Job Title: Counterparty Management Administrator
Business Unit: Middle Office - Registration & Counterparty Management
Contract Type: Permanent contract
Location: Sandyford, Dublin
About BNP Paribas
At BNP Paribas, we center our values on what drives the company forward. Our driving forces are Agility, Client Satisfaction, Compliance Culture and Openness.
- Agility: we want to behave more simply to embrace useful innovation and digital transformation.
- Client Satisfaction: we believe that our success lies in being the customers' and clients' preferred choice.
- Compliance Culture: we believe in promoting clear rules to foster a strong culture of compliance and ethics
- Openness: we promote open-minded attitudes towards our stakeholders. We aim for everyone in Group to feel included, to have their say and be empowered
Our strengths are based off four key areas of Stability, Expertise, Responsibility and Good Place to Work
- Stability: we build upon our solid, long-term oriented management, our diversified and integrated business model and our international footprint.
- Expertise: we build upon our recognized and expanding knowledge of our teams.
- Responsibility: we build upon our culture of responsibility and integrity to ever better serve the interest of our customers
- Good Place to Work: we foster a stimulating workplace where people are treated fairly and with respect
Role:
Registration Counterparty Management consists of 2 departments: Registration & Counterparty Management. Its 2 main objectives are to:
- Coordinate the operational implementation of the deals (or « program » in Supply Chain) and ensure the accuracy and consistency of deals parameters including credit, legal and operational conditions by performing independent controls at implementation stage and during deal life-cycle
- Support BNP Paribas Clients and non-clients with the objective of excellence-to-operate through a risk management framework and respect of compliance banking rules
Dublin Global Trade Services (GTS) & Dublin Operations interact with Dublin Middle Office on a daily basis and rely on it to perform all the activities necessary for the client to be able to start using our products. Dublin Middle Office also performs controls independently from GTS & Operations. Dublin Middle Office –Registration & Counterparty Management focus on Registration and Specialised Due Diligence.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead Supplier On boarding in new and existing programs.
- To manage registration of suppliers for new and existing Vendor Financing programs.
- To collect documents for KYTS & KYS activities and control completeness of the documentation once GTS instruction is received or recertification process is launched.
- Provide regular reporting to GTS sales team on suppliers’ on boarding and coordinate with them for communication to clients.
- Maintain an up to date master list of the suppliers with the correct statuses
- Storage of suppliers documents and evidences in an appropriate location
- Perform the Financial Security controls at facility set-up, facility renewal and on a regular basis during the deal life to monitor and ensure that programmes are always compliant with FS (KYC and screening at transaction processing excluded). Tasks include the following but are not limited to:
- Perform FS controls at facility set-up and renewal in accordance with Hermes,
- Perform KYTS, recertification activity, obligors screening, specific due diligence process
- Perform the recertification of suppliers.
- Perform specific due diligence on SCF portfolio, launch specific due diligence process
- Follow appropriate escalation policy.
- Be proactive and provide best quality of service with highest controls standards.
- Ensure required controls are performed in all the due diligence processes following the group guidelines and policies.
- Maintain Knowledge of pricing models and understanding deal structures to provide best service possible
- Demonstrating an open mind-set in the frame of financial technology projects
- Will be the single point of contact for all stakeholders including client and business support.
Qualifications & Experience required for this role:
- Business/Finance 3rd level qualification
- 3 to 5 years’ experience in banking operations
- Proficiency with general IT system applications
- Proficient knowledge of MS Office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Customer Support experience
- Knowledge of Trade Finance products an advantage but not essential
- Proven ability to interact with senior stakeholders
- Ability to effectively communicate up, across and down the organisation
- Ability to engage with all business operations
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
Why Work with Us?
- We are the bank for a changing world and aim to build positive change together with our employees
- We are a team of passionate people who genuinely care about what we do and the impact our work delivers to our clients. We operate in a highly collaborative, open-minded environment that embraces innovation and creativity
- Our remuneration and benefits packages are generous, with competitive salaries, a discretionary bonus scheme, company pension contribution, comprehensive private healthcare packages, and numerous other benefits
- We have a genuine commitment to work-life balance throughout the whole organisation. We are also committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and actively promote equal opportunities.
- Development and mobility is actively encouraged. We are a learning company - there is real opportunity to grow, develop and expand your skills, experience and career path.
- We are a global company operating in over 60 countries with over 190,000 employees from over 150 nationalities. In Ireland we have approximately 500 employees across Dublin and Galway working in Corporate Institutional Banking (CIB) and BNP Paribas Security Services (BP2S) and Greenval.
Compliance Culture: We believe in promoting clear rules to foster a strong culture of compliance and ethics. We would expect any incoming member of staff to respect all financial security related legislation, including: anti-money laundering (AML); countering the financing of terrorism (CFT); international financial sanctions and embargoes (IFS); anti-bribery and corruption (ABC); KYC; ongoing client related data screening; and transaction monitoring. BNP Paribas have clear policies on these topics which all staff are expected to familiarise themselves with upon successful entry to the Group.
Equality and Diversity
BNP Paribas is an equal opportunities employer and proudly cultivates a diverse workforce. We believe that diversity of experience enhances our service offering to clients and leads to a better working environment. We encourage applications from the best candidates regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, parental and caring status, or religious belief.
By submitting your application, you agree to BNP Paribas completing a background check and screening in advance of any potential offer being made
