In Asia
Pacific, BNP Paribas is one of the best-positioned international financial
institutions with an uninterrupted presence since 1860. Currently with over 20,000
employees* and a presence in 13 markets, BNP Paribas 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.
Worldwide, BNP Paribas has a presence in 63 markets with more than 180,000
employees. It has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets
and International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and
financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate
& Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate
clients and institutional investors. Asia Pacific is a key strategic region for
BNP Paribas and it continues to develop its franchise in the region.
*
excluding partnerships
BNP
Paribas offers you an exciting career in an international business environment
that is fast-paced, diverse and focuses on creating high-value relationships
with our clients. We offer competitive salary and benefits, as well as a
working environment where you’re valued as part of the team.
https://careers.apac.bnpparibas/
2025 APAC Graduate Programme – Information Technology & Operations
Our
two-year graduate programme is designed to provide you with first class
training and immediate responsibility, it gives you the support and development
you need to start a successful career in financial services.
For:
Final year
students or recent graduates with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in any
disciplines from a recognized university
Duration: 24 months
Streams: Business Analytics, Data
& Platform, IT Developer, IT Micro-services, IT Security, IT Service
Delivery Management, PMO
Start date: January/ July 2025
Location: Hong Kong
Candidates with more than one application will not be processed – You
are encouraged to review the different business lines and working locations
before applying.
Who can apply?
To be considered for the placement, you will:
• Apply as a recent graduate, final year undergraduate, or
master’s student in any discipline;
• Possess GPA of 3.3 out of 4.0 or above (or equivalent) in
any discipline;
• Have to be fluent in spoken and written English (additional
languages are an advantage); and
• Demonstrate methodical, logical, solution-driven thinking,
with commercial awareness and a keen interest in latest finance topics as well
as market trends.
What you can expect?
Induction
You will be provided with a comprehensive induction, where you will be immersed
in group training and discover more about the BNP Paribas Group.
Training
From day one, you will start your business specific technical and financial
training, alongside personal skills development aimed at equipping you with the
knowledge you need to get you the best possible start in your career. Working
alongside our teams of industry leading specialists, you will gain on-the-job
training throughout your two-year programme taking you along a development path
to build your expertise and broaden your base of skills. You will also have the
chance to experience other parts of the business through cross-entity projects,
which will help you understand how we approach complex work and give you the
chance to develop a strong internal network.
Mentor & Buddy
Throughout the programme, you will be mentored by experienced managers and team
members, as well as pairing with a buddy from our early career cohorts who will
make sure you are getting everything you need to grow.
What you will do?
As a Business Analyst, you will:
- Assist to render
functional analysis on project and deployment matters e.g. planning,
quality assurance, manage requirement / constraint / risks / issues,
stakeholder update and management, testing
- Collaborate with service
providers and fellow colleagues to deliver quality services and solutions
to project or sponsoring stakeholders
- Participate and
contribute to studies, methodologies adopted by the department, also to
understand and apply these standards
- Risks and issues
monitoring on quality, delay and cost. Reporting of any major issue or
deviation to management
As a Data
& Platform Analyst, you will:
- Work closely with
internal stakeholders to collect and understand the data from them to
integrate the data models to build, design, and develop different business
reports and/or dashboards;
- Involve in building a new
process with data models can cater to batch and streaming data that
provide useful information for management’s review;
- Assist on the management,
governance and support of Data products (including but not limited to
Asset Management and obsolescence Management project activities ) to
ensure smooth and undisrupted operations for the bank.
As
an IT Developer, you will:
- Possess knowledge in C++,
C#, Java, Python, or other functional and programming languages, with
experience in big data is a plus.
- Technically specify,
develop, test and maintain front-office trading systems for several
trading desks: options market making / market fit / volatility trading,
ETF market making, basket trading, auto-hedging, warrants contribution,
including monitoring tools for regulatory related matters;
- Work closely with
internal IT staff to support the trading systems and day-to-day usage;
- Partner with other IT and
project management teams in strategic projects, collaborate business users
for system implementation and requirement gathering;
- Minimize operational
failure, including but not exclusively, the risk of fraud, by helping to
devise, and by implementation, sufficient regular controls.
As
an IT Micro-services Analyst, you will:
- Be responsible for
overseeing the support services provided by the APAC IT Micro-services
team. to ensure services are delivered on time and aligned to agreed SLAs
and processes;
- Ensure operating policies
are developed or are strictly followed, and adhere to all IT security
policies to maintain system integrity and quality;
- Work closely with all
major stakeholders of the Micro-services Systems, and any teams with
direct influence and dependencies;
- Contribute to management
reports and dashboards, Disaster Recovery and BCP processes are in place.
As an IT
Security Analyst, you will:
- Deliver IT Security Risk,
with focus on new and existing application of the Bank and utilizing Agile
techniques in DevSecOps.
- Responsible for security
risk assessments on new and existing applications to ensure strong risk
management strategies, tools, frameworks and standards are in place.
- Identify and provide
analysis and recommendations for IT security risks, and track corrective
actions performed by the business thru risk exception process.
- Provide accurate and
timely reports to demonstrate individual and team activities and progress.
- Work closely with IT and
business representatives to drive risk assessment and remediation.
- Participate in audits to
establish compliance with security policy and APAC country regulations.
As
an IT Service Delivery Management Analyst, you will:
- Oversee, prioritize
and/or coordinate daily service delivery (REQ, INC, PRB, CHG) and project
delivery with stakeholders across APAC;
- Prepare and coordinate
complex drills in HK and SG (Disaster Recovery, Network Isolations, etc.),
publications and/or presentation of ITIP dashboards focused on APAC
clients (KPIs/KRIs to be defined with APAC clients’ input);
- Perform regular customer
satisfaction survey & propose improvement plans;
- Organize, run and/or
participate in regular governance meetings with stakeholders in APAC.
As a PMO Analyst, you will:
- Work with Managers to
prepare budget exercise, including consolidation of budget needs, new
projects, allocation methodology;
- Follow up on monthly
basis on budget consumption with strong focus on cost control (analyzing
actuals and variance compare to budget, forecasting upcoming expenses,
etc.);
- Manage the deployment and
change management process
- Support managers and
project teams on project status update – delay, scope extension that could
impact the budget, headcount and resources forecasting, budget and cost
booking.
- Project management and
business analysis support on project and deployment matters, including
planning, quality assurance, manage requirement/ constraint/ risk/ issues,
stakeholder update and management, testing, etc.