About BNP Paribas Group
BNP and Paribas merged in 2000 to create BNP Paribas. BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial and advisory services to its clients including large corporates, public institutions and financial institutions. BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a presence in over 70 countries, with more than 180,000 employees, including more than 140,000 in Europe. The Group has three operating divisions: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services (CPBS), Investment & Protection Services (IPS) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. The Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, Corporate and Institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, the Group has four domestic markets (Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg). BNP Paribas enjoys top positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific.
About BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking (www.cib.bnpparibas.com):
Fully integrated in the BNP Paribas Group, BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) is a leading provider of solutions framed in three business lines: Global Markets, Securities Services and Global Banking all offered to two client franchises: corporates and institutional, and operates across EMEA (Europe Middle East Africa), APAC (Asia Pacific) and the Americas. The bank is a global leader in Debt Capital Markets and Derivatives. It is a top European house in Equity Capital Markets and it has leading franchises in Specialized Financing. In Securities Services, it is a top five House worldwide: it provides multi asset, post trade and asset servicing solutions for institutional participants in the investment cycle, from the buy-side and sell-side to corporates and issuers. BNP Paribas CIB strives to service the global economy by providing solutions to its clients in financing (ECM, DCM, specialized financing), flow banking (trade finance and cash management), financial advisory (M&A, project finance), global markets (interest rates, credit, foreign exchange, equity derivatives), risk management, and securities services.
About BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking in Mexico
BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking has had a representation office in Mexico since 1966. Since then BNP Paribas has played an important role in financing Mexico’s development into the 21st century. BNP Paribas was one of the founders of Banco Nacional de Mexico (Banamex), one of Mexico’s largest banks, at the end of the 19th century, and stayed as a minority shareholder until the nationalization of the banking system in 1982. BNP was first established in Mexico more than half a century ago also acting as an important shareholder in Banco del Atlántico until 1982
BNP Paribas Mexico is expanding and has started operating in 2021 a full-fledged Mexican bank to better serve its clients through local operations performing local and global markets activities. Operations out of BNP Paribas Mexico include in particular trading and market making activities on interest rate derivatives, forex (spot and forward), bonds, repos and reverse repos on MBonos, UDI and Bonos. The coverage activities focusing on Mexican corporate and institutional clients will remain and expand.
Responsibilities
Comply with all applicable regulations (local or those defined by Group) and BNPP internal policies, this includes but is not limited to Financial Security, Know Your Client/Costumer/Supplier, Due Diligence, Client Interest Protection, Market Integrity, Professional Ethics and Respect for colleagues.
Strict compliance with the BNP Paribas Code of Conduct: Display an exemplary behaviour aligned with the Mission, Values and Rules of Conduct covering all 7 angles: customers’ interests, financial security, market integrity, professional ethics, respect for colleagues, group protection and involvement with society.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Procurement & Performance
- Define and implement setup of the Procurement & Performance function, including appropriate governance and performance monitoring
- Optimize external spending
- Participate in contract negotiations with different suppliers and ensure contracts are in place
- Execute the permanent control framework, particularly in terms of assessing and controlling risks relating to suppliers
- Ensure compliance with group policies, standards, and procedures as well as local procurement and general services regulations.
- Optimise purchases and achieve savings for its entity.
- To engage with suppliers, negotiate with them, manage contracts with lawyers and implement.
- Optimise the portfolio of suppliers.
- Ensure KYS compliance
- SME in the TPRM process
- Keep supplier inventory up to date
Workplace & Corporate Services
- Maintain offices.
- Manage licenses and permissions
- Be in contact with the administration of the building to coordinate any eventualities arising at the premises.
- Have a preventive maintenance schedule.
- Responding to urgent maintenance calls.
- Managing the maintenance of bank offices.
- Ensure that furniture is available in optimal conditions to enable partners to perform their functions.
- Manage projects in case of remodelling or adaptation of bank offices.
- To know the tax and legal status of suppliers in such a way that they are adequate to engage in a business relationship with the least risk to the bank.
- Identify potential risks to active suppliers for mitigation and action plans.
- Coordination of space with departments and all requests for space or seating changes
- Manage all office general services: travel, drivers, executive assistants and administrative services, receptionist, correspondence flow, archiving (ex. clients’ and Legal documentation), hospitality, cleaning, whether in-house or in outsourcing.
- Coordinates in partnership with People and Property Security and COO the workplace safety policies implementation including supervision of the physical security work.
- Responsible for the annual fixed assets inventory
- Calculate and present ESG metrics and KPIs defined for Workplace across multiple committees
Financial Security
Knowledge: must have a clear understanding of BNPP Group policies and requirements, and their own obligations under these standards. This includes ensuring that they understand the regulatory and Group requirements in relation to Financial Security, both are a general level, and specifically related to their role.
Financial Security related matters include those connected to: antimony laundering (AML); countering the financing of terrorism (CFT); international financial sanctions and embargoes (IFS); anti-bribery and corruption (ABC); KYS ongoing related data screening; and transaction monitoring.
Competences and Experience
Qualifications:
- Good Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) skills.
- Understanding of the legal entity concept and exposure to legal agreements or contracts with internal or external counterparties
- Energetic, flexible and industrious self-motivated
- Experience within a multicultural environment
- Strong capability in planning and managing a wide variety of initiatives and concurrent priorities to produce high quality deliverables within established timelines.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience.
- Strong written and interpersonal communications skills.
