Drafting Commodities Analyst

Job description

BNP Paribas is a leading European bank with an international reach. It has a presence in 73 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 realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance.

The Documentation Teams are responsible for checking the integrity and accuracy of the booking and help the Bank managing the subsequent risks undertaken by the Business lines. The Documentation team's primary function is to support BNP Paribas Fortis Business lines through the drafting, chasing and matching of OTC Transactions on a variety of products (vanilla, exotics, complex structures) and asset classes (Foreign Exchange, Money Market, Credit and Interest Rates Derivatives).

The Teams perform a critical control role in the timely reconciliation of bookings with clients including all post-trade events during the transactions' life cycle. They make sure that all trades are confirmed and matched before the value date or the maturity of the concerned transactions in order to secure the settlement and avoid as much as possible payment incidents with clients.

To do so they identify issues, report them and resolve them by working closely with traders/sales people, legal and other operational departments within the Bank, if need be. The teams are also involved in process improvements with a special focus on straight through processing (STP) and management of risk and controls, new product initiatives, development of new business in different regions of the world.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

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Drafting of legal confirmations based on ISDA definitions, using and applying approved confirmation templates and other relevant industry recommendations and best practices

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Checking of FO booking to ensure all trades are captured in the systems and that the details are in line with the term sheet (if applicable) and /or obtain FO approval (if applicable) before sending the confirmations to the clients

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Monitor workflows to ensure confirmations are prioritised accordingly and ensure timely dispatch of confirmations by meeting Regulatory targets

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Issuing post trade events notifications to clients such as barrier triggering (Knock-in / Knock-out), expiries, exercises and early terminations

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Direct point of escalation internally on drafting / template queries

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Chasing actions to retrieve legal confirmations (electronic and / or paper) for all unconfirmed trades by clients

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Understanding the importance of effective escalation by preparing and animate the Escalation Committee calls with the Business

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Matching of FO booking to ensure all trades are captured in the systems and that the details are in line with documentations received from clients

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Verify and match legal confirmations (electronic and / or physical) according to the ISDA definitions, approved confirmation templates and other relevant industry recommendations and best practices

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Monitor workflows to ensure incoming confirmations are prioritised accordingly and ensure timely matching of confirmations

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Contribute to meeting regulatory confirmation execution targets

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Identifying and solving financial and/or legal discrepancies on incoming confirmations

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Resolving queries and exceptions where necessary, understanding the importance of effective escalation

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Daily responsibility for verbally confirming trade details

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Ensure a correct archival of all incoming confirmations

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Ensure Static Data setup linked to confirmations for new / existing clients

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Review regulatory breaches to provide commentary and trend analysis (in particular DTCC exception analysis and remediation)

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Continuous review of processes and controls ensuring high level of risk management.

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Daily report through ORUS of the identified risk areas

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Proactively contribute to improve team effectiveness through Continuous Improvement approach

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Maintaining effective working relationships with Front office Trading and Sales, Legal, Compliance, IT and other Operational areas in Brussels and globally through daily interactions

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Be customer focused by maintaining excellent relationships with our external clients; understand their organisation and their expectations

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Meet clients' expectations in the strict respect of internal group policies and procedures in place

PROFILE

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Degree or Master in a Business School

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Fluent in English (both oral and written communication)

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Excellent understanding of OTC derivatives including trade life cycle is a plus

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Good Excel command

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Excellent numerical skills

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Strong analytical skills

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Attention to detail and reliability

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Stress resistant

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Ability to prioritize workloads and use a proactive approach to meet deadlines

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Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

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Be driven, enthusiastic and dynamic in search of improving processes controls & procedures

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Good synthesis skills

Please note that only applications submitted in English will be considered.

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.

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