Natixis is a French multinational financial services firm specialized in asset & wealth management, corporate & investment banking, insurance and payments. A subsidiary of Groupe BPCE, the second-largest banking group in France through its two retail banking networks, Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne, Natixis counts nearly 16,000 employees across 38 countries.

As Natixis Innovation Hub, Natixis in Portugal mission is to transform traditional banking by developing innovative solutions for the bank’s business, operations and work culture, being a key driver of the company’s culture of agility and innovation. Teams of IT and Banking Support Activities work in an integrated, inclusive and transversal way, supporting all the business lines and country platforms.

Team presentation and main goal:

As part of the Finance Direction, you will integrate the Financial Data Integrity department (FDI) which is in charge of the labelling of financial data for CIB activities of Natixis (balance sheet and off-balance sheet).

This department counts about 100 people with a target to be bilocated (40 in Porto and 60 in Paris).

You will join a team of 7 people in Porto.

As a Financial Data Analyst, for of a major French banking institution with international dimension, you will:

• Assist with accounting closing work;
• Participate of the data monitoring for all financial production activities of the CIB (Equity, Commodites, Financing or Fixed Income activities), i.e. data acquisition, discrepancies analyses, appropriate corrections, automation of quality assurance processes.

You will be in contact with the Operations department (middle and back offices), the other teams of FDI & the internal Finance partners, and Finance IT teams.

Perimeters:

The main tasks are organised along two axes:

In a first step, Assistance with accounting closure work:

• Anticipating and ensuring the reliability of monthly and quarterly closings via weekly reconciliations on all perimeters (bonds, shares, commodities, financing, rates, derivatives), analysing the discrepancies between accounting balances and inventories and adjusting accounting or inventories;
• Ensuring a system of complementary manual entries in the event of disquality of the closing processes such as late entries, adjustment of BO entries (basket swaps, collateral securities);
• Ensuring and adjusting irregular accounting positions on the accrual’s accounts, leading to an abnormal RWA position, on a monthly basis;
• Automating of manual processes of data retrieval & control, in a context of efficiency and with an expectation of digital approach;
• Writing and updating of operational procedures.

In a second step, Monitoring data at the granular level to ensure the quality of the data required for all financial reporting or indicators (ALM, Solvency, Liquidity, FINREP, …):

• Controlling the data acquisition & treatment on the Financial chain inputs, along the flow;
• Developing and standardising data controls (especially: completeness, existence, accuracy, consistency or freshness controls);
• Detecting anomalies & analysing the root causes;
• Reporting, alerting the management and the internal partners (accounting & ratio teams);
• Defining remedial actions;
• Writing and updating of operational procedures.

Additional information (schedule, possible travelling, internal and external interactions, etc.):

• You will be part of a bi-localised team with a local manager and a functional manager Paris based, with regular interactions Paris team;
• The ability to develop a network within the various teams of the Natixis ecosystem, and an aptitude for collaborative and group work are key factors of success in this position.

• Preferred educational background or University/School: Bachelor’s degree in finance, with a first professional experience in the finance department of a mid / large cap company or audit;
• First experience in accounting;
• Knowledge of financial products;
• Ability to retrieve & analyse data, and use data viz & data prep tools.
• Advanced Knowledge of Financial products, Accounting and Data analysis.

Soft skills:

• Rigor and accuracy;
• Ability to analyse, summarise and report;
• Personal commitment;
• Team spirit;
• Autonomy, curiosity and willingness to move the issues forward.

Only CV's in English will be considered!

Early morning. Campo 24 de Agosto. In 4 minutes, you are clocking in at the office. After grabbing a cup of coffee and fresh fruit, pick up your laptop and choose your spot for the day. It's going to be a busy one: French class before lunch and, just after, quick medical appointment at Natixis doctor's office.
 
Lunch break. Outside in the big terrace (look at your crops at the Urban Garden; ready to harvest!) or, if you feel like stretching your legs, walk downtown to grab lunch.
 
Back inside. Quick sprint review (working together anywhere means virtual happy birthday to that colleague in Paris that just turned 35). The afternoon went flying (tasks, reports, calls, some jokes with your teammates). End it on a high note: just one PlayStation game or the final match for that ping-pong tournament.
 
Tomorrow, you complete that certified technical training and the day after, you will work from home, taking advantage to finally do that online course on Udemy. Once you are done with your tasks for the day, you can visit the office for a board games session or show up at the rehearsal of one of Natixis bands. If that is too steady for you, meet your colleagues to surf some waves or join them in a football match.