Job Title: Vice President – Fund Accounting GPO

Department: Security Services – 2S

About Business line/Function: 

Investment Services Operations (ISO) sites within BNP Paribas – Securities Services business – Client Delivery. ISO provides fund administration, investment accounting, middle office outsourcing, investment reporting and performance, and regulatory reporting on a worldwide basis.

With more than +3000 HC spread across 21 locations and 7 main services, ISO represents a major Operational Domain of BNP Paribas Securities Services.

Global Fund Administration Operations has overall responsibility for the fund administration services provided to institutional clients by Securities. This covers a large range of solutions for all categories of funds and investment strategies invested in a broad range of financial instruments under all respective regulatory regimes. 

Core operations activities include fund accounting, net asset values calculation, and financial reporting.

Position Purpose: 

GPO team within Fund administration is playing a strategic role pertaining to transformation, process re-modelling, and model definitions for Fund Administration teams. The team mainly supports vision of GFAC for strategic evolution of the business in terms of simplification and more secure operational processes.

The position directly reports to Head of Global Process Owner.

Responsibilities

The GPO team’s responsibilities are: 

• Willformalizethe preferred processes across demographics. 
• One shouldidentify, sponsor, and spearhead functional and non-functional transformation topics.
• Is owner for defining the model definition & domain Strategy. 
• Is consulted in the context of possible New Deal supporting Business Development
• Isconsultedon all operational risks and changes linked to model evolution.
• Responsible for overall processes globally. Also, ensure the harmonization,optimizationand alignment of processes.
• Structuring, designing the Target Operating Model for FA domain.
• Responsible for organizingthe workshops/meetings with managers, accountants, Jr& Sr accountants, experts to define the processes model for specific processes and document the overall model evolution in alignment with SMEs.

• Complete alignment on the 2026-2030 vision for the domain.
• Owning the Global Operating Model
• Owning the Target Operating model
• Owning strategicrelationshipwith Product Client line teams to ensure adequacy of the GOM/TOM with product catalogue.
• Representingthe FA domain in all GPO dedicated instances at 2S and CIB level

The Global Process Owner team is a senior individual contributor supporting the achievement of the GPO objectives.

He/she is in charge of optimizing the organization and task allocation in his remit.

The Global process owner is in charge of maintaining the roadmap, budget and staffing of the missions in his perimeter

Direct Responsibilities

Functional & Domain

• Capture &OrganiseQueries from relevant stakeholders (Internal/External from FA) and prioritize the responses or directing the questions to the right partners within GFAC or outside FA stakeholders.
• Suggest/Propose thenew technology/digital solutions for improving quality, reliability, timeliness, efficiency, resilience and ensure toinvolvefromtheinception.
• Facilitate harmonization and simplification of the processes across locations.
• Recommend solutions and advice impact of solutions - Support Identification of opportunities for improvement of quality, reliability, timeliness, efficiency, resilience.
• Contribute towards standardizing the non-GOM locations

Governance & Decision 

• Lead the GOM/TOM design and formalization and the versioning of the GOM/TOM Documents.
• Owns the Processes globally and governance:Organisesand leads the Process design and definition across MFGA locations globally.
• Define the global governance and processes, in collaboration with the main partners (Client line, Global transformation, Global BCM, Client dev, Head of domain, Senior Advisor, Location Heads, Quality & Risk head, Productivity head, BI, IOC head and GFAC for decisions on change in models).
• Contribute ondecisions with Client line/Client dev for new/ change in service offer, Operational, Transformation, BCM for any process change, post-audit GCC control, RFP/RFI related.
• Organize workshops with respective locationspocs/heads to formalize the processes to define GOM/TOM.
• Contribute and share the ownership on any decisionsin GlobalFund Administration Committee.
• He / She will be expected to Design /re-design the assigned processes, ensuring the best optimized & harmonized processes and alignment with organization goals.
• Define the model definition and own theprocessdocumentation of As-Is and To-Be with the Pros and Cons. Documentation of the GOM/TOM processes.
• Consulted & contribute for the domain Strategy. 
• Consulted in the context of possible New Deal supporting Business Development.
• Consulted on all operational risks and changes linked to model evolution.
• Owning decisions by Collaborating with Client line/dev for new/change in service offer, Operational, Transformation, BCM, post-audit GCC control, RFP/RFI related for any process change in the domain.
• Contribute and share the ownership on any decisions in Global Fund Administration Committee
• Key contribution on the Final prioritization of all transformation topics based on strategic vision of FA (2025-2030)
• Key participation innew technology/digital solutions for improving quality, reliability, timeliness, efficiency, resilience and ensure to involve from theinception.
• Recommend solutions and advice impact of solutions - Support Identification of opportunities for improvement of quality, reliability, timeliness, efficiency, resilience.
• Capture & Organize queries from relevant stakeholders (Internal/External from FA) and prioritize the responses or directing the questions to the right partners within GFAC or outside FA stakeholders.

Contributing Responsibilities

• Develop strong working relationships with a network of counterparts in other Securities Services Locations and senior Management.
• Ensurehigh levelof communication network isestablishedwill all the departments within the business group 
• Ensurethat,model issues/concerns are addressed and resolved with the agreement of location heads and GFAC.
• Ensure a standard GOM/TOM of processes are prepared and shared to all the locations.
• Ensureall the expected deliverables of the process are met with highquality ofdocumentation.
• Ensure tomaintainthe action log effectively withobjectives, deliverables next steps, issues, to clearly understood by GPO head and Global FA Head.
• Ensuring to prepare for the monthly governance with all the relevant inputs and share the updates to global stakeholders, Global FA heads during the meeting.
• Ensure to own all the relevant topics under the processes.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

• End to End exposure in Fund Accounting Stream with knowledge of Traditional funds. 
• Strong knowledge and quick grasping ability about the upstream teams like Middle office, Pricing, Corporate Action, TA etc.
• Interest and Experience in FA Operational Transformation
• Openness for feedback and adapt to the change as per the organization and management’s expectation.  
• Re-engineering of Legacy Processes and Challenge the status quo
• Adequate understanding of FA System Data Flow 
• Be able to express ideas effectively in individual and group situations
• Ability to work in an organized manner.
• Generate creative solutions to problems.
• Always look for ways to improve services and processes.
• Be able to adapt to markets andclient’sevolution.

Specific Qualifications:

• Minimum 15 years of experience in Fund Accounting domain along with bachelor’s degree - in management, finance related field or equivalent experience.

• Prior experience in FA domain.

Skills Referential (Required knowledge, skills and abilities)

Technical Skills:

• Collaboration & Documentation
• Process Management & Modelling
• Bank Specific Platforms (Multifonds,Intellisuite,Amanda )
• Automation & Digital Tools (good to have)
• Project & Change Management Tools (good to have)

Behavioral Skills: 

• Communication
• Analytical Ability
• Client Focused

Education Level: Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Location: Chennai

About BNP Paribas Group:

BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 65 countries and has nearly 185,000 employees, including more than 145,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services for the Group’s commercial & personal banking and several specialized businesses including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval; Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment, and protection solutions; and Corporate & Institutional Banking, focused on corporate and institutional clients. Based on its strong diversified and integrated model, the Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, BNP Paribas has four domestic markets: Belgium, France, Italy, and Luxembourg. The Group is rolling out its integrated commercial & personal banking model across several Mediterranean countries, Turkey, and Eastern Europe. As a key player in international banking, the Group has leading platforms and business lines in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific. BNP Paribas has implemented a Corporate Social Responsibility approach in all its activities, enabling it to contribute to the construction of a sustainable future, while ensuring the Group's performance and stability.