What is this position about?
• Active facilitation of the end to end procurement process including definition of procurement needs, identification of potential suppliers, facilitation of suppliers selection and evaluation, negotiation of terms and contracts, and optimization of external spend for IT categories, all in compliance with BNP Paribas APAC Procurement Policy and Guidelines
• Build strong partnership with key stakeholders to ensure the appropriate level of influence over Procurement activities to all Métiers and Functions and bring cost and process efficiency
What would be your typical day at BNPP Paribas look like?
Primary Role Responsibilities
• To coordinate and facilitate the procurement of external services and goods on IT categories (Hardware, Software, Data Center, Telco, IT consulting, Market Data etc.) within Asia-Pacific region.
• To ensure the Bank’s procedures are followed in supplier selection, due diligence and contracting process.
• To work with regional and local Business and Function Managers to ensure awareness of procurement policy and conditions of agreements so that compliance can be monitored.
• To build partnership with regional and local Business and Function managers to ensure Procurement’s appropriate involvement in selection and negotiations with suppliers within all Métiers and Functions across all sites in APAC region.
• To mitigate risk associated with related procurement contracts in conjunction with relevant subject matter experts, e.g. Legal, Compliance, Finance, Information Security etc.
• To liaise with global buyers to maximize bargaining power and drive consistency.
• To support the implementation of Global agreements within the region.
• To report projects status with associated savings achieved regularly.
Other contributions
• Contribute to Global and APAC saving target
• Procurement record keeping and maintenance
• Timely respond to internal control/audit request
• Procurement process education to stakeholders
• Explore procurement process improvement opportunities
What is required for you to succeed?
• Bachelor degree or above
• Excellent written and spoken English, Mandarin is a plus
• Minimum 10 years’ procurement experience, at least 5 of which in IT category ideally in banking/financial industry;
• Ability to manage stress gracefully and multi-task within restricted time constraints;
• Attention to detail and investigative and questioning nature;
• Diplomatic, excellent interpersonal skill – can work well with all level of people;
• Ethical;
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, project management/planning skills and result-oriented;
• Good team player and able to work independently as self-starter;
• Multi-cultural dimension and adaptable way of working;
• Strong influential skill and ability to manage complex business environment and issues;
• Strong negotiation and supplier relationship management skills;
• Working knowledge of contract, compliance, finance practices, legal, regulatory and tax related to Procurement in APAC region
About BNP PARIBAS
As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance.
We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.
• BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community
• BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization
• Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness
• BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds
BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.
https://careers.apac.bnpparibas/
More information
BNP Paribas – Diversity & Inclusion Journey
BNP Paribas – The Bank Of Green Changes
Award Obtained
BNPP has won Top employer Europe award in a 10th consecutive year
Key Responsibilities
- Support & back up the Head of the desk in all key responsibilities.
- Develop desk strategy & budgets
- Manage risk limits and risk management
- Oversea product development & technology
- Manage talent retention, development & recruitment for the team
- Own senior client relationships across institutional & corporate clients
- Work with all key desk stakeholders e.g.,, 2S,
- Drive cross sell across the growing EQUITY prime, cash & EQD businesses
- Ensure effective communication across the global corridors
- Lead on all compliance, conduct & control matters
About BNP PARIBAS
As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance.
We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.
•BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community
•BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization
•Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness
•BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds
BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.
https://careers.apac.bnpparibas/
More information
BNP Paribas – Diversity & Inclusion Journey
BNP Paribas – The Bank Of Green Changes
Award Obtained
BNPP has won Top employer Europe award in a 10th consecutive year
About BNP PARIBAS
As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance.
We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.
– BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community
– BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization
– Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness
– BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds
BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.
https://careers.apac.bnpparibas/
Position Purpose
- Providing professional & quality FX advisory service to Direct Access Clients
- Working closely with RMs in servicing Direct Access Clients
- Attending to RMs queries in a timely and professional manner, provide quality service.
- Working with ICs/RMs/Market Advisors on client meetings/client calls/portfolio reviews.
- Generating new structured product ideas and help drive sales of these new products.
- Preparing tailor-made Forex spot /structure products solutions for Direct Access Clients.
- Achieving revenue income and increase business volume in order to meet annual target.
- Delivery of an efficient and reputable advisory and execution service.
Key Responsibilities
To achieve the following in accordance with Bank policies and guidelines :
- Direct contribution to BNP Paribas Operational permanent control framework.
