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.

RISK HUB

RISK is an integrated and independent control function of the BNP Paribas Group. It is the second line of defense on the risk management activities of the Group which are under its direct responsibilities, including credit and counterparty risk, market risk, funding and liquidity risk, interest rate and foreign exchange risks in the banking book, insurance risk, operational risk, and environmental and social risks.

 

RISK aims at being a partner of the businesses by contributing to their sustainable development, but also a gatekeeper to ensure risks taken remain compatible with the Group’s Risk Appetite and its strategy. 

 

RISK Iberian Hub Madrid is a transversal platform servicing the RISK Function by covering added-value activities around credit risk, market risk, operational risk and data protection. Offering a wide range of services to RISK teams, from consulting to cyber security going through data analysis, modelling or artificial intelligence.

 

 

ABOUT THE JOB

 

You will join the Global Practice RISK IRC (Independent Review and Control) responsible for:

·       Independent model validation (RISK IR);

·       Leading the Group’s Model Risk governance (RISK IRCO);

·       Exercising LoD2 on operational risk generated by the RISK Function processes (RISK ORM RISK);

·       Participating in validation projects for the BNP Paribas group spread across 9 countries (Europe and North America).

As an AI (Artificial Intelligence) Model Analyst, you will be in charge of the following tasks:

· Conducting independent evaluations of the AI models used within BNP Paribas, specifically verifying:

o   their conceptual robustness,

o   the validity of their results,

o   the model performance monitoring system,

o   the implementation and any other relevant aspect of the modeling affecting the models’ use,

· Documenting the work and defending the conclusions before a validation committee,

· Leveraging your expertise and the independent reviews conducted to keep the Group’s AI validation standards up to date,

· Collaborating with other RISK IRC streams to benefit from their business expertise,

· Working closely with BNPP’s data science teams to participate in AI tools experimentation.

 

And then what?

As part of the Group RISK Function within BNP Paribas’ extensive network of quantitative analysts specializing in risk modelling, you will have a key role to play in understanding and modelling multiple risks to which the Bank is exposed.

In addition, with the focus on compliance with regulatory requirements, you will be involved in future internal or external audit missions where your expertise, communication and analytical skills will be valuable assets. Such an environment guarantees you good prospects for rich and motivating projects.

By its cross-functional nature, this position will enable you to increase your technical expertise, your experience in managing structuring projects for the Group and your versatility and naturally leads to numerous career development opportunities within the RISK Function but also to the Business Lines.

 And you? SKILLS

In-depth knowledge of quantitative analysis and AI (time series analysis, data science techniques, statistical inference, segmentation, etc.).

TECHNICAL

· Proficiency in programming with a language such as Python or R.

· Experience with machine learning libraries such as Scikit-Learn, LightGBM, Tensorflow, or PyTorch.

· Experience with version control tools (Git).

TRANSVERSAL

· You are adaptable to changes and also comfortable with oral and written communication to convey your messages clearly to various audiences.

· You possess strong analytical and synthesis skills, are thorough, curious, proactive, and open to new working methods to enhance our practices and fulfill our missions.

· Your command of English is advanced, both written and spoken.

 

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.

BNP Paribas Group is the top bank in the European Union and a major international banking establishment. It has close to 184,000 employees in 64 countries. In Spain we are more than 5,000 employees within 12 business lines.

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.

What is the Global Banking EMEA Graduate Program? 
The Global Banking EMEA Graduate Program is designed to boost your professional development. As a graduate, you will be offered a permanent contract within BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking starting with an immersive 12-month rotational program. This will include two 6 month assignments, one in Paris, one in Spain to allow you to better understand the different activities of investment banking among: M&A, Equity Capital Markets, Debt Markets, Real Assets, Securitized Products Group.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

