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 Satisfactionwe believe that our success lies in being the customers’ and clients’ preferred choice. We seek to listen carefully to them and work closely with them
- 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
Sustainable Finance
BNP continues to demonstrate the Bank’s steadfast commitment to supporting its clients in their growth ambitions by expanding market reach across assets, delivering excellence in bond markets, and showing the way in sustainable financing.
Role
The Senior Analyst, Financial Control & Performance Management (FC & PM), plays a key role in ensuring the accuracy, transparency, and reliability of financial data and performance reporting across the BNP Paribas Ireland CIB entities. This role supports the Head of FC & PM by acting as a business partner to internal stakeholders, while maintaining a strong control environment and ensuring high standards in financial analysis and reporting. The role will have close interaction with both local and central finance teams, particularly the Madrid-based Central Finance Platform (Infinity).
The scope of entities includes all CIB Entities *managed in Ireland – but prioritised firstly on BPFASIL followed by BNPP Dublin Branch as the primary 2 entities together with the other CIB entities under CIB Finance responsibility
Key criteria of the role
- Reliable and accurate financial information based on adopting appropriate accounting policies and standards, utilising the Group’s management reporting principles and standards.
- Strong oversight and validation of both the revenues & costs, with emphasis on understanding key drivers and ensuring variances are fully explained.
- Proactive performance reporting and analysis that adds value to stakeholders, supporting sound decision making.
- Satisfy the needs of financial information of internal stakeholders, ensuring quality in the information and providing a full understanding of profitability and on how revenues and expenses are calculated and attributed to each business line and function.
- Delivering and presentation of performance management reports with particular emphasis to be focused on accuracy, completeness, integrity, and adherence to reporting deadlines.
- Effective partnership and collaboration with the central finance platform (Infinity EMEA hub), ensuring seamless service delivery and a strong one-finance operating model.
- Support the oversight and simplification of intercompany recharges, ensuring accurate cost allocations
- Complete Financial Statements oversight for accuracy, consistency, and data integrity thus ensuring a high standard of presentation is maintained.
- Active role in identifying opportunities for process simplification, risk mitigation, and control enhancement across financial and performance management activities
- Fostering a collaborative team environment and strong communication culture, in line with the values of people care.
Key Responsibilities
- Performance Management: Produce high-quality management reporting packs that support monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc reporting cycles. Translate accounting data into management accounts (e.g., cost/revenue allocation by entity, cost centre, and business line), following MARP (Management Accounting Rules & Principles). Prepare financial input and analysis for various internal governance forums, including Executive Committees, Entity Boards, and Business Reviews. Support improvements to performance reporting by introducing greater insight and analysis, aligned with stakeholder expectations
- Financial Control – Revenues, Costs & Ratios: Maintain a control framework to validate and monitor the evolution of Revenues and Costs. Liaise with Business Lines to validate Revenue figures and explain any discrepancies. Assist in the analysis of the cost base, identify cost anomalies and work with relevant teams to remediate issues. Provide timely insight on trends and variances, escalating material anomalies to senior management and contributing to defined action plan. Support the monitoring of capital needs (e.g., monitoring of Own Funds Requirement (OFR))
- Statutory Financial Oversight & Audit Support: Support the accurate and timely delivery of statutory financial statements, including preparation of disclosures and audit deliverables. Liaise with external auditors and internal stakeholders to ensure financial data integrity and consistency. Help maintain complete and auditable documentation to support internal and external audit requirements
- Intercompany Recharge Oversight: Assist in the understanding and maintenance of intercompany recharges, including internal SLAs and cost-sharing arrangements. Support efforts to simplify and optimise intercompany flows, identifying inefficiencies and operational risks for remediation
- Controls, Governance & Continuous Improvement: Track and report financial control KPIs, KRIs, and KCIs in line with departmental standards. Proactively identify opportunities for simplification, automation, or improvement of existing processes. Ensure accurate and complete financial documentation and knowledge sharing within the team
- Collaboration with Central Finance Platform (Infinity): Act as a local point of contact for the Regional Finance (Infinity) team on accounting, control, and performance management processes. Ensure clear ownership between local and central teams, actively managing handoffs and service quality. Participate in initiatives to streamline processes and reinforce the One-Finance operating model
- Communication: Foster open communication promoting people care, staff engagement and fluent communication within the B&FA Area and other Finance & Tax Areas in the spirit of a Global Finance community collaborative approach
Qualifications & Experience required for this role
- Finance and Accounting Certified
- 7+ years of experience in the financial services industry (banking, capital markets, custody, fund administration)
- Capacity to use several of the following office tools in a proficient manner (MS Office, Power BI experience an advantage)
- Organizational capacity, leadership skills, teamwork, problem-solving, adaptability, rigor and critical thinking
Why work with us?
- We are a 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 180,000 employees from over 150 nationalities. In Ireland we have approximately 550 employees across Dublin and Galway working in Corporate Institutional Banking (CIB) and BNP Paribas Security Services (BP2S) and Greenval
Management excellence
BNP continues to foster top-class people management practices within our strong people focused culture, therefore all BNP Paribas people managers must adhere to the group Management Charter which strives for excellent in people management behaviours and competencies.
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.
