Investment Back Office Senior Controller

Your work environment:

The headquarters of the AXA Group (GIE AXA) brings together our corporate activities. It provides guidance and support to subsidiaries around the world, to ensure the coordination and monitoring of the Group's global strategy, the application of its standards, the consistency of commercial approaches and the sharing of best practices. The headquarters gathers approximately 1000 employees and is distinguished by its strong international culture (45 nationalities), which makes it a rich and stimulating place to work.

Within the Group, you will join the Center of Excellence team to work on SHIP (Shared Investment accounting Platform) as Investment back-office senior controller.

• SHIP (Shared Investment accounting Platform) covers investment accounting activities for the biggest AXA Entities worldwide and aims at harmonizing systems, processes & organization in this area.
• The platform is operated by two shared organizations: a Center of Excellence (CoE) acting as a hub for technical and processes expertise, located in Paris, and a Financial Shared Service Center (FSSC) located in India, in charge of the main part of day-to-day activities.
• Within this Department, you will be part of the Trade and Asset Servicing (TAS) team as an investment back-office controller.
• CoE includes two other key streams which are Data management (which cover the feeding of our platform with master and market data) and Investment Accounting and Reporting (IAR).
• The Investment back-office controller team is in charge to monitor and improve the accounting processes related to the booking of trades, financial incomes, and expenses for the AXA entities.
• The Investment back-office controller team is overall monitoring the activities of around 100 FTE in India, in charge of booking around 130,000 postings a month for roughly 200 AXA entities.
• Those activities will be performed in a highly international and changing environment.

Your job and daily missions:

On Project side, you would ensure:

• Convergence activities among activities performed for the AXA entities using the platform.
• SHIP solution enhancement and maintenance (business requirement, testing of IT changes, and training to the team).
• Project Management for adjustment of the platform to new regulation, new scope integration, merger and acquisition among companies in scope, new investment strategy.
• Maintenance and Enhancement of information flows between teams and third parties.

As part of day-by-day activities monitoring, your missions would be to:

• Support Indian team in management of queries and specific posting (2nd level support).
• Ensure the effectiveness and proper design of control environment.
• Ensure the quality of deliverable and principally the monthly closing sign-off on bookings as well as cash and custody reconciliation.
• Coordinate the relationship with internal clients and third parties.
• Ensure preventive and corrective actions in case of errors.
• Controls design and documentation maintenance.

Let’s talk about you:

Look at this handy list to help you decide if you’ve got the right skills and experience for this role. We’re looking for someone with:

Technical and professional skills:

• Good knowledge of financial markets and instruments as well as general financial investment chain.
• Project management, Audit, Middle office or fund accounting previous experience.
• Proficient use of Microsoft Office.
• English Mandatory.

Soft skills and competencies:

• Rigorous.
• At ease with international environments.
• Highly collaborative team-oriented, who has proven ability to build relationships with technical and business resources.
• Self-motivated and proactive, ability to work independently with minimal direct guidance.
• Analytical mindset with problem-solving skills having already proved the ability to identify, quantify and effectively raise and cover business risks.

Experience:

• At least 5 years’ experience in a similar position, in a Financial Department or in audit, Middle Office or Fund accounting.
• One significant experience in project management would be appreciated.