Report to: Head of Cost Efficiency, MadridMISSION AND OBJECTIVES: This role is in the Cost Efficiency Team, part of Strategic Financial Management Team in the Madrid Financial Service Centre focused on the worldwide analysis and reporting.
The primary responsibility is generating reports to provide comprehensive management accounting/reporting services for ITO (Global Markets (IT/OPS/Drive), Global Banking (IT/OPS), Client Management, CCCO, Production, SSC, BP2S, Management, Quality Efficiency and ALMT) and Other Functions scope to the Territory/functional COO, as well as reviewing Local PMs closing and providing a global perspective to the analysis.We support line Territory manager in providing any business partnering required to these remits and any ad hoc tasks.
We also provide a quarterly analysis and reporting of the figures for the Group Integrated Functions Legal Compliance for the worldwide view.MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:Management Accounting FunctionsPerform high quality Management Accounting financial operational processes.Produce monthly and quarterly closing reporting and analysis: collect needed information, control data, inputs in global systems, provide reports for CIB Function heads, CIB ITO COO and Head of Function N-1.Perform controls related to data loaded in the different tools and propose enhancement if need be.Participate in the definition of key analysis axis to enhance the quality and the relevancy on all produced reports.Follow up a dedicated Business Stream (ITO COOs, Functions) at worldwide level thanks to Local PM Contribution and functional analysis.Guarantee of the respect of the Group Management Norms: consistency with Group and CIB rules principles, homogeneity through functions and business lines and regions, etc.Gather, analyse and produce NBAU expenses file to be included in the monthly reporting.Provide quarterly closing analysis and reporting for the Group Integrated Functions Legal Compliance within CIB.Lead the Budget Transfer process being the key worldwide contact for gathering all the requests.
Analyse (integrity, consistency and validation) and process them into the tracking tool.
Coordinate with other Global PMs for loading these requests.Delivery of the reports to SPOCs and managers.Contribution to adhoc requests.Maintenance of Referential, Mapping and ProceduresUpdate referential and mappings.Update monthly reporting builders/tools.Update referential and mappings with the Global team leader requests.Participate in Budget Process:Preparation and follow up through Budget Transfer/changes in scope.Provide the SPOCs with actual, budget and forecast commentaries.Ad hoc assistance cross remit as required with the annual budget/forecast process.Act as a key liaison between several key department stakeholdersLiaison with management / Local PM / ISPL offshore team to obtain and validate all monthly information for the production of monthly and quarterly reports.Assist SPOCs and related internal clients with their queries in a timely fashion.Projects, Systems Support, Operational Process ImprovementsIn partnership with the Project team, contributes to the standardization/harmonization of best practices across systems and processes.Participate in the upgrades/version releases of the reports, as well as system amendments/enhancements required to facilitate new/modified reporting requirements.
In connection with this effort, assist in user acceptance testing and trouble-shooting after deployment.Assist in identifying operational process improvements in production, control procedures, and workflow organization to increase the team's efficiency and effectiveness.Participate in the development, testing, and implementation of systems to support the activities of the team, assisting in: definition of business requirements, user acceptance testing, user training, post deployment trouble-shooting.REQUIREMENTS:Training and occupational experience:Accounting degree or equivalentMinimum 2-3 years of financial and/or management accounting experience, preferably within Financial Services IndustriesStrong Corporate Banking product knowledgePrior experience of cost accounting and preparation of management commentariesEnglish speaking is mandatory and French is a plusEssential specific requirements:Working knowledge and understanding of generally accepted accounting principles, IFRS, French GAP as well as LRR, and regulatory and tax accounting rules and regulationsStrong Corporate Banking product knowledgeStrong ability to interrogate, analyse and interpret data and produce variance analysisAbility to learn new systems and products quicklyExcellent Excel skills (including pivot tables, VLOOKUP, SUMIF) and Access, macro levelKnowledge of General Ledger systems essential (SAP), data management systems Hyperion Essbase/ Oracle Smartview #J-18808-Ljbffr