Team Head of Trade Services & Loan operations

Job description

Overview

• BNP Paribas is one of the largest European banks with ~178,000 employees present in 65 territories including Taiwan.  
• BNPP Taipei branch was set up in 1981, and is running both CIB (Corporate and Institutional Banking) and WM (Wealth Management) businesses. BNPP Taiwan branches has about 250 employees in Taipei, Taichung and Kaohsiung. 
• The CIB business includes Global Banking and Global Markets.  The Global Banking Operations team supports operationally our Global Banking business (across Loans, Trade Services, Cash Management): 

            - Cash Management Operations 

            - Trade Services & Loan Operations. 

• The Trade Services & Loan Operations team specializes in the processing and regulatory reporting of Trade Services instruments (Guarantees, Letters of Credit etc.) and Loan (bilateral loans, syndicated loans).   
• We are now looking for an experienced Team Head to run our Trade Services & Loan operations. This team is a team of 3, supported by regional teams (Hong Kong and India). 

Trade Service & Loan mandates

• Accountable for Trade Services & Loans transactions processing
• Perform control and monitoring through various reports for payment, maturity, settlement, interest and follow up irregular transactions and pending issues.
• Monitoring clients' facility utilization for new transactions, and make sure that all the conditions in the Authorization Tickets are respected.
• Receive, study and distribute daily incoming SWIFT messages and correspondence.
• Act as focal contact point for different TW trade services and loan requests, being contributor for KPI or statistics to other departments and local authorities.
• Minimize operational failure, including but not exclusively, the risk of fraud, by helping to devise, and by implementing sufficient regular control
• To be responsible for reporting all incidents according to the incident management system
• Ad doc projects assigned 

Regulatory Reporting Governance (“RR”)

• Accountable for RR governance on Trade Service & Loans (including creation/update of Business Requirement Document, & maintenance of dashboard)
• Assist Head of Ops to prepare periodical RR management reporting

Permanent Control

• Responsible for the implementation of operational permanent control policies and procedures in day-to-day business activities, such as Control Plan
• Responsible for ensuring team members comply with regulatory requirements and internal guidelines.
• Responsible for reporting all incidents according to the Incident Management System.
• Responsible for ensuring job descriptions are written, distributed and updated.
• Minimizing operational failure, including but not exclusively, the risk of fraud, by helping to devise, and by implementing, sufficient regular controls.
• Ensuring appropriate escalation to management and/or Permanent Control ﴾or Compliance as appropriate﴿ as soon as an issue is identified
• Operations are an integral part of the control framework including for AML/FS topics. In that respect, in performing your role you are expected to ensure adherence to AML/FS‐related Group Policies and execution of associated operational controls, and to promptly escalate any resulting hit for analysis and decision.

Project related

• Responsible for and contribute to any global/regional/local projects being assigned for example process improvement, outsourcing related topics .
• Dealing with all internal stakeholders for any new products/activities on boarding

Experience required 

• At least 10 years experience in Global Banking Operations including Trade Services 
• Chinese native speaker with good command in English
• Proven track record to work with overseas offices including nearshoring centres
• Management experience is a plus

About BNP PARIBAS

As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance. 

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.

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