Natixis is part of the Global Financial Services business unit, the global arm of Groupe BPCE, specialized in Asset & Wealth Management and Corporate & Investment Banking and counts nearly 16,000 employees across 38 countries.

The Groupe BPCE, the second-largest banking group in France through its two retail banking networks, Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne.

Natixis in Portugal mission is to transform traditional banking services 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:

Financial Permanent Control (FPC) acts as a second line of defence (LOD2) covering Finance activities, directly attached to Natixis CFO.

Our mission is to ensure the consistency and the reliability of the financial information and data quality control (BCBS 239) by deploying a relevant and robust control framework. 

FPC performs controls on the financial data produced by the remaining teams of the Finance Department.

FPC is composed by four teams:

•  Accounting and Tax;
•  Regulatory and Prudential;
•  Supervision and Control Framework;
• EMEA. 

As a Senior of the Accounting & Tax team, the candidate will be part of an extended team based in Porto which is fully integrated into the Head Office team.

Our main activities consist in conducting quarterly closing monitoring controls and ad hoc assignments which cover the scope of accounting, tax and financial information (statutory, consolidated accounts and tax declarations).

Main tasks and goals:

As part of the Finance Department the candidate will work with the 1st and 2nd level control teams with Paris and/or Porto and evaluate Natixis Control framework in various areas, namely:

• Reconciliation on B/S and Off Balance Sheet between inventory and accounting;
• Reconciliation economic PNL with accounting PNL;
•  Bank account reconciliation; 
• Review Financing operations PNL control;
• Custodian reconciliation (Equity, Bond and Tofu);
• Treatment of accounting netting;
• Treatment of internal operations; 
•  Employee expenses;
• Reconciliation between IFRS and French GAAP.

As a Senior member of the team, the candidate is expected to perform the more complex tasks and to have an active role in supervising the work performed by the more junior members of the team. It is also expected that the candidate could give his/her contribution to the improvement of the control framework, mainly via developing automatizations in the processes performed.

Finally, the candidate should be aware of the status of the work performed by the whole team and communicate to the team leader any potential issues.

Frequent interactions will be necessary with Paris colleagues.

• Master's Degree in Accounting, Audit or equivalent with bank accounting; 
• Auditing experience (+3 years);
• Accounting (advanced knowledge);
• Control environment (advanced knowledge);
• Data management (advanced knowledge);
• IFRS9 (notions). 
• Fluent English (mandatory) and French as a plus;
• Result oriented;
• Team spirit & communication skills;
• Proactivity & critical thinking;
• Analytical & organizational skills. 

We will only consider English CV's.

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.