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Accounting Control Trainee

  • Lisbon (Lisboa)
  • Accounting / Management control

Job description

BNP Paribas is a leading European bank with an international reach. It has a presence in 73 countries, with more than 192,000 employees – including more than 146,000 in Europe and over 4,000 in Portugal alone.

BNP Paribas is present in Portugal since 1985, having been one of the first foreign banks to operate in the country. Today, BNP Paribas has several entities operating directly in this territory, offering a wide range of integrated financial solutions to support its clients and their businesses.

Worldwide, the Group has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. The Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporate and institutional clients) to realise their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance

Recently BNP Paribas established a European finance operations centre in Lisbon 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.

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.

BNP Paribas is an equal opportunity employer and proud to provide equal employment opportunity to all job seekers. We are actively committed to ensuring that no individual is discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Equity and diversity are at the core of our recruitment policy because we believe that they foster creativity and efficiency which in turn increase performance and productivity. We strive to reflect the society we live in, while keeping with the image of our clients.

Please note that only applications submitted in English will be considered.

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

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