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Job Title: Onboarding Specialist
Business Unit: ITO Client Admin
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Sandyford, Dublin (Hybrid)
Why work with us?
We are the bank for a changing world and we aim to build positive change together:
- We are a team of colleagues who are enthusiastic about what we do and the impact our work has on our clients. We work in a highly collaborative, open-minded environment that embraces innovation and creativity
- We offer competitive remuneration and a comprehensive benefits package, including a discretionary bonus scheme, company pension contribution, comprehensive private healthcare packages, health and fitness subsidy, work-from-home subsidy, above statutory days of annual leave and numerous other benefits.
- We are strongly committed to wellbeing and work-life balance, including a 50% hybrid work model (where the role allows), paid family leave, fertility and menopause support — available to support all life stage needs.
- Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the core of our culture, and we actively promote equal opportunities through creating or being part of initiatives and programmes:
- Aspire Female Leadership Programme, provides development and exposure to high-potential women in the bank, through targeted workshops, executive coaching and formal mentoring
- Proud members of 100 Women in Finance and among the first signatories of Ireland’s Women in Finance charter
- Joined the #JamaisSansElles (Never Without Her) Charter, committing its executive committee to only join public or media events with panels of three or more speakers, if at least one of those speakers is a woman
- Development and mobility are actively encouraged. BNP Paribas’ culture is built on purposeful talent development and recognition programmes that foster engagement, inclusive leadership and continuous growth. A few of our programmes include:
- Leaders for Tomorrow, a programme that fast-tracks high-potential talent through training, development and cross-functional projects, preparing them for future leadership positions
- Local and Global Mentoring initiatives, that pair employees with senior leaders, providing staff with platforms to gain advice on career growth topics
- Ambassador Awards employee recognition scheme provides rewards to those who have embodied the Bank’s core values
- Local Experts (Champions) Programme, identifying internal subject-matter experts from specific business areas, who excel at their craft
- We are a global company operating in over 60 countries with over 180,000 employees from over 150 nationalities. In Ireland we have approximately 550 employees across Dublin and Galway, working in Corporate Institutional Banking (CIB) and BNP Paribas Security Services (BP2S) and Greenval
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 welcome applications 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.
Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) play a key role in promoting diversity and inclusion through initiatives, events and advocacy programmes that foster a sense of belonging for all colleagues. In BNP Paribas Ireland, we have dedicated networks for parents and caregivers, LGBTQA+, staff from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds, alongside forums to discuss CSR and gender related topics.
Sustainable Finance
BNP Paribas continues to demonstrate the Bank’s steadfast commitment to supporting its clients in their growth ambitions by expanding market reach across assets, delivering excellence in bond markets, and showing the way in sustainable financing.
Role
The Onboarding Specialist reports hierarchically to the Head of Aviation Onboarding & KYC Services and is part of the CIB ITO Client Admin (CEFS) department.
The specialist serves as the primary contact for Aviation clients, delivering a high‑quality “Ready2Bank” service to the Client. Working closely with the Aviation Support Team, the role is client‑facing. It provides a premium Onboarding and Account Opening service with accelerated deadlines (5-10 days), to meet the Aviation Business requirements. This includes end to end KYC for clients, Screening and Co-ordinating the Account Opening and E-Banking setup, all in line with all relevant Group policies and Business standard operating procedures.
Key Responsibilities
Main responsibilities include being the SPOC for the Client, performing the KYC & E2E co-ordination of A/c opening and EBanking activation. The responsibilities can be seen as follows:
End-to-End Coordination:
- Oversee the entire onboarding journey, managing lead‑time and quality while liaising directly with clients for document collection.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with aviation clients, meeting them in person or virtually.
- Escalate operational issues that affect production and provide senior‑management visibility.
- Resolve issues promptly and keep stakeholders informed (Business-line & Client).
KYC Execution:
- Data Officer : Serve as a dedicated due‑diligence officer, responsible for gathering and consolidating data and documentation to build complete Know‑Your‑Client (KYC) files, for both prospective and existing clients and encoding all information and documentation into the KYC tool.
- Senior KYC Officer (aka SKYCO) : Check the overall file as a first level of control and coordinate with compliance and other CIB sites to facilitate escalations for higher risk situations. SKYCOs also act as Investigators to analyse, perform additional screening and investigations where necessary and assist with CAC (client acceptance committee) preparation where required.
- Screening : Responsible for detecting the presence of PEPs, sanctions or adverse information likely to impact the risks attached to a business relationship, in compliance with the internal policies and procedures.
Account Opening & E-Banking Activation:
This is a co-ordination role as opposes to an execution role. The role here is to trigger the openings / activations follow-up and ensure the timely communication with the Client.
- Account Opening : Coordinate with the Account Opening Team to expedite account opening, ensuring that any blocks or issues are cleared swiftly.
- Connexis Cash : Work with the Cash Management Servicing team to fast‑track e‑banking access and arrange user training.
Qualifications & Experience required for this role
- Deep knowledge of KYC and due-diligence processes.
- Ability to make autonomous decisions under pressure and tight deadlines.
- Strong time-management skills; ability to prioritise workload and escalate issues when required.
- Capacity to handle several tasks simultaneously and work independently.
- Excellent written and spoken communication; confident when presenting to senior stakeholders
- Good Stakeholder management skills and ability to collaborate across teams.
- High proficiency in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook).
- Meticulous attention to detail and a methodical approach.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Cultural awareness and the ability to work with diverse client bases.
- Proven client service orientation.
- Initiative taking attitude; continuously seeks improve personal knowledge
About BNP Paribas
At BNP Paribas, we center our values on what drives the company forward. Our driving forces are:
- 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. We seek to listen carefully to them and work closely with them
- 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
Our strengths are based on four key areas:
- Stability: we build upon our solid, long-term oriented management, our diversified and integrated business model and our international footprint
- Expertise: We build upon our recognized and expanding knowledge of our teams
- Responsibility: We build upon our culture of responsibility and integrity to ever better serve the interest of our customers
- Good Place to Work: We foster a stimulating workplace where people are treated fairly and with respect
Management excellence
BNP Paribas continues to foster top-class people management practices within our strong people focused culture. BNP Paribas managers follow the Group’s Management Charter, which emphasises a positive, empowering team culture, encouraging open communication and supporting development and wellbeing.
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.
Should you require any reasonable accommodation for the interview process, please let us know.
By submitting your application, you agree to BNP Paribas completing a background check and screening in advance of any potential offer being made.