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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 Group Risk Management which develops the risk framework in terms of limits/thresholds (financial, insurance and operational risks), standards, minimum requirements or processes, and oversees the operating entities’ adherence to the framework, supported by the local risk management teams. Risk management is coordinating the second line of defense. 

Within the Group Risk Management family, you will be part of the Group Internal Control and operational risk team which is responsible for providing reasonable assurance regarding the achievement of objectives relating to operations, reporting, and compliance. The internal control framework is covering a wide diversity of business areas and related risks with the objective to maintain risks within agreed risk tolerance and reduce operational losses. Each year, risk and control teams through the whole group are dealing with the reporting and management of 20000 controls, 2500 operational incidents and control failures representing €100M to €300M loss impact. The internal control team is an international community representing more than 220 internal controllers within the Group.

Within this Department, the Group Internal Financial Control (IFC) team is composed of two teams (Solvency 2 and IFRS). You will be part of the IFRS team.

At the Corporate center, the IFC IFRS Group team is managing a wide program driven by an auditors’ annual certification process at Group and local levels. The IFC methodology is structured with a top-down and risk-based approach to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of consolidated financial statements.

The key steps are:

• Identification of risks (“scoping” exercise) and calculation of the IFC IFRS coverage
• Testing of the design and the operating effectiveness of controls
• Follow up of the remediation of identified deficiencies
• Management reports (certification process)

The IFC IFRS program is twofold:

• The Group IFRS program and the entities’ supervision. The AXA IFC Programme is managed under the sponsorship of the Group CFO. Every in-scope entity has set up its own local IFC Programme, with appointed leaders and sponsors, and associated governance processes based on Group instructions.
• The IFC program of the Group Central Functions (GCF) including the transversal perimeters (General Accounting Products and Financial Assets accounting) tested by a dedicated team based in India.

Your job and daily missions:

In his/her role, the candidate will:

Group IFC IFRS Program:

• Actively contribute to the IFC IFRS programme Management for scoping, timelines, instructions, reporting.
• Contribute to the redaction of the different IFC IFRS reports and synthesis and participate to the post campaign analysis.
• Provide support and challenge to the local IFC functions to ensure successful delivery of for the IFRS program, acting as lead Group contact for a defined set of entities/countries
• Foster synergies across entities for cross-cutting topics
• Contribute to group internal control "Community calls" by preparing and communicating key messages
• Contribute to the support of the internal/external audit missions

GCF IFC IFRS program

• Support the GCF IFC IFRS programme Management (scoping, timelines, instructions, reporting).
• Contribute to the redaction of the GCF IFC IFRS reports and synthesis.
• Support the head of Group IFC for the regular liaison with external auditors.
• Develop a reinforced approach to improve the capacity to remedy the deficiencies identified and enhance the data quality (identify cross-cutting issues, promote solutions, etc.).
• Contribute to the support of the internal/external audit missions

Project management

• Participate to projects for improving and/or developing IFC framework on new risk coverage and/or due to evolution of Standards (IFRS standards, COSO principles, Solvency II…) or regulation requirements 
•  Participate and organize communication actions to raise IFC awareness within the Group (e.g. IC/IFC days, IC guideline, IFC induction course) and facilitate IFC projects

Coordination and management 

• Actively support the tester team based in India, leading IFC work on behalf of AXA Group (defining the testing strategy, following up the testing progress, process and controls transfers…)
• Contribute to the relationship with the service providers (Budget, scoping agreement validation, SAS report review); work closely with them to ensure reporting quality and timeliness
• Act as a liaison manager for Flyer entities assigned, become the main point of contact with regards to Flyer topics.

Vous rejoignez une entreprise :

-    Responsable, vis-à-vis des personnes, y compris ses employés et ses clients, et de la planète. -    Aux valeurs fortes-    Qui encourage la mobilité interne, et la formation de ses employés-    Qui vous offre de nombreux avantages (en savoir plus ici : Reward & Benefits - french | AXA Group)-    Flexible, qui permet le travail hybride, au bureau et à la maison.

Les informations fournies par les candidat(e)s seront traitées de manière strictement confidentielle et utilisées uniquement à des fins de recrutement.

Technical and professional skills

• Audit, finance or risk management background – 3 to 6 years’ experience
• Good understanding of the insurance business, relevant IFRS accounting rules practices. For internal candidates, some knowledge on the Flyer environment would be a significant advantage
• Understanding and knowledge of IT risks and its specific control framework to test them
• Programme and project management skills
• Good knowledge of internal control practices
• Precise, analytical and well organized
• Effective communication and writing in English

Interpersonal skills

• Good communication skills
• Strong organizational ability
• Independent decision-making capability
• Team spirit is a must

Management skills 

• Ability to work with a great number of interlocutors from different backgrounds (inside or outside finance) and cultures across the Group (international environment)
• Ability to understand and work with experts on various disciplines and subjects