Financial & Management Accounting Professional

Position Purpose

The main responsibility of the Subject Matter Stream (SMS) is to ensure the accuracy of the production of the financial and management accounting ledgers through a new BNP Paribas tool (OFS). Understanding the activities, the tools, the data flow and processes, as per the Target operating model is key to the function. Ensuring these processes are followed and duly documented, putting in place the adequate level of controls.

Responsibilities

• Primary responsibility would be to run the ECL process for entire APAC region
• Manage the cost of risk processing
• Additionally, be responsible for the production of the Financial and Management accounting for a business unit. Posting of journal entries, preparation of accruals and other financial accounting tasks.
• Performing daily, weekly and monthly control checks to ensure there are no anomalies in ledger and investigate any issues caused due to system or manual error.
• Measure and book the required adjustments in accounting to ensure completion and accuracy of the General ledger.
• Perform the operating systems to ledger reconciliation
• Ensure the accuracy of the Financial and Management accounting ledgers via a strong level 1 control
• IFRS accounting for month end close
• Create, maintain and follow the process documentations as per the target operating model
• Understand the new ledger (OFS) processes and usage of OFS tools from the financial and management accounting, controls and reporting perspective
• Testing feeds and processes before entities go live on the new systems (OFS)
• Be responsible for the static data of the entity/business unit
• Support the production teams during parallel run and go-live to ensure that the OFS tools and processes are followed as per the target operating model

• Ability to adapt to changes
• Capability to work and interact with various people of different expertise and level.
• Client focus
• Management skills

• Expertise in accounting of banking products/activity and on IFRS
• Knowledge of financial reporting processes in Banking and Capital Market industry
• Knowledge of Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) activities and products
• Good communication (oral and written), organisation and documentation skills.

Other/Specific Qualifications

• Good communication skills including interactions with international counterparties
• Very high comfort with working with numbers: rigor, analytical mind-set, ability to interpret and explain numbers
• Strong sense of organization, ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines
• Hard working
• Team spirit
• Curiosity and open to other cultures