What is this position about?

•    Assist team head to provide financial accounting and reporting services, ensuring compliance to financial accounting requirements and local regulations.

•    This involves (a) ensuring compliance with local regulations and legislation for Tax, Legal and with Group regulations defined in policies, procedures, rules and standards, with a particular focus on first level Permanent Control; and (b) ensuring regulatory reporting is prepared accurately and delivered on a timely basis.

What would be your typical day at BNPP Paribas look like? 

Primary Role Responsibilities

•    Project management & System Development:

o    Act as expert on different Finance systems (OFS, Poseidon, Flexel, etc) and provide support to other team members in exploring the concerned systems.

o    Perform efficiency and quality review, propose/implement additional controls and/or system/process changes.

o    Follow up with various stakeholders on the required system developments and controls implementation.

o    Manage different Finance projects ensuring local regulatory impact will be addressed in a timely and efficient manner.

•    Regulatory reporting:

o    Contribute to the preparation of regulatory reports ensuring they are prepared accurately and delivered timely in accordance with the rules and regulations.

o    Contribute to the production of statistical data and financial surveys required by regulators and/or other statistical board on a timely and accurate manner.

o    Contribute to information to be provided to HKMA case officer for queries on regular and ad hoc basis.  

o    Contribute to the analysis of system or process changes needed for new HKMA returns / surveys for any regulatory changes and implement new requirements by system changes, revise the respective procedures.

o    Ensure first level controls on local regulatory reporting are properly implemented and executed.

o    Contribute to the maintenance of proper procedure manuals for regulatory reporting.

o    Contribute to UAT on any changes to Flexel or any other finance system.

o    Support ad hoc process improvement and other projects assigned by the team head.

Other contributions

o    Contribute to the banking returns audit under section 63(3) and 63(3A) of Banking Ordinance. 

o    Ensures audit recommendations are resolved within the specific timeline.

o    Assist in provision of internal data / management report to senior management / other stakeholders.

o    Work with project teams to identify the project needs and deliverables in alignment with overall Group programme objective.

o    Be responsible for performing regulatory reporting control assessments and enhancement as well as preparing required documentation.

o    Acting as the back-up role to the absence of other teammates.

What is required for you to succeed?

Technical and Behavioral Competencies 

•    Strong accounting knowledge

•    Knowledge on regulatory reporting requirements (including liquidity and banking exposure returns).  Knowledge on LCR/NSFR will be an advantage.

•    Exposure to different banking products (GM, GB, WM, etc)

•    Good understanding of different Finance system architecture

•    Strong analytical and ability to synthesize and simplify

•    Control oriented mindset

•    Creativity & Innovation/Problem Solving

•    Strong sense of responsibility and commitment

•    Collaborative

•    Ability to prioritize work in a deadline intensive environment and work under pressure

•    Ability to lead and drive initiatives with a structured and focused approach

•    Change Management & Project Management skills is an advantage

•    Proficiency in Excel (VBA, Power query, etc)

Education/Certification/Licenses

•    CPA along with a relevant degree preferred.

•    Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in financial or regulatory reporting in sizable banking institution

•    Experience in report automation projects such as workflow re-engineering / streamline existing process is an advantage

•    Skilled in data extraction and analysis

•    Fluency in English

About BNP PARIBAS

As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance. 

We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.

•    BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community

•    BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization

•    Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness

•    BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds

BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.

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More information 

BNP Paribas - Diversity & Inclusion Journey

BNP Paribas - The Bank Of Green Changes

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BNPP has won Top employer Europe award in a 10th consecutive year