Principal, Vice President

Employment contract:

Permanent

Location:

London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Job/mission:

OPERATION PROCESSING

Reference:

12347100

BNP
Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a
presence in 73 countries, with more than 196,000 employees, including around
149,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main activities:
Domestic Markets, 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.

BNP
Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking is a globally recognised leader
offering capital markets, securities services, financing, treasury and advisory
solutions.

Created in 2009, CIB Consulting &
Transformation (CIBC&T) is an in-house management consultancy with a strong
presence in EMEA (~100 consultants in Paris, Lisbon, and London) and a global
reach thanks to an integrated network in APAC & Americas (~100
consultants).

The team works on
strategic initiatives defined by CIB Senior Management. It has a strong
track-record with 600+ projects accomplished to date. CIBC&T is a
competitive alternative to leading, external consulting firms, covering the
full consulting value chain: from
framing, diagnosis, and delivery of actionable recommendations, to designing
effective implementation and enabling change.

The team also
houses two key practice areas:

  • –  RegTech
    practice: leveraging on advanced technologies to address regulatory topics
  • –  Smart-Sourcing
    Practice: providing advisory and end-to-end project services on nearshoring and
    offshoring projects

CIBC&T team
members are part of a dynamic and international environment with diverse
profiles, from banking and consulting backgrounds: 20+
nationalities, 45% women, ~50% ex-external consultants
from consultancies.

Job
Purpose & Scope

Our team
members have a real impact on the development of CIB, working directly with
Senior Management on high stakes initiatives, from Corporate Banking, Global
Markets and Securities Services to Human Resources, IT, Operations and more and
across a wide range of topics:

  • Enhance
    operational performance
  • Enable
    business development opportunities
  • Position
    digital trends into business lines and functions
  • Define
    and anchor the Bank’s sustainable ambition
  • Build
    cross shoring capabilities
  • Meet
    regulatory challenges with technology
  • Structure
    large transformations and anchor change

At BNP Paribas
CIB Consulting & Transformation, we aim to:

  • Grow
    talent: we invest in growing people’s banking and consulting skills through
    training and hands-on coaching during projects
  • Shaping
    ideas: we turn ideas into actionable solutions for our clients
  • Build
    tomorrow: by playing our part in the Bank’s transformative projects, we are
    shaping the future of the business

Key
Responsibilities

People objective – Ensure people and
team spirit development

  • Inspire, manage, train on-the-job and
    motivate the team members, develop CIBC&T talents
  • Give and ask for feedback regularly
    (client, Manager Coach, peers and project team)
  • Contribute actively to further build
    a meaningful team of CIBC&T with external and internal talents
    (sourcing, recruiting, staffing, career path, etc.)
  • Be recognized as a pillar for
    CIBC&T team and perceived as a role model by junior team members
  • Listen
    to others, willingness to understand the point they are making and
    reflecting back with a constructive approach
  • Create
    the right environment / safe space for team members to develop and succeed
  • Develop conflict management gravitas
    and managerial courage

Content
objective – Deliver impactful consulting & CIB knowledge on projects

  • Contribute to the framings,
    qualifying clients needs and formalizing the approach, timeline and
    financials
  • Structure
    and manage project with increasing stakes & complexity, taking full
    ownership of its delivery
  • Act with courage and transparency to
    selectively involve upper management, to secure quality of deliverables
    and maximize client impact / satisfaction
  • Test
    innovative project operating modes in ecosystems with other teams
  • Simplify
    complexity for the client and the team members by bringing in the right
    approach, structured thinking, concise messaging and impactful content
  • Adapt & rebound when
    facing changing circumstances, being able to connect the dots
    and propose solutions for the team & clients
  • Be
    capable to have a strategic, helicopter view and deep dive on stakes
  • Demonstrate
    progressively thought leadership, and share knowledge through Content
    Platforms

Client
objective – Enrich client experience to build long term, trustworthy client
relationships

  • Drive change and use positive
    influence to ensure client transformation is aligned with CIB one (one
    bank logic)
  • Ask for feedback regularly to
    maximize client satisfaction
  • Build client trustworthiness
    (reliability & credibility) to progressively become a trusted advisor
    for G100 / LfC
  • Progressively increase CIBC&T
    client franchise (source new project leads or new clients, deliver
    proposals, etc.)
  • Promote CIBC&T in front of CIB
    Managers to enhance our brand equity
  • Display active listening in client’s
    interactions, work in collaborative way while developing legitimacy to
    challenge clients with
    humbleness and bring new ideas, generate recommendations in line with
    client’s needs
  • Anticipate the needs of clients and
    partners, identify potential risks and provide relevant responses and
    solutions
  • Ensure syndication / alignment at
    operational sponsors level

The Requirements

  • – 
    A Master’s degree from a top-tier institution
  • –  Working
    experience in top-tier Consulting firms, Corporate Finance or Development, etc.
  • –  A team
    player
  • –  Curiosity
    and proactivity to tackle challenging problems
  • –  Ability to
    be impactful with excellent analytical and communication skills
  • –  Ability
    to Get Things Done and be impactful when delivering projects or establishing
    client relationships
  • –  Ability
    to ensure high quality deliveries

Equal Opportunities

BNP
Paribas promotes equality of opportunity and is 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.

As an employee with BNP Paribas London Branch, we want to make sure that
you are rewarded for your commitment. As such, you will be entitled to our
award winning benefits package which includes a generous holiday allowance of
at least 34 days (including bank holidays), a non-contributory pension of 12%,
private healthcare, GP service and dental cover all as standard, along with a
number of personal insurances such as income protection, life assurance and
personal accident insurance. We believe in ensuring all our employees have a
positive work life balance so in addition you will also have access to a
variety of flexible lifestyle benefits such as cycle to work and green car
leasing schemes, season ticket loans and reduced cinema and gym membership to
name a few.

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