APAC Desk Captain

What is this position about?

As a Desk Captain, you will play a pivotal role in advancing the data quality and governance across Global Markets. This position focuses on vital operations including Front Office to RISK, and Front Office to Finance & Operations. You will lead efforts to establish stringent frameworks, refine issue management processes, and remediate issues to ensure operational efficiency and compliance with regulatory standards.

What would be your typical day at BNPP Paribas look like? 

Primary Role Responsibilities

•    Take responsibility for overall topics (for example but not limited to CCR, FRTB PLA, SA) and ensure the processes for each topic are well understood by the desk captains working on this topic.

•    Ensure that the Target Operating model is well established for any topic you take responsibility for.

•    Ensure that the interactions and responsibilities between all stakeholders (including GM IT Dev, APS, QM Quant Research, Risk and Front Office) are clearly defined. 

•    Ensure that effective monitoring and reporting solutions are put in place to track the efficiency of the various chains involved.

•    Define and build Key Performance Indicators and use them to communicate performance to senior stakeholders.

•    Act as a subject matter expert for the topics that you are involved in, including mentoring of junior team members and training of people in other teams in the topics you are covering. 

•    Monitor and analyse daily data accuracy and integrity across critical processes such as booking trade lifecycle, market data, fixing, pricing, and risk management of portfolios.

•    Stream issue identification and assigning resolutions to relevant teams for prompt remediation. Work closely with CCR, T2RS, RISK, GMQR, IT, and Ops teams. Manage escalation processes.

•    Addressing structural issues and driving strategic remediation by proposing actionable solutions to technical teams.

•    Identify system inefficiencies and exploring potential synergies and improvements across platforms.

•    Escalate significant issues to relevant forums (e.g., DATA CORE, GBL CORE, Data Quality Oversight Panel).

•    Monitor and report on the effectiveness of implemented fixes, providing actionable insights and recommendations for continuous improvement.

•    Raise any potential refinements in issue management procedures to streamline the identification, analysis, and resolution of data quality issues.

What is required for you to succeed?

•    Demonstrable experience of communicating with senior stakeholders in Front Office, GM QR, Risk and Middle Office.

•    Expert knowledge of at least one business line and a strong understanding of Global Markets, in particular topics concerning Risk and P&L.

•    Strong technical skills and knowledge of global markets systems, to the level where you can converse easily with the development teams involved.

•    Strong understanding of financial markets, data management processes, and regulatory standards.

•    In-depth knowledge of the production chain and global markets systems.

•    Strong interpersonal and communication skills for interaction with a wide range of production teams and managers.

•    Expert data analysis skills to identify and classify issues from large sets of daily production data.

•    Excellent analytical skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

•    Good knowledge of desk-specific products and risks.

•    Ability to follow risk and market evolution

The above skills are not necessarily expected at the start of the role, but a willingness and openness to train and develop into this role under the guidance of existing experts is crucial.

About BNP PARIBAS

As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance. 

We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.

•    BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community

•    BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization

•    Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness

•    BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds

BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.

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More information 

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