Operational Risk and Permanent Control Officer

**About the job**

The Global Markets Operational and Permanent Control (GM OPC) set-up faces increasing Regulatory and Conduct demands beyond pure Operational Risk. As part of Strategy Conduct and Risk (SCR), GM OPC operates over the 3 main regions, through the three following Practices:

- **Regulatory Practice**: support any regulatory requirement with a sustainable framework, in line with the dedicated Governance, Control Plan & Risk Assessment
- **Conduct Practice**: assess and challenge the effectiveness of the Conduct control set-up as well as ensure a full convergence between Conduct Risk Identification, Risk and Control Self-Assessment - RCSA).
- **Operational Risk Practice**: contribute to protect the business (P&L, reputation)

**Your Main Activities Are**

The position is within the **Operational Risk Practice**. The Operational Risk Analyst will work in close partnership with the senior Operational Risk Relationship Manager and will closely with the business (Front Officers, GM management, etc.), to ensure full deployment of the permanent control framework, as per Group’s standards.

The main responsibilities are as follows:
1) Analysis:
a. Participate to protect P&L by analyzing Historical Incidents (HI)

b. Perform RSCA and deep dive on FO processes in order to identify new critical risk area and suggest remediation actions

c. Analyze controls results and perform detailed reviews;
2) Follow up of Business activity:
a. Build, maintain & publish key risk indicators (KRIs) on action plans, incident validation, etc.

b. Contribute to the follow-up of the implementation internal and external recommendations

c. Chase internal and external stakeholders

a. Contribute to training, knowledge sharing sessions to different scopes and functions

2) Reporting:
a. Build reporting, dashboards, templates addressed to internal and external stakeholders

b. Perform trend analysis comparison to previous weeks/months/quarters

c. Proactively suggest improvements on reports on a continuous basis and promote digital solutions

3) Contribution to OPC production, governance & tools:
a. Ensure data input & quality check

b. Contribute to the Permanent Control & Regulatory Governance and other initiatives

c. Prepare appropriate materials and contribute to the various relevant business committees

d. Ad-hoc analysis for set deadlines

**Profile and Skills to Success**
- (Min) Bachelors degree
- Experience in investment banking is an advantage
- 2 to 5 year-experience of Front-Office risk-focused team or Capital Market activities
- Good awareness of Operational risk and fundamental risk concepts (preferred)
- Understanding of capital markets key risks, processes and controls (preferred)
- Analytical and quantitative skills, precision, rigorousness combined with a critical mindset
- Excellent knowledge of Excel, VBA (other languages would be a plus)
- Autonomy, proactivity
- Team spirit, ability to work with others
- Ability to communicate clearly in both oral and written form (English)

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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 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