Agency Trade Support, AVP

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.

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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 offers an impressive breadth and depth of services, providing clients with a fully integrated front-to-back solution and a global approach for financing, execution and servicing.
BNP Paribas combines the historical strength in traditional Security Agency services – top rated in Securities Lending, Client Service, Capital Introduction and more – with the innovative DNA of the GECD franchise. This combination allows the anticipation of client needs and development of solutions to the problems they face. 
Global Market Operations is dedicated to provide a premium service to clients and Front Office acting as the single point of contact regarding post/pre-trade management and daily operational activity across global equity. By leveraging the synergy from Settlements & trade support functions, the team is also coordinating production & issues solving with all internal Operations departments aiming to be more client-focus and to improve turnaround time, services quality and client relationship management.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities:

• Performing post trades processes ensuring correctness of client’s allocation.
• Timely sending of confirmations
• Reconciliation of trades with external counterparts (market, brokers).
• Static Data maintenance.
• Liaising with Front Office to follow-up on settlement or client billing issues.
• Comply daily job tasks with regulatory requirements and internal guidelines
• Reporting all incidents according to the Incident Management System Implementation of operational permanent control
  policies and procedures in day-to-day business activities.
• Standard processes to route customer queries to correct department for timely resolution
• Liaison with the IT and related parties for the new project or enhancement requirement
• Bring Direct contribution to BNPP operational permanent control framework
• Minimize operational failure, including but not exclusively the risk of fraud by helping to devise and by implementing sufficient regular controls
• Ensure appropriate escalation to management and/or permanent control (or compliance as appropriate) as soon as an issue is identified.
• Comply with internal and external regulatory and compliance requirements
• Comply with the BNPP standards of Code of Conduct
• Comply with the BNPP IT Security policies
• Anti‐Money Laundering / Financial Sanctions “AML/FS”) related duties: Operations are an integral part of the control framework including for AML/FS topics. In that respect, in performing your role you are expected to ensure adherence to AML/FS‐related Group Policies and execution of associated operational controls, and to promptly escalate any resulting hit for analysis and decision.

Contributing Responsibilities

• Minimize operational failure, including but not exclusively the risk of fraud by helping to devise and by implementing sufficient regular controls
• Comply with internal and external regulatory and compliance requirements
• Comply with the BNPP standards of Code of Conduct
• Comply with the BNPP IT Security policies
• Anti-Money Laundering / Financial Sanctions “AML/FS”) related duties: Operations are an integral part of the control framework including for AML/FS topics. In that respect, in performing your role you are expected to ensure adherence to AML/FS related Group Policies and execution of associated operational controls, and to promptly escalate any resulting hit for analysis and decision.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Core Competencies

• Drive for results – Delivers high quality work.
• Risk awareness – Demonstrates a good awareness of operational risk management. Always considers risk in his/her daily activities and abides by the operational responsibilities, where relevant.
• Corporate role model, integrity & ethics – Acts with discipline and high ethical standards.
• Team player & cross cultural awareness – Works effectively in a team. Collaborates and shares information and solutions with colleagues, with other teams and stakeholders.
• Client focus – Sees stakeholders as well as external clients as customers.
• Not afraid to question processes and current system flows.

Essential Personal Skills

• Diligence – Displays dedication and prioritizes problems by considering the impact on the business; identifies quick-wins.
• Resilience – Stays calm and positive, controls his/her emotions in conflict or any situation of intense stress (due to market, time or pressure).
• Communication (Active listener and clear communicator) – Communicates clearly. Communicates pro-actively with management, escalating issues as necessary. Ability to deal confidently with a range of personnel including management.
• Innovation – Thinks laterally to identify other sources of useful information and sees ways around obstacles and barriers.
• Proactivity – Self-starter with ability to work effectively with minimum supervision, and detail oriented to ensure quality service is provided.
• Structured – Ability to undertake structured analysis of a problem, identify key pain points and propose / implement pragmatic solutions rapidly.

Specific Qualifications (if required)

• A thorough understanding of financial markets and product
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to articulate complex matters clearly and concisely
• Proactive and collaborative mindset, can adapt to constantly changing environments
• Previous experience in client facing and/or operational roles for Corporate Actions