About BNP Paribas Group:
BNP Paribas Group is a leading European bank with a strong global footprint across 72 markets and more than 202,000 employees. The Group provides corporates, institutional and private investors with product and service solutions tailored to their specific needs. It offers a wide range of financial services covering corporate & institutional banking, wealth management, asset management, insurance, as well as retail banking and consumer financing through strategic partnerships.
About BNP Paribas Solutions Philippines Branch:
Established in 2024, BNP Paribas Solutions Philippines Branch is a branch of BNP Paribas Group, a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. We provide support services, back-office operations services related to or which further the accomplishment of the corporation’s investment services, banking transaction processing, and equity investment.
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At BNP Paribas, we passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued, respected and can bring their authentic selves to work. We prohibit Discrimination and Harassment of any kind and our policies promote equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants, irrespective of, but not limited to their gender, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, colour, national origin, age, religion, social status, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status etc. As a global Bank, we truly believe that inclusion and diversity of our teams is key to our success in serving our clients and the communities we operate in.
About Business line/Function: ITO Market Operations covers Front Office activities such as ALM/Treasury and Fixed Income, Equity, Derivative local booking. MO consists Control and Investigations, Settlement and Confirmations. MO teams are also in regular contact with Capital Market Middle Office, Regional Back Office’s and Regional Finance. Instrument Referential belongs to CIB ITO - MP - Markets Ops - Transversal Lifecycle Support organization and is in charge of Equities and Derivatives product creation and static/market Data monitoring.
Position Purpose
Instrument Referential department is responsible for variable Equity & Derivative & Fixed Income products set up in Global Market systems, lifecycle update and closing price feed. The team covers respective Market hours. Our main sources are Bloomberg for static data and Reuters for market data. Clients of the team are 100% internal (Trading, Sales, Structuring, Trade Support, P&L, Risk, Settlement, Accounting, IT, ...).
Responsibilities
- Configuration of Instruments; indices, stocks, ETFs, Rates, futures and options contracts, Convertible Bonds and Warrants in EQD systems (FO to Accounting) requested for the needs of Trading teams
- Control Static data and life cycle of Instruments. Process Daily code changes following Corporate Actions
- Control Market data daily feed (quality and consistency). This data is used to generate P&L and to price products.
- Financial Calendars administration (creation and update)
- Correlation Matrix perimeter maintenance on Instrument Time series
- Listed and Exotic warrants and certificates STP BO feed.
- Issuers (linked to Equities) creation request in BNP system.
- Reporting accounting and regulatory participation
Contributing Responsibilities
- Apply control and escalation procedures on breaks between different systems
- Respect any timeline and deadline cutoffs
- Facilitate the integration of new activities and migrations of IT systems
- Ensure the consistency of the Referential between all the sites
- Participate in the industrialization of feed (Static and Market Data)
- Contribute to the improvement and completeness of daily and monthly checks
- Keep on documenting all procedures in place to stick market and process evolutions.
- Contribute to all control plan protocols according to local operational risk policies.
- Contribute to precision and accuracy of activity metrics and escalate any relevant problems or success to management on a continuous basis.
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
Teamwork‐ Knows how to work in a team and/or across teams, regardless of the type of collaboration ﴾ face‐ to face in a group, remote, real‐ time, etc.﴿, acts bearing common interests and respect for fellow team members in mind.
Analytical Skills ‐ Identifies all aspects of a subject and examines them in a critical way to construct a broad point of view. Is driven by the desire to know more about things, people or events.
Organizational Skills‐ Sets priorities, plans actions and methodically monitors their progress by coordinating activities and resources in the best way possible.
Communication skills ‐ Expresses messages, both orally and in writing, in an effective, organized way, which is appropriate to the audience being addressed.
Act with Integrity ‐ Acts ethically, in compliance with what is said and while respecting the company’s values and rules.
Building effective relationship ‐ Seeks and maintains contacts and good relations inside and/or outside the company, face‐ to‐ face and remotely, which can be useful both in the short and long term
Strong Preference to have Bachelor or Master Degree on Economics, Mathematics or Finance.
Strong Treasury (Rate / Bonds) & Equity derivatives products & operations process knowledge.
Strong Preference to have MS skills (VBA, Excel, and Access) would be a significant plus.
Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)
2-5 years working experience in relevant areas (Operations)
Bachelor or Master Degree on Banking & Finance / Economics / Mathematics
Knowledge in Financial Products, Knowledge in Front to Back workflow and the product event management, Bloomberg & Refinitiv exposure would be a significant plus.