Accounting Control Trainee

Job description

BNP Paribas is one of the euro zone’s leading banks, strongly positioned in its two core businesses - Retail Banking, Corporate & Institutional Banking - and present worldwide with nearly 192.500 employees in 74 countries. BNP Paribas has completed 32 years of presence in Portugal, has today more than 4000 employees in Portugal, and is one of the largest foreign institutions in the country.

Recently BNP Paribas established a European finance operations centre in Lisbon, with 235 positions, and part of the Group Finance function. Group Finance Services (GFS) is responsible for compiling and processing accounting and financial information in order to ensure the publication of financial information and to provide Executive Management with the necessary information for the entire Group’s financial management.

Within GFS, the Accounting Control team has the objective to improve the quality of accounting data and participate to the internal accounting control process, working closely with the Paris Accounting Control team (C&CF) and Back Offices.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As Accounting Control Trainee, you will have the opportunity to participate and contribute to some of the main activities of the the Accounting Control team. The main activities are:

· Operate accounting controls (controls and reports are performed according to a daily, monthly and quarterly frequency)
· Monitor the accounting quality and identify anomalies
· Exchange with C&CF and Back Offices in order to analyse the issues and conclude on the necessary potential amendments
· Report the findings of the operated controls through comments with conclusions on the risk and indicators
· Facilitate the elaboration of action plans
· Prepare notes and synthesis documents and deliver comprehensive and synthetic reports.
· Investigate and document the accounting issues raised by the Back Offices or any stakeholders of the accounting set-up
· Contribute to creating or updating procedures, operational procedures and any necessary documents for the permanent file (by control or by account owner)
· Work closely with the departments responsible for the maintenance of the accounting control tools and participate, when necessary, to the tests of the IT enhancements
· Contribute to the follow-up on the implementation of recommendations and action plan and any control process implementation.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

SKILLS

·  University degree in Accounting, Finance or Banking
·  Any previous experience in external or internal audit or control department is a plus
·  Analytical skills, organizational capacities, rigour and deadlines respect
·  Communication skills (good relational capacities, teamwork and adaptability)
·  English is mandatory
·  Basic skills in French is a plus
·  Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
·  An expertise in Excel and Access is a plus, as well as an experience using Business Objects.