Paris - Longterm Internship - Corporate Banking - Transaction Banking EMEA - Data Analyst

Contract: 6 month internship (“stage”)
Full time/part-time : full time+
Availability: immediate

Main objectives & Purpose :

BNP Paribas is a global financial institution present in over 75 countries worldwide, with 185,000+ employees and €39bn revenues (2014). The group offers a large variety of financial and other services. The BNPP group is set out around 2 major poles: Retail Banking & Services (which covers activities such as retail banking in domestic and international markets, insurance, leasing, wealth management, real estate) and Corporate and Institutional Banking - CIB (which covers activities such as corporate banking, global markets and securities services).

 With ca. 20,000 employees in 45 countries globally, CIB serves ca. 15,000 clients and offers financing, advisory and capital markets services to corporates of a certain size as well as to other financial institutions.

Transaction Banking (flow banking) is one of the key areas of CIB, and largely considered as the “entry point” into the Group for Large Corporates. This area of CIB includes 4 main business lines: cash management, trade finance, supply chain management (inventory financing) and corporate deposit line. These business lines aim to assist clients in optimising their working capital needs. Transaction Banking teams mainly interface with companies’ treasurers and/or treasury departments.

 Like most areas of financial services, flow banking is experiencing a set of challenges (pressure from increased regulation, rapidly evolving clients and client needs, increased competition from Fintechs active in the corporate banking universe etc.) which call for improvement in the teams’ awareness of and adaptability to this changing environment. This includes developing new mindsets and new skills (including – and not limited to – creative problem-solving ability, data analytics capability etc.) with a focus on client experience to design and deliver client-value focused initiatives, ability to collect and utilize internal/external data and networks etc.   

Transaction Banking 2.0 is in charge of “preparing for the flow banking of tomorrow”. In this context, TB 2.0 works with both Transaction Banking EMEA management and teams (TB’s 4 business lines are spread in 15+ geographies in the EMEA region, ca. 250 persons). TB 2.0 offers an outsider’s view on current business practices, current processes, as well as on technological developments which can impact Transaction Banking services (data collection and analysis, digitalization, blockchain technology etc.), to allow for reconsideration of current work models and for their evolution.

TB 2.0 is a connector (between teams, with IT, with other business lines and functions within BNPP and with the outside world insofar as it relates to flow banking, to new offers of financial services or a new way of working), a driver of initiatives, a catalyst of change.

MISSION: the mission consists in focusing on data-related projects initiated or coordinated by Transaction Banking 2.0 in relation to new/innovative flow banking products and services. These projects can include data visualisation, analysis, benchmarking, as well as aspects of quality, collection, IT security, regulatory etc.

The Data Analyst will be responsible for supporting Transaction Banking 2.0 and the transversal teams developing such innovative projects, using a deep data analytical approach – the Data Analyst will benefit from training and input of CIB’s internal Analytics Consulting team.

The Data Analyst will:

• analyse internal team’s needs (in relation to their proposed innovative project)
• collaborate with them to understand their operational and strategic needs in terms of data analysis
• Investigate and solve business issues through analysing data (internal and external)
• produce and adapt data analysis models (setting up and hoc metrics & processes to adress each business issue)
• produce tailor-made analyses to adress key priorities

REPORTING & EVALUATION CRITERIA

The candidate will work in close coordination with both CIB Analytics Consulting team and Transaction Banking 2.0, and will report to the co-heads of Transaction Banking 2.0 (both Paris-based).

The candidate will be evaluated on several factors, including organisational and analytical skills, autonomy, and creativity/resourcefulness.  

COMPETENCIES, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Education: university, Business School or Masters’ degree (specialization in engineering, mathematics, statistics, computer sciences, information management)  

Experience: a first experience in business intelligence, data analysis or consulting will be considered a plus

Skills: expert knowledge of Microsoft suite (esp. Excel). High degree of comfort with numbers. Ability to think abstractly and creatively. Knowledge of data bases and associated tools (Access, SQL, ETL), knowledge of programming language also a plus.

Other useful “skills” would include appetite for the position, project management skills, mindfulness of others, drive for tangible results, ability to communicate effectively, ability to work in (informal) teams, flexibility, adaptability, curiosity

Language: English speaker (fluent) and French (working knowledge minimum)