About BNP Paribas:

BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a presence in 74 countries, with more than 192,000 employees, including more than 146,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. The Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporate and institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, the Group has four domestic markets (Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg) and BNP Paribas Personal Finance is the leader in consumer lending. BNP Paribas is rolling out its integrated retail-banking model in Mediterranean countries, in Turkey, in Eastern Europe and a large network in the western part of the United States. In its Corporate & Institutional Banking and International Financial Services activities, BNP Paribas also enjoys top positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific.

Business Overview:

The Hispanic Latin America region is a key market for BNP Paribas. While Brazil remains the largest economy in Latin America, other major countries in the region are also significant contributors for the business and for long standing relations with clients. For example, BNP Paribas has been uninterruptedly present in Colombia for more than 40 years.

BNP Paribas has a historical footprint in the Hispanic Latin America. The Bank has been in the region since 1914 and is now present in 5 countries with nearly 2000 employees between Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) and International Financial Services.

CIB in Hispanic Latin America has world-class teams of roughly 200 professionals spread among Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Peru and Argentina, thus ensuring an overall coverage of BNP Paribas’ client franchise in the region. All BNP Paribas’ business lines have operations in Hispanic Latin America and are structured in such a way as to provide their clients with the best combination of specialists according to sector, product or geographic region. In the context of growing globalization, they are able to accommodate their clients thanks to their powerful regional platforms:

• In North America (essentially New York but also other hubs such as Houston and San Francisco) and Brazil (Sao Paulo) with a number of professionals covering Latin America. 
• In the whole of Europe with major hubs such as Paris, London, Frankfurt, Madrid, etc.
• In Asia with a broad coverage of all major economies in the region.

In Colombia, BNP Paribas has presence through 5 entities representing the Group: the Rep. Office, the Corporación Financiera and a Trust company for the Corporate and Institutional Banking pole. As for International Financing Services, an insurance company (Cardif) and a Rep Office for Asset Management Services.  BNP Paribas is the European bank with the longest uninterrupted presence in the country. 

Job Purpose: 

This role must liaise between clients and cross-functional internal teams to ensure the timely and successful clearing and settlement of all operations in Colombian Peso and other currencies. Operations such as Repos, Simultaneous, derivatives, Spots, next day, Interbanks loans, FX, TDAs, Deposits, Corporate actions, incomes and collaterals are managed in this position. And End of Day processes such Portfolio Valuation.

Handling custody and back office processes in order to ensure that all trades match and settle on a timely basis in the Colombian, Peruvian and Chilean Market. To do it, this role must compare trade details, analyze, confirm and approve transactions, followed by the securities and cash movements.

Handling transactional processing for respective COP Lending and Factoring products. Manage dematerialized guaranties ensuring proper reimbursements; execute proper accounting related to these products, and preparation of regulatory Reporting.

In case, activities can be designated by the Direct Report according to the business line needs. 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Execute, Input and analysis of operations, including different lines of business, Global Banking, Securities Services and Global Markets.
• Responsible for settlement of transactions of the different business lines. (Global Banking, Securities Services and Global Markets).
• Liase with Front Office, custodians, clients, and counterparties to process cash and securities settlement.
• Ensure the monitoring and execution of collaterals in front of the infrastructure on behalf of ourselves or on behalf of our clients.
• Execute the accounting related to the different business lines.
• Execution of processes related to controls and end of day closure.
• Perform tasks related to the monitoring, control, and compliance to ensure precise execution of operations. 
• Monitoring and control of overdue loans and settlements applications generating the alerts, reports and following based on the defined the procedure to communicate all the stakeholders.
• Ensure all processes are documented and procedures are updated periodically.
• Respond timely & accurately to client queries.

General

• Provide excellent client service, considering the specific needs of every client.
• Ensure compliance with local and corporate policies, guidelines, procedures, internal control and SLA requirements, to eliminate risk and operational losses
• Communicate clearly the progress of monthly/quarterly initiatives to internal and external stakeholders
• Follow the code of conduct and to permanently update of the operative risk matrix
• Ensure the coordination and the communication with the internal operations teams aiming to provide timely and accurate responses to client queries.
• Collect and custody of all original documents regarding to processing.
• Coordinate and process transactions across multiple systems;
• Ensure that customer documentation is properly managed, to facilitate the registration process of Operations / transactions with the appropriate supports defined by the Bank in optimal time and quality.
• Manage professional and effective relationships with providers of transactional systems (BVC, BR, DCV, Deceval) to access the solution of incidents, consultation of the operation, updates to facilitate the operation.

Qualifications

Education

Specialized Knowledge

Skills & Abilities

• Communication Skills: Verbal, "directive".  Responsiveness to complaints, always building a positive relationship.  Written, assertive to the point.
• Analytical and Mathematical skills: Basic and complex financial operations
• Ability to report: Provide status of results to internal clients VP COCE
• Rigour & Accuracy on the transaction checking and approval
• Self-confidence
• Autonomy & Accountability
• Role Modeling: Service attitude with ability to say NO but embracing collaboration
• Understanding the business environment of the entity
• Understanding the BNP Paribas group
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal (English – B1)
• Intermediate Level of Microsoft Excel:  To use functions such as financial, statistics, some logical function such as IF. It is able to work in an advanced way with graphics and edit them to change the design or the information. Use conditional formats, PivotTables and Pivot Charts and templates to enter data.

Experience

• Between 3 – 5  years within the financial industry,  especially in back or middle office operations. 
• Between 2– 3  years   in Clearing & Settlement

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Swift, CUD, DCV, Deceval, BVC, SET FX, CENIT
• Additional Certification
• Knowledge of Investment account management, Bank, custody and queries and request.
• About decrees 1242 and 1498 of 2013, decree 2555, law 964 of 2005, Market Risk, Credit Risk, Liquidity Risk and Counterparty Risk.
• Knowledge of products related to a Bank or Financial Corporation and Trust Companies. 
• Knowledge related to the regulation of the products of a Bank or Financial Corporation and Trust Companies.

Direct Reports

Processing Supervisor

Interactions

* Local and foreign clients

* Local and global Traders & Sales team.

* ALM Treasury

* Market counterparts.

* Client Development Team

* Market Infrastructures

* Regulatory service agents (Banrep, SFC, etc)

* COCE analysts.

* Exchange Advisor.

* Global Teams

* Price Providers.

* Local and regional IT teams (BR & NY) 

Decisions

N/A

Training

• Functional training about the position, processes, procedures and controls.
• Mandatory trainings (as indicated by compliance, Legal, Region and Group) 

• Handle of confidential information: Strengthen training in the handling of confidential information between entities and their clients, adding a legal clause to guarantee compliance.
• Training of Client service, addressing to staff who will have direct contact with clients, in order to provide a guideline, to explain how provide clarity to our Clients, about BNPP Group and the entity that is serving them
• Techniques for validating authentic documents according policies and regulations.
• Training of legal and regulatory aspects of BP2S and Corporación Financiera. Explain why entities are legally separated and explain that  each one has to follow the legal responsibility.

• Mandatory Corporate trainings in soft skills or BNPP competencies for all new hires (as indicated by HR).