Project Manager– Trade Finance Organization
GROUP BNP PARIBAS
BNP Paribas Group is the top bank in the European Union and a major international banking establishment. It has close to 185,000 employees in 65 countries. In Spain we are more than 5,100 employees within 13 business lines.
CIB
BNP Paribas Corporate & Institutional Banking provides large companies, multinationals and financial institutions with various solutions in the areas of advisory, financing, transactional banking, capital markets, settlement, clearing and custody of securities, asset and fund management services and solutions for corporate issuers. It has 620 professionals in Spain with offices in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Coruña. The entity has a network present in 56 countries.
BNP Paribas Corporate & Institutional Banking is seeking an employee for its Global Banking Operations Department in Madrid
Context
GTO (Global Trade Operations) is an entity within CIB ITO Global Banking Operations that serves Trade Finance operations on behalf of the Group.
Its scope of intervention is global, on all sites that propose to operate Trade Finance transactions, i.e., in Domestic Core Businesses (BCEF, Fortis, BGL, BNL) as in the CIB regions and Europe Mediterranée.
Within GTO, the Organisation team (Global Traditional Trade Organisation) carries out projects around process optimisation and create an operational structure for traditional trade products (Letters of Credit, International Guarantees).
As Project Manager – Global Traditional Trade Organisation, your job will be to coordinate people and processes to ensure that our projects are delivered on time and produce the desired results. You will be the go-to person for everything involving a project’s organization and timeline.
You are in charge of :
· Coordinating internal resources and third parties for the flawless execution of projects
· Ensuring that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
· Developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
· Ensuring resource availability and allocation
· Developing a detailed project plan to track progress
· Measuring project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
· Reporting and escalating to your Management as needed
· Managing the relationship with the Sponsor and all stakeholders
· Performing risk management to minimize project risks
· Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
· On the projects/studies for which you are responsible, you must in particular:
o carry out organisational and process analyses,
o Define and lead governance to ensure that Sponsors/Partners/Contributors are well informed, mobilised and alerted when necessary.
· Participating in team recruitment
Members of the team can thus conduct their activity on any of the operational centres remotely or on site.
You also contribute to
· continuously improving the organisation and processes by ensuring that Operational and Compliance risks are controlled,
· supporting operational teams in organisational changes and the introduction of new processes,
· good practice sharing,
· to transversal projects,
· the governance of GTO
An appetite for new technologies (blockchain, RPA/RDA, OCR, Data analytics, etc.) is being sought since Trade Finance is in transformation and GTO wants to accompany the Group on these new solutions.
Mandatory skills
As Project manager, you should have a background in business skills, management, budgeting and analysis.
You should be an excellent communicator and comfortable managing multiple tasks.
you also need to be a team player and have a problem-solving aptitude.
· Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills.
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills
· Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
· Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
· Autonomous and responsible, your analytical skills, perseverance and good relations will be your assets for the success of your missions.
· Your synthesising ability is excellent, in order to retain and summarise crucial information among the permanent flow of news you will have to manage.
· Good resistance to stress, so that decisions can always be taken calmly whatever the context.
· You have a strong sensitivity to new communication technologies.
Developments
You will be able to evolve within operational entities and/or take on an organisational team, Compliance, audit and consulting are also accessible through this position.
In particular, you can develop internationally.
Soft skills :
· Organizational capacity
· Sense of situations / understanding of issues
· Listening and negotiation
· Communication
· Initiative spirit
BENEFITS
• Training programs, career plans and internal mobility opportunities, national and international thanks to our presence in different countries.
• Diversity and Inclusion Committee that ensures an inclusive work environment. In recent years, several employee communities have been created to organize diversity and inclusion awareness actions (PRIDE, We Generations and MixCity).
• Corporate volunteering program (1 Million Hours 2 Help) in which employees can dedicate time out of their working hours to volunteer activities.
• Flexible compensation plan.
• Hybrid telecommuting model (50%).
• 32 vacation days.
Diversity and inclusion commitment
BNP Paribas Group in Spain is an equal opportunity employer and proud to provide equal employment opportunity to all job seekers. We are actively 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/paternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Equity and diversity are at the core of our recruitment policy because we believe that they foster creativity and efficiency, which in turn increase performance and productivity. We strive to reflect the society we live in, while keeping with the image of our clients.
