The Corporate Actions team within BSO is responsible for researching and processing fixed income and equity corporate actions across the Australia and New Zealand markets, including complex events.
The Senior Analyst works closely with our onshore client account management teams and our extended offshore processing teams to deliver excellent outcomes for our local and global custody clients.
The Senior Analyst must be able to demonstrate accountability, attention to detail and strong problem solving capability. They must also be delivery focused and comfortable working in a fast paced environment with tight deadlines.
Key responsibilities
Thorough research of corporate action events, ensuring accurate and complete corporate action notifications are issued to our local and global clients for the Australia and New Zealand markets
Processing of corporate action events, including reconciliations and reviewing the processing performed by other team members
Ensuring controls are applied correctly, including performing sign off in our risk platforms
Workload allocation across the team, including our extended offshore processing teams
Ability to understand and manage complex queries, solutionise and present in a coherent client centric view, working collaboratively with internal teams to ensure the best quality response first time
Identifying opportunities for process and control enhancements, presenting solution proposals and working with IT to ensure the solutions are developed, tested and implemented successfully
Ability to analyse new scenarios and take a risk-based approach to identifying next steps
Staff training on new tasks and management of complex events
Delivering monthly control self assessments within the broader risk and control framework
Engagement with internal and external auditors
What do you need to succeed?
3+ years experience in financial services industry, with previous experience in corporate actions
Strong technical knowledge of corporate actions in the Australia and New Zealand markets
Desired knowledge, skill, experience
Having a degree qualified in Business, Accounting or related discipline; or relevant work experience in a similar role would be desirable
About BNP PARIBAS
BNP Paribas is a top-tier European and international banking establishment, with an uninterrupted presence in the APAC region since 1860 and in Australia since 1881. Combining global expertise and local know-how, BNP Paribas in Australia and New Zealand delivers solutions to our clients through Corporate and Institutional Banking and Asset Management - a bridge between corporate and institutional clients.
We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.
BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community
BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization
Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness
BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds
BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please feel free to reach out to us at bnpp.hrss.recruitment.admin [at] asia.bnpparibas (dot) com or +61 2 9216 8633 (and ask for the Talent Acquisition Manager in the HR Team).