- Provide timely updates to FX clients and RMs, actively screen for new FX ideas (cash or structured products) in conjunction with outlook.
- To be more proactive ideas promotion and marketing especially in the space Forex and Commodity related structured products that meet clients’ investment objective and risk appetite.
- Assist dissemination of investment idea via email broadcast, Monday Assembly as well as Weekly Product Meetings with various marketing groups.
- Maintain FX structured product library, update product brochures and other related client documents to fulfil both local and regulatory requirement.
- Prepare and attend product validation meeting chaired by Product Development Committee to present new product ideas.
- To assist handling operation issues of the desk if needed. Take part in system UAT project.
- Responsible for maintain updated FX information on Echonet as well as to prepare Forex commentary and news broadcast.
- Working closely with Middle Office, LBS and RPC to ensure work efficiency
Competencies and Qualification Required
- 10-15 years of working experience in relevant field
- PC, and other software applications, particularly MS Excel
- Good spoken English and Cantonese, Mandarin a PLUS
- Good knowledge on technical analysis will be ideal
What is this position about?
BNP Paribas has a presence in nearly 80 countries with over 180,000 employees. It ranks highly in its three core activities: Retail Banking, Investment Solutions and Corporate & Institutional Banking.
In Asia Pacific, the BNP Paribas Group is a leading employer with 9,000 employees and a presence in 14 markets. Being one of the largest international banking networks, we strive to employ talented and innovative people who are aligned to our vision and culture.
Within CIB (Corporate and Institutional Banking), the Business line Global Banking (GB) is recognized universally for its expertise and its know-how.
APAC GB Projects & Change team is at the heart of Global Banking, playing a critical role in enabling new business and projects across Global Banking, contributing to alignment between Front Office and Functions, as well as being the architects (end-to-end) of the Global Banking Value Chain.
The team hosts 2 main mandates:
• The Program / Project Managers for vertical (front-office to accounting) or transversal (across several business lines or users groups or locations/entities) projects during all its life cycle (from design to completion). The team leads projects initiated from the APAC region or leads the regional stream of Global/non-APAC projects.
• The Business Process Subject Matter Expert to assist the business in the design and review of their new business initiatives and exceptional transactions and to represent IT, Operations and in some cases Finance, at new business approval committees: Transaction Approval Committee (“TAC”) and New Activity Committee (“NAC”).
The key interactions are with the project sponsors, Front-office and all the functions (Operations, IT, Finance, as well as Compliance, Legal and Tax) mainly within Global Banking business lines but we also step in at some occasions on projects involving Global Markets, Wealth Management or Securities Services.
• The team reports hierarchically to the CIB APAC ITO Operations Head.
For this role we are looking at a strong Program / Project Manager profile with a focus on Cash Management as a key priority and with a strong objective to work on Industrialization of the Overall Cash Management Value Chain.
Domain / SME knowledge on Cash Management would be an advantage.
What would be your typical day at BNPP Paribas look like?
Primary Role Responsibilities:
? Project framing
– Clarify the objective, the scope, the dependencies, the major risks & issues
– Confirm the sponsorship
– Ensure a clear business rationale is associated to the contemplated project (incl. high level ROI), identify benefits
– Size roughly the effort required to design the solution & execute the project
– Identify contributors to be on-boarded for the study
? Study / Design phase:
– Clearly state the business requirements, cost and time-frame of the project
– Coordinate & challenge experts to put together a solution meeting the business requirements
– Identify risk and dependencies that could jeopardize project execution
– Establish the full financial of the project (cost, associated revenues or savings)
– Design the project governance (roles & responsibilities, governance bodies, stakeholders’ identification)
– Design project roadmap (i.e. the overall execution plan)
– Secure the resource plan (skills, capacity) and prioritization / funding for those resources
? Execution phase:
– Drive the execution of the roadmap
– Ensure aligned project status/progress is shared amongst the project community
– Identify risk & issues and propose a mitigation action plan
– Raise alerts / escalate issues / review the roadmap if required
– Monitor the budget consumption
– Monitor the feedback from contributors on project management and adjust when required
– Prepare and chair governance bodies, produce adequate reporting, communicate
? Completion phase:
– Collect feedback from project participants
– Identify good practices/factors of success and fields of improvement
– Update project management toolkit with lessons learnt
The Program / Project Manager is also accountable for ensuring that solutions designed for the project fit with the principles and are validated by the relevant validation bodies:
– Overall sound IT architecture
– Operational TOM with clear mandate for each team
– Strong control framework
– Simple and efficient working
– Future evolution of the regulatory framework or anticipated business transformation
