Junior Trading Assistant

**About the job**

The team in Lisbon supports the Structured Products Desks in their reporting activities and participates in the secondary market making activity by providing secondary liquidity for the desk with a size delegation up to 1M Euros.

You will have strong daily interactions with the quantitative and engineer profiles and became an expert over the whole range of financial products and their behaviours, while leveraging on mathematics and programing skills to carry out different analyses.

**Your Main Activities Are**

**Day to day support of the London and Paris Desks:

- P&L reporting: Interact with traders and prepare and produce a Front Office P&L explain each day
- Run Credit Exotics Risk reports: Understand the impacts of new trades and the convexity of the position according to defined rules;
- Lead ad-hoc initiatives contributing to the enhancement of the Trading platform: Work on tools to monitor our various products, Work on some analysis on the behaviour of specific products, Interact with IT and Quantitative team to develop necessary tools
- Handle other tasks that are part of the mandate of the Structured Credit Team (Booking on behalf of and follow up on post-trades bookings, Credit Event management, etc.)
- Provide support to manage the setup of valuations of Structured Credit Notes and monitor valuations, investigate and check for discrepancies in comparison to the guidelines/benchmarks provided by the desk
- Support the ABS and CLO trading desk with quarterly security Due Diligence
- Monitor Risk report completion for the desk and produce information report
- Run ad hoc reports for Credit Exotics or ABS CLO Market Making
- Structured Notes Buy back:

- To provide liquidity through market making Structured Notes by participating in the secondary buy back of Structured Notes
- Be the single point of contact for secondary market making activity with a size delegation up to 1 million Euros
- Develop a good understanding of the product and liaise with the London team on trade execution
- Regularly check accuracy of pricing send to relevant systems
- Report to London team small size trading executed on the defined perimeter
- To book transactions, monitor, conduct follow-ups with Middle Office and Back office

**Profile and Skills to Success**
- Master’s degree level in Finance or Mathematics (Engineering bachelor will be a plus)
- Preference for 1-3 years of relevant professional experience or graduates with finance background
- Develop a good understanding of pricing by taking into consideration the Bank’s franchise and relationship with the client
- Analytical and quantitative skills - Good knowledge of Excel
- Ability to process large amount of data and make extractions from various systems
- Knowledge of VBA programing skills is favoured
- Ability to communicate clearly in both oral and written form (in English)
- Accuracy and rigorousness
- Reliability and capacity to deliver
- Autonomy and proactivity
- Team spirit and ability to work with others

**About the Team**

BNP Paribas Global Credit is responsible for the primary (new issuance) and secondary trading of corporate (fins and non-fins) debt and related instruments such as CDS, indices, options and structured products. It comprises different roles such as syndicate, debt capital markets, trading, sales, structuring and desk analysts.

The Credit Trading Exotic provides a wide range of product to clients ranging from single name structures (such as CLN, repackaging of Bonds and bond options) to more complex portfolio transactions (such as CLO, CDO, FTD and skew trades). The ABS & CLO Market Making Desk focuses on market making of Asset Backed Securities and CLO’s.

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**Why joining BNP Paribas?**
- ** Leading banking institution**

BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank, and key player in international banking. It operates in 63 countries and has nearly 183.000 employees, including more than 146.000 in Europe.
- ** Our presence in Portugal**

In Portugal since 1985, BNP Paribas today has more than 8.700 employees, distributed across the Group’s 10 business entities established in the country. Its presence also extends to 11 excellence centers providing value-added services to various countries where the BNP Paribas Group also operates.
- ** 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:

- **Retail Banking**, a division that brings together all of the Group’s retail activities and specialised business lines;
- **Investment & Protection Services**that include specialised businesses offering a wide range of savings, investment and protection services;
- **Corporate & Institutional Banking**division that o