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Financial Controller – FDI Jobs in Porto, Porto, Portugal at Natixis in Portugal
Title: Financial Controller – FDI
Company: Natixis in Portugal
Location: Porto, Porto, Portugal
Company DescriptionNatixis 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 DescriptionTeam presentation and main goal:Join the Data Sourcing team, within the Financial Data Integrity (FDI) division at Natixis, as part of the Finance Direction dedicated to upholding the integrity and accuracy of financial data across CIB activities (balance sheet and off-balance sheet). Our team is split between Paris and Porto, part of a department, of around 150 professionals, and is on the frontline of labelling financial data for both balance sheet and off-balance sheet activities.
The Data Sourcing team is split between Paris and Porto, and you’ll be an integral part of a 10-member team.
You will be part of an integral part of a 10-member bi-localised team with a local manager and a functional manager based in Paris.
Main tasks and goals:
As a Financial Controller, for of a major French banking institution with international dimension, you will:
Support accounting closings, ensuring monthly and quarterly financial accuracy across various products like bonds, stocks, commodities, loans, and derivatives. This involves reconciliations, identifying discrepancies, and adjusting as needed.
Participate in data monitoring for the bank’s financial activities (Equity, Commodities, Financing, Fixed Income), which includes data collection, error analysis, making corrections, and automating quality checks.
Directly involved in handling Critical Data Elements (CDEs) to ensure data accuracy and integrity for reporting and analysis.
You will be in contact with the Operations department (middle and back offices), the other teams of FDI & the internal Finance partners, and Finance IT teams.
Perimeters:
The main tasks are organised along two axes:
In a first step, Assistance with accounting closure work:
Anticipating and ensuring the reliability of monthly and quarterly closings via weekly reconciliations on all perimeters (bonds, shares, commodities, financing, rates, derivatives), analysing the discrepancies between accounting balances and inventories and adjusting accounting or inventories;
Ensuring a system of complementary manual entries in the event of disqualify of the closing processes such as late entries, adjustment of BO entries (basket swaps, collateral securities);
Ensuring and adjusting irregular accounting positions on the accrual’s accounts, leading to an abnormal RWA position, on a monthly basis,
Automating of manual processes of data retrieval & control, in a context of efficiency and with an expectation of digital approach;
writing and updating of operational procedures.
In the first phase, focusing on ensuring the accuracy of accounting closures involves:
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