Controller for Finance Projects

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 CFO´s, 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.

Your Main Activities Are

Management of the Chart of Account of General Ledger (administration) based on direct requests from the users, in help of production incident or on project needs
Controls on the projects (Functional architecture, Norms and Projects methodology respected by FIP members, Data Model, General Ledger)
Implementation of new controls on chart of account parametrization and their review in the continuous improvement process
Identification of all controls to automatize (Management accounting, External Chart of Account, tables…) and collaboration to their automation with tools such as Power BI, RPA, AI
Referent of the Project Methodology meaning Define, Update and Review regularly standard document Templates and Deliverables
Responsible for the maintenance of FIP Standards deliverables detailing the representation of the banking or capital market products in OFS, the target General Ledger of Finance function, namely in collaboration with FIP Regulatory team to integrate the new requirements of the regulators
Responsible for the training (organization, review of the process, animation of the training …)
Administrator Finance referential (Chart of accounts and other tables related to OFS, the target General Ledger of Finance function within the Group)
Control Tower of all the functional part of FIP Project Methodology, meaning: To guide the projects managers and business analysts in the definition of the solutions for the objectives of projects focusing on functional architecture, chart of accounts, data model related to banking or capital market products; To review the deliverables of project teams in order to control and validate their compliance with the standards of chart of accounts and its data model; To support and participate to all FIP committees of a project to validate the FIP deliverables
Contributor to the permanent control on the FIP project methodology (produce monthly KPI and a synthesis of the results of the different controls)

Profile and Skills to Success

Business School or Master’s degree or Engineering school degree completed
Minimum of 5 years of experience in banking sector and/or audit/accounting or consulting or management control
Knwoledge of the Office pack tools (Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint)
Knowledge of Finance Implementation Projects methodology
Knowledge of OFS tools
Fluent in English, oral and written
Strong ability to deliver and results driven
Good attention to detail and rigor
Strong organizational skills
Good communication skills
Capable of setting up relevant performance indicators
Able to understand, explain and support change
Ability to develop and adapt a process
Capable of manage and facilitate a meeting, seminar, committee, training…