Financial Analyst

4 months ago


Montréal QC, Canada Société Générale Full time

**Responsibilities**:
**ABOUT THE JOB**:
The Finance Department of Global Banking and Investor Solutions (GBIS) is a global organization with a local presence. Our core mission in the Americas involves delivering sound financial reports, supporting Business Units, Service Units and General Management with financial and strategic steering, effectively scrutinize business plans, and offering good advice on the efficient use of our capital, liquidity, and funding resources. The Finance Department performs independent certification of all financial aggregates and creates the daily P&L explanation on market activities. In addition, our robust teams also oversee and execute cross-business projects in the financial and regulatory areas of the industry by providing expertise on accounting, prudential and tax norms while ensuring compliance.

The Financial Control and Accounting Quality Oversight team (“PAQ”) in Canada and US is responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of the accounting and financial control framework, which aims at ensuring the quality and accuracy of SOCIETE GENERALE’s financial statements. The team is in charge of implementation and management of the Level 1 control framework for First Line of Defense.

PAQ in Americas reports to the Deputy CFO/Head of Accounting in the US, as well as, functional reporting to the global head of PAQ department in Paris.

The scope of the PAQ department in Americas is to supervise and control the accounting production and supervision of US GAAP, French GAAP and IFRS financial statement reporting for the Branch, the Broker Dealer and other subsidiaries that are based in the Americas (US, Brazil, and Canada).

**What will be your DAY-TO-DAY?**

Prepare tasks related to the accounting supervision and control framework
- Supervision of the account certification process for entities within the Americas perimeter
- Assessing the Accounting, Finance and Operations internal control environment (to the extent that it generates accounting risk)
- Designing, planning, and executing process changes in response to auditor recommendations
- Communicating with multiple teams within the bank on the overall and specific risk assessment of their activities.
- Performing quality analysis related to the accounting processes
- Monthly/quarterly production of Key Performance Indicators/Key Risk Indicators on the certification, identifying internal control issues and estimating financial risk.
- Contributing to the improvement and evolution of the account ownership and certification process
- Having a control mindset and a risk-based approach: be able to identify, assess and report risk

Participation in monitoring of the closing process
- Assist in the monthly and quarterly close process for all Americas entities, including the Branch and Broker Dealer
- Identification and escalation of risk areas and collaboration with production teams for resolution
- Check treatment and documentation of main accounting anomalies linked to the closing
- Create presentations for key meetings and committees in the closing process

Contribution to tasks related to permanent control oversight
- Identify, review, assess and document risk and control issues
- Assist with the implementation of new controls to be compliant with new regulations and/or internal policies
- Monthly reporting on key financial and operational risks, associated action plans and results of the accounting permanent controls
- Assist other areas of the bank in implementation of recommendations from Second and Third Lines of Defense, as it relates to the control framework
- Provide guidance on the design of level 1 controls, as well as training on best practices on the Level 1 control framework

Ensure controls are correctly mapped to risks within the Finance Americas risk blueprints; maintenance of the mapping; implementation of new rules/regulations in the control framework

Other PAQ Tasks
- Operational Risk Management for Finance
- Evaluating and logging operational incidents and issues.
- Contributing to the Risk and Compliance Self-Assessment exercises for all of Finance.
- Coordination of External Audit: Liaison with our external auditors and ensure the audit process is smooth and deadlines are kept.

**Profile required**:
**Skills and Qualifications**:
**Must Have**:

- Undergraduate/Graduate degree in Accounting or Finance.
- 2-3 years of experience working in the accounting, risk management, banking, or financial services field
- Understanding of audit techniques (risk approach, substantive testing, high view analysis )
- Solid understanding of US GAAP and IFRS accounting policies and regulations. Knowledge of French GAAP is a plus.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Detail-oriented and highly organized
- Advanced written and verbal communication skills, as well as presentation skills
- Project management skills
- Leadership, teamwork and client service skills

**Nice to Have**:

- Chartered Accountant,



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