Project Analyst

BNP Paribas EMEA Finance employs 500 employees, of which more than 325 are based in Madrid. We manage more than 250 BNP Paribas entities from all over Europe, covering +60% of Group’s balance sheet and all group’s banking activities (Corporate & Investment Banking, Retail Banking, Personal Finance and other financial services activities ).

Our mission is to measure, control and explain all the financial indicators required to monitor accounting, tax, regulatory, liquidity, credit risk reporting and management result activities.

FRESH is a new IT framework encompassing Projects & Systems of Finance and RISK functions, with a strong focus on efficiency, proximity, agility and time-to-market.

FRESH is a new worldwide organizational model that will contribute to tackle major challenges of the Group’s transformation of today and tomorrow, building the best offering to the Finance and Risk Community through a progressive shift to new technologies and best practices.

FRESH organization is the outcome of several convergences: between the Project & Systems teams of Group Finance, CIB Finance and RISK and their related IT teams. FRESH is part of the ITG organization (ITG in Europe and ITO overseas) with a threefold sponsorship sponsorship: ITG, Finance and RISK.

Within the FRESH, Finance Dedicated Solutions (FDS) is a Group in charge of servicing Finance processes and users on a worldwide scope.

There are three Domains in FDS: Consolidations Solutions dedicated to Head Office Reporting, Operating Solutions dedicated to specific Finances processes and Local Regulatory Reporting Solutions (LRRS) dedicated to local or regional Finance teams producing the Financial statements & Financial prudential reporting towards the National Central Banks.

The missions of the LRRS team are to
- Lead the LRR stream of the OFS migrations
- Design and build systems & solutions for LRR Finance processes & users
- Rationalize the existing systems & solutions inherited from multiple local and regional initiatives
- Support, run and administer the LRR systems & solutions
- Manage incidents of the LRR systems & solutions
- Ensure communication with users and stakeholders.
- Contribute to the training and change management of the Finance users
- Strive to continuously improve the service provided by LRRS by tracking inefficiencies within LRRS and contributing to review Finance LRR processes

Concerning the EMEA region, a dedicated LRRS team is set up in the FRESH EMEA Hub. The analyst position is part of that team.

The FRESH EMEA Hub operates as a service center providing resources and expertise to deliver on tasks and projects prioritized by FRESH On-Shore stakeholders. The FRESH EMEA hub is itself hosted within the Oxygen Platform and covers Lisbon & Madrid Locations.

The FRESH EMEA Hub operates under the “Extended Team” model encompassing a clearly defined functional reporting line for each team to on-shore Managers who supervise the activities performed.

MISSION:
Be part of Local Regulatory Reporting Solutions team is being able to
- Design, develop and maintains Local Regulatory Reporting solutions:

- LRR France (Evolan),
- LRR International (NSA, LRR, Report Generator)
- Axiom
- Deploy LRR solution project for international entities: CIB/BP2S EMEA, APAC

As a Finance Business Analyst, your main responsibilities are to:

- Participate in the analysis of LRR by collecting the following information:

- Description of the architecture (systems, reporting tool, data flows, transformation points,...)
- Description of the reporting processes including manual tasks
- Inventory of Reports
- Identify all the restitution axis of the reports produced
- Define the solution according to:

- the OFS architecture principles
- the LRRS target architecture
- Define the specifications according to the business requirement
- Define the priority of the specifications within the agile backlog in collaboration with the PO
- Describe the testing strategy encompassing all stakeholders and contributors
- Build user manuals and training material
- Review and update permanent documentation on the SharePoint
- Prepare supporting documentation to instruct decisions by senior management in the LRRS & Finance governance bodies

RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Finance Business Analyst is expected to ensure proper functional support to users of the tool, as well as providing high quality work and deliverables, on the execution of his/her job.

Training and occupational experience
- Business school or University graduate with a Masters degree in Accounting, Finance
- Engineer diploma with Finance and/or Accounting certificates
- 3-6 years of experience in Finance within the Banking sector (Financial Accounting, Financial Reporting, Business/financial analysis), including audit and consultancy firms.
- Knowledge and experience of implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards
- Experience as business analyst /project manager in Finance systems (F