Senior Financial Reporting Analyst

GROUP BNP PARIBAS

BNP Paribas is a top-ranking bank in Europe with an international profile. It operates in 65 countries and has almost 190,000 employees. BNP Paribas organizes its businesses into three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services (CPBS), Investment & Protection Services (IPS) and Corporate Institutional Banking (CIB). The Group helps all of its clients (retail, associations, businesses, SMEs, large corporate and institutional) to implement their projects by providing them with services in financing, investment, savings and protection.

Various bodies rank BNP Paribas, high in terms of attractiveness and being a “good place to work”. The Group has once again been named a “Top Employer Europe” for 2022. It was singled out in particular for its diversity, inclusion, career development possibilities and well-being.

About Business line/Function

The Finance & Strategy function (F&S) ensures, for the BNP Paribas Group, the production and publication of accounting and financial management statements necessary for the management of the Group, financial and tax optimization along with the external growth strategy. It also plays an alert role vis-à-vis of the General Management.

F&S count +1800 employees specialized in Accounting, Reporting, Performance Steering, Tax, Control, Regulatory and Project to mention few of them. F&S is organized around 3 mutualized regional platform (America, Europe and Asia/Pacific), 1 Shared Finance Service center located in India, Central F&S teams located in Paris and decentralized Finance, Tax and Development departments located in each BNPP country presence.

Infinity Finance HUB

The Infinity EMEA Finance & Strategy Platform is the Regional EMEA Mutualized platform and Group platform delivering services that covers the whole financial dimension: Accounting production activities, reporting, control, transformation projects, IT and GDO. Our platform serves EMEA Countries and CFO´s, Group Head Office and also worldwide entities when it refers to projects (Transformations & IT). The Infinity EMEA Finance & Strategy Platform is located in a dual location Madrid and Lisbon

ABOUT THE JOB

**POSITION PURPOSE**:

- The team member will ensure the data quality of the reporting towards the elaboration of the Group

Consolidated Financial Statements. She/he will act as a financial controller analyzing and monitoring the information declared by the BNP sites/regions
- This implies his / her collaboration on supporting the reporting sites/regions for the preparation of the closings, implementing and monitoring transversal controls at global level, investigating complex transactions from financial / reporting perspective, analyzing the data reported by the sites/regions through packages, and synthetizing the results of the controls and the performance through various deliverables
- At the same time, the team member will be the Subject Matter Expert on a particular Reporting topic (i.e. IFRS 9, IFRS 12, Consolidation Perimeter, KPIs reports, Intercompany etc)

**Responsibilities**:

- You will be responsible of supporting the entities/regions in the preparation of the quarterly closings:
- Developing capacity of the team member on understanding the events/issues raised by the sites/regions that might have an impact in the reporting
- Advising the reporting sites/regions about the correct presentation / accounting treatments of specific transactions
- Inform the sites/regions about news on Group norms, standards and reporting evolutions
- Ensure that the open issues are properly followed-up during the inter-closings as well as support on defining action plans
- Analysis on all the events with impact on the Group Consolidated Financial Statements- Discuss with the reporting sites/regions about particular transactions / operations that have a material impact in the Financial Statements
- Understand the issues and their implications on the Group Consolidated Financial Statement
- Identify events that might need an adjustment at consolidated level (i.e. operation wrongly booked in local, elimination of internal results, reclassifications for presentation purposes, etc.)
- Summarize and synthetize the key events in order to report them to the Team Leader
- As a Subject Matter Expert (SME):
- The team member is responsible for understanding and developing a particular transversal topic related to Financial / Regulatory Reporting
- The team member is part of Group Finance, the processed under is scope should be updated and harmonized with Group expectations

During the closing:
Collection and analysis of the Financial and Regulatory Statements
- Ask for corrections when the information provided through the packages is not accurate or wrongly reported
- Perform an analytical review on the data reported in order to have a global view on the material balances and variations
- Liaise with the sites/regions to get the necessary economic background and details aiming to