Junior Financial Planning

**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 Planning and Analysis department is the sole provider of actionable financial reports and analysis to assist GBIS and SG management in steering the financial performance of the Americas. In this end, FPA consolidates the financials for management reporting, leads the Americas Budget process, prepares forecasts, produces financial trend analysis, certifies GBIS costs, contributes to the monthly closings, ensures alignment with norms around performance management analyzes and presents GBIS financial performance to senior management.

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

Develop and implement efficient financial and technical reporting in support of business needs, processes, projects, and ad hoc requests emanating from CEO office, CFO, Support & Control Function heads and Global Head Office. Core responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• As Department Financial officer, responsible for covering several support functions financial reporting, including providing variance analysis of actuals to budget, coordinating the Forecast exercise, providing commentary on key expense drivers, explaining the monthly results and presenting monthly reports to key stake holders of SG both locally in AMER and to Global counterparts in Paris.
• Review, analyze and monitor the performance of SG Americas support functions, prepare various financial analytical reports such as trend reporting, variance analysis and ad-hoc requests from C-suite level
• Analyze key expenses drivers, areas for growth and synergies to drive executive management decisions across the Support Functions
• Prepare and present monthly, quarterly and annual financial management reporting including gap analysis of actual results vs. prior years, vs. forecast and vs. budget to business partners
• Actively involved in the coordination of the Americas Budget process and support the forecasting exercise
• Ensure data integrity of all referential data, financial results reported by the area including, data feeds, reorganizations and restatements of current and historical information.
• Assist with month-end close procedures liaising with accounting and finance partners to ensure accuracy of management reporting and month end close
• Ability to manage multiple responsibilities under tight timeframes, ability to organize and prioritize to move tasks forward and complete them in a time efficient manner

**Profile required**

**Skills and Qualifications**

**Technical Skills**

• MS Excel
• MS Powerpoint

**Desired / Plus**

• Essbase/Hyperion Smartview
• Power Bi
• VBA

**Competencies**

• Analytical skills
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Presentation skills, including to senior management
• Process Improvement
• Ability to lead team projects
• Time management and ability to prioritize
• High integrity
• Demonstrate the ability to work within a Team
• An energetic and determined attitude
• Adaptability and willingness to work with people from different cultures
• Fluency in English
• International mindset

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**Qualifications**

**Experience Needed**

• 3-5 years of relevant working experience
• Accounting knowledge base
• Background in banking industry
• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• Reporting
• Data management

**Educational Requirements**

• Bachelor degree

**language**

Ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing, is a requirement as the person in this position will need to collaborate regularly with colleagues and partners in the United States.

**Why join us**

**our benefits**

**WHAT WE DO DIFFERENTLY AT SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE**

Competitive compensation & benefits offering, including but not limited to

• Minimum of 20 Vacation days + 4 personal days
• Supportive Maternity, paternity, parental and adoption leave policy
• Health spending ($2,000/year) and personal spending ($1,000/year) accounts with 75+ eligible reimbursement categories (health, training, electronics etc.)

Fully sponsored virtual healthcare assistance and Employee Assistance Program to you and your immediate family

Various Employee Resource Groups (ERG) to engage with such as Pride and Allies, A