About BNP Paribas India Solutions:
Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, European Union’s leading bank with an international reach. With delivery centers located in Bengaluru, Chennai and Mumbai, we are a 24x7 global delivery center. India Solutions services three business lines: Corporate and Institutional Banking, Investment Solutions and Retail Banking for BNP Paribas across the Group. Driving innovation and growth, we are harnessing the potential of over 10000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions.
About BNP Paribas Group:
BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 65 countries and has nearly 185,000 employees, including more than 145,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services for the Group’s commercial & personal banking and several specialised businesses including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval; Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment, and protection solutions; and Corporate & Institutional Banking, focused on corporate and institutional clients. Based on its strong diversified and integrated model, the Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, BNP Paribas has four domestic markets: Belgium, France, Italy, and Luxembourg. The Group is rolling out its integrated commercial & personal banking model across several Mediterranean countries, Turkey, and Eastern Europe. As a key player in international banking, the Group has leading platforms and business lines in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific. BNP Paribas has implemented a Corporate Social Responsibility approach in all its activities, enabling it to contribute to the construction of a sustainable future, while ensuring the Group's performance and stability
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At BNP Paribas, we passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued, respected and can bring their authentic selves to work. We prohibit Discrimination and Harassment of any kind and our policies promote equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants, irrespective of, but not limited to their gender, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, colour, national origin, age, religion, social status, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status etc. As a global Bank, we truly believe that inclusion and diversity of our teams is key to our success in serving our clients and the communities we operate in.
About Business line/Function:
Under BNP Paribas IT Group, FRS is the IT framework encompassing Projects & Systems of Finance and RISK functions, with a strong focus on efficiency, proximity, agility and time-to-market.
FRS is a worldwide organizational model that will contribute to tackle major challenges of the Group’s transformation of today and tomorrow, building the best offering to the Finance and Risk Community through a progressive rotation to new technologies and best practices. The FRS organization is the outcome of several convergences: between the Project & Systems teams of Group Finance, CIB Finance and RISK and their related IT teams.
FRS is part of the IT Group organization (ITG in Europe and ITO overseas) with a threefold sponsorship by ITG, Finance and RISK (CIB-ITO; RISK Solutions and ITG-FIT).
Job Title:
Workstream Lead/head – SDE02/10 (Financial Reporting Systems)
Date:
Department:
FRESH / SDE
Location:
Chennai/Mumbai
Business Line / Function:
ITG
Reports to:
(Direct)
ISPL SDE Head
Grade:
(if applicable)
(Functional)
Number of Direct Reports:
11+
Directorship / Registration:
NA
Position Purpose
Shared Data Ecosystem (SDE) is an ITG-FRS department hosting various applications relating to the “filière unique program” in charge of collecting Accounting and Risk data from local entities in an unique stream.
BNP Paribas is looking for dynamic and highly motivated individuals for the role of Workstream lead/head. The role is for individual with good analytical and technical skills. The team requires a strong Manager / Lead to guide/mentor team on functional and technical subjects as well as contribute directly to the project/programs.
He/She will provide high quality solutions and support to users by following ITG standards of project & program management, incident management, problem management, capacity management and change management. Also minimizing the adverse impact of incidents and problems on the business and preventing reoccurrence of Incidents.
He/She will be fully integrated in the project team located in Paris and involved in roadmap construction and project instruction on technical/functional phases. The position will require high reactivity and reporting skills to follow the IT activities. The candidate will also use IT tools in the chain and guarantee high quality of results/build and compliance to IT Standards.
· Design,develop & support components/applications for SDE02/10 perimeter.
· Work in an agile environment
· Provide support and help the team grow technically & functionally
· Interact with IT Paris team and provide solutions for their requirements
· Develop requirements with good code quality, perform code reviews and share coding best practices
· Having good knowledge of design patterns and various tools/techniques of requirements gathering as BA.
· Meet deadlines for deliverables
· Ensure that the project and organization standards are followed during various phases of software development life cycle and day to day development work
· Coordinate with production Teams as applicable for quicker resolution of issues/incidents whilst ensuring the timely communications to all stakeholders
· Ensure the team remains compliant with bank standards
· Ensuring the timely delivery of change in staging and production ecosystem as per the agreed schedule
· Work closely in a “one team” approach with all stakeholders, jointly providing high quality deliverables
· Proposing application performance improvement.
· Understand and analyze the needs coming from the Business and or normative and regulatory changes, proposing sustainable solutions, designing the expected changes, in line with the entity’s strategic plan, and converting them into detailed requirements.
· Contribute to the validation of any new requirement by configuring the tool and performing the unit acceptance tests. Involve all relevant stakeholders in the process of functional acceptance and validation, assessing all potential impacts.
· Ensure the implementation of new features and changes in Production environment, following the go live process, comparing the impacts towards expectations and proposing adjustments when needed
· Be a major actor in the quarterly closing, participating in the preparation and providing support to users
· Enhance and update documentation
Working knowledge in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and SharePoint
Good to have skills
• SQL
• Experience in Finance/ Accounting domain as a Business Analyst / Manager
Contributing Responsibilities
Contribute to overall FRS and ISPL Vision goals as directed by Team and Department Management
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
- Strong interpersonal communication (spoken and written) and Customer orientation skills
- Ability to simplify complex information in a clearly organized and visually interesting manner
- Pro-active behavior regarding the ability to work in a fast changing and demanding environment
- At ease with multi-tasking
- Strong analytical mind and problem-solving skills
- Ensure a high service level for all Customers of the tool
- Assure a high communication level with Customers and other teams
- Improve process that delivery users’ value
- Mind-set on getting better all the time, ongoing effort to improve
- Show the improve in the light of their efficiency effectiveness and flexibility
- Take pertinent proactive measures
- Be aligned with the BNP Values: Agility, Compliance Culture, Openness, Client Satisfaction
- Ability to provide step-by-step technical help to the team
- Ability to Collaborate /Teamwork in multi-location distributed and challenging environment.
- Decision Making
- Rigorous, serious and disciplined
- Excellent analytical skills, ability to present multiple solution options to technical problems, and drive defect free products
- Proven record interpreting and fulfilling requirements by developing high performing, scalable and maintainable solutions with multiple technologies
- Strong skills on coordination and organizational skills
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical issues in a simple concise manner
- Multi-tasking capabilities
- Client focused
- Previous experience with Finance and Banking would be advantageous to the role
Specific Qualifications (if required)
- Bachelor in Eng./ B-Tech/ MCA (Equivalent)
Skills Referential
Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)
Ability to collaborate / Teamwork
Ability to share / pass on knowledge
Organizational skills
Ability to synthetize / simplify
Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)
Ability to understand, explain and support change
Ability to manage a project
Ability to develop others & improve their skills
Analytical Ability
Ability to inspire others & generate people's commitment
Education Level:
Bachelor Degree or equivalent
Experience Level
At least 12 years
Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)
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