Other contributions: Business Process Subject Matter Expert (SME)
? Act as a Subject Matter Expert on end to end processes
– Bring expertise on the end to end process with a strong focus on improving the efficiency of the Operating Model
– Develop a clear vision of the target processes including innovation / digital as the case may be
– Ensure to develop TOM / Processes in an industrialized manner and scalable (Absorb further business without inflating the cost proportionally)
? Provide in-depth cross-functional analysis for new business initiatives
– Represent Operations & IT in the preparation for approval committees for exceptional transaction or new activities committees (TAC / NAC)
– Leverage on close relationships with Business Representatives (Products, Sales, Coverage…), gather and analyze business initiatives in order to communicate and explain them effectively to each department involved
– Provide operational expertise to define solutions that meet / exceed the business, operations or finance requirements
– Assess feasibility and identify the setup, along with the appropriate level of controls, from an IT and Operations perspective to support exceptional transactions or new activities / products
? Document business and functional requirements
– Design and document processes for different areas and teams (FO, Ops, Finance…)
– As appropriate, manage key projects (vertical or horizontal), bringing them to a successful conclusion (quality / cost / delay) by a close coordination of FO and ITO departments and other functions involved to achieve the objectives initially set
? Minimize operational risk
– Seek to minimize operational risk by implementing sufficient regular controls, by measuring operational risk and taking actions to maintain it at an acceptable level
– Consider and/or design specific operational controls in the interest of mitigating operational risk
– Ensure appropriate escalation to management and / or Permanent Control (or compliance as appropriate) as soon as an issue remains unsolved beyond and above what can be reasonably handled within the considered remit
What is required for you to succeed?
We are looking for a Program / Project Manager with Global Banking business-focused end-to-end Projects & Change management experiences in the financial services or consulting environment (non-IT):
– Bachelor or above (Master is preferred)
– 10 to 15 years of experience at least
– In-depth knowledge of Front Office to Finance processing chains with a focus on Operations
– Good technical understanding of Global Banking products and especially Corporate Banking Cash Management (Payments/Remittances, Liquidity Management, SWIFT, Clearing Mechanism, Term Deposits, etc.)
– Ability to interact appropriately in a non-hierarchical framework with a variety of stakeholders including SME from Operations or IT, business and senior management
– Comfortable operating with a strong level of autonomy and/or under pressure
– Strong analytical and problem solving skills
– Ability to think outside the box and to deal with novelty
– Strong written/verbal communication and reporting skills
– Strong team working and interpersonal skills
– Organized and delivery-focused, with attention to detail
– Proactive, proposing or taking own initiatives to prevent risks / issues
– Solid work ethic and high level of motivation
– Proficiency in Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel & Power point)
– Fluent in spoken and written English, Mandarin and/or French is a plus
About BNP PARIBAS
As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance.
We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.
• BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community
• BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization
• Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness
• BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds
BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.
https://careers.apac.bnpparibas/
More information
BNP Paribas – Diversity & Inclusion Journey
BNP Paribas – The Bank Of Green Changes
Award Obtained
BNPP has won Top employer Europe award in a 10th consecutive year
As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance.
We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.
•BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community
•BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization
•Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness
•BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds
BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.
https://careers.apac.bnpparibas/
Award Obtained
BNPP has won Top employer Europe award in a 10th consecutive year
Direct Responsibilities:
1.Participate in the audit team assignments and special reviews (when required by regulators, business lines, or senior management)
-Contribute to the planning and preparation of the assignment e.g. understanding the methodology to be applied, acquiring a deep knowledge of the activities to be covered, understanding the detailed technologies, gathering relevant key figures, etc.
-Develop a thorough understanding of the activities within the scope of the assignment, its strategy and governance, and the related risks.
-Evaluate the overall setup and identify the main areas of risk (including a comprehensive assessment of the management actions).
-Execute detailed investigations leveraging on a strong technical knowledge in various IT systems (Databases, Operating systems Linux/Windows, Cybersecurity/Network security, Virtualization, containerization, Cloud Computing and related risks)
-Leverage on adequate programming languages and scripting to perform efficient investigations by automating analysis.
