Manager Reporting – Accounting Policy

**Job Title**: Manager Reporting - Accounting Policy

**Corporate Title**: Director

**Location**: Paris

**Company Overview**:
At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us

**Responsibilities**:
Provides technical accounting support, guides new standard implementation, reviews statutory financial statements under IFRS & French GAAP, acts as an advocate for BAC with accounting standard setters and industry groups, works on special accounting projects for Global Head Accounting Policy.
- Be the principal accounting policy support for the Corporation’s Broker Dealer located in Paris
- Provides complex accounting guidance to Finance and Traders within the Broker Dealer for compliance with GAAP
- Offer professional technical accounting assistance on capital market transactions and events, including drafting memos to support the accounting conclusions
- Reviews new products and complex structured transactions.
- Participates in the implementation of new accounting standards and Corporate Accounting Policies
- Assist in maintaining the corporate accounting policy manual and offer improvements and supplements to the manual
- Oversee emerging French GAAP standards of accounting and interpreting the effects to the organization
- Acts in an advocacy role on behalf of the bank with accounting standard setters and various industry organizations
- Reviews the Broker Dealer’s financial statements using French GAAP & IFRS
- Assist in drafting comment letters to standard setters and regulatory bodies
- Interacts directly with External & Internal audit engagement management and staff

**What we are looking for**:

- Deep technical knowledge of the accounting standards, IFRS & French GAAP knowledge required
- Proven understanding of Capital Markets
- Prior Big-4 audit experience preferred
- Understanding of ECB regulations
- Ability to understand and dissect complex transactions
- Ability to work across teams within the organization to implement accounting standards and lead projects
- Confident communication skills, including written and oral presentation skills
- Ability to interact at different levels of the organization
- Excellent time management and organization skills

**France**
- Competitive retirement plan in addition to State plans
- Mandatory Medical Plan provided by the bank as a top-up to Social Security health benefits for you and your family.
- Employees and family members can receive free health advice 24/7 through a range of English and French speaking medical providers
- Life and disability insurance
- Time Savings Account (‘CET’) to save some of your leave days, cash them out or use them later
- Reimbursement of 50% of your commuter pass
- Nursery scheme for children under age 3
- Works council benefits
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme for confidential support and help for everyday matters
- Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering with local charities
- Opportunity to receive free entry to arts exhibitions sponsored by Bank of America in Paris

**Bank of America**:
Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.