Company purpose:
Our company purpose is to contribute to a responsible and sustainable economy by financing and advising clients according to the highest ethical standards.
Our employer promise is built around three pillars:
• Being a great place to work
• Committed to sustainability and having a positive impact
• Being dedicated to the development of our people
Business area
The UK CIB HR Department supports CIB staff and managers in London, providing them with a full range of strategic advisory and transactional services (in terms of payroll, reward, pension and benefits, recruitment, career management, learning & development and employee relations). In regular contact with the Group HR Department of BNP Paribas S.A. (headquartered in Paris), CIB HR is the entry point for all CIB employees on any HR issue. The team in London comprises of circa 70 HR professionals.
The UK Early Careers team looks after all campus attraction, recruitment and development of graduates, summer internships and spring-insight participants.
Job Purpose
This role will focus on the operational and strategic delivery of an excellent campus recruitment service for the designated business lines with the support of the Early Careers Coordinators.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver a high volume of campus hires across designated business lines
- Coordinate the end to end process including, but not limited to: reviewing CVs, producing and reviewing shortlists, scheduling interviews and designing and facilitating assessment centres.
- Ongoing engagement with business stakeholders
- Maintain the Applicant Tracking System, including but not limited to; managing candidates through the process and logging interviews and feedback.
- Guide hiring managers through interview and selection processes, helping to educate best practice and team policies and processes including unconscious bias and the importance of diverse hiring.
- Oversee the on-boarding and visa processes of these individuals through collaboration with the HR Connect team, manage by the Early Career Coordinator.
- Present to students, graduates, interns and other stakeholders.
- Establish and maintaining excellent working relationships with the HR Business Partners and become a trusted advisor to hiring managers and business stakeholders.
- Drive projects & process reviews to improve our campus recruiting as designated by the Head of Early Careers.
- Oversight of and involvement in other early careers recruitment as required.
- Support the business with the conversion of summer interns to graduates
- Work closely with the Development Partner and Head of Early Careers to ensure the university and society strategy is aligned with our overall campus attraction and marketing objectives.
- Oversight of university-specific campus events at target universities in the UK and Europe
- Management of society sponsorship and activities to ensure our candidate attraction strategy is up to date, innovative and timely
- Support other campus attraction, recruitment or development activities as required.
- Ad hoc HR projects as directed by the Head of Early Careers
Requirements
- Experience in graduate recruitment / development and early careers
- Volume recruitment experience, ideally campus recruitment, where the applicant has managed candidates through the end to end process.
- A solid understanding and awareness of UK campus recruitment trends (wider European knowledge could be an advantage).
- An ability to articulate a keen interest in recruitment and / or candidate attraction and ideally an interest in working in a campus recruitment team
- Proven ability to work under pressure in a deadline driven and rapidly changing environment
- Experience of ATS systems. (desirable)
- An excellent communicator across a range of different stakeholders; including candidates, hiring managers, HR, business stakeholders and external relationships with key universities / schools.
- Attention to detail.
- An ability to multitask with many simultaneous activities at once.
- An understanding of the benefits and importance of diverse recruitment and diversity-focused attraction strategies
- Well organised with excellent attention to detail.
- ‘Can-do’ attitude and a willingness to deliver the large volume of coordination required for campus marketing / events.
And of course, we expect all our colleagues to embody and practice the Group values (alignment with the Bank’s strategy, commitment, work ethic, integrity and Code of Conduct).
A bit more about why you should join us
1. We’re a great place to work
We aim for optimal work/life balance (depending on role, this includes hybrid working, flexible working and agile)
We are proud of our award-winning flexible benefits and health & wellbeing strategy. Our flexible benefits include:
• Generous holiday allowance of at least 26 days (plus bank holidays) – with option to buy and sell holidays.
• Valuable financial plans – a 12% non-contributory pension which has been moved to sustainable investments*, life assurance*, income protection and personal accident insurance.
• Extensive wellbeing and mental health offering – one of the most advanced private medical schemes in the UK, dental cover, wellbeing app, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy support, subsidised gym memberships, bespoke health assessments including genetic testing, Private GP (including digital GP services to parents of employees), Employee Assistance Programme, menopause & fertility support (we are an accredited Menopause Friendly Employer), neurodiversity assessment and support.
• Key onsite services and facilities in London – include physiotherapy, nutrition, massage therapy, physiology, mental health first aiders, seasonal flu vaccinations and free onsite fitness centre.
• Plus, emergency back-up care for dependants, green car leasing, season ticket loan, and a range of other benefits.
* Subject to relevant caps
2. As the eurozone’s largest bank, we are committed to having a positive impact in the world.
For example, we are committed to Net Zero in all of our financing and investment portfolios by 2050. By 2030, 80% of our energy production financing will be low carbon.
But impact for us means more than climate. It means empowering our people every day. Everyone gets four volunteering days each year - in 2023, we achieved over 18,000 hours of volunteering across the UK and reaching over 4,500 young people.
3. We believe in our people
We support our people to develop skills to adapt to the ever-evolving world of work and to prepare for the jobs of today and tomorrow. We do this through a comprehensive training offering, talent programmes, mentoring, career days and inhouse career tools.
We are proud of the number of our people who progress and secure new roles internally. In fact, in 2023, nearly half of our positions in UK CIB were filled internally.
Investing in our people also means we have a collaborative and inclusive culture:
• Direct feedback from our people shows that our internal culture sets us apart from our industry peers.
• Each year, nearly 30,000 employees globally are involved in professional networks that play an active role in promoting Diversity and Inclusion within the Group. These include our:
Pride Network, Ability Network (which supports disabled employees), MixCity (gender equality network), Women in Global Markets, Women in Global Banking, Women in IT, Diversity Equity & Inclusion in Technology, Early Careers Network, Multicultural Network and Parents & Carers Network.
Equal opportunities
BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.
Adjustments
We don’t want anyone to be disadvantaged in our recruitment processes, so if you have a disability or health condition which may mean that you’d benefit from some adjustments or additional support, please let us know as early in the process as possible.
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