Financial Accountant (M/W)

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About AXA:

Our purpose: Act for Human Progress by protecting what matters. 

Our business: Protection. We protect people, property, and assets. AXA is one of the world's leading insurance and asset managers. We help our 108 million customers navigate life's big and small challenges. Every day, we act together to invent the best way to protect them and want to empower everyone to live a better life. A challenge that makes you smile and want to get up in the morning!

About AXA Liabilities Managers (AXA LM) – An entity of AXA:

AXA LM’s expertise lies in the acquisition and management of non-life (re)insurance legacy business by providing proactive risk transfer solutions, taking over claims administration, performing consulting mission services to AXA P&C entities. AXA LM’s mission has two ultimate objectives for the AXA Group and AXA entities: to support AXA P&C entities to focus on their new active business, freeing up capital and resources allocated to their legacy portfolios by optimizing capital management & structuring finality solutions.

Our job offers:

Within the Accounting team, you will report to the Head of PBR & Accounting, with a functional reporting to the Senior Accountant. You will oversee the accounting of reinsurance companies (Insurance chart of accounts) as well as service & management entities (General COA).

1)      Preparation of statutory accounts of reinsurance companies (PCA), as well as of service & management companies (PCG):

Ø  Collection, identification and booking of provisions and accruals entries for the quarterly closings of each entity;

Ø  Preparation of annual statements (annual report, management report and appendices to the statutory accounts);

Ø  Direct contact with the auditors

2)      Collaboration with the Central Accounting Services (CAS) team (based in United Kingdom) in charge of accounting records and the management of day-today operations and with SHIP team in charge of Investment accounting:

You will be responsible of the follow-up and accuracy of the accounting operations booked by the CAS and have contacts with teams based abroad. You will work with SHIP Investment Accounting teams to understand and follow-up investment accounting entries.

Ø  Accounts payable and expense reports: checking of invoices records, identification and monitoring of fixed assets, quarterly analytical review of management expenses (in collaboration with Financial Controlling);

Ø  Accounts receivable: issue, record and monitor invoices (in collaboration with the Financial Controlling);

Ø  Treasury: monitor bank entries records and reconciliations, maintain bank mandates, cash flows monitoring, direct contact with banks;

Ø  Financial Investment accounting reports: prepare bookings in PeopleSoft based on SHIP accounting entries, perform controls and analysis.

Ø  Auxiliary systems reconciliations with our accounting tool PeopleSoft.

3)      Production of the IFRS package for reinsurance companies (PCA), consolidated within the AXA Group (quarterly, in collaboration with the Financial Controlling team) on BO MAGNITUDE software.

Ø  Production of IFRS accounts for each quarterly closing and complete some schedules for Magnitude

Ø  Intercompany reconciliation

Ø  Calculation of Deferred Taxes 

4)      Active participation in tax topics:

Ø  Production of consolidated tax packages (CEGIDTAX) and tax packages for French tax office;

Ø  Calculation and filing of tax returns: IS, VAT, CVAE, CFE, C3S, DAS2 etc including handling of respective timetables.

5)      Moreover, you will take part in various projects of the Finance family and ad-hoc topics.

About the requirements:

Education:

Ø  Master Degree in Finance, Accounting

Competencies:

Ø  You have between 3-5 years of experience on a similar position in the insurance industry ; audit experience in a big 4 or equivalent is an asset;

Ø  You have excellent knowledge of French and IFRS norms, accounting rules, that you acquired both through your degree and/ or your professional experience;

Ø  You have a good knowledge of French taxes;

Ø  You have a good knowledge of PCG and PCA (would be a plus);

Ø  You are fluent in French and English, written and orally;  

Ø  You may know People Soft or S4/HANA;

Ø  You are proficient in Excel;

Ø  You are organized, autonomous and proactive in solutions finding, with the ability to meet deadlines.

Mindset:

Ø  You like to propose your own ideas and have both the willingness and ability to evolve;

Ø  Rigorous and motivated. You like to act and propose your own ideas;

Ø  Methodic, well organized, and capable to manage multiple tasks and jump from one project to another that might be totally different in a fast-changing environment;

Ø  Result-oriented, resilient, and able to deliver on-time and quality;

Ø  Motivated to work within an international and cross-cultural environment;

Ø  Team spirit is a key skill for integrating in our dynamic and human-sized company.

AXA LM is a financial, agile dynamic and human-sized structure with 140 employees with very diverse personalities, profiles and culture, divided into 4 countries (USA, FR, UK, CH) gathering more than 70% of the P&C legacy market opportunities to make an efficient impact every day. AXA LM is a responsible employer, providing a real quality of life at work (3 days of homeworking per week, flex office modern environment, a gym on its premises at a preferential rate), free continuing education programs, recognition of employees with opportunities for development (mobility or secondment), etc.