Graduate Program LEGAL - F/H

You will be part of a class of recently graduated lawyers, whose profiles are diverse and endowed with multiple skills. You will join an 18-month intensive learning programme of three 6-month rotations in various environments within BNP Paribas LEGAL, the legal department of the Group. Your journey through different entities of the legal department will be built according to your profile to provide you with an experience that will enhance your skills. Fully integrated into the various LEGAL environments, you will contribute to legal activities and participate in its strategic projects.

The Graduate Programme is offered to graduates with up to two years of professional experience from the date of graduation following a full course of study.

The course of the programme:

·    The first rotation is carried out in the entity that you will join permanently at the end of the Graduate Programme.

·    The second or third rotation is planned abroad to allow you to discover the international dimension of the Group.

·    The last rotation will complete your experience in a legal entity whose missions are meaningful for your career path.

You will complete your Graduate Programme by joining your first entity.

You will have 18 months to discover LEGAL’s different entities and how they each provide legal advice within the first European bank. What you will benefit from by joining us:

·    A Permanent term contract (CDI)

·    A cross-functional learning experience, a springboard, and a career accelerator

·    A proposal for continuous skills development

·    Networking opportunities

·    Personalized and enhanced HR support

·    A working environment conducive to exchanges and sharing, especially with the other Graduates who will form the class

·    A defined career path

Our Graduate Programme aims at training the future talents of BNP Paribas LEGAL.

BNP Paribas LEGAL is the legal department of the BNP Paribas Group. LEGAL comprises legal counsels from all over the world, with various skills, who are responsible for the effective management of the Group’s legal risks, thereby ensuring the Group’s activities are conducted in a legally secure manner, all whilst respecting the highest level of excellence and integrity. 

LEGAL’s key figures: 

·    Over 1700 employees

·    Based in approximately 50 different countries

·    Speaking over 60 different languages

·    Working for at least 40 different businesses

As members of a global and integrated Function, each legal counsel brings the benefit of his/her legal expertise and experience to support the needs of internal clients on a dedicated basis.

At BNP Paribas LEGAL, we believe that diversity, equity and inclusion strengthen our values and enhance everything we do. With over 60 different nationalities represented, we are absolutely convinced that diversity makes us much better at what we do, and this is why diversity, equity and inclusion have been, and remain, at the very heart of our strategy. 

At BNP Paribas LEGAL we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued, respected and can bring their authentic selves to work, with a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination and harassment of any kind. Together, we embrace diversity in our teams globally. 

Finally, at BNP Paribas LEGAL, we welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our group and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.

Missions : As a LEGAL Graduate, you will be working in one of our many legal fields for the products and activities of that field. You will provide legal advice for your internal clients in the Bank to best support the Group's strategy.

Examples of your tasks:

·    Provide legal advice and consultations tailored to clients' needs

·    Draft or participate in drafting specific legal documents

·    Define, in consultation with clients, the legal strategy to be adopted

·    Identify, raise, and escalate legal risks

·    Lead or participate in cross-functional projects

·    Monitor market and regulatory developments

You will be based in Paris and suburbs (except for the international rotation).

Working at BNP Paribas is:

A compensation and benefits package:

- A gross annual fixed amount and an individual variable (defined according to your performance and that of your team).

– Company/retirement savings plan, profit-sharing and participation, health and welfare coverage, social and cultural activities through the works council,

- Flexibility with a hybrid pace of work: number of telework days to be defined with your manager

Join a committed Group and take part in our great project of transformation towards a more sustainable world.

Discover our commitments for our customers and society.

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Do you have the profile? 

Bac+5 (Master) in law: banking, civil and commercial, competition, insurance, financial markets and products, new technologies and digital (IT/IP), corporate and mergers/acquisitions, real estate, business, etc.

Can you adapt quickly in a demanding environment? Have you demonstrated your creativity, proactivity, initiative in problem solving and decision making? Aimed at results, are you constantly looking to improve your performance? Do you have strong analytical and collaborative skills? Are you a good team player?

Last but not least, do you have a good level of English (equivalent to or higher than C1)?

Don't hesitate to apply!

Finally, you are committed to developing and building your career within our legal department.

How to join the program?

Send us your resume!

After selecting your CV by our recruitment experts, you will receive an invitation to take online tests; then, if selected, you will take part in half a day of HR assessment.

After a meeting with one or more managers, if the feeling is reciprocal, you're Graduate!

Do you still have questions or would you like to exchange with one of our graduates?

Contact us on our JobPreview platform.

You can also find more information on our Graduate Programmes by clicking on Métiers Transverses - BNP Paribas (group.bnpparibas)

If you are disabled, you can send your CV and motivation letter to missionhandicap : missionhandicap [at] bnpparibas (dot) com. 

In a changing world, diversity, equity and inclusion are key values for the well-being and performance of teams.

At BNP Paribas, we want to welcome and retain all talents without distinction: this is how we will together build tomorrow’s finance, innovative, responsible and sustainable

Finally, we attach particular importance to our future employees acting with ethical and professional responsibility on a daily basis.

At any time during the recruitment process, the information on your CV, your identification data and your background can be checked.

Programme integration date: April 2025