SA Financing

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The headquarters of the AXA Group (GIE AXA) brings together our corporate activities. It provides guidance and support to subsidiaries around the world, to ensure the coordination and monitoring of the Group's global strategy, the application of its standards, the consistency of commercial approaches and the sharing of best practices. The headquarters gathers approximately 1000 employees and is distinguished by its strong international culture (45 nationalities), which makes it a rich and stimulating place to work.

Within the Group, you will join DCFG department.

Being responsible for the steering and management of the Group's financial resources (capital, debt, cash), the Group Corporate Finance & Treasury department (DCFG) plays a key role in the delivery of our strategic ambition.

The Group Capital and Cash Management (GCCM) team of approx. 15 works together to understand and address the expectations of our stakeholders (shareholders, debtholders, local supervisors, business partners) regarding the level and form of our capital, its expected return and the most appropriate Group financial structure. It optimizes the sourcing, allocation and use of capital and cash across the Group in order to support AXA and its individual businesses in reaching their ambitions, including maintaining an attractive capital management policy for the Group's shareholders. It works to continuously grow cash generation from our operating units and increase cash remittance to the holding. Finally, it executes inorganic transactions to reallocate capital according to the Group's strategic priorities.

Within DCFG, the AXA SA Financing & Hedging Activities team within the wider Group Capital and Cash Management team, leads the work on these major dimensions:

• Steering the financial performance of AXA SA's financing activities
• derivatives hedging AXA SA's Foreign Exchange (FX) and Interest Rates (IR) exposures

The position holder contributes to monitor the financial performance of AXA SA's financial activities by:

• Monitoring AXA SA FX and IR exposures and hedging strategies and defining adequate market recommendations
• Performing AXA SA's Strategic Plan, budget, forecasts and closing on internal and external financing as well as derivatives activities
• Supporting the broader Group Cash and Capital Management team on the steering of the Group's financial structure through the management and optimization of AXA SA's financing costs
• Supporting and collaborating with other Group Finance teams (PBRC/accounting, GPM/controlling, Tax, etc.) and AXA SA Risk Management in order to ensure a coordinated steering of AXA SA's financing and derivatives activities
• Supporting Group processes related to AXA SA (financial and regulatory reporting, external communication)

Qualifications : 

• Master Degree in Finance / Engineering (with applied finance degree)
• 2-5 years experience in financial industry

Technical/professional and soft skills

• Thorough financial skills (financial instruments / derivatives: pricing, accounting / IFRS 9, reporting)
• Strong analytical and synthesis skills
• Problem solving skills in challenging environments
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Fluent in English and French ideally
• Dynamic
• Strong team-worker
• Well organized
• Capacity to deliver concrete proposals based on carried out analyses
• A good systems knowledge (BI tools, Bloomberg) and some experience on the automatization of reports would be considered a plus

You will join:

• A responsible company, towards people, including its employees and customers, and towards the planet 
• A company with strong values
• A company promoting internal mobility and the training of its employees
• A company offering many benefits (learn more here: AXA Careers)
• A flexible company, allowing hybrid work, in the office and from home.

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