP Paribas holds key positions in its three core operating divisions: 

• Retail Banking, a division that brings together all of the Group’s retail activities and specialised business lines; 
• Investment & Protection Services that include specialised businesses offering a wide range of savings, investment and protection services; 
• Corporate & Institutional Banking division that offers tailored financial solutions for corporate and institutional clients.

· Diversity and Inclusion commitment 

BNP Paribas 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.

· Commitment towards work/life balance

At BNP Paribas we care about our employees wellbeing and promote a culture of good integration between work and rest. We believe our employees have rich personal lives outside of work, being fundamental to be disconnected from work to recharge both physically and mentally. Only through this balance we may all be at our best while working.

· Remote Working Conditions

At BNP Paribas, we embrace a Smart Working framework based on trust, autonomy and collaboration. Within this framework, eligible employees can benefit from flexible remote working modalities adapted to our hybrid working environment. To guarantee a comfortable and efficient working set-up, eligible employees are provided with both the office and home equipment, are entitled to an equipment allowance and can benefit from exclusive partnerships to purchase additional equipment at reduced prices. 

To find out more on why you should join BNP Paribas visit https://bnpp.lk/why-BNP-Paribas-Portugal

* Please note that only applications submitted in English will be considered. 

* In case you are selected for this role, further documentation will be requested to support your hiring process.