Reconciliation Officer

**About the job**
- The Reconciliation Officer’s main mission is to guarantee and perform the daily control and monitoring of the Bank accounts reconciliation between Back Offices Operations and Custodians databases in accordance with the Group policy, ensuring the objectives and the best practices of the department

**Your Main Activities Are**
- Perform the daily reconciliation of Cash and Securities accounts
- Investigate and allocate the breaks in the Reconciliation tool to the respective Departments
- Ensure that the breaks are reported to the respective Departments
- Perform the manual matching agreed by internal client, ensuring that the write-off tolerance is respected
- Prioritize the work and conduct investigation with due diligence on all the discrepancies
- Update documented procedures to ensure they are complete and accurate
- Understand and get trained in all the tasks related to the process
- Ensure the Knowledge transfer between the team on a periodic basis
- Participate on Brain Storming and Cross Knowledge sessions and share the best practices and ideas with the team members
- Interact with all needed internal and external entities in order to get additional information for unidentified entries and maintain Communication Channels with internal business teams
- Liaise with the Clients/Finance and internal teams to resolve the breaks
- Report exceptions in line with internal control and external client requirements, if applicable
- Escalate unresolved open items to the Supervisor and Team Leader

**Profile and Skills to Success**
- Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, Accounting, Management or any relevant field
- Fluency in English, both oral and written
- Up to 2 years of experience in Banking and Financial Operations or Accounting and Finance
- Comfort with Microsoft Office tools, namely Excel
- Great team spirit, sense of adaptability and ability to understand, explain and support change
- Good organizational skills, analytical ability and attention to detail and rigor

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