Group Internal Auditor - Finance - (F/H)

Job description

The AXA Group, world leader in Financial Protection, supports and advises its individual and corporate customers at every life stage, providing them with the products and services that meet their insurance, personal protection, savings and wealth management needs.

Our areas of expertise are reflected in a range of products and services adapted to the needs of each client in three major business lines: property-casualty insurance, life & savings, and asset management.
In 2018, present in 61 countries, the 171,000 employees and distributors of AXA were committed to serving 105 million clients.

AXA Corporate Center's main missions are to:

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Steer the entities in order to ensure the coherence of the strategies, the consistency of the commercial approaches as well as the optimization of the risks and results;

· Defining and coordinating Group policies, different transversal projects and standards, identifying and sharing best practices;
· Supporting the entities in order to help them to grow, to develop their offer, their management and steering standards as well as their risk management.
The head office of AXA Group (GIE AXA), based in Paris 8th, gathers the Group's corporate activities. It coordinates the various entities according to the Group's strategy and is responsible for managing international projects. The headquarters is composed with over 880 employees and is distinguished by its strong international culture (50 nationalities).

Direction Presentation:

Group Internal Audit monitors and reviews the effectiveness of the internal control and risk management framework operated within the Group and directs the global internal audit teams to accomplish its objectives of providing independent and objective assurance on the effectiveness of risk management, internal control and governance processes.
The Corporate center team performs internal audit reviews of Corporate center as well as coordination of transversal reviews performed across the world by local internal audit teams and occasionally performing certain audit missions or investigations in other parts of the Group.

Core activities :

Internal Audit reviews
· To participate to internal audit reviews of Corporate Centre (Group functions) over Finance, Human resources, Risk Management, Legal and Compliance processes with proactive update and feedback to the manager;
· To participate to transversal internal audit reviews with coordination of work performed by local internal audit teams;
· To document audit work in our internal audit tool in accordance with standards;
· To write the audit report making recommendations on internal controls, operating efficiencies and governance processes being reviewed;
· Follow up audit findings and recommendations and monitor management's response and implementation; Other
· Provide assistance to the Finance Audit forum, preparing presentations on relevant topics as needed;
· Participate in ad-hoc projects bringing technical expertise as determined by the Global Head of Finance & Risk audit.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Education: Graduate specialising in Finance, Accounting or Auditing

Experience:

Ideally a 2 year experience in Finance / Accounting / Audit with knowledge of insurance industry.

Other skills:
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Full proficiency in English (minimum score: TOEIC 900 / TOEFL 105) and French (both essential);

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Basic knowledge of IFRS GAAP and/or Solvency 2;

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Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint);

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Analytical, report writing and communication skills;

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Willing to travel for up to 10% of time.

Soft skills:

The applicant must:
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Show a great ability to listen, a critical mind, a good analytical sense as well as capacity for synthesis;

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Be able to deal with sensitive and confidential audit issues using developed discretion and judgment;

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Be able to build good working relationships;

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Be able to convince of the value of his / her opinions;

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Be result oriented with ability to focus on detailed tasks to achieve specified outcomes;

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Be concerned with service quality and implementation / follow up;

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Be objective and rigorous in his / her approach.