What will your first 12 months look like?
You will be part of a community of c.40 talented graduates recruited in 7 countries and sponsored by a senior member of the Global Banking EMEA Management team.
During the first 6 months, you will join one of the Investment Bank’s teams based in Paris, either at European Advisory Group (EAG) either at Capital Markets. 
European Advisory Group (EAG): joining the EAG will offer you the opportunity to be involved on a large variety of M&A transactions (buy or sell-side, public or private). During your mission, you will be involved on every step of the entire M&A process from marketing through to execution and be responsible for providing support in the preparation of all materials required for clients’ pitching and deals’ execution.
At Capital Markets, you will be offered the opportunity to join one of the following teams: 
o Equity Capital Markets – Join the leading European Equity Capital Markets franchise. Equity Capital Markets advise clients with regards to accessing the equity capital markets, covering raising new capital by corporates whether by way of initial public offering, rights issue or accelerated transactions, including equity and equity-linked instruments.  

o Debt Markets – Debt Markets EMEA’s mission is to serve the bank’s corporate and private equity clients, by originating, structuring and executing all DCM and syndicated loan transactions (corporate facilities and event-driven transactions). 

o Real Assets Group – the Real Assets group encompasses a wide range of specialized coverage, specialised financing and debt advisory activities in the following sectors: energy, resources, infrastructure, real estate, aviation and shipping.  Clients include corporates, sovereigns, financial sponsors and institutional clients.  Financing products involved include asset finance, project finance, export finance, infrastructure finance, acquisition finance, reserve-based lending and related cross-sell products (including hedging) with a strong distribution focus towards capital markets. Energy transition is at the core of the Real Assets strategy, in close collaboration with the newly created Low Carbon Transition Group. 

o Securitized Products Group – Securitized Products Group mandate is to originate and structure complex financing for large international investment funds in private debts, elaborate innovative credit facilities answering clients’ needs, design financing models in order to determine the appropriate risk and debt level for clients. 

A few examples of your missions during your rotations:
o Assist in the preparation of presentations and pitches to support the marketing effort
o Perform background industry and company research, operational benchmarking analysis, valuation works, synthesising information from diverse source
o Perform financial and risk analysis to facilitate discussions with internal partners, develop financial models
o Support the marketing of transactions including development of strategy, timetable, target investors, collation and analysis of feedback
o Support syndicate interaction
o Assist in the preparation of credit documentation and manage the internal approval process
o Transaction analysis and due diligence 
o Contribute to the preparation of syndication materials
o Prepare credit proposals, annual reviews, waiver & amendment requests and participation in credit committees
o Play a leading role in the on-boarding and training of the interns working within the team.
o Interact with internal partners including research, compliance and legal
o At Securitized Products Group: support the structurers in the preparation of commercial offers, the design of financing structures and portfolios reviews.
In parallel, you will benefit from the comprehensive development program of the Investment Banking Academy, covering both technical and soft skills.
After 6 months in Paris, you will start your second assignment back in Spain and will discover a second activity of the investment bank.
After these 2 rotations you will be allocated within Real Asset team as an Analyst 2 and you will continue to benefit from a dedicated career support. 

Work environment
You will join the European Advisory Group and Capital Markets departments, part of Global Banking, CIB.
The European Advisory Group is a team of c. 170 advisory junior bankers (from Analysts to Vice Presidents) supporting the senior Bankers from both M&A EMEA and Industry Groups and dedicated to the origination and execution of M&A transactions for the account of BNP Paribas clients. The team has geographic offices based in Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, the UK, Dubai, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Portugal.
Capital Markets is BNP Paribas’ capital markets business within the Corporate & Institutional Bank (CIB).   The primary objectives of Capital Markets EMEA are to provide BNP Paribas’ issuer and investor client franchises with fully integrated services across the capital structure and deliver solutions across asset classes. It is structured across 5 main pillars, gathering Equity Capital Markets, Debt Markets, Real Assets, Securitised Products and Syndicate. The platform is deployed across the EMEA region, with c. 650 employees, main teams being in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Brussels, Milan, Madrid and several smaller hubs. Capital Markets teams operate in close partnership with Coverage teams, the Industry Groups and M&A teams as well as Global Markets.

