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
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 main purpose of the Security Services OPC (Operational Permanent Control) team locally is to ensure the effective management of the group policies and procedures to maintain and enhance a robust risk and operational control framework regarding the first line of defence.
The Security Services OPC team collaborate locally and globally to manage the non-financial Risk and permanent control framework within Ireland. Their activities cover all operational risks listed in the Group risk libraries, which include but are not limited to fraud, outsourcing/shoring, conduct, IT, GDPR, compliance and breach of regulations.
Key Responsibilities
- Effective implementation, stakeholder engagement, management and quality assurance relating to:
- Ensure the control plan is maintained and enhanced
- Execute the controls according to the control plans and the methodologies in place. Ensure control results are reviewed and analysed by the Management and relevant stakeholders. Ensure remediation action plans are defined if and when needed. Input in the relevant tools the control results and the action plans. Follow-up their timely implementation. When required, review and rationalize local control plans in coordination with local process owners
- Coordinate and facilitate the incidents daily management and reporting in the tools (Birdie & Risk 360) with the business managers. Perform the compliant data quality check before the incident is closed in the tools. Ensure that incidents are analysed and reported in a timely manner and defined, jointly with the relevant stakeholders, as well as the preventive measures which have to be implemented to mitigate risks
- Build and coordinate the Risk Control Self-Assessment exercise with the business unit managers and ensure underlying deadlines are met
- Coordinate and facilitate the timely procedure updates in the appropriate tool with the business
- Ensure the recommended OPC tools and templates are used on a BAU basis, including reporting and dashboarding ones. In that respect, ensure adequate knowledge to use them on a daily basis
- Contribute to management information, KPIs and reporting to organized committees and meetings
- You will be part of a team of three people, reporting to the Head of OPC
Qualifications & Experience required for this role
- Broad Operational Risk and Control Management experience and risk awareness
- High attention to detail and a strong commitment to quality control
- Effective stakeholder engagement
- Effective Time Management: Be able to work on multiple assignments and complete high-quality work against strict and competing deadlines, with timely updates to stakeholders
- Effective Communicator with excellent writing, reporting and verbal communication skills
- Personal Conduct: demonstrates the highest levels of ethics, integrity and conduct
- Competent and positive people management skills, leading by example
- Effectively communicates and manages change; solution driven
- A can-do attitude with a strong ability to work on own initiative
- Accountability – takes initiative and is accountable for their role
- Analytical ability, with some knowledge of Tableau/PowerBI reporting tools (or similar) a plus
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.
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 550 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 applcations 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
