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, color, 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.
Position Purpose
The GMO - 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, etc.).
Responsibilities
Direct 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 the Profit and Loss (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 in all control plan protocols according to local operational risk policies.
- Contribute in precision and accuracy of activity metrics and escalate any relevant problems or success to management on a continuous basis.
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
- Candidate must be a bachelor’s degree holder with a degree in Accounting, Financial Management, Treasury Management or any other related field of studies
- Strong knowledge of financial instruments such as Treasury (Rate / Bonds) & Equity derivatives etc.
- Expert background in using Bloomberg, Refinitiv and other tools needed for Market Data.
- Must be amenable to work on an US Shift schedule (9:00 pm to 6:00 pm SGT)
- Flexibility on working methods and changing international environment.
- Resilience in a pressuring environment with utmost certainty to achieve performance excellence
- Must have the diligence to follow the set procedures and Compliance policies
- Strong knowledge of financial markets and products, and easiness/expertise in dealing with Excel.
