About BNP Paribas

At BNP Paribas, we center our values on what drives the company forward. Our driving forces are Agility, Client Satisfaction, Compliance Culture and Openness.

• Agility: we want to behave more simply to embrace useful innovation and digital transformation. 
• Client Satisfaction: we believe that our success lies in being the customers' and clients' preferred choice.
• Compliance Culture: we believe in promoting clear rules to foster a strong culture of compliance and ethics 
• Openness: we promote open-minded attitudes towards our stakeholders. We aim for everyone in Group to feel included, to have their say and be empowered

Role

The Risk Management Middle Office Team Core Missions are:

• Risk Management Middle Office team is the core quality monitoring and ex-post control team for Middle Office organization. Their control mandate includes financial security controls (non clients (KYX), Hermes etc..,) controls aligned to group policies and dedicated controls specific to Pricing and Revenue analytics.
• The team also champions industrialization, looking to automate controls and the streamlining of reporting and governance of all control frameworks, taking charge of the GBMO control Committee.            

Key Responsibilities

• Perform the Financial Security controls at facility set-up, facility renewal and on a regular basis during the deal life to monitor and ensure that programmes are always compliant with FS (KYX, Hermes ++, Obligor Screening). Tasks include the following but are not limited to:
  1. Ensure the correct Due Diligence is performed as required according to the KYX policy.
  2. Ensure recertification is performed at renewal date 
  3. To Align with the group guidelines once GTS instruction is received.
  4. Ensure the Storage of all the relevant documents and evidence in an appropriate location. 
  5. Ensure all the controls are completed periodically.
  6. To ensure timely escalation to MO Management and FO as required
  7. Keep the registers and trackers up to date for all the FS activities with deals subjected to the recertification frequency, follow up commentary and TSAM framework scoring.

• Perform HIT management review on all screening results for MO teams and ensure compliance with screening relationship procedure.
• Perform PN country checks for all Middle Office Teams and liaise with Business for on any escalation concerns. 
• Perform ex-post controls for Middle Office for all indirect programs handled in Third Party Platforms
• To periodically reconcile the pricing register vs static & business data in SCF platforms, to ensure pricing design is compatible with clearly identifiable reconciliation outputs (maintenance & upgrade of macro).
• Automation design of the manual pricing reconciliation tool, implementing initiatives to improve and advance the pricing reconciliation methodology.
• Engaging with Registration team to understand pricing categories and implementing frequent checks to ensure correctness in platform.

• Understand the pricing design end to end and implement training or proposals to FO on the simplification of pricing offer or reviewing pricing per client requirement. 
• Collaborating closely with global product manager to implement AI initiatives in pricing reconciliation and inputs i.e. 
• Perform monthly Revenue analytic task to ensure the correctness of the PNL for business lines and proposing solutions to finance to ensure correctness of reporting 
• Attendance to calls with internal stakeholders; FO, Finance, Compliance to ensure all queries and escalations resolved in a timely manner. 
• Assist with the preparation of daily, monthly quarterly and ad hoc reports for Middle Office, Business Lines, KPIs etc.,
• Communication and maintain a good audit trail on the requests handled.
• Attention to details and extra vigilance on the validation of all controls performed 
• Procedure/User guide maintenance: Update, validate new changes as appropriate.
• Coordinate, Participate and Contribute to BNPP tools release management activities (BR/spec validation, UAT sign-off) specifically for any pricing related enhancements.
• Collaborate with product team to work on automation of controls. 

• Ensure that SCM controls are performed correctly, and details provided as required, and appropriately.
• Be a contributor to GBMO controls committee and assist with reporting metrics as required.

• Ensure that the escalation policy and reporting is followed as required.

Qualifications & Experience required for this role

• Business/Finance 3rd level qualification

• 1 to 3 years’ experience in banking operations

• Proficiency with general IT system applications

• Financial Security Due Diligence experience

• Knowledge of Trade Finance products an advantage

• Proficient knowledge of MS Office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Power BI)

• Some knowledge of SQL an advantage but not essential

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Clear and Concise communication skills

• Accuracy and attention to detail

Management excellence

BNP continues to foster top-class people management practices within our strong people focused culture, therefore all BNP Paribas people managers must adhere to the group Management Charter which strives for excellent in people management behaviours and competencies. 

Why work with us?

• We are a bank for a changing world and aim to build positive change together with our employees. 
• We are a team of passionate people who genuinely care about what we do and the impact our work delivers to our clients. We operate in a highly collaborative, open-minded environment that embraces innovation and creativity. 
• Our remuneration and benefits packages are generous, with competitive salaries, a discretionary bonus scheme, company pension contribution, comprehensive private healthcare packages, and numerous other benefits.
• We have a genuine commitment to work-life balance throughout the whole organisation. We are also committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and actively promote equal opportunities. 
• Development and mobility is actively encouraged. We are a learning company - there is real opportunity to grow, develop and expand your skills, experience and career path. 
• We are a global company operating in over 60 countries with over 180,000 employees from over 150 nationalities. In Ireland we have 550 employees across Dublin and Galway working in Corporate Institutional Banking (CIB) and BNP Paribas Security Services (BP2S) and Greenval.

Compliance Culture

We believe in promoting clear rules to foster a strong culture of compliance and ethics.  We would expect any incoming member of staff to respect all financial security related legislation, including: anti-money laundering (AML); countering the financing of terrorism (CFT); international financial sanctions and embargoes (IFS); anti-bribery and corruption (ABC); KYC; ongoing client related data screening; and transaction monitoring.  BNP Paribas have clear policies on these topics which all staff are expected to familiarise themselves with upon successful entry to the Group.

Equality and Diversity

BNP Paribas is an equal opportunities employer and proudly cultivates a diverse workforce. We believe that diversity of experience enhances our service offering to clients and leads to a better working environment. We encourage applcations from the best candidates regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, parental and caring status, or religious belief.

By submitting your application, you agree to BNP Paribas completing a background check and screening in advance of any potential offer being made