Internal Audit Professional Practice & Data – Assistant Vice President

BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a presence in 73 countries, with more than 196,000 employees, including around 149,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets, International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors.

BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking is a globally recognised leader offering capital markets, securities services, financing, treasury and advisory solutions.

The IG Hub UK is a geographical Hub, covering all activities in the UK and Channel Islands.

The Hub has five audit teams. These teams are split by business activity covering all activities within their area of responsibility.

The Hub’s remit is to provide audit services to the Businesses, Operations and Functions in the UK and Channel Islands in close liaison with Senior Management and Head Office entities. The main focus is to help the organisation accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of the governance, risk management, and internal control processes.

As part of a global IG Professional Practice set-up, the Professional Practice & data role within the IG Hub UK supports the Hub in the planning, steering and reporting of the audit work and ensuring that the Hub’s practices, procedures and methodologies remain compliant with IIA standards and applicable regulatory requirements (incl. UK) and BNP Paribas policies and procedures.

Job Purpose & Scope

The role holder will be responsible for supporting the Professional Practice & data processes within the IG Hub UK. They will act as a key team member assisting the IG Head of Hub UK, Hub UK COO, Deputy Heads of Hub and QA team to ensure that all audits carried out by the Hub follow global BNPP standards, regulatory requirements and best market practice in order to achieve the objectives of the IG Hub UK. They will work closely with the wider IG community (e.g. IG Head Office (Paris), Professional Practices Expertise Centre for Europe, IG Data Lab). The role holder will report to the IG Hub UK COO.

Key Responsibilities

• Executes planning, organisation and steering of the internal audit activities of the IG Hub UK, in close coordination with Hub Paris CIB, Ireland & MEA and Central IG, in order to ensure the Hub is delivering quality service in line with BNPP’s strategic goals and objectives. Example of such activities include: IG cartography, risk assessments, multiyear audit plan, audit reporting.
• Keeps up to date with the latest changes in policies, procedures and guidelines implemented by IG Central related to professional practice/audit professional standards and other relevant functions within BNP Paribas, as well as with regulatory audit requirements and methods of practice in the market or expected by the IIA and other relevant regulators and contributes to their implementation within Hub UK.
• As part of IG Digital Transformation Programmes and audit activities, works under the guidance of the Hub UK COO to implement various initiatives, such as:
• Organising the communication within the Hub and maintaining the Hub SharePoint in order to keep the Hub updated on the transformation programmes, policies/methodologies, regulatory requirements and best market practice (incl. through Townhalls, training, newsletters)
• Participating to the Change Actors forums  
• Utilising data analytics, developing and managing operational initiatives to enhance audit methodologies and processes
• Assists the Head of IG Hub UK, Hub COO, and other relevant team stakeholders to prepare the annual budgets, including FTEs per assignment, T&E and training expenses, to be presented to both IG Central and CIB for IG Hub UK, as well as all regular and ad-hoc reporting, and identifies and monitors appropriate KPIs for the Hub’s performance.
• Supports the Head of IG Hub UK, Hub COO, and other relevant team stakeholders to ensure deliverables and processes related to the people management of the hub are completed, delivering quality service in line with BNPP’s strategic goals and objectives, within proper timeframe.
• Establishes good relationships with key stakeholders in teams that the IG Hub UK works with and/or reports to (e.g. IG Central) to fully understand business requirements.

Essential experience and competencies

• Excellent analytical skills, including ability to quickly understand the critical steps in a process, synthesise and process complex information and understand the related risks of various natures, including use of data.
• Good working knowledge of a wide range of audit principles, processes, regulations and legislation appropriate to support the work undertaken by Internal Audit.
• Excellent data analytics skills, including in the use of tools such as Power BI or Tableau, as well as Microsoft collaboration tools (SharePoint, Forms, OneNote...).
• Previous experience in the utilisation of data analytics to improve operational performance.
• Excellent people management skills and an ability to work with individuals to translate strategic objectives into practical operational change and solutions.
• Good communication / relationship management skills.
• Excellent written and oral English skills in order to articulate technical issues associated to work area.

Preferred competencies

• An academic background in a quantitative discipline.
• Previous experience in an Internal / External Audit / Risk or Operational Permanent Control Function, or Consultancy Firm
• Professional qualification with knowledge related to the oversight and management of an audit function within the banking / finance sector.
• Appetite for continuous development on Data Analytics (Python) and collaboration tools.

Equal Opportunities

BNP Paribas promotes equality of opportunity and is committed to ensuring that no individual is discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

As an employee with BNP Paribas London Branch, we want to make sure that you are rewarded for your commitment. As such, you will be entitled to our award winning benefits package which includes a generous holiday allowance of at least 34 days (including bank holidays), a non-contributory pension of 12%, private healthcare, GP service and dental cover all as standard, along with a number of personal insurances such as income protection, life assurance and personal accident insurance. We believe in ensuring all our employees have a positive work life balance so in addition you will also have access to a variety of flexible lifestyle benefits such as cycle to work and green car leasing schemes, season ticket loans and reduced cinema and gym membership to name a few.

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