Operational Risk and Permanent Control Officer

Job description

BNP Paribas is a leading European bank with an international reach. It has a presence in 74 countries, with more than 192,000 employees – including more than 146,000 in Europe and over 4,000 in Portugal alone.
BNP Paribas is present in Portugal since 1985, having been the first foreign bank to operate in the country. Today, BNP Paribas has several entities operating directly in this territory, offering a wide range of integrated financial solutions to support its clients and their businesses.
Worldwide, the Group has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. The Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporate and institutional clients) to realise their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Operational Risk and Permanent Control (OPC) Officer is a position dedicated to the direct management and implementation of the operational risk and permanent control framework within in accordance with Group requirements. You will have as primary objective to ensure that both Operational Risk and Permanent Control areas fully meet their objectives and requirements in an efficient, accurate, and timely manner.

· Supporting the operational risk capital monitoring (through risk quantification)

· Alerting operational and functional management of any known fraud incident (alert duty)

· Ensuring implementation of the Permanent Control framework in accordance with the Group requirements

· Incident management

· Contributing to the description and analysis of the incident, verification that it complies with our procedures

· Reviewing quality of historical incidents data (description, action plans, etc.) logged in BNP Paribas Group tools

· Following up production incidents in order to assess both effectiveness and efficiency of existing controls

· Identifying, analysing, and documenting risks and processes

· Analysing, monitoring, and reporting of controls:

· Performing risk self-assessments

· Following up compliance team's validation on potential TPPs (third party payments)

· Attending to the regular bilateral conference calls with the European sites

· Training officers

PROFILE

· Master's Degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Management
· Understand systems and operational processes with ease to be able to perform structured business analyses on them and write functional specifications
· Past experience in project management methodology (e.g. for post-implementation reviews)
· Excellent writing skills enabling you to draft clear and sound support documentation
· Strong interpersonal and communication skills
· Have a can-do and proactive attitude
· Meet deadlines thanks to a good priority management and your adaptability to unforeseen circumstances
· Fluent in English
· French and Dutch is a plus
· Up to 3 months of training abroad

BNP Paribas 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, 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.