-Ensure the adequate learning and understanding of the standard IT solutions used in the IT infrastructure and production, Cybersecurity management in order to analyze adequately their configuration and be able to identify and raise potential risks.
-Recommend appropriate actions to the management in order to remediate the identified weaknesses.
-Formalize the results of the assignment investigations and contribute to the production of the assignment deliverables.
-Present the conclusions of the assignment fieldwork to the senior management.
2.Review the implementation of the Inspection Générale recommendations
-Review and challenge the actions defined to remediate the weaknesses identified by the audit team through its assignments.
-Ensure the adequacy of the answers to address permanently the gaps following accurately the recommended actions.
-Perform relevant control testing to ensure the proper implementation of the actions.
3.Contribute to the periodic risk assessment of IT activities and planning
-Perform a periodic and comprehensive risk assessment of the IT activities as per the Group guidelines.
-Keep abreast of change/new development of regulatory requirements that are relevant to IT activities and related functions.
-Assist in the elaboration of the IT audit planning following a risk-based approach.
Contributing Responsibilities:
-Contribute to the improvement of the Inspection Générale practices through the elaboration and update of our methodologies.
Travelling requirement :
Below 30%
Technical and Behavioral Competencies required:
-Strong expertise in Cybersecurity. (IT security hands-on experience is a plus)
-Strong technical background in IT activities. (including IT production / IT systems expertise)
-Curiosity, rigor, and precision.
-Outstanding analytical skills.
-Ability to synthesize.
-Excellent writing and presentation skills.
(in English)
-High level of initiative, commitment, and drive.
-Ability to work effectively under pressure and within short deadlines.
-Promotes a constructive, cooperative, and participative teamwork environment.
Specific Qualifications (if required):
-Possess a Bachelor’s / Master’s Degree in Information Technology/ Management Information System / Computer Science and related discipline;
-Not less than 5 years of experience in external auditing / internal auditing / IT / risk / compliance / internal control / operations in the financial services industry.
-Professional Qualification/Certificate in Audit, e.g. CISA, CISSP, CISM, CCSP is a plus.
Position Purpose
BNP Paribas has a presence in nearly 80 countries with over 200,000 employees. It ranks highly in its three core activities: Retail Banking, Investment Solutions and Corporate & Investment Banking. In Asia Pacific, the BNP Paribas Group is a leading employer with over 10,000 employees and a dynamic presence in 14 markets. Being one of the largest international banking networks, we strive to employ talented and innovative people who are aligned to our vision and culture. The APAC Automated Market Making Team is an industry recognized trading team that serves to provide electronic market making services and performs quantitative trading in major exchanges within the APAC region. Currently, the team is actively present on at least 13 electronic exchanges. Due to the nature of the business, AMM has a significant technology investment in its proprietary trading platform and automated trading strategies. The IT Strategist team is responsible for providing a full-service suite of technology solutions to the trading desk.
Direct Responsibilities
Strategists develop and implement efficient automated tools to translate quant traders’ strategies into orders. They design specific features to help traders monitor and analyze the behavior of strategies in production, and ensure adequate monitoring of risks and positions. Strategists plays a critical role in ensuring that the AMM technology platform remains best in class in the industry.
Accordingly strategists:
• Proactively manage the production platform by o leveraging software engineering to eliminate operational work via automation o optimizing system architecture to maintain operational efficiency o conducting thorough but blameless post-mortems to help guide the evolution of the platform
• Develop and maintain an expansive library of automatons and alpha models
• Develop and maintain monitoring and production tools used in the trading platform
• Develop and maintain the simulation tools and back testing environment used to test and validate strategies
• Contribute to the enforcement of adequate risk filters for each automaton to prevent abnormal behaviour.
• Organize and monitor the orderly production of automatons during trading hours.
• Monitor, investigate, and improve performances of trading strategies.
• Contribute to the research and design of optimal setup for each set of strategies.
• Coordinate and test infrastructure changes, as implemented by the Group IT and Production teams.
• Make sure all developments satisfy local regulations.
Required competencies:
• Expertise in Modern C++ (C++11/14/17/20) programming language and relevant toolkits
• Familiarity with low latency system programming techniques
• Minimum 5 year experience in developing / supporting trading platforms
• Ability to quickly resolve issues under pressure • Strong technical & problem solving (troubleshooting) skills
• Excellent oral communication skills
Relevant Skills:
• BS in Computer Science or a related technical field that involves programming, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience in supporting applications in a Linux/Unix environment • Familiarity with Python/Scripting language
About BNP PARIBAS
As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance.
