Total recrute un analyste de soutien aux systèmes financiers, Suisse
Job Description
Reports to the Head of Internal Control & Finance Systems. The position is located in the Finance department of Total Gas & Power Limited, London – Meyrin, Geneva Branch in Geneva. Proximity and strong communication within the finance department is key in this position.
The position is under the supervision of the Finance IT Manager, and involves constant cooperation with the Finance Projects & Accounting Systems Manager, and Paris/Geneva-based IT teams. The role involves regular interaction with other Trading entities based in Houston and Singapore. The role includes strong interactions with other departments (BO, MO, FO, Legal and Compliance).
The position:
- Is in charge of the administration and support of finance systems. Full perimeter includes 14 systems, 7 of which are currently directly administered by Finance. Includes Financial Reporting systems: accounting for trading transactions, preparation of monthly IFRSinternal reporting, UK GAAP statutory accounts, UK tax returns, compliance with SOX requirements in a US-listed Group.
Also includes Treasury and Credit systems in a company trading with c. 270 counterparts, of which c. 40 under daily margining and about 50 bank accounts.
- Provides support to the50 finance users based in Geneva and in Singapor
- Provides support to250 users for the counterpart on-boarding system used by the trading entity.
- Contributes toFinance projects that involve developments of the Trading book (in Credit, Trading accounting & control and Tax).
- Responsible for the support of the counterpart on-boarding system for Geneva, Singapore and Houston entities.
- Contributesto Houston projects that required expertise on systems already developed by the Geneva office.
Activities:
- Manages support of users in their day to day operations and manages authorisations in theFinance systems.
- Responsible for Internal Control compliance of Finance Systems under the Total Group SOX framework (Simba -production of SOX reports, liaise with external and internal auditors for SOX checks)
- Provides assessment and solutions to day-to-day issues, takes responsibility for bug submissions and follow-up until they are corrected.
- Advises Finance users on IT aspects of new business requirements and proposes adequate evolution in the finance systems to properly support them.
- Create and write functional specifications for development requests, and coordinates finance and development teams; participates in planning and iteration reviews. Supervises the user acceptance tests and guarantees a smooth migration process for the users.
- Brings synergies between the different finance development requests. Eases communications between the departments.
- Ensures that software user documentation is up to date and accurate.
- Ensures proper coordination with Paris IT and Geneva IT teams involved in the maintenance or development of finance systems.
- Extracts and provides appropriate level of information from Finance systems, to the destination of finance users and other departments (BO, MO, FO). Maintains and supports the provided reports.
Accountabilities :
- The Finance System Support Analyst guarantees TGP Finance can operate its day-to-day activities by providing support for Finance systems.
- Makes sure systems are always available and in line with business requirements. Unavailability of treasury systems would impair TGP’s ability to meet Its contractual obligations (terms of payment, daily margining requirements…) and generate potential Unavailability of Financial Reporting systems could affect TGP’s ability to meet internal and external reporting deadlines, causing disruption in Group reporting processes or UK tax or regulatory risks.
- Anticipates needs for future developments. Manages projects of new developments, optimising resources and time constraints.
- Supports company evolutions (acquisition, merge, relocations) with impact on systems.
- Consolidates system needs from the different Finance departments.
Context and environment
- Total Gas and Power is commercialising the non-committed gas, power, LNG and dry bulk productions of the upstream affiliates, supplies the gas and power marketing affiliates, and takes positions on the gas, power, LNG anddry bulk markets, both in Europe (TGPL), the United States (TGPNA) and in Singapore (TGPA).
- Total Gas and Power handles its risk management through an integrated bespoke system, developed internally. A number of Finance processes (including accounting of trading transactions, settlements, accruals management) are extensions of the Trading Book
- External application are also used and maintained by Finance IT: Credit management and on-boarding process runs on Cube Logic. General accounting runs on Sun Accounts. Finance IT acts as the business interface between users and developers or maintenance teams ofthose internal/external
- Current projects : assist the Finance IT manager in the implementation of the Dry Bulk trading in another bespoke system (Medyssis) and in implementation of a new accounting system (Sage) in July 2021.
Candidate profile
- University educated to at least master’s level in an engineering or quantitative finance field. Fluent in both French and English Languages.
- 6-7 years of professional experience in the commodity trading industry, including significant exposure to IT developments as a business analyst, project manager or systems administrator.
- Comfortable working with diverse business scenarios, handling multiple priorities.
- Programming skills in either Sql or Vba.
- Able to access and manipulate data using data Visualization tools (Tableau, MS PowerBI)
- This position requires autonomy, discipline, to be resourceful and well organised. Be proactive with a problem-solving mind set; and have good ability to convince, IT skills and interest essential. Ability to work under pressure in a demanding environment.
Offer ID : 40230BR
Metier : General Finance Responsibility
Employment type : Fixed term position
Contract duration : 9
Duration unit : Months
Experience level required : Minimum 6 years
Branch :Gas Renewables And Power