REQUIREMENTS:

Training:

 A degree from a leading university with an excellent academic record and solid knowledge in Corporate Finance and/or financial modelling or equivalent work experience
– A previous internship or work experience related to financial advisory or experience in Investment Banking/Corporate Finance
– Excellent presentation and communication skills
– Excellent quantitative, modelling and analytical skills
– Rigour, attention to details
– Strong adaptation skills
– Great team player
– Capacity to work under pressure
– Critical of own work / professional reaction to positive and negative feed-back and use of this feed-back to improve
– Fluency in English
– Conduct: strong capacity to support and foster a culture of good conduct, demonstrate proactivity, transparency and accountability for identifying and managing conduct risks; consider the implications of his/her actions on colleagues, partners and clients before making decisions, and escalate issues to your manager when unsure; professional conduct in the office environment.G19

Languages:

 •   Spanish:Fluent
 •   English:Fluent

SKILLS:

Trasversal & Behavioral:

 •   Communication skills
 •   Attention to detail/rigor
 •   Ability to collaborate/Teamwork

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 
• 31 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.

ITTF – FINANCE and RISK SOLUTIONS

Finance and Risk Solutions (FRS) is the IT framework encompassing Projects & Systems of Finance and RISK functions, with a strong focus on efficiency, proximity, people, and time-to-market.  FRS is a department within IT Transversal & Functions (ITTF), part of IT Group.

FRS is a global organization, with resources located in 11 countries across Americas, UK, Europe, India and APAC.  FRS aims to tackle major challenges of the Group’s transformation for today and tomorrow, building the best offering to the Finance and Risk Community through a progressive rotation to new technologies and best practices.

FRS is hierarchically part of ITG organization. governed by a unique collaborative sponsorship between Finance, RISK and ITG. 

ABOUT THE JOB

The FRS Strategy & International team is a team of PMO’s managing key projects and deliverables contributing to the strategic evolution of FRS.  Transformation is focused across different workstreams covering people, architecture, partnership to deliver the objectives of the 2028 strategic plan. 

The team in Madrid work as part of a global team, managed from the UK and partnered with resources based across the regions and hubs.   Resources work closely with other FRS teams, Finance, Risk and key stakeholders from other ITG departments.

MISSION AND OBJECTIVES

• Actively participate to the transformation, in line with FRS global transformation strategy
• Identify process improvements, promote agile methodology, collaboration initiatives.
• Buildup of business cases and monitor impact in FRS budget. 
• Engage regularly with onshore stakeholders to understand their needs and to share and promote transformation objectives.
• Identify opportunities to both further develop the platform, and leverage the offshore hub
• Keep a smooth and proactive communication across FRS, clients and all key stakeholders. 
• Be aligned with the BNP Values: Agility, Compliance Culture, Openness, Client Satisfaction

  

REQUIREMENTS

Training and occupational experience

• Bachelor’s degree in IT/Computer Engineering, Finance or Management 
• 3+ years of experience in the banking industry / advisory
• Experience as a Project Manager 
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and Sharepoint
• Fluent in English mandatory
• Knowledge of French and Spanish is a plus
• Knowledge of Project Management methodologies (PMP, Lean, Agile Methodologies) 

Essential specific requirements

• Integrity
• Accuracy 
• Ability to learn (curiosity)
• Attention to details
• Communicating clearly
• Client focus
• Adaptability 
• Multidisciplinary to coordinate workgroups involving businesses and diverse support functions
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and consult at all levels
• Committed to confidentiality, integrity and objectivity

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%)
• 31 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.

About BNP Paribas Group 

BNP Paribas is a top-ranking bank in Europe with an international profile. It operates in 65 countries and has almost 190,000 employees. BNP Paribas organizes its businesses into three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services (CPBS), Investment & Protection Services (IPS) and Corporate Institutional Banking (CIB). The Group helps all of its clients (retail, associations, businesses, SMEs, large corporate and institutional) to implement their projects by providing them with services in financing, investment, savings and protection. 

Various bodies rank BNP Paribas, high in terms of attractiveness and being a “good place to work”. The Group has once again been named a “Top Employer Europe” for 2022. It was singled out for its diversity, inclusion, career development possibilities and well-being.
 
