Pricing Expert (240005EF)

Primary Location

: FRANCE-75-PARIS

Organization

: Group Operations

Contract Type

: Regular

Schedule

: Full-time 

Description

CONTEXT

AXA GO Commercial Finance department is in charge of Revenue accountability and communication with AXA entities using AXA GO services, billing and cash collection, and cost allocation rules across products.

POSITION MISSIONS & MAIN ACTIVITIES

Within Commercial Finance, the Costing team is responsible for costing and recharging modelization per product and AXA entities, as well as overseeing financial development of costs & revenues per IT lines of Products. 

The commercial finance costing expert is responsible for

• Costing and pricing modelization:
• Define business rules and allocation keys related to product costing and recharging
• Define variability rules on IT products jointly with product manager
• Ensure the maintenance and the consistency across tools (controlling tool, Volume, and costing/Recharging tool)
• Ensure involvement and communication of all Business & Finance contributors:
• Coordinate the application of costing and recharging guidelines according to closing and budgeting process
• Act as business partners of Product owners, managers, Finance contributors and support them in exchanges with external and internal customers
• Cost accounting improvement
• Define, improve analytics on costs, intra company flows, revenues
• Ensure the communication and application of rules :
• Supporting IT Project Managers for quotation & recharging, including specific financial business plans

The position directly reports to the Head of Costing Team.

DIMENSION IMPACTED BY THE JOB

The global role requires to interact with an extensive scope of senior stakeholders both functionally and geographically. Total revenues to communicate and secure is approx. 1bn€, through more than 40 different AXA entities across the globe. 

KEY INTERFACES

• Other Commercial Finance teams
• Finance controlling teams (central and international)
• Group IT markets teams
• Group IT Product teams

DIMENSIONS

• Geographical scope: global
• Budget to be communicated & secured: approx. 1bn€
• Interfaces
• Close work with other Controlling teams
• Close work wit IT Product Owners and Product Managers
• Work with market teams
• Country finance teams coordinating local product delivery
• Other commercial finance teams

Qualifications

PROFILE, SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

The candidate be recognized in his financial and analytical skills, his abilities to communicate in a matrix organization. 

Group Operations has a renewed and strong focus on controlling and financial transparency towards AXA entities. The use of a structured tool, Anaplan, the product/market/finance matrix of responsibilities at the operational level also requires a finance candidate with proven track record in controlling and budgeting in a global context.

These skills should be priorities. Below is a more detailed view of the required skills:

Hard skills

• Financial skills, excellent analytical skills, understanding of business economics,
• Good knowledge of data analysis
• Problem-solving skills, able to work with details while making quick synthesis and summaries
• Good level of understanding of IT service delivery a plus
• Power BI a plus strongly welcome
• Appetite for tools
• Not afraid to discover new tools and imagine new solutions

Soft skills

• Capacity to deal with uncertainty – adaptability
• Able to work in autonomy
• The role requires excellent relational skills to interact fluently and efficiently with various teams from different background and context (finance teams, IT teams in GO, teams from AXA entities)
• Delivery orientation is a must, with high level of rigor and integrity.
• Able to work in a matrix organization, functional management and remote management

Language skills

• English and French fluency

Education and experience

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Industrial Management, Engineering, Finance, Economics
• 5-10 years experience

About AXA As a world-leading insurance company, we act for human progress by protecting what matters. With 153,000 employees in 54 countries working with 105 million customers, we’ve created a truly dynamic and vibrant community. Inclusion and diversity link closely with our values, and together we’re nurturing a culture of

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AXA is becoming a sustainable tech-led company and at AXA Group Operations we are one of the major catalysts for this transformation. 

We set the tone by triggering and empowering the evolution of our insurance business model through technology and innovation, driving its concrete implementation globally at speed, with a high quality of advisory and execution.

We are present across 17 countries with committed, highly qualified teams. We leverage technology, data, sourcing, security and investment allocation in a global way, but also achieve economies of scale and synergies when necessary.

At AXA Group Operations, we want to be recognized in three fields of action:

• State-of-the-art Data Technology to drive customer experience
• State-of-the-art Procurement & Sourcing to drive efficiency and better manage risks
• High-Performing Global Team for stronger partnerships with AXA entities

What We Offer 

We bring together the expertise, cultural diversity and creativity of over 8,000 employees worldwide and we’re committed to equal opportunities in all aspects of employment (gender, LGBT+, disabled persons, or people of different origins) and to promoting Diversity & Inclusion by creating a work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect, and where individual differences are valued.

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