Junior Financial Closing Control Officer

**Company Description**
Natixis in Portugal is a Centre of Expertise whose mission is to transform traditional banking by developing innovative solutions for the business, operations and work culture of Groupe BPCE worldwide.

Natixis in Portugal is part of the Global Financial Services division, where it applies technology for the development of financial expertise in its two global business lines - Corporate & Investment Banking and Asset & Wealth Management - and, transversally, for the entities of Groupe BPCE.

The Centre of Expertise, based in Porto, currently has more than 2,400 employees from over 30 nationalities, organised in three main departments: Information Technology, Banking Support Activities and Compliance. These teams work in an integrated, inclusive and transversal way, supporting and creating value for all the business lines and platforms of the group. The project in Porto is one of the biggest investments in Human Resources ever made by Groupe BPCE worldwide.

A disruptive mindset and a culture of proximity and agility identify Natixis in Portugal Team and reflect the company's mission to transform traditional banking at a global scale: a perfect match in the Portuguese dynamics and entrepreneurial ecosystem.

In 2024, Top Employers Institute has awarded Natixis in Portugal the Top Employer Portugal accreditation for the second time. This certification recognizes excellence in people practices, following the example of our head office, in France, who was certified Top Employer France for the eight year in a row.
**Job Description** Team presentation and main goal**:
As part of the Finance Direction, you will integrate the Financial Data Integrity department which is in charge of the production and the justification of accounts for CIB activities of Natixis.

This department is bilocated (Porto and Paris).

You will join a team of 30 people in Porto.

As a Junior Financial Closing Control Officer, you will be in charge of the certification of financial statements, i.e. produces, analyses, makes any corrections and validates the accounting results and exposures, as part of the monthly and quarterly closings, of the activities in one area of the CIB (Equity & Commodity, Financing or Fixed Income activities) of a major French banking institution with international dimension.

**Perimeter**:
Within this division, you will be part of the team in charge of monitoring Global Market (Equity Market) on US SBL scope.

Your future mission in FDI/ Closing controls & certification (loD1.1).
- In your perimeter you will oversee the certification of financial statements, including Balance Sheet, Off-Balance Sheet and Reconciliation between economic and accounting P&L in monthly and quarterly basis. Identification and substantiation in detail of any gaps in methodology for financial production activities of the CIB (Equity Market).
- Investigate the necessity to post accounting/financial adjustment to render the accurately data.
- Contribute with quarterly closing controls to enhance ensuring the quality of data.
- Contact with the Market Risk teams (in charge of the controls on economic P&L), the Support departments (middle and back offices), the other Finance departments (Financial Permanent Control (LoD2), Norms, Statutory and Social Accounting).
- Justification of the accounting standard differences (between French Gaap and IFRS Gaap)
- Control of internal P&L
- Justification of all the accounts of the perimeter under your responsibility.

**Additional information**:

- Work is carried out at the end of each month according to a shared schedule with other departments of Finance (on quarterly closings, calendars are more squeezed), and in interim periods.
- You will be part of a bilocalised team with a local manager and a functional manager Paris based: regular interactions with Paris team (daily quick points and weekly team meeting).
- Support the development of Natixis' internal Finance tools (Matisse accounting tool, EMatch reconciliation tool) and management tools (ie Summit, MUREX, UBIX, Sophis) or repository internal tools.

**Qualifications**
- Higher education in accounting, with a first professional experience in banking or audit;
- Prerequisite: knowledge of accounting and ideally bank accounting;
- Knowledge of CIB products and activities would be appreciated;
- Good knowledge of database management;
- Good level of expertise in Office Tools, SQL is a plus;
- Some expertise in Power BI also a plus;
- Previous experience in accounting expert and/or external audit preferably in business area;
- Require quickly logical thinking to Control the data acquisition & treatment on the financial chain inputs, along the flow, plus Detecting anomalies & analyzing the root causes;
- ** Fluent in English (mandatory)**and French as a plus.

**Soft Skills**:

- Rigor;
- Analytical skills & Critical thinking;
- Autonomy;
- Availability;
- Team spirit.

**Only CV´s in English will be considered.**
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