BNP Paribas is one of the euro zone’s leading banks, strongly positioned in its two core businesses – Retail Banking, Corporate & Institutional Banking – and present worldwide with nearly 192.500 employees in 74 countries. BNP Paribas has more than 4000 employees in Portugal and is one of the largest foreign institutions in the country.

Group Finance Services is a European finance operations center in Lisbon, and part of BNP Paribas Group Finance function. This function is responsible for compiling and processing accounting and financial information in order to ensure the publication of financial information and to provide Executive Management with the necessary information for the entire Group’s financial management. It is also responsible for the design, deployment and evolution of financial information systems.

Within Group Finance, the “Overheads Mutualised Services” team is responsible for organizing and ensuring the effective operation of the budgetary procedure of all Group Functions. The “Overheads Mutualised Services” team guarantees the reliability of figures during the budget process (forecasts, closing and budget preparation) and builds a synthesis view on expenses to support Group’s cost monitoring process. It also works “as a service” for worldwide integrated functions such as Compliance, Legal and Risk in helping their Finance Departments build budgets and transfer financial information from all the Business-Lines hosting Compliance, Legal and Risk costs and teams. This servicing activity is part of the Finance Operations Center located in Lisbon.

Main Activities

To contribute to the synthesis and reporting activity of the OMS Team
Supporting the OMS Team in its deliverables and collection of data from supplying chain of Business Lines
Participate in the exercises of Actuals, Forecast and Budget within client Functions

Technical skills required
•Degree in Finance, Management Control or Business
•Knowledge of Management Control principles
•Good knowledge of Excel, knowledge of ESSBase is a plus
•Fluent in English (B2 Level, CECRL certificate) is preferable

Behavioural & transversal skills required
•Strong team spirit
•Ability to understand and work under tight deadlines
• Self-starter, pro-active attitude with ability to work in a fast changing environment
•Able to develop analytical thinking and problem solving skills
•Good verbal and written communications skills

CV para joana.oliveiracarvalho@bnpparibas.com