Within RISK FINANCE Data Office created end of 2019, you will belong to Data Quality Watch Tower team with a Group mandate, particularly in charge of:

• Data Quality monitoring on RISK & Finance scope data
• Data Management Framework oversight
• Remediation actions’ plan follow-up

Thanks to your concrete actions / reports, you will contribute to the Group Data Quality monitoring capabilities’ enhancement and will provide key inputs to the RISK Finance QARC (Quality 

Assessment & Remediation Committee), the strategic Committee recently created to assess Data Quality transversal issues and define remediation priorities: 

• Assess based on Data Quality KPI’s and Dashboard, data quality level / standards for RISK 
• Finance key data
• Escalate main transversal issues identified through data quality indicators ‘dashboards or Business Lines, functions’ final users and define priorities
• Define and monitor appropriate actions ‘plan including appropriate level of resources
• Ensure compliance with BCBS 239 requirements over the time
• Operationally transpose strategic orientations defined by the Group Data Board

Within Data Quality Watch Tower – Monitoring & Remediation team, your main responsibilities will be:

• To reinforce Data Quality indicators consolidation process, reliability and analysis including historical monitored indicators (local DQIs, IMR and RMPM EFRRIT) but also new “Comet-Cobalt” ones, in close coordination with SMS LoD1 Finance team located in Madrid 
• To proactively develop and industrialize as much as possible data quality activities monitoring to that end, you will leverage (i) on day-to-day interactions with RISK Finance Data Office team in Paris and also with (ii) a network of key KPIs’ providers within the Group divisions both at central and local level and potentially IT/project teams
• To improve interactions with Finance LOD2 control team located in Madrid and having a Group coverage mandate, in order to optimize data quality remediation process

REQUIREMENTS

BEHAVIORAL SKILLS

• Client-focus
• Decision making
• Excel in organizational skills
• Great communication skills, oral and written

TRANSVERSAL

Ability to

• Anticipate business and strategic evolution
• To inspire others and generate peoples commitment
• To develop and leverage networks
• Understand, explain and support change

BACKGROUND

• Master’s degree or equivalent in Finance
• 3 years of experience 
• Fluent in English
• French, Spanish or Portuguese will be a plus

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%)
• 31 vacation days

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.

RISK HUB

RISK is an integrated and independent control function of the BNP Paribas Group. It is the second line of defense on the risk management activities of the Group which are under its direct responsibilities, including credit and counterparty risk, market risk, funding and liquidity risk, interest rate and foreign exchange risks in the banking book, insurance risk, operational risk, and environmental and social risks.

RISK aims at being a partner of the businesses by contributing to their sustainable development, but also a gatekeeper to ensure risks taken remain compatible with the Group’s Risk Appetite and its strategy. 

RISK Iberian Hub Madrid is a transversal platform servicing the RISK Function by covering added-value activities around credit risk, market risk, operational risk and data protection. Offering a wide range of services to RISK teams, from consulting to cyber security going through data analysis, modelling or artificial intelligence.

ABOUT THE JOB

MISSION

Are you passionate about numbers? Is your drive to produce THE right information that will enable THE right decision? Join us!

Within your team (3 FTEs), you will perform simulations on the credit risk exposure portfolio to set decisive directions, such as choosing the regulatory approach (A-IRB or Standard) applied to a specific scope or determining the future of one or more models. You define the indicators that facilitate decision-making. You assess the impact on the evolution of the Bank’s RWA and collaborate with the provisions teams to measure the effects.

You share the results obtained, help your numerous clients (from operational staff and top managers to RISK and Business Lines) understand these indicators, and ensure communication alignment with Finance & Strategy.

Your indicators may lead to launching projects, and you will be involved in scoping them.

You maintain the tools that produce these numbers.

REQUIREMENTS

• Studies

 Graduated from at least a master’s degree with a specialization in finance, risk, data science, statistics or economics

• Experience

        At least 4 years with following business fields: Data Intelligence, Supervision, Capital Requirements Regulation, Credit Risk Management, Internal Models

• Languages

       Proficient in English

SKILLS

• Technical

• Data Processing – with Excel/SAS/Python (Expert)
• Data Visualization – with Excel/Python/R/Power BI/Tableau (Expert)
• Credit risk modelling (Proficient)
• Capital Requirement related Regulatory environment (Proficient)
• Relationship management with Supervisors (Proficient)

• Transversal & Behavioral

• Critical thinking
• Ability to create relevant indicators
• Attention to Detail / Rigour
• Ability to explain technical topics in simple terms
• Ability to develop and adapt a process 
• Communication Skills – Oral & Written

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%).

