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Deputy Head of Geographical Pole (H/F) - CDI - Paris

Permanent contract
Puteaux
Salary: Not specified
A few days at home
Experience: > 7 years

AXA
AXA

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The AXA Group, world leader in Financial Protection, supports and advises its individual and corporate customers at every life stage, providing them with the products and services that meet their insurance, personal protection, savings and wealth management needs.

 

Our areas of expertise are reflected in a range of products and services adapted to the needs of each client in three major business lines: property-casualty insurance, life & savings, and asset management.

In 2021, present in 54 countries, the 153,000 employees and distributors of AXA were committed to serving 105 million clients.

 

AXA Corporate Center’s main missions are to:

  • Steer the entities in order to ensure the coherence of the strategies, the consistency of the commercial approaches as well as the optimization of the risks and results;
  • Defining and coordinating Group policies, different transversal projects and standards, identifying and sharing best practices;
  • Supporting the entities in order to help them to grow, to develop their offer, their management and steering standards as well as their risk management.

 

 

1. JOB PURPOSE

The Deputy Head of Geographical Pole is responsible of the financial reporting of given entities within a specific geographical scope and is as such the key financial reporting stakeholder for both Group senior management and entities. He is also responsible for the transversal analysis of the Group main KPIs. 

 

2. DIMENSIONS

The geographical scope is made of AXA Switzerland, AXA Germany, and AXA Italy, along with transversal topics, such as the preparation of the Financial Group disclosures (e.g. Annual report, activity report…) and the analysis of all Group financial KPIs.

    - Gross Revenues: approx. €100bn 
    - Underlying Earnings: btw €4bn - €6bn 
    - Expenses: approx. €25bn 
    - Management of 3 team members
    - Stewardship of a network of 20 Financial controllers and accountants in 

 

3. CONTEXT & MAJOR CHALLENGES

There are four main challenges: 
    - Organization & Leadership: 
         o With one’s peers, the deputy is in charge of organizing the team of controllers and managing them through the whole process of the accounts closing: set up of accountabilities within teams in Spain and in France, instructions to entities, definition of calendars and deadlines, coordination of the work of several teams…
         o Ensure deliverables are on time and with the adequate level of quality, 
         o Proactively suggest improvement and simplification of Group processes,
    - Management: 
         o Management of 3 financial controllers,
         o Develop team performance and team spirit within a team of almost 50 people split in two locations,
         o Foster collaboration across all Group functions.
         o Stewardship of a network of 20 Financial controllers and accountants 
     - Communication: Ensure clear and concise analysis of main Group KPIs in order to prepare Top Management external communication
     - Technical / Financial: 
         o Challenge the entities on their figures and analyses,
         o Assess risks, opportunities, levers that could impact the Group results,
         o Optimize accounting treatment and alternative performance measures,
         o Build the storyline of a Line of business / a specific market,

4. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Group expert of the financial reporting of the two entities: 
     • Ensure accuracy of figures, respect of accounting standards including IFRS17, adequacy with our non-gaap KPIs, consistency with local financial situation & strategy
     • Provide sound analysis of entities KPIs to top management to support external communication

2. Supervision & coordination of the production of the Group financial disclosures (Annual report filed to the AMF, Activity report, financial supplement): 
     • Supervision of the process of production of these document and coordination with several Group departments (Investor Relations, Legal, Risk, HR…)

3. Production of Group & transversal deliverables: Audit Committee Reports, Management Committee decks, Board presentations : 
     • Provide deep analysis of Group KPIs to top management to support external communication

4. Management of 3 team members: tasks allocation and supervision, training, professional growth and development


Preferred experience

5. MAIN COMPETENCIES

Technical skills : 

    - Strong business analytical skills and the ability to determine and assess key risks and opportunities impacting the overall business strategy
    - Strong knowledge of accounting and reporting frameworks 
    - Thorough understanding of insurance concepts and of the insurance business with at leat 7 years of experience

Soft skills required: 
    - Ability to manage a team and to encourage professional development and career growth 
    - Assertiveness to be able to challenge senior business partners both at entity and Group level; ability to use soft power; to influence various stakeholders outside the Finance function; 
    - Ability to quickly build an effective and trust-based relationship with all entities & Group correspondents; 
    - Ability to work under pressure, remaining effective whilst supervising high quality deliverables; 
    - Highly organized, structured, autonomous and proactive 
    - Ability to a work in a multicultural environment with people from diverse backgrounds

 

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