BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and a key player in international banking. We operate in 65 countries and employ 190,000 people, including nearly 145,000 in Europe. Our Group holds key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services; Investment & Protection Services; and Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) for corporate and institutional clients.

Company purpose:

Our company purpose is to contribute to a responsible and sustainable economy by financing and advising clients according to the highest ethical standards.

Our employer promise is built around three pillars:

• Being a great place to work

• Committed to sustainability and having a positive impact

• Being dedicated to the development of our people

Business area

The Inspection Général (IG) Hub UK is a geographical Hub, covering all activities in the UK and Channel Islands.

The Hub has five audit teams. These teams are split by business activity covering all activities within their area of responsibility. 

The Hub’s remit is to provide audit services to the Businesses, Operations and Functions in the UK and Channel Islands in close liaison with Senior Management and Head Office entities. The main focus is to help the organisation accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of the governance, risk management, and internal control processes. 

As part of the Hub UK’s Professional Practice & Data team, the Internal Audit Data Analyst role supports the Hub (internal audit work and transversal) by providing a full range of data services including: data collection, ETL & processing, analysis and visualization.

Job purpose

The role holder will be responsible for supporting the audit data needs within the IG Hub UK. They will act as a key team member assisting in: (i) the preparation of upcoming audit work (data collection / processing / analysis); (ii) the execution of audit investigations requiring advanced data analytics; and (iii) transversal Hub data / data analytics needs.

They will work closely with the wider IG community (e.g. IG Head Office (Paris), AI & Data Factory, IG Professional Practice & Data community worldwide). The role holder will report to the IG Hub UK COO.

Key responsibilities

• Supports the activity of the Audit teams by:
  • Understanding the needs and requirements of auditors and the audit process
  • Building analytical and data engineering solutions
  • Ensuring high quality of delivery
  • Assisting auditors with ad-hoc data and analytics requests
• Performs descriptive and predictive analyses addressing key audit mission priorities
• Applies AI/ML models to data processing automation and discovery
• Delivers data visualizations for communication within dashboards, reports and presentations
• As part of the IG Function Strategy and the organisation/steering of the internal audit activities of the IG Hub UK, works under the guidance of the Hub UK COO to implement various initiatives, such as:
  • Developing and managing operational initiatives to enhance audit methodologies and processes in collaboration with the other members of the Professional Practice & Data team. 
  • Leveraging artificial intelligence and data science to drive innovation and efficiency within the Hub.
  • Contributing to the Expertise Lines objectives and activities (and more specifically to the Data EL and the AI EL)
  • Contributing to disseminate a culture of data driven solutions within the Hub
  • Contributing and share data best practices with the whole IG team

Establishes good relationships with key stakeholders in teams that the IG Hub UK works with and/or reports to (e.g. IG Central) to fully understand business requirements.

Requirements

Essential experience and competencies

• Proven professional experience with:
  • Developing ETL methods and tools (Tableau Prep, Alteryx or similar)
  • Programming Python / Pandas / Jupyter data science stack
  • Data visualization tools (Tableau, PowerBI)
  • Using modern Data/Dev Ops tools and process (git, JIRA, …)
  • Microsoft collaboration tools (SharePoint, Forms, OneNote...)
  • Utilisation of data analytics to improve operational performance
• Knowledge of SQL databases
• Familiarity with advanced data and analytic techniques: Statistical analysis, Machine Learning and AI.
• Excellent analytical skills, including ability to quickly understand the critical steps in a process, synthesise and process complex information and understand the related risks of various natures, including use of data.
• Thorough and organised with an ability to prioritise and work under time-pressure. 
• Good communication / relationship management skills.
• Excellent written and oral English skills in order to articulate technical issues associated to work area.

Preferred competencies

• An academic background in a quantitative discipline;
• Knowledge related to markets and financing activities & associated risks (including products, market & credit risk, operational risks)
• Knowledge related to compliance, conduct and regulatory risks

And of course, we expect all our colleagues to embody and practice the Group values (alignment with the Bank’s strategy, commitment, work ethic, integrity and Code of Conduct).

A bit more about why you should join us

1. We’re a great place to work

We aim for optimal work/life balance (depending on role, this includes hybrid working, flexible working and agile)

We are proud of our award-winning flexible benefits and health & wellbeing strategy. Our flexible benefits include:

• Generous holiday allowance of at least 26 days (plus bank holidays) – with option to buy and sell holidays.

• Valuable financial plans – a 12% non-contributory pension which has been moved to sustainable investments*, life assurance*, income protection and personal accident insurance.

• Extensive wellbeing and mental health offering – one of the most advanced private medical schemes in the UK, dental cover, wellbeing app, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy support, subsidised gym memberships, bespoke health assessments including genetic testing, Private GP (including digital GP services to parents of employees), Employee Assistance Programme, menopause & fertility support (we are an accredited Menopause Friendly Employer), neurodiversity assessment and support.

• Plus, emergency back-up care for dependants, green car leasing, season ticket loan, and a range of other benefits.

* Subject to relevant caps

2. As the eurozone’s largest bank, we are committed to having a positive impact in the world.  

For example, we are committed to Net Zero in all of our financing and investment portfolios by 2050. By 2030, 80% of our energy production financing will be low carbon.

But impact for us means more than climate. It means empowering our people every day. Everyone gets four volunteering days each year - in 2023, we achieved over 18,000 hours of volunteering across the UK and reaching over 4,500 young people.

3. We believe in our people

We support our people to develop skills to adapt to the ever-evolving world of work and to prepare for the jobs of today and tomorrow. We do this through a comprehensive training offering, talent programmes, mentoring, career days and inhouse career tools.

We are proud of the number of our people who progress and secure new roles internally. In fact, in 2023, nearly half of our positions in UK CIB were filled internally. 

Investing in our people also means we have a collaborative and inclusive culture:

• Direct feedback from our people shows that our internal culture sets us apart from our industry peers.

• Each year, nearly 30,000 employees globally are involved in professional networks that play an active role in promoting Diversity and Inclusion within the Group. These include our:

Pride Network, Ability Network (which supports disabled employees), MixCity (gender equality network), Women in Global Markets, Women in Global Banking, Women in IT, Diversity Equity & Inclusion in Technology, Early Careers Network, Multicultural Network and Parents & Carers Network.

Equal opportunities

BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.

Adjustments

We don’t want anyone to be disadvantaged in our recruitment processes, so if you have a disability or health condition which may mean that you’d benefit from some adjustments or additional support, please let us know as early in the process as possible.

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