London - 2017 Graduate Analyst - GM Resource Management & Strategic Risk

WHO WE ARE

BNP Paribas Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) is a leading European investment bank with global leadership in many of our businesses. We are part of the BNP Paribas Group, a financial institution with solid foundations and a proven ability to adapt to change. If you are thinking about a career in investment banking, there is no better place to begin your journey than with BNP Paribas CIB.

Global Markets Strategy & Risk

Within the Global Markets activity, there are two unique teams within the Strategy & Risk function. GM Resource Management & Strategic Risk are teams of risk and resource experts that explain the relationship between new trades, existing portfolios and their respective consumptions of scarce resources: capital, funding, and balance sheet. Linking millions of rows of data to single resource metrics is a challenging task in the context of moving markets, evolving client business, and the changing, complex regulatory landscape.

KEY ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

The candidate will support the team specialists by immersing himself/herself in a given product line to understand the nature of the business and the marginal impact each trade has on the overall pool of resources. A strong quantitative background, a breadth of IT experience and analytical skills, and a thirst for knowledge will be essential for this role. Significant creativity is required to build graphical interfaces that represent large data sets in useful and productive ways.

• Develop an understanding of IT workflows for a product line (10%)
• Develop an understanding the trade lifecycle (10%)
• Work to industrialize daily information flows and reporting via the development of graphical interfaces of large scale clustered data (20%)
• Manage small projects requiring inputs across multiple teams and participants (10%)
• Work towards improved data flows, and best golden source static data repositories to support GUI accuracy (10%)
• Analyse changes in market risk, RWA, trade volumes (10%)
• Summarize anticipated forward regulatory impacts for pending legislations (10%)
• Prepare powerpoint presentations and ad-hoc reporting / coordination tasks (10%)
• Feed and maintain database repositories of key metrics (10%)
  

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND QUALIFICATION REQUIRED FOR THE ROLE

• Strong command of written and spoken English with a rich vocabulary
• Strong presentational skills across multiple media forms
• Strong IT and programming skills including JavaScript, Jscript GUI’s (like D3 Plotly, Chart.js), R statistical software package, Python, strong Excel skills, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint, database manipulation and management
• A overall understanding and interest in geo-politics, the financial systems, trade barriers, the real corporate world
• A results oriented perspective with good time management skills, and the ability to intuitively cater towards a given audience
• Ability to work independently, seek information proactively, and deliver a finished product
• Project management and development skills
• Willingness to be humble performing coordination and organizational tasks
• Fully transparent as a team player, competitive in tasks, owning failures and sharing success

ü  Drive for results - Delivers high quality work with attention to detail

ü  Risk awareness - Demonstrates a good awareness of risk and fundamental risk concepts. Always considers risk in his/her daily activities and understands professional conduct requirements

ü  Corporate role model, integrity & ethics - Acts with discipline and high ethical standards

ü  Team player & cross cultural awareness - Works effectively in a team. Collaborates and shares information and solutions with colleagues, with other teams and stakeholders

ü  Client focus - Sees stakeholders as well as external clients as “customers”

ü  Market, product & business - Is genuinely interested in financial markets and continually learning and staying abreast of new developments. Evidences a good appreciation of political, economic and market dynamics, with enough understanding to present views on market conditions and trends

ü  Diligence - Displays dedication and prioritises problems by considering the impact on the business; identifies quick-wins

ü  Communication (Active listener and clear communicator) - Communicates pro-actively with management, escalating issues as necessary.

ü  Innovation - Thinks laterally and creatively to identify other sources of useful information and sees ways around obstacles and barriers.

Top performers from degrees within

• Information Technology
• Statistics
• Sciences
• Engineering

CONDUCT

• Be a role model, supporting and fostering a culture of good conduct
• Demonstrate proactivity, transparency, and accountability for identifying and managing conduct risks
• Consider the implications of your actions on colleagues

Deadline:     10th April 2017

Salary:          Competitive

Location:      London