BNP Paribas is a leader in the Eurozone, and a prominent international banking institution with strong roots in Europe's banking history. It has a presence in 71 countries, with 200 000 Employees ? including more than 150 000 in Europe and 6 000 in Portugal alone

BNP Paribas is present in Portugal since 1985, having been one of the first foreign banks to operate in the country. Today, the Group has several entities operating directly in this territory, offering a wide range of integrated financial solutions to support its clients and their businesses

Thanks to its international presence and regular and close collaboration among its businesses, BNP Paribas has the resources to support all clients - individuals, entrepreneurs, SMEs, large corporates, institutional investors and community organizations - with financing, investment, savings and protection solutions that help make their projects a success. BNP Paribas holds key positions in its three core operating divisions: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services for retail banking and specialized financial services, and Corporate & Institutional Banking for corporate and institutional clients

Within CIB ITO Global Market Operations, Corporate-actions, Incomes and Taxes department belongs to Trade Processing unit and is in charge of tracking and following-up corporate actions, incomes, and related taxes purposes on behalf entities within CIB ITO GM

Job responsibilities

Corporate actions department is specialized in analyzing and operating, in books and records, any kind of corporate actions impacts surrounding business or clients? balances. Alongside this department, US Tax Operations team is in charge of specific tax controls & operations mainly over manufacturing incomes and French 119A BIS regulation and on QI/WHA/871M purpose on US securities. The entities being supervised by this function are BNPP ARBITRAGE SNC, BNPP SA and BNPP LONDRES (Fixed Income)

The U.S. Qualified Intermediaries QI and 871M Regulations require that BNPP conduct several controls over payments of U.S. source incomes aliases as fixed, determinable annual or periodical (?FDAP?) to foreign persons or U.S. recipient. BNPP has the mission to obtain, control and validate tax documentation relating to the beneficial owners of the income to determine the application of the tax treaty benefits, and cascade the withholding controls from upstream agents to beneficial owners, with all-purpose of documentation, withholding, payments, reconciliations and reporting

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Keep on enriching relations with the business lines representative and network agents.
  
• Day-to-day interaction with New York, Lisbon, London, and Paris tax team, Regulatory offices, Operational teams, compliance, counterparties & custodians


• Respect any timeline and deadline cutoffs, while retro planning the operational controls ahead of deadlines
  
• Keep on documenting all procedures in place to stick market and process evolutions


• Contribute in all control plan protocols according local operational risk policies and Generic Control Plans


• Contribute in precision and accuracy of activity metrics and escalate any relevant problems or achievements to management on a continuous basis

PROFILE

• Fluent in English


• Excellent knowledge of Excel


• Compliant with local guidance and conformity policies


• Extremely rigorous


• Flexible in adapting methodologies to context


• Strong analytics capabilities and problem solving


• Able to work under pressure and dynamic, evolving environment
  
• Dispose strong team spirit and client focus mindset
  
• Financial markets knowledge

Please note that only applications submitted in English will be considered.

In case you are selected for this role, further documentation will be requested to support your hiring process.

BNP Paribas is an equal opportunity employer and proud to provide equal employment opportunity to all job seekers. We are actively committed to ensuring that no individual is discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Equity and diversity are at the core of our recruitment policy because we believe that they foster creativity and efficiency which in turn increase performance and productivity. We strive to reflect the society we live in, while keeping with the image of our clients.