• 31 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.

We’re looking for a pragmatic, detail-oriented Data Analyst to join the RISK Human Resources Team at BNP Paribas in the RISK department (Control Function). You will be based in Madrid reporting to the RISK Head of Rewards and Data Analytics, based in Paris. 

You will be responsible for supporting the Human Resource team and business partners in data analytics, troubleshooting activities, reports and special HR projects. Accountable for collecting, cleaning, maintaining and analyzing data that can be translated into insights to guide our HR strategy and support the decision making. 

You will be an expert in managing and analyzing large sets of data, maintaining data integrity and communicating relevant insights.

The ideal person for this role loves to collaborate with other HR specialists, data professionals from other teams to understand and address their data needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze and interpret complex HR data to provide actionable insights for senior executive management.
• Develop and deliver compelling data presentations to senior executive management.
• Utilize advanced Excel and Power BI skills to create detailed reports and dashboards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize HR processes and improve data accuracy.
• Leverage data to support HR strategy and decision-making processes.
• Maintain, implement and develop business processes and documentation, user procedures and guidelines
• Drive team in continuous improvement activities to ensure best practices and risk mitigation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Data Analytics, Statistics or related field.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to work with large datasets.
• Ability to work independently for day-to-day tasks to ensure goals and priorities are met.
• Proficiency in both English and French.
• Advanced skills in Excel and experience with Power BI.
• Experience with Access, macros, VBA, and knowledge of Python or R is a plus.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience presenting to senior executive management.
• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong commitment to error free data administration.

Experience

• Three to five years related experience
• HR reporting and data experience

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.

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.

 

Spain IT Production

 

Spain IT Production organization consists of CIB ITO & ITG IT Platforms and is responsible for providing IT Production services to our Clients in EMEA, ensuring a Digital Market evolution, in a secured and performant environment, and with a reliable quality. IT Production organisation includes Infrastructure services, Telecom & Workspace, Production Security and Application Production domains and associated transversal services (CTO Office, Control Tower, PMO and IT Continuity). In Spain, IT Production relies on a Platform with over 400 experts that provide full-stack support services ensuring a secure, stable, standardized, and efficient production.

 

ABOUT THE JOB

 

MISSION

The “Production Security” Domain is part of the Corporate & Institutional Banking Information Technology & Operations (CIB ITO) of BNP PARIBAS, it manages all the security solutions.               

The SSO team provide identity and access management tooling as a middleware delivery team, supporting authentication and authorisation for both internal and external customers.  

Using several standardised frameworks, the team maintains and governs access policies and works to deliver technologies to ensure that the right entities have the appropriate access to technology resources.

The SSO team is dealing with support and project delivery on the Identity and Access Management technologies: SiteMinder, LDAP, Axway API Gateway.

The jobholder will be part of multi-geographical (presence in 3 regions and 6 locations) and multi-disciplined team.

·      Architecture

·      Project Delivery

·      Platform Support and Maintenance

·      Incident and Problem Management

·      Change Management

·      General

The candidate will also be well versed with cryptographic notions such as RSA, symmetric and asymmetric encryption, certificates and digital signatures etc.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

Full and detailed description of each responsibilities related above

Architecture

·         To provide architectural expertise thereby driving change and improvement in technology and process.

·         To contribute to the development of the SSO and LDAP technology roadmaps.

·         To liaise with CIB architecture teams in undertaking architectural reviews.

·         To stay abreast of emerging technologies and technology trends.

·         To automatize the process to accelerate the delivery time

Project Delivery

·         To take responsibility for the delivery of key projects around SSO and LDAP which are aligned to drive significant change within the platform.

·         To work with the Application Production Support project managers in defining, designing, documenting and implanting new functionality for existing and new applications.

·         To liaise with the Application Developers in low-level diagnosis of on-going issues.

·         To provide subject matter expertise on SSO and IDM technologies to all business application teams.

·         To act as technology evangelists for the improvement of process and technology in use for the Authentication services within BNP Paribas.

