Settlement Team Leader

**About the job**

**The Settlement Team Leader mission is to ensure the pre and post settlement activities, clearing, custody, maintain relevant legal documentation, transaction and event-related accounting for securities deemed in scope, while managing the team's activity**

**Your Main Activities Are**

Participating in the daily production activities of the team
- Managing the team in terms of business hours permanence, holidays, target days, supervise the team learning continuity and training programs and coaching day to day activity, through activity monitoring indicators and support in production priorities
- Act as first point of escalation
- Organize cross training and skill matrix update
- Process controls and validations
- Keep procedures up-to-date
- Participate in operational risk management (ensuring team's self-sustainability, updating controls when needed)
- Maintain continuous improvement and process efficiency in a cost control mindset

**Profile and Skills to Success**
- Bachelor's (3-5 years) in Economics, Finance and Accounting
- Banking and Financial Operations ([3 - 4] years)
- MS Office Pack Microsoft Excel (Proficient)
- English (Fluent)
- Ability to collaborate/Teamwork
- Attention to detail/rigor
- Client focused
- Communication skills - oral & written
- Ability to develop others & improve their skills
- Risk Management - Risk knowledge & awareness

LI-Hybrid

**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 centres 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 offers tailored financial solutions for corporate and institutional clients.
- ** Diversity and Inclusion commitment**
- ** Commitment towards work/life balance**

At BNP Paribas we care about our employees wellbeing and promote a culture of good integration between work and rest. We believe our employees have rich personal lives outside of work, being fundamental to be disconnected from work to recharge both physically and mentally. Only through this balance we may all be at our best while working.
- ** Remote Working Conditions**

At BNP Paribas, we embrace a Smart Working framework based on trust, autonomy and collaboration. Within this framework, eligible employees can benefit from flexible remote working modalities adapted to our hybrid working environment. To guarantee a comfortable and efficient working set-up, eligible employees are provided with both the office and home equipment, are entitled to an equipment allowance and can benefit from exclusive partnerships to purchase additional equipment at reduced prices.

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