COMPETENCE CENTER EXTERNAL STAFF
External Staff Request
24/05/2016
Project Officer for Operating Accounting Solutions
CCES Reference: 6936QPOAS
CCES Code: S40PROM
Start Date
ASAP
Duration
6 months
Location
Brussels
Context
The OAS team (Operational Accounting Solutions) is part of the Finance Business
Solutions department within Accounting and Reporting. OAS is responsible for the
integration of all the different business events sourced by the different operating
systems into the general ledger (also known as OFS) of BNPPARIBAS Fortis. OAS
is owner of the accounting schemes and the technical implementation of these.
OAS is in the lead of several sourcing projects and collaborates to other Finance
and business projects impacting the accounting. Moreover, OAS participates to all
evolutions with accounting impact in the Run the Bank production.
Function
Description
You are part of the OAS team within Finance Accounting & Reporting Department,
in charge of the accounting interpretation (both financial accounting and
management accounting) of the Business activities within the bank General Ledger.
You act as the main coordinator between the businesses’ engineering/IT teams and
Finance for all business projects and RTB evolutions impacting Finance systems,
keeping in mind the target architecture and convergence towards group system and
methodology. You follow a standardized methodology to realize all the deliverables
required by every phase of the project/evolution in order to ensure sourcing into the
accounting system for the production of financial reporting: initialization, planning,
accounting study, product life cycle description, accounting schemes, specifications
for accounting interpretation rules, testing, post go live assistance. You offer
management support to organize, follow up and optimise delivery of OAS projects
and RTB tasks transversally for all scopes. Moreover, you have a key role in the
governance & communication with a great number of stakeholders: OAS team in
Paris (SP), MOA/MOE & business users (CSS), Financial users & others (TAX,
Risk, etc). You deliver a regular follow-up of the status of each project/task, you
raise alerts when necessary and you follow risks and issues.
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Understanding the theoretical accounting schemes and reporting
requirements of the products in scope;
develop a ‘to be ‘ accounting scheme, translated to the accounting manual
used by the group;
ensure all parametrisations are done in the group accounting systems to
integrate the bookings to the new platform;
accompany the user in the new booking process. Provide Training,
guidance and user support;
controls and Reconciliations after transfer to ensure quality of data;
documentation of procedures, process;
intermediary with IT department and Group MOA;
participation to other required tasks in relation to his/her qualification and
knowledge.
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COMPETENCE CENTER EXTERNAL STAFF
Education
Languages
Requirement
Bachelor/Master or equivalent by experience in Finance/Accounting
French
Fluent
Dutch
Big plus
English
Fluent
Required knowledge / Experience
Experience
Senior experience in a similar function
Mandatory
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Technical
Experience
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Preferable
Mandatory
Business
Experience
Soft skills
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Preferable
Strong affinity with accounting & IT systems.
Analytical mind for a business engineering function (insight in
IT architecture & systems);
Capacity to analyse accounting & reporting systems &
figures (gap analysis of different reports: legal regulatory
reports BE-Gaap and IFRS, BIII, liquidity reporting….);
Knowledge of Bank products « Retail & CIB » and their life
cycle;
Accounting knowledge of bank products « Retail & CIB »
following IFRS and BE-Gaap rule is a big plus!
Be able to understand business needs out of a lot of
information, sometimes in a difficult environment or with
contradictory interests; relations with stakeholders are very
important.
Project management skills (follow up of planning, raise risks
in due time, formalise follow up via Steering Comitee and
project team meetings, participation in testing phase, …);
Organizational/PMO
Good inter-relationship skills;
Team spirit & team worker;
Rigorous & precise;
Be able to put in place change management, accompany end users and
give them the necessary and adequate support;
Be able to work autonomously & independent;
Good communication skills (oral & written)
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