Project Manager (IFRS)

Societe Generale Global Solution Centre (SG GSC) is a business solution center for Societe Generale, one of the largest European financial groups. We provide high-quality professional services for more than 35 countries in various fields of activity – Finance & Accounting, Human Resources, Information Technology, Know Your Customer, Compliance and Business Advisory. Our mission is to be a partner of choice, valued for owning, transforming and innovating through best in class talent.

Requirements:

• Strong background experience in Business Process Offshoring, preferably in banking or finance area (3 - 5 years);
• Experience in coordinating small and medium international projects;
• Knowledge about accounting, controlling, regulatory reporting appreciated;
• Analytical abilities, reliability, result and quality orientation;
• Strong organization and result orientation;
• Good communication, interpersonal skills and innovation;
• Good IT/ Office applications knowledge (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint);
• Advanced level of English and French
• Availability to travel in Europe from time to time depending on the projects needs or for training reasons.

Responsibilities:

• In charge of organizing SG EBS offshoring projects regarding Finance activities: financial accounting, management accounting, regulatory reporting, account payable;
• Responsible for organizing the projects and coordinating the resources involved either from SG EBS, SG Paris and local entities:
• Leads offshoring study and business cases;
• Coordinates work up to implementation, including process description, IT set-up, relation with HR, contract of service, training through work shadowing and parallel run;
• Follows-up the activities, manages the budget and report to the sponsor of the project, ensuring the respect of the objectives assigned to the project;
• Takes decisions on project implementation; has functional authority on resources dedicated to the project.
Involved in process improvement projects in order to ensure an permanently upgrading of the processes within SGEBS and between SGEBS and the other entities.

Société Générale European BusinessServices is a player in the shared service center market and delivers highadded value services in various fields of activity for worldwide entities ofthe Group (finance/ accounting, procurement, human resources and IT). The company is currently serving over 20countries mostly across Europe for all major business lines of the Société Générale Group.

The Finance Shared Service Center of Société Générale European Business Services, launched in 2011, now counts more than 250staff delivering services for more than 300 client entities.

The team’s activity consists indelivering two important kinds of processes: accounting – namely Groupreporting in IFRS, statutory and regulatory reporting on top of the permanentsupervision activities and related set of control; and Account Payable and Travel& Expenses, with teams specialize in optimizing all procure to pay activities.