Accounting Assistant

Paris, Fr

Contexte : AXA XL, the property and casualty and specialty risk division of AXA, provides insurance and risk management products and services for medium to large multinational businesses, and reinsurance solutions to insurance companies in France and abroad. The position is within the Finance Department of AXA XL, supporting the development of activities of the French branch of XL Insurance company.

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What will your essential responsibilities include?
• Accounting: You will be responsible for a number of accounting tasks (takeover of predecessor’s activities), mainly focusing on documenting accounts, monitoring cash receipts, resolving inter-company balances (documenting balances, settlement procedures). You will prepare the invoices issued by the Finance department in compliance with accounting and tax standards. You will participate in quarterly closing activities, particularly in calculating and monitoring provisions for bad debts.
• Taxes: You will be responsible for producing monthly service declarations (DES), the annual DAS2 declaration (fiscal reporting of fees/commissions paid during the fiscal year), monitoring VAT accounts, and participating in determining the VAT deduction coefficient.
• Treasury management: You will be responsible for monitoring/resolving bank entries, participating in bank reconciliation activities, and identifying and reclassifying bank fees on letters of credit (guarantee).

You will report to the Head of Accounting and Expenses Control, based in Paris.

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SHARE your talent

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
• You must have a higher education degree in Accounting/Finance.
• Junior experience (internship/apprenticeship – 1st experience) in tax compliance preparation or accounting consolidation work.
• Meticulous, proactive, structured.
• Analytical mindset, ability to write process documentation.
• Ability to quickly establish a trustworthy and effective internal relationship, while staying close to the business.
• Perfect command of English – working language (written/oral).

FIND your future

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business – property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

Learn more at axaxl.com

Inclusion & Diversity

AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success.

That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most diverse workforce possible, and create an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and can reach their highest potential. It’s about helping one another – and our business – to move forward and succeed.

• Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
• Enhanced family friendly leave benefits
• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
• Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter

Learn more at axaxl.com/about-us/inclusion-and-diversity . AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Sustainability

At AXA XL our approach to corporate responsibility (CR) is the same as our approach to business; constantly seeking to provide innovative solutions to the world’s most complex problems. From offering our expertise, products and services to help build more resilient communities, to advancing understanding and response to climate change, our strategy – Our Impact. Our Future. – aligns key issues that are pertinent to our business – climate, water and financial resilience – and contributes to AXA Group’s purpose to “Act for human progress by protecting what matters.”.
• Climate: We’re reducing our carbon footprint, protecting ecosystems and exploring how our business can help build a better world.
• Water: We’re developing water resilience where it is – and will be – needed most.
• Financial resilience: We’re helping create opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed, so they can be better prepared for unexpected changes.
• Hearts in Action:We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as our “Hearts in Action” programs.

For more information, please see the Corporate Responsibility section on our website.