Financial Performance Management Associate - Montréal, Canada - Société Générale

Société Générale

Verified Company

Montréal, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Responsibilities:

Department Summary:

The DFIN/FNA (Financing and Advisory Business Performance Analysis) supports the GLBA (Global Banking and Advisory) and GTPS (Global Transaction/Pmt Services) businesses as the provider of actionable financial reports and analysis to assist the business in steering the financial performance of the Americas.

In this end, FNA is responsible for the monthly Performance management reporting, analysis, and second-level control of NBI, Balance Sheet, Costs, Headcount, and a variety of rations.

In addition, FNA is responsible for the forecasting and yearly budgeting process.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

The primary responsibilities are to:

Performance Analysis of the Financing and Advisory businesses to report and analyze the financial results, inclusive of revenue, expenses, and scarce resources.
Functioning as the primary owner of report production across the different business lines within the Financing and Advisory Businesses of GBIS including GLBA and GTPS
Report production includes weekly and monthly financial performance analysis including Revenues, Fees, Costs, Balance Sheet, and a variety of performance metrics. This position will be responsible for the accuracy and timeliness of the team reporting.
Adhoc profitability analysis based on requests from our internal clients which include the Business Lines, CFO of the region, our performance analysis colleagues in Paris, and the Front Office.
This position will play a key role in the monitoring of Fee pnl communicating with different stakeholders (Business, OPER Bond team etc), fully understanding the underlying business drivers and issues that may affect each desks.
Contribute to the annual budgeting and forecasting process
Daily interactions with all team members, as well as various internal partners, to ensure comprehensive analysis as well as consistency across a variety of audiences.
Transversal topics with objective of improving the process and quality of financial reports produced through (but not limited) technology enhancements either digital, process enhancements, using new technologies, and/or data analytics.

Profile required:

Competencies, Skills and Qualifications:

Competencies:

Strong investigative ability and curiosity to comprehensively explain the profitability of the desks and understand variances against prior year, prior quarter, Budget, and Forecast.
Ability to develop strong partnerships with the Finance and Business community to gain an understanding of underlying business drivers and issues that may affect the activities.
Capability of assessing priorities, work in cooperation with other departments and divisions, and deliver with consistent quality, usually under tight deadlines.
Ability to use evolving technologies to streamline manual report production,
Strong ability in data analytics,
Strong written and verbal communication skills,
Advanced with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills,
Ability to build complex spreadsheets (e.g. inputs vs outputs, large datasets, wellorganized),

Desired / Plus:

Essbase
Experience with PowerBI
Experience with VBA and Python projects

Experience Needed:

3+ years of experience in Financial Services
Exposure to Finance, Accounting, and Capital Markets.
Reporting
Data management

Educational Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Business and/or Finance.

Languages:
French, English

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, American Women Network, Black Leadership Network, One planet, etc.
A culture of continuous development by encouraging our employees various training programs (online training and coaching platform such as Coursera, GoFluent, Pluralsight, First Finance, and others).

Business insight:

OUR CULTURE:

At Societe Generale, we live by our 4 core values of commitment, responsibility, team spirit and innovation. We are engaged and demonstrate consideration for others. We act ethically and with courage. We focus our talent and energy on collective success. We experiment and propose new ideas. This way, we maximize our ability to serve client needs and anticipate market cha