Head of Projects & Administration – Crédit Agricole

Title of the Job: Head of Projects & Administration

Location: Montreal, QC

Job Description: Crédit Agricole CIB is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, the 10th largest banking group worldwide in terms of balance sheet size (The Banker, July 2022).
8,600 employees in more than 30 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Middle-East and North Africa, support the Bank’s clients, meeting their financial needs throughout the world.
Crédit Agricole CIB offers its large corporate and institutional clients a range of products and services in capital market activities, investment banking, structured finance, commercial banking and international trade.
The Bank is a pioneer in the area of climate finance, and is currently a market leader in this segment with a complete offer for all its clients.For more information, please visit www.ca-cib.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/ca_cib
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/credit-agricole-cib/By working every day in the interest of society, we are a group committed to diversity and inclusion. All our positions are open to people with disabilities.Reference 2024-93069Publication date 09/10/2024Job descriptionBusiness typeTypes of Jobs – Finance / AccountingJob titleHead of Projects & AdministrationContract typePermanent ContractManagement positionYesJob summaryProjects & 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, maintain and manage the User Developed Applications, maintaining and update some referential of Finance applications, and provide 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 its experience in managing teams in an international environment, and its capacity to oversee technical teams while being able to ensure the developments are performed in a controlled environment
• He /she has performed 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, 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 assist the Finance users to develop reporting and automate their activities.
• The manager reports locally to the CFO of Canada, and to the Chief Operating Officer of the Americas’ Finance Division.

Key Responsibilities

• Manages the P&A team,
• Manages 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 update referential under its responsibility, close 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 ReportingReports locally to the CFO of Canada and to the Chief Operating Officer of the Americas’ Finance Division based in New York.Position locationGeographical areaAmerica, CanadaCityMontrealCandidate criteriaMinimal education levelBachelor Degree / BSc Degree or equivalentAcademic qualification / SpecialityBachelor in MIS or Data analyticsLevel of minimal experience6-10 yearsExperience7-10 years of experience in Project management, preferably in a finance departmentRequired skills

• Agile methodology

• Driven and autonomous
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Capacity to analyze and synthetize information
• Sense of priorities and responsibilities,
• Attention to detail
• Effective decision making
• Management of vertical and horizontal relationships

• Verbal and written communication skills in English required (You will need to service Anglophone clients and work with Anglophone colleagues)
• Verbal and written communication skills in French considered a strong asset

Company Name: Crédit Agricole

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