Job Description: As part of Finance Second Line of Defense, the Capital Senior Auditor, located in Lisbon, actively supports the Capital Stream Leader, located in Paris, in his/her supervising role of the permanent control framework on the accounting and financial information related to prudential requirements (Basel IV; CRR3; ICAAP; COREP).
Main missions are:
- to maintain the Capital Generic Control Library, together with the relevant people in SMR-Capital Adequacy.
- to contribute to the correct understanding of the controls to be performed by various 1LoD teams, and by 2LoD Finance teams within the Group.
- to organize the corresponding certification process for Divisions/Business Lines.
- to report on the quality of the control framework to relevant permanent control governance bodies of Finance & Strategy and of the Group.
- to define the risk-based approach to be used for the 2LoD testing campaign on controls performed by the central teams.
- to perform the 2LoD testing on central teams.
- to prepare a synthesis of the 2LoD testing outcomes on central teams managed scope to be shared in the relevant F&S committees.
- to follow up recommendations on Capital reporting scope worldwide including IG, external auditors and ECB.
- to contribute to internal/external inspections' requests on permanent control framework on Capital reporting
Responsabilities: The 2LoD check and challenge of controls of the 1LoD central teams in his/her direct scope involves the following main responsibilities:
- Understand 1LoD teams' production and control processes
- Be knowledgeable about the Capital Generic Control Library and related procedures
- Follow up recommendations issued by internal or external control bodies to address deficiencies identified in 1LoD team's processes
- Implement the risk-based approach and 2LoD testing program defined with the Stream Leader to report the results and evidence of the performance of 2LoD controls in Group tools
- Prepare the synthesis and required document to communicate the controls results to the relevant stakeholders/committees (Group and Business lines level)
The Central 2LoD controller on Capital is also expected to:
- Organize the interaction with the 2LoD teams of the Regions involved in the Capital reporting production/control process to gather information on the results of their controls and issues identified impacting the quality of the data used by the 1LoD teams and challenge it
- Coordinate with OPC teams of the 1LoD teams and OPC Watchtower team for all topics related to the tools used to report controls results
- Actively support the Stream Leader in any other task, among which the review of the certificates received at Group level
Main Tasks:
- Experience in control or audit (preferably in the banking and/or financial sector).
- Strong accounting expertise.
- Organisationl skills.
- Critical thinking
Language Skills:
- English
Other details: We are looking for a Senior Accounting Controller, ideally with a minimum of 3 years of experience in control, finance or audit, preferably in the banking and/or financial sector.