We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.
•BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community
•BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization
•Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness
•BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds
BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.
https://careers.apac.bnpparibas/
More information
BNP Paribas – Diversity & Inclusion Journey
BNP Paribas – The Bank Of Green Changes
Award Obtained
BNPP has won Top employer Europe award in a 10th consecutive year
Position Purpose
BNP Paribas has a presence in nearly 80 countries with over 200,000 employees. It ranks highly in its three core activities: Retail Banking, Investment Solutions and Corporate & Investment Banking. In Asia Pacific, the BNP Paribas Group is a leading employer with over 10,000 employees and a dynamic presence in 14 markets. Being one of the largest international banking networks, we strive to employ talented and innovative people who are aligned to our vision and culture. The APAC Automated Market Making Team is an industry recognized trading team that serves to provide electronic market making services and performs quantitative trading in major exchanges within the APAC region. Currently, the team is actively present on at least 13 electronic exchanges. Due to the nature of the business, AMM has a significant technology investment in its proprietary trading platform and automated trading strategies. The IT Strategist team is responsible for providing a full-service suite of technology solutions to the trading desk.
Direct Responsibilities
Strategists develop and implement efficient automated tools to translate quant traders’ strategies into orders. They design specific features to help traders monitor and analyze the behavior of strategies in production, and ensure adequate monitoring of risks and positions. Strategists plays a critical role in ensuring that the AMM technology platform remains best in class in the industry. Additionally, as responsible for Lynx Asia platform, you coordinate with traders and developers in other regions.
Accordingly strategists:
• Guide traders during new strategy design
• Proactively manage the production platform by
- acting as L1 support for troubleshooting technical issues in production during trading hours
- leveraging software engineering to eliminate operational work via automation o using automation tools to monitor and observe software reliability in the production environment o optimizing system architecture to maintain operational efficiency
- conducting thorough but blameless post-mortems to help guide the evolution of the platform
• Develop and maintain pipeline for generation of alphas
• Develop and maintain monitoring and production tools used in the trading platform
• Develop and maintain the simulation tools and back testing environment used to test and validate strategies
• Contribute to the enforcement of adequate risk filters for each automaton to prevent abnormal behaviour.
• Organize and monitor the orderly production of automatons during trading hours.
• Monitor, investigate, and improve performances of trading strategies.
• Contribute to the research and design of optimal setup for each set of strategies.
• Coordinate and test infrastructure changes, as implemented by the Group IT and Production teams.
• Make sure all developments satisfy local regulations.
Technical and Behavioral Competencies / Specific Qualification
Required competencies:
• Expertise in the JAVA (Java SE 8) programming language and relevant toolkits
• Minimum 2 year experience in developing / supporting trading platforms
• Ability to quickly resolve issues under pressure
• Strong technical & problem solving (troubleshooting) skills
• Excellent oral communication skills Relevant Skills:
• BS in Computer Science or a related technical field that involves programming, or equivalent practical experience
• Financial maths, quantitative models, quadratic optimization
• Experience in supporting applications in a Linux/Unix environment
• Familiarity with Python/Scripting language
About BNP PARIBAS
As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance.
We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.
•BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community
•BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization
•Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness
•BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds
BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.
https://careers.apac.bnpparibas/
More information
BNP Paribas – Diversity & Inclusion Journey
BNP Paribas – The Bank Of Green Changes
Award Obtained
BNPP has won Top employer Europe award in a 10th consecutive year
What is this position about?
BNP Paribas has a presence in nearly 80 countries with over 180,000 employees. It ranks highly in its three core activities: Retail Banking, Investment Solutions and Corporate & Institutional Banking.
In Asia Pacific, the BNP Paribas Group is a leading employer with 9,000 employees and a presence in 14 markets. Being one of the largest international banking networks, we strive to employ talented and innovative people who are aligned to our vision and culture.
Within CIB (Corporate and Institutional Banking), the Business line Global Banking is recognized universally for its expertise and its know-how.
APAC GB Projects & Change team is at the heart of Global Banking, playing a critical role in enabling new business and projects across Global Banking, contributing to alignment between Front Office and Functions, as well as being the architects (end-to-end) of the Global Banking Value Chain.
