About the job

The Risk Analysis and Client Services (RACS) team is in charge of functional support on market and counterparty risk systems of the bank. The team in Lisbon is focusing in particular on the quality aspects of the data that feeds those systems: putting in place meaningful Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) about data quality, reviewing and improving existing KPIs, and assisting on the preparation of material for committees where those KPIs are discussed.

The mission of RACS team is met by:

• Ensuring clients and senior management have a clear vision of the quality of the services provided by operation teams, thanks to the production of meaningful KPIs about our main services.

  
  

• Performing a control on the quality of our Incident Management and Remediation process

  
  

• Streamlining, running, documenting existing processes that currently lack industrialisation

  
  

Your Main Activities Are

• Work on Data quality aspects, putting in place Key Performance Indicators about the quality of the data in our systems (statistics on timeliness and quality of daily risk indicators) and maintaining these KPIs.

  
  

• Help on the preparation & participate in monthly committees (Data Management Committee, Operation Committee) where those KPIs are discussed, analysed and explained

  
  

• Help on the incident management remediation: extract the list of incidents in the systems, produce statistics helping to highlight any inefficiencies, liaise with the relevant experts to understand them and present that information to senior management.

  
  

• Helping to streamline and industrialise existing processes ? for example, production of daily FRTB indicators: This would involve running such processes to understand how they work, improving them, documenting and providing daily support to our users: specific enquiries, issues, bugs?

  
  

• Respond to ad-hoc requests coming from product owners/scrum masters of development squads, such as testing and documenting new features in the systems

  
  

• Provide training and guidance to new users of the system where required

  
  

• Build close links with risk analysts and other internal RISK Systems clients

  
  

Profile and Skills to Success

• Bachelor?s degree in Business, Finance, Mathematics, IT or related field

  
  

• Data or RISK related experience preferred

  
  

• Strong technical skills with Excel, PowerPoint, potentially PowerBI

  
  

• Fluency in English mandatory

  
  

• Good level of Portuguese or French is appreciated but not mandatory

  
  

• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills with a creative and flexible approach to problem solving

  
  

• Demonstrated capacity to work effectively in a team with exceptional written and verbal communication skills to manage all levels of the organisation

  
  

• Knowledge of Market risk

  
  

• Delivery-focused with keen attention to detail

  
  

• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills

  
  

• A motivated and thorough professional who takes initiative

  
  

About the Team

The mission of RISK is to provide Senior Management of the Group and of the Operating Divisions, with full transparency and dynamic analysis of the risk and clients managed by Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) and Investment Solutions (IS) business units, as per the scope detailed below.

The scope of RISK is:

• On Market and Liquidity risks: it is Group-wide. RISK comprehensively covers the CIB capital markets activities, ALM Treasury as well as the IS Business Units,

  
  

• On Counterparty risk: it is Group-wide. RISK covers all counterparty risks arising from derivative and repo transactions,

  
  

• On Credit risk: credit analysis and approval for all Financial Institutions (including Funds and SPVs), Sovereigns, Wealth Management clients and other IS private clients,

  
  

• On Insurance risk: risks generated by Insurance activities,

  
  

• Depending on mandates given, RISK also assumes, directly or indirectly, responsibilities on the above risk categories in specific areas of the Retail Business Units.

  
  

RISK contributes to the definition of the Group?s risk appetite, its risk decision-making process and the optimization of capital allocation to support the development of the Operating Divisions.

The RISK ERA Systems team is part of RISK. Its mission consists in providing the Bank with a comprehensive capital markets risk system used to calculate market and counterparty risk capital figures using advanced methods and to support the needs of users for risk analysis, risk reporting and the credit process.

In this context, the Risk Analysis and Client Services (RACS) team is a global team responsible for the production of market and counterparty risk metrics to the Risk Function. The team is split between Hong Kong, New York, London, Paris, Mumbai, Brussels, Sao Paulo and Lisbon.

Why joining BNP Paribas?

• Leading banking institution

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 72 countries, with around 200 000 Employees ? including more than 150 000 in Europe.

• Our presence in Portugal

Since 1985, BNP Paribas was one of the first foreign banks to operate in the country. Today, the Group has around 6.500 employees across several entities operating directly in the territory, offering a wide range of integrated financial solutions to support its clients and their businesses.

• International reach

Thanks to its international presence and regular and close collaboration among its different entities, BNP Paribas has the resources to support all clients 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 specialised financial services, and Corporate & Institutional Banking for corporate and institutional clients.

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.

• Diversity and Inclusion commitment

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.

To find out more on why you should join BNP Paribas visit https://bnpp.lk/why-BNP-Paribas-Portugal

• 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.