Platform Support and Maintenance

·         Pro-actively monitor, manage and improve availability and performance of the production environments (from presentation and application layers to Infrastructure layers)

·         Pro-actively manage the capacity of production applications

Incident and Problem Management

·         To work with partner teams to conduct analysis of major and critical incidents.

·         To identify tactical or strategic improvements that can be introduced to help reduce the number of on-going incidents within the SSO and LDAP area.

Change Management

·         To work within the change management framework adopted by BNP Paribas to ensure that all changes to the production environment are planned and executed in a controlled manner.

·         To take responsibility for the quality of changes within the SSO and IDM environments, ensuring that changes raised are of sufficient standard in terms of technical and planning detail.

·         Attending and sharing knowledge / updates in the Weekly Change Control Board Meetings and the Weekly Problem Management Meetings.

General

·         Perform pre-assigned tasks to accomplish the function responsible for. The nature of these tasks are Change The Bank or Run The Bank

·         Work cooperatively with the other members of the team

·         Ensure adherence to processes and procedures

·         Request improvement of knowledge (training) when needed

·         Apply own initiative, within the levels of acceptable risk

·         Whenever in doubt, escalate and seek advice and guidance

·         If the nature of the position is user-facing, then all the guidelines and principles of user service mentality and behaviour should be applied

·         Escalate risks / issues to the manager of the team

·         Minimise operational failure, including but not exclusively, the risk of fraud, by helping to devise, and by implementing, sufficient regular controls.

·         Ensure appropriate escalation to management and/or Permanent Control (or Compliance as appropriate) as soon as an issue is identified.

·         Provide a direct contribution to the BNPP operational permanent control framework.

As this is a production support role, focusing across a range of different and mostly innovative technologies, candidates must possess the aptitude and desire to learn.  In addition, ability to be on call and provide support out of hours is essential.

 

REQUIREMENTS

 

• Studies

Bachelor in Computer Science or equivalent

ITIL Foundation certificate will be desirable

 

• Experience

At least 5 years 

 

• Languages

High English spoken and written fluent (B2/C)

French spoken and written will be valued

 

SKILLS

 

• Technical

Essential:

Technical Skills essential for the role include, but not limited to:

·      CA Siteminder Web SSO

·      SOA security – SAML / WS-Security

·      Autoprovisionning tools such as BMC ControlSA, Sailpoint, or Forgerock

·      LDAP

·      Kerberos / SSL/TLS / PKI / GSS-API / SPNEGO

·      oAuth2, OpenIDConnect

·      IIS/WCF/WIF, WAS security models

·      Infrastructure standards for network load balancers, servers, networks and storage

·      Automation mind-set with experience in using tools like Ansible

·      Scripting skills using Python or shell

·      Application Server: Good exposure in configuring and supporting web technologies such as Tomcat, Apache, nginx, IIS

Desirable:

Technical Skills desirable for the role include:

·      Axway API Gateway

·      SQL, Database schema

·      Authentication services for APIs

·      Exposure to Apigee API gateway

·      Knowledge of Process & Quality management, ITIL v2/v3

·      Microsoft Project, Advanced Excel, PowerPoint and Word

·      Knowledge of Atlasian Jira Task teslaManagement toolset

·       Previously used ServiceNow as a Service Desk Management product

 

• Transversal & Behavioral

·      Proven logical and methodical problem analysis and troubleshooting skills

·      Working with an industry recognized service desk and project management toolset

·      Clear communicator in both written and oral forms

·       Very strong analytical skills

·       Strong attention to detail

·       Structured and methodical mind-set

·       Ability to operate with demanding Senior IT Management

·       Can do attitude; look at changes as opportunities to improve

·       Team oriented

·       Good interpersonal and communication skills

 

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.

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.

Spain IT Production

Spain IT Production organization consists of CIB ITO & ITG IT Platforms and is responsible for providing IT Production services to our Clients in EMEA, ensuring a Digital Market evolution, in a secured and performant environment, and with a reliable quality. IT Production organisation includes Infrastructure services, Telecom & Workspace, Production Security and Application Production domains and associated transversal services (CTO Office, Control Tower, PMO and IT Continuity). In Spain, IT Production relies on a Platform with over 400 experts that provide full-stack support services ensuring a secure, stable, standardized, and efficient production.

