Business Overview:

The Conduct & Operational Risks Business Specialists team is part of the Global Markets Americas Chief Conduct and Controls Office (GMA CCCO). The team’s mission is to partner with each of the business lines in Global Markets Americas to anticipate, identify, measure and control non-financial risks.

The team is a key pillar of the wider CCCO which is designed to ensure ownership and continuous improvement of each step in that value chain between our external stakeholders & our employees. CCCO contains both transversal control specialists and business specialists; the business specialists will partner with GMA senior management & CIB stakeholders to strengthen our business, process and execution processes in order to meet our growth ambitions.

Candidate Success Factors:

Candidates are measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:

  • Results and Impact
    • Able to influence peers and team.
    • Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact.
    • Exercise appropriate autonomy in the execution and delivery of work. 
    • Responsible for driving outcomes, which have meaningful effect on team or department.
  • Leadership and Collaboration:
    • Creates trust with colleagues.
    • Acts in leadership capacity for projects, processes, or programs.
  • Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus: 
    • Able to build relationships with a mix of colleagues and clients.
    • Interacts regularly with management and department leaders.
    • Demonstrates the ability to influence stakeholders at the team level. 
  • Compliance Culture and Conduct: 
    • Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts.
    • Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards.

 

Responsibