Business Overview:
CIB Americas IT is responsible for IT development, business/technical analysis, project, maintenance and support for the large range of applications within Americas region, covering all CIB business areas. IT development teams work closely with our business partners and users as part of the global team, to understand new requirements from clients, exchanges, industry, regulators and other stakeholders, and code against those requirements to enhance our platforms. The team also dedicates a large amount of time and effort to contribute to the overall platform engineering strategy to enhance our resiliency, stability and scalability across businesses and applications.
This role is within CIB Americas IT Steering & Governance team, which works directly with the CIB Americas CIO. This team plays a key role in driving, enhancing & maintaining routine tasks of the office of the CIO. The team manages IT strategic, program, financial & governance activities for the overall CIB Americas IT scope supporting more than 450+ staff across US, Canada & LATAM (covering Global Market, Global Banking, BP2S, ALMT & CEP IT teams).
Candidate SuccessFactors:
Candidates are measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:
- Results and Impact
- Able to influence peers and team.
- Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact.
- Exercise appropriate autonomy in the execution and delivery of work.
- Responsible for driving outcomes, which have meaningful effect on team or department.
- Leadership and Collaboration:
- Creates trust with colleagues.
- Acts in leadership capacity for projects, processes, or programs.
- Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus:
- Able to build relationships with a mix of colleagues and clients.
- Interacts regularly with management and department leaders.
- Demonstrates the ability to influence stakeholders at the team level.
- Compliance Culture and Conduct:
- Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts.
- Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards.
Responsibilities:
- Managing IT Budget & Financials
- This person will be the key resource or SPOC in the office of the CIO, for global & local stakeholders, to maintain overall CIO budgets & financials including APS.
- Manage the overall flow of day-to-day budget requests (both global & local), including budgetary presentations & reporting.
- The person will work with IT managers, global budget team, business, finance and other local teams - to manage Headcount/Man-years monitoring, Budget transfers, Clarity updates, IT Program codes allocation, Rolling Forecast, Cost center mapping, Business Allocation keys, Project cost & risk monitoring, Q&E standards alignment, purchasing requests, Invoices validation, spend analysis and other activities related to GMIT and CIO financials.
- Oversee preparation of overall CIB IT budget presentations and help with the ongoing oversight (global & local).
- Manage the annual budget process and frequent monitoring of overall spend.
- Timesheets and Man days monitoring in Clarity tool.
- CIB IT Project Portfolio management
- Oversee CIB IT Project portfolio, ensuring the governance through Project Portfolio Committee
- SPOC for central teams and IT managers for recurring Clarity tool updates (project costs, resources, PRJ allocations, codes & risks) and reviewing PLC governance assessments documents.
- Enhance IT project portfolio quality by strengthening procedures & reinforcing global standards.
- IT Strategic activities coordination
- Assist CIO on key IT actions, staff, regulatory requirements & governance.
- Plan, contribute and coordinate execution of strategic initiatives
- Supporting the CIO on employee engagement activities, talent strategy and location strategy.
- Manage strategic CIO events CIB Americas IT Steer-Co, Project portfolio committee, Townhalls, CIO Talks etc.)
- CIO presentation preparations
- Space management & Logistics coordination
- Oversight
- Review, gather & consolidate control evidence & documents during IT Project Audits, Exams & 2LOD reviews.
- Governance of transversal activities, and liaise with multiple non-IT teams such as Clarity Project Office, COO office, HR, Finance, Procurement, Legal, Premises/Facilities, UOM, Physical Security, Information Security, Production Security, TPRM, Infrastructure, etc.
- Team Management
- Directly manage 2 business management staff responsible for Métier IT (GM IT, 2S IT) business management.
Minimum Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- 7 to 10 years of relevant experience
- Experience in managing Budget activities and financial monitoring.
- Excellent communication skills for the delivery of reports & presentations for the leadership team, which must be engaging, informative and convincing.
- Proficiency in MS office tools (especially in Excel & PowerPoint for running the functions/formulas, Pivot tables, Macros and Charts).
- Ability to build appropriate and effective networks, for the benefit of IT group
- Strong financial / budget analysis skills.
- Strong presentational and influencing skills
- IT Governance, Program management & Organizational skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience of working with Senior IT leadership and committees.
- Prior experience with business management and/or project management.
- Technical proficiency with reporting tools will be a plus.
- Extensive experience in the implementation of group-wide norms, procedures and policy across the organization.
FINRA Registrations Required:
CFTC Swap Dealer Associated Person (if yes, NFA Swaps Proficiency Program is required):
SEC Security-Based Swap Dealer Associated Person:
The expected starting salary range for this position is between $120k to $200k annually. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business line and geographic/office location.
In addition, our comprehensive benefits package aims to support our employees in various aspects of their lives. From healthcare and wellness programs to retirement plans and childcare services, we prioritize the well-being and growth of our employees. Our benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k) Savings Plan, backup childcare, life, accident and disability insurance, mental health support and paid time off. Additional details about our benefits offerings, inclusive of eligibility for a discretionary bonus, will be provided during the hiring process.
This application will remain open until a candidate has been selected for the role. There is no specific application timeline.
About BNP Paribas:
BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach across the US, EMEA and APAC. It has a presence in 65countries, with nearly 190,000 employees. The bank employs over 3,500 people in offices in the US across 10 states including New York, Jersey City, Chesterbrook, PA, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Miami, and Washington, DC. BNP Paribas has built a strong and diversified presence to support its client base. We continue to grow and strengthen our commitment to the US market through our Corporate& Institutional Banking activities. We are one of a few non-US banks to offer a full value chain for our clients, from trading to financing, and clearing and custody in the US with the international footprint and capacity to deliver both globally and locally. Leveraging the strength of our European roots, our network can support clients in virtually every region of the world, enabling more connectivity and efficiency wherever our clients conduct business. We take pride in our expertise and our ability to adapt while constantly looking ahead to create a more sustainable world.
As an international company with a global footprint, the unique cultures and viewpoints of our team members are an integral part of the fabric of BNP Paribas. We are a company with a purpose -to be a responsible and sustainable global leader. We aim to create an environment where our employees feel empowered to drive change, make an impact and be true to themselves. We employ talented individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, locally and globally, and are inspired by our employees who help us in cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace through initiatives such as our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Forum and Employee Resource Group (ERG) communities. We strive to be a workplace where all team members can grow and thrive and offer robust training, development, and mentoring opportunities to make that vision a reality. Our leaders are deeply committed to DEI and highly accessible to our employees, consistently soliciting feedback on how we can continue to support our employees to reach their highest potential.
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