Operational Risks Project Manager: Digital

**About the Team**

Global Banking brings together all the commercial forces present at CIB: coverage, flow, financing and consulting activities serving corporate clients as well as the transversal teams in support of these activities. BNP Paribas Global Banking is a recognized leader in the industry, recently winning Euromoney’s 2022 award for the Best Global Bank for Corporates.

Within Global Banking, the Chief Conduct & Controls Officer (CCCO) has the responsibility to identify and assess non-financial risks, to ensure the enforcement and efficiency of the control framework and to promote an adequate risk management culture with a Front-to-Operations reach.

Within GB CCCO’s Control Framework & Conduct Team, the Head of the Project and Governance Office is leading a team of Project Managers and Operational Risk Analysts in charge of designing, planning, and implementing initiatives seeking to reinforce GB Front-to-Operations control framework on every components of operational risks. These initiatives result from external events, regulatory requirements evolutions, historical incidents, LOD2/LOD3 findings, and/or GB processes evolutions.

**About the job**

Reporting to the Head of Project & Governance Office, the Senior Operational Risks Project Manager will be an instrumental member of the Global Banking worldwide Permanent Control community. The Senior Operational Risks Project Manager’s role will consist of leading or contributing to the initiatives seeking to ensure the sustainability of the worldwide framework already implemented, as well as managing the remaining projects to meet the objective of having a unified, efficient, and robust operational risks control framework for Global Banking across the 3 regions. The Senior Operational Risks Project Manager will be assigned to streams or sub-streams of the aforementioned initiatives and fully in charge of their delivery, by facilitating and animating relevant governance bodies and producing associated deliverables. A large part of the job will be to liaise with multiple relevant stakeholders within the Global Banking universe (Front Office, IT & Operations, OPC) as well as with Group Control functions, to ensure coordination & alignment of program approach and priorities. This role will have a focus on projects related to digital transformation within the Global Banking CCCO.

**Your Main Activities Are**

Design of controls coming from Group Functions, requiring deep dives into operational processes of the Bank.

Contributing to the definition and implementation of ORMF tooling strategy for CIB (control reporting, control monitoring, interface with other systems), including a focus on identifying areas for enhancement/efficiency within the tooling and/or opportunities for automation of manual steps and tasks

Contributing to key Global Banking governance instances and interacting with senior managers and senior SMEs/stakeholders in the organization

Leading ad hoc projects / initiatives on behalf of the Head of Operational Risk Framework & Conduct on all the components of Global Banking Front-to-Ops permanent control framework

**Profile and Skills to Success**

Bachelor’s degree in relevant area

4 to 7 years of relevant experience in the Corporate Banking universe (Front and/or Middle), and/or Inspection Générale, and/or Project Management, and/or Consultancy firm, and/or Group Control function

English fluent

Proficient in MS Office (including use of Excel macros) and able to present data insights effectively using visualization tools (like Power BI or Tableau)

Proficient in identifying areas for automation within process flows through proper IT analyses and recommendation for digital solutions that match business transformation needs.

Expertise in slide production & storytelling and ability to visually represent ideas or simplify complex matters while conveying key project goals

Motivated to work in Project mode in a complex and challenging working environment

Ability to manage projects, to understand, explain and support change and to anticipate business and strategic developments.

Ability to generate people’s commitment through collaboration and effective communication and to convey technical findings to non-technical stakeholders.

Teamworker with excellent organizational skills and rigor

Elevated ethics and professional responsibility

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

BNP Paribas is a leader in the Eurozone, and a prominent international banking institution with strong roots in Europe's banking history. It has a presence in 65 countries, with around 190 000 Employees - including more than 145 000 in Europe.
- ** Our presence in Portugal**

Since 1985, BNP Paribas was one of the first foreign banks to operate in the country. Today, the Group has around 7.100 employees across several entities operating directly in the territory, offering a wide range of integrated financial soluti