Bonds Confirmations Analyst

**About the job**
- The Securities Trade Support Analyst plays a critical role in ensuring the seamless processing and validation of securities transactions across multiple asset classes, including bonds, equities, repos, securities lending/borrowing, and loan trading. The role is responsible for trade capture, validation, reconciliation, documentation, and risk control across front-to-back workflows, supporting sales and trading desks while collaborating with internal and external stakeholders

**Your Main Activities Are**

Provide operational support for Sales and Trading desks across various asset classes, ensuring accurate trade booking and front-to-back process integrity

Validate and allocate trades, ensuring bookings feed correctly into back office systems

Manage trade matching and confirmation processes across various platforms, ensuring trades are allocated, validated and discrepancies are resolved quickly

Perform reconciliations and exception management to mitigate operational risk and ensure trade accuracy

Support client lifecycle management, including onboarding, reference data maintenance, and documentation validation

Manage collateral workflows, including posting and withdrawing

Handle high volumes of transactions, ensuring that all trades are processed accurately and within tight deadlines while minimizing risk and exposure

Liaise with internal and external stakeholders, including sales & trading desks, clients, legal counsel, and operations teams, to resolve trade-related issues and ensure smooth settlement

Continuously enhance operational efficiency through automation and process improvement initiatives

Actively participate in process reviews and contribute to building more effective and scalable operations

**Profile and Skills to Success**

Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Finance or Accounting

Fluency in English

Proficiency in Microsoft Office Tools, namely Excel

Ability to collaborate

Attention to detail

Good organisational skills

Critical thinking and and client focused

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**Why joining BNP Paribas?**

**Leading banking institution**

Leading player in banking and financial services in Europe, BNP Paribas operates in 64 countries and has nearly 178,000 employees, including more than 144,000 in Europe

**International reach**

The Group holds key positions in several areas of banking and financial services that are structured around three operating divisions:

- ** Corporate & Institutional Banking** (CIB) connects companies needing financing and institutional clients looking for investment opportunities division that offers tailored financial solutions for corporate and institutional clients.
- ** Commercial, Personal Banking & Services** (CPBS) brings together all our commercial banks and several specialised businesses
- ** Investment & Protection Services** (IPS) combines a unique continuum of products and services across protection, saving, investment and real estate including specialised businesses offering a wide range of savings, investment and protection services

**Our presence in Portugal**

In Portugal since 1985, BNP Paribas today has more than 9.220 employees, distributed across the Group's 10 business entities established in the country. Its presence also extends to 11 centres of expertise providing value-added services to various countries where the BNP Paribas Group also operates.

**Diversity and Inclusion commitment**

BNP Paribas ´ambition is to cultivate an open and responsive environment for all that encourages collaboration and interaction. We demonstrate our commitment by actively contributing to the Group’s Diversity and Inclusion strategy and goals, in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. As part of our local Corporate and Social Responsibility - Diversity & Inclusion strategy, BNP Paribas Portugal is committed to:
Promote a fair and unbiased recruitment process and offer professional development opportunities to all employees

Celebrate diversity and advocate for inclusion, both externally and internally, encouraging employee’s participation, creating space for different voices to be heard.

To foster the effort of BNP Paribas Portugal, multiple initiatives and events take place throughout the year where our people can find out more on the importance of diversity inclusion at the workplace and in our society.

**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 options adapted to our hybrid working environment. To ensure a comfortable and efficient working setup, eligible employees are provided with both office and home equipment, are entitled to an equipment allowance and can benefit from exclusive partnerships to purchase additional items at reduced prices.

**Commitment towards work/life balance**

Supporting employees in a hybrid way of working while provid