Head of Projects & Administration

Projects & Administration (P&A) is part of the Chief Operating Officer team of the Finance Department of CA-CIB NY. The Finance Department is in charge of the accounting, Financial Management & Budget, Regulatory Reporting, Financial and Strategic Steering & ALM and Tax of the US affiliates of Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank. P&A is in charge of building data driven reporting and macros for the division’s users, maintaining and managing the User Developed Applications, updating some referential of Finance applications, and providing project management services and coordination. Summary • Project Management support to the Finance Division: assist the members of the division in the definition of their needs, follow up of implementation plans and coordination of the testing on IT Projects, • The manager of P&A has shown experience in managing teams in an international environment, and the capacity to oversee technical teams while ensuring the developments are performed in a controlled environment. • He/she has performed a similar function in a finance division. • The candidate has a good understanding of the processes around accounting and management reporting. • Experience with the main technology tools used such as Oracle Financials, Business Object, and Essbase. • We are looking for a proficient project manager with agile methodology expertise and experience in programming either in Python or Power BI. • Service-oriented, the manager will ensure the team assists the Finance users in developing reporting and automating their activities. • The manager reports locally to the CFO of Canada and to the Chief Operating Officer of the Americas’ Finance Division. Key Responsibilities • Manage the P&A team, • Manage projects for the Finance Department, • Oversee the building of finance applications using development tools available in MS Office, SQL, VBA, and Python, • Provide application support to Financial Division applications such as Oracle Financials, Leasequery, Business Objects, etc. • Ensure the P&A team properly manages and updates referential under its responsibility, closing accounting periods in the General Ledger in coordination with the accounting principles, • Follow the IT budget of the Finance Department and coordinate the preparation of the budget of projects for the department. Management and Reporting Reports locally to the CFO of Canada and to the Chief Operating Officer of the Americas’ Finance Division based in New York. #J-18808-Ljbffr