The team hosts 2 main mandates:
? The Project Leads for vertical (front-office to accounting) or transversal (across several business lines or users groups or locations/entities) projects during all its life cycle (from design to completion). The team leads projects initiated from the APAC region or leads the regional stream of Global/non-APAC projects.
? The Business Process Subject Matter Expert to assist the business in the design and review of their new business initiatives and exceptional trades and to represent IT, Operations and in some cases Finance, at new business approval committees: Transaction Approval Committee (“TAC”) and New Activity Committee (“NAC”).
The key interactions are with the project sponsors, Front-office and all the functions (Operations, IT, Finance, as well as Compliance, Legal and Tax) mainly within Global Banking business lines but we also step in at some occasions on projects involving Global Markets, Wealth Management or Securities Services.
The team reports hierarchically to the CIB APAC ITO Operations head.
What would be your typical day at BNPP Paribas look like?
1. Project Leads
? Preliminary step: project framing
– Clarify the objective, the scope, the dependencies, the major risks & issues
– Confirm the sponsorship
– Ensure a clear business rationale is associated to the contemplated project (incl. high level ROI), identify benefits
– Size roughly the effort required to design the solution & execute the project
– Identify contributors to be on-boarded for the study
? Study / Design phase:
– Clearly state the business requirements, cost and time-frame of the project
– Coordinate & challenge experts to put together a solution meeting the business requirements
– Identify risk and dependencies that could jeopardize project execution
– Establish the full financial of the project (cost, associated revenues or savings)
– Design the project governance (roles & responsibilities, governance bodies, stakeholders’ identification)
– Design project roadmap (i.e. the overall execution plan)
– Secure the resource plan (skills, capacity) and prioritization / funding for those resources
? Execution phase:
– Drive the execution of the roadmap
– Ensure aligned project status/progress is shared amongst the project community
– Identify risk & issues and propose a mitigation action plan
– Raise alerts / escalate issues / review the roadmap if required
– Monitor the budget consumption
– Monitor the feedback from contributors on project management and adjust when required
– Prepare and chair governance bodies, produce adequate reporting, communicate
? Completion phase:
– Collect feedback from project participants
– Identify good practices/factors of success and fields of improvement
– Update project management toolkit with lessons learnt
The Project Lead is also accountable for ensuring that solutions designed for the project fit with the principles and are validated by the relevant validation bodies:
– Overall sound IT architecture
– Operational TOM with clear mandate for each team
– Strong control framework
– Simple and efficient working
– Future evolution of the regulatory framework or anticipated business transformation
2. Business Process Subject Matter Expert (SME) and ITO representative for TAC/NAC
? Act as a Subject Matter Expert on end to end processes
– Bring expertise on the end to end process with a strong focus on improving the efficiency of the Operating Model
– Develop a clear vision of the target processes including innovation / digital as the case may be
? Provide in-depth cross-functional analysis for new business initiatives
– Represent Operations & IT in the preparation for approval committees for exceptional transaction or new activities committees (TAC / NAC)
– Leverage on close relationships with Business Representatives (Products, Sales, Coverage…), gather and analyze business initiatives in order to communicate and explain them effectively to each department involved
– Provide operational expertise to define solutions that meet / exceed the business, operations or finance requirements
– Assess feasibility and identify the setup, along with the appropriate level of controls, from an IT and Operations perspective to support exceptional transactions or new activities / products
? Document business and functional requirements
– Design and document processes for different areas and teams (FO, Ops, Finance…)
– As appropriate, manage key projects (vertical or horizontal), bringing them to a successful conclusion (quality / cost / delay) by a close coordination of FO and ITO departments and other functions involved to achieve the objectives initially set
? Minimize operational risk
– Seek to minimize operational risk by implementing sufficient regular controls, by measuring operational risk and taking actions to maintain it at an acceptable level
– Consider and/or design specific operational controls in the interest of mitigating operational risk
– Ensure appropriate escalation to management and / or Permanent Control (or compliance as appropriate) as soon as an issue remains unsolved beyond and above what can be reasonably handled within the considered remit
What is required for you to succeed?
