FRESH – Entities Core Solutions – IT Team Leader

• FRESH is an IT framework encompassing Projects & Systems of Finance and RISK functions that brings together a community of 1.600 experts coming from Finance, RISK and IT backgrounds, with a strong focus on efficiency, proximity, agility and time-to-market
• It is a new worldwide organizational model that contributes to tackle major challenges of Group’s transformation of today and tomorrow, building the best offer for Finance and RISK community through a progressive rotation towards new technologies and best practices
• FRESH is a unique organization within BNP Paribas, part of IT Group yet actively managed through an innovative partnership with Finance and RISK
• Entities Core Solutions is in charge of collecting financial data from operational systems and processing it into global platforms to meet local and Group requirements. The systems involved are One Financial System (the Group standard) and other local ledgers that will be progressively replaced by OFS. The team aims at reinforcing and expanding controls to a larger scope of data, including finance, risk and ALMT following Filière Unique principles

• Manage the activity from a business and team management standpoint, providing estimations and planning for activities in development, reporting of the necessary KPI of the activity and ensure team alignment in the proper accomplishment of the team’s results
• Support the team members in managing teams’ tasks, solve escalating issues and report incidents
• Manage all team organization related topics: workload planning and distribution (including the management of remote work planning, staff holidays, absences and backup schemes), follow-up on recruitment processes, new joiners onboarding and internal mobilities, and among other responsibilities
• Be an active contributor in the development of new projects and stakeholder’s relationship, while acting as well in the support of transversal projects designed to foster the overall efficiency objectives
• Participate in the improvement of current processes / procedures, by adopting a bottom-up approach
• Contribute to the definition and performance of all necessary controls / action plans for the activity, in order to identify operational risk areas and ensure that the activity is delivered to a high quality standard
• Define clear team goals and team members’ objectives in line with the department strategy and together with the manager, evaluate daily work, perform regular objectives reviews and write annual appraisals
• Follow-up on all team member’s performance and motivation, support, develop and empower them focusing the attention on their individual skillset, aspirations and development needs, in order to capacitate them to the current role and future challenges
• Create an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Information Technology, Computer Science, Accounting or Finance
• Professional experience in IT and team management
• Experience as a business analyst
• Knowledge of methodologies for efficiency, operational permanent controls and report
• Knowledge of SQL, SAS, PowerBI, JIRA and Agile
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Fluency in English (spoken and written) and ability to report
• Accountability
• Able to active listening
• Able to work as a team
• Client focused
• Attention to detail
• Ability to solve problems, make decisions, plan and organize
• Pro-active attitude with ability to work with various teams in a fast changing, demanding and deadline-focused environment
• Ability to influence
• Able to inspire others and generate people’s commitment
• Ability to develop others and improve their skills
• Be able to share knowledge
• At ease with multi-tasking

• Leasing Solutions cluster: Administration of Risk, Finance and ALM (RFA) data warehouse, required for internal, regulatory and BNP Paribas Group reporting (ALM, FINREP, liquidity, risk reports, etc.), with reconciliation, controls and archiving / backup functionalities; Administration of the Risk Finance Calculator (RFC) linked to RFA, which computes IFRS9 stage & Risk parameters (PD, LGD, GRR) and watches list indicators; Administration and monitoring of all reporting interfaces (IR2X), developed through SAS in order to produce the different dataflow / reports in Group direction or other contributors
• Control tools: RDI (Risk Data Interpreter) management, an application which provides a group risk data interpretation service, implementing methodologies validated by RISK Data Office Norms for credit and counterparty risk reporting processes. The team oversees the management of the application, guiding and participating in the development process and providing support on all functionalities
• All part of Business Intelligence applications with evolution projects

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• Our presence in Portugal
  

• International reach
  

Thanks to its international presence and regular and close collaboration among its different entities, BNP Paribas has the resources to support all clients with financing, investment, savings and protection solutions that help make their projects a success. BNP Paribas holds key positions in its three core operating divisions:

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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/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.

• Commitment towards work/life balance
  

At BNP Paribas we care about our employees wellbeing and promote a culture of good integration between work and rest. We believe our employees have rich personal lives outside of work, being fundamental to be disconnected from work to recharge both physically and mentally. Only through this balance we may all be at our best while working.

• Remote Working Conditions

At BNP Paribas, we embrace a Smart Working framework based on trust, autonomy and collaboration. Within this framework, eligible employees can benefit from flexible remote working modalities adapted to our hybrid working environment. To guarantee a comfortable and efficient working set-up, eligible employees are provided with both the office and home equipment, are entitled to an equipment allowance and can benefit from exclusive partnerships to purchase additional equipment at reduced prices.

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

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