Group Finance Apprentice - 12 Months

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Your work environment

The headquarters of the AXA Group (GIE AXA) brings together our corporate activities. It provides guidance and support to subsidiaries around the world, in order 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.

AXA is built around diversity and unity, which is why we are committed to promoting collective success through inclusion.

Within the Group, you will join the Group Performance Management (GPM) - Controlling team, based in Paris and Hong Kong. The team is composed of c.15 international executives with a strong background in finance (M&A, actuaries) and/or in strategy (consulting or other), organized in geographic areas (AXA France / AXA XL / AXA IM, Europe, Asia, and International New Markets). 

GPM is a Group finance department which offers a unique and centralized point of contact for all business performance monitoring matters. The team is working in close collaboration with entities’ top Management (CFOs, Heads of Controlling) and Group central functions (Operations, HR and technical teams) to feed the MC and the CFO with accurate information.

Its main duty is to steer financial and strategic dialogues with entities and provide the Management Committee with analysis. Reporting to the Management Committee and the CFO are conducted on a monthly basis and complement the financial and strategic cycle (budget, forecast 1 & 2, closing and the Strategic plan).

Role and Responsibilities

GPM is looking for an apprentice to join one of the geographic areas. The main mission of the GPM apprentice is to assist the relevant Associate in monitoring the Entities. Therefore, the GPM apprentice is expected to:

• Support the Associate in preparing monthly analysis covering financial and non-financial performance indicators;
• Support the Associate in providing management presentations and regular update on business performance and budget execution;
• Participate to forecasting, financial planning and budgeting processes, providing right figures and analysis;
• With the support of GPM Associate, prepare benchmarking analysis with external competitors;
• With the support of GPM Associate, prepare ad hoc analysis on business / financial topics.

Education: 

Expected skills to successfully achieve the apprenticeship: 

• Good understanding of finance and reporting principles
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to organise, analyse and summarise in a clear way
• Fluent in English

Would you like to wake up every day driven and inspired by our noble mission and to work together as one global team to empower people to live a better life?

Here at AXA we strive to lead the transformation of our industry. We are looking for talented individuals who come from varied backgrounds, think differently and want to be part of this exciting transformation by challenging the status quo so we can push AXA - a leading global brand and one of the most innovative companies in our industry - onto even greater things.

The headquarters of the AXA Group is based in Paris - La Défense (Majunga Tower) and brings together the Group's corporate activities. It is distinguished by its strong international culture.

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: Reward & Benefits | AXA Group)
• A flexible company, allowing hybrid work, in the office and from home.

The information provided by applicants will be treated as strictly confidential and used for recruitment purposes only.