ABOUT THE JOB

MISSION

·         Achievement of Central/Regional Domain Plan – Strategic Objectives

·         Contribution to achievement of Control Tower Strategic Objectives

·         Adherence to budget allocated by Domain Head

·         Meeting defined regional domain objectives as detailed in yearly performance review process

·         Responsible for successful operational delivery of domain services within “home region”

·         Ensure that domain services function performs to contractually agreed service levels regionally.

·         Continuous Improvement meets benchmark level for domain services.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The management responsibilities across the following teams

1.       EMEA exFRUK IT Project Office (PMO) – including management of local projects driven within EMEA territories as well as coordination of global and regional projects across EMEA territories

2.       EMEA IT Production Control Tower – IT Service Management (ITSM)

    Staff Responsibilities

• Responsible for setting periodic goals and objectives with managers/Team leaders as part of Objectives and Appraisal process.
• To do a direct follow-up of team managers with regular face-to-face meetings in addition to the formal yearly appraisal to be done.
• To detect main staff concerns and how they can affect their commitment and mind-set and its potential impact on the service. To look for actions that can solve or mitigate them when possible.
• To ensure everyone in the domain knows & follow the BNPP norms and standards.

Operations

·         Responsible for implementation and daily production of all Services provided by IT Project Office (PMO) and oversight of IT Production Control Tower – Service Management (ITSM)

·         Direct management of the PMO staff in Spain IT Production and an oversight of the ITO Production PMO staff in Portugal and Poland

·         Oversight of Spain IT Production Control Tower, including ITSM operational activities/processes within the region (CIB and ITG) covering all ITSM key processes

·         Responsible of the coordination and completion of IT projects on time within budget and within scope.

·         Required to support core governance activities as defined and agreed with the GDH

·         Required to achieve goals and objectives as approved with the GDH as per the periodic objectives and appraisal process.

·         Reports directly to the Spain Head of Control Tower and PMO

·         Escalation point for issues raised from GDH, Regional CTO and Captive CTO

      Services

·         Accountable of regional Service definition

·         Accountable for continuous improvement of regional processes used within the domain.

·         Accountable for collecting and disseminating best practices from his/her region across other RDHs and relevant impacted groups.

·         Responsible for reviewing and escalating through the appropriate governance channel any non-standard service requests.

·         Responsible for the provision new business requirements and solutions utilising the “internal” domain product catalogue as the basis to select the appropriate technology components.

·         Responsible for providing services as per agreed KPIs within the region with the RTCO and Captive CTO (levels and details of KPIs to be defined)

·         Responsible for maintenance and making any required changes following the change process within the region.

      Technical

• Accountable for technical competence to ensure that the region maintains the necessary level of technical expertise.
• Accountable for organising technical knowledge & capabilities by supporting training needs of regional personnel.

REQUIREMENTS

• Studies

·         Degree in Computer Science highly desirable

·         ITIL Foundation certification highly desirable

·         Project & Program management certification desirable but not mandatory

• Experience

·         At least 5 years experience Managing IT Teams, leading IT Projects within ITIL framework and best practices.

• Languages

·         English: high level

·         French: desirable but not mandatory.

SKILLS

• Technical

·         Management experience (medium to large teams)

·         Expertise on standard methodologies of Service Delivery (ITIL, COBIT)

·         Expert on IT Project Management

·         General Banking Knowledge

·         Functional as well as technical knowledge of the applications used within BNP Paribas

·         Knowledge of the Norms and Standards of the BNP Paribas Group

·         Management of Operational Risk through Permanent Controls and mitigating actions  

·         Agile working methodology

• Transversal & Behavioral

·         Client Focus mind-set

·         Excellent communication skills

·         Collaborative & inclusive mind-set

·         Team building spirit.

·         Experience of delivering strategic priorities within strict timelines.

·         Analytical mind-set

·         Ability to work well under pressure and to manage stress scenarios.

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%).

• 31 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. 

GROUP BNP PARIBAS