London – Graduate Analyst Programme 2017 – Credit & Primary

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. With nearly 30,000 employees in over 55 countries, we can offer you an exciting start to your career

Our focus on Graduate Development offers first class training and support for bright and ambitious individuals. You will begin with induction training before moving into a real, full-time role in one of a number of business areas. This is one of the fundamental differences between our programme and others – you start a real job from the beginning; taking on responsibility and accelerating your career. You will have access to a wide range of development opportunities and will receive on-the-job coaching and support from your colleagues.

ABOUT Credit & Primary

BNP Paribas’ Credit platform provides an added value service on Credit Markets to our institutional clients. Our global offer includes vanilla flow products, emerging market expertise and complex derivatives solutions. Our distribution franchise leverages on our primary market leadership, our global trading set up  and our recognised research teams.

​Primary Markets provides funding and capital solutions to Corporates, Sovereigns, Supranationals and Agencies (SSAs) and Financial Institutions via the global bond and loan markets. Our extensive product expertise, market knowledge, investor intelligence, and global sales network, allow us to give issuers the best advice before entering the market but also outstanding distribution when it comes to placing the bond or loan.

THE ROLE

You will be hired into Credit & Primary Markets as a Graduate Analyst with the opportunity to rotate across two desks. These desks include:

Sales: Sales roles offer you an opportunity to gain a full understanding of all of the products BNP Paribas offers. It involves helping to build a client database, assisting in the management reporting of desk activities and investigating trade settlement problems.

You’ll market ideas through formal events like pitches and presentations but you’ll also need to be ready to network with clients and travel regularly to meet them to discuss trade ideas.

As you progress, you’ll cover and nurture your own account list, delivering creative and innovative solutions to your clients in liaison with the Trading and Research teams.

Trading: Traders generate revenues for the bank. Working in the fast-paced environment of the trading floor, you must be knowledgeable about your area of the markets and be able to rapidly weigh up risks and returns in order to identify opportunities and determine the best strategies and prices.

As a member of the Trading team, you will work closely with Sales; trading a wide range of cash and derivative products whilst gaining an in-depth knowledge of market dynamics.

Structuring: If you join us as a Structurer, you’ll analyse problems and work closely with Sales and Trading to put together solutions to tackle the investment liability management needs of our clients.

You’ll conduct market and deals research, price options, create handbooks and back test various structure products.

ROLE COMPETENCIES

• Proactive and enthusiastic self-starter
• Strong mathematical, analytical & quantitative skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Team player
• Excellent spoken and written English are crucial and other languages are a definite advantage in this field as you will ideally converse with your clients in their native language.

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND QUALIFICATION REQUIRED FOR THE ROLE

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Financial Engineering, Finance, Maths, Sciences, Economics, Econometrics or related disciplines
• Previous related internship or work experience in financial services and/or investment banking
• Good knowledge of Credit/Primary markets
• For the trading and structuring desks, programming skills such as C++ and understanding programming
• Good knowledge of MS Office (PowerPoint and Excel in particular)
• Experience in using information systems (Bloomberg, Reuters)

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

Locations: London

Salary: Competitive

Closing Date: 30th November 2016