We are looking for a Project Manager with Global Banking business-focused end-to-end Projects & Change management experiences in the financial services or consulting environment (non-IT):
– 5 to 10 years of experience at least
– Good In-depth knowledge of Front Office to Finance processing chains with a focus on Operations
– Good technical understanding of Global Banking products and especially Corporate Banking (Cash Management, Trade Finance, Supply Chain Finance…)
– Ability to interact appropriately in a non-hierarchical framework with a variety of stakeholders including SME from Operations or IT, business and senior management
– Comfortable operating with a strong level of autonomy and/or under pressure
– Strong analytical and problem solving skills
– Ability to think outside the box and to deal with novelty
– Strong written/verbal communication and reporting skills
– Strong team working and interpersonal skills
– Organized and delivery-focused, with attention to detail
– Proactive, proposing or taking own initiatives to prevent risks / issues
– Solid work ethic and high level of motivation
– Proficiency in Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel & Power point)
– Fluent in spoken and written English, Mandarin and/or French a plus
About BNP PARIBAS
As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance.
We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.
• BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community
• BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization
• Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness
• BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds
BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.
https://careers.apac.bnpparibas/
More information
BNP Paribas – Diversity & Inclusion Journey
BNP Paribas – The Bank Of Green Changes
Award Obtained
BNPP has won Top employer Europe award in a 10th consecutive year
Position Purpose
The Global Market Quantitative team is responsible for designing and developing the models used for pricing, risk management and relative value. GM Quants contribute to the development and support of the pricing and risk management platform.
This is a front office quantitative role to work on design and defining the architecture of the technological solutions delivered to the Prime Services & Financing Business line. This role is focused on achieving a successful implementation of projects and by participating in both the integration of existing solution and in the development of new ones in order to withstand the additional volumes and complexity driven by the new expanded prime services and equity financing businesses.
Key Responsibilities
- Development and implementation of models used for pricing and risk management for the PS&F/EMDEN business line
- When appropriate liaise with relevant internal risk functions: Legal, Compliance, Market and Credit Risk Management.
- Maintain open communication with team and direct line management to fulfill firm notification requirements and pass on client concerns.
- Attend relevant training courses to maintain appropriate regulatory, product and technical skill
- Contribution to BNPP operation permanent control framework.
- Directly contribute to BNPP operational permanent control framework
- Contribute to the improvement of the PS&F Security Financing Transaction pricing
- Liaise with peers in other location on all PS&F/EMDEN related developments
- Support of the APAC PS&F/EMDEN platform
Position Purpose
- APAC Consulting is the in-house strategy and management consulting team, servicing BNP Paribas in APAC, reporting to BNP Paribas APAC CEO
- The main objective of the team is to deliver strategic projects and formulate recommendations for regional management, Business Lines, Coverages, functions and territories in the Asia Pacific region, as well as support APAC CEO with executive presentations to senior management
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and take full ownership on assigned projects and / or large modules in complex projects, under supervision of a Director or the Head of APAC Consulting team
- Manage and coach junior team members within projects
- Produce high quality deliverables
- Deliver impactful and actionable recommendations
- Work in co-design model with clients while developing legitimacy to challenge clients constructively and bring new ideas and perspectives
- Progressively build client trustworthiness at mid / senior level by demonstrating emotional and situational intelligence, be a trusted advisor to clients
- Contribute to generate a positive and motivating team spirit within the team
- Actively contribute to team development through contributing to the team transversalities
Competencies (Technical / Behavioral)
- Problem solving (structure, analysis, solution)
- Problem structuring / issue analysis skills
- Management of priorities
- Handling of complex analyses
- Quality of work
- Ability to propose actionable recommendations
- Agility in adjusting the approach
- Client management (working relationship, conflict management)
- Ability to build trust with clients at mid / senior level
- Communication
- Ability to write structured documents at executive level
- Presence at senior level
- People management
- Provide clarity and clear instructions to more junior colleagues
- Review and validate deliverables produced by more junior colleagues
- Provide coaching and on-the-job training to more junior colleagues
- Teamwork / Social skills
- Team spirit / ability to build positive work environment
- Information sharing
- Proactivity and Leadership
- Drive and pro-activity
Specific Qualifications Required
- Educational background: Graduate from Tier 1 University, Business or Engineering school
- Professional experience: Min. 8 years of relevant experience (external or in-house management consulting, strategy analyst)
- Banking industry knowledge is preferrable.
- Languages: Fluency in oral and written English
About BNP PARIBAS
As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance.
We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.
• BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community
• BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization
• Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness
• BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds
BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.
https://careers.apac.bnpparibas/
More information
BNP Paribas – Diversity & Inclusion Journey
BNP Paribas – The Bank Of Green Changes
Award Obtained
BNPP has won Top employer Europe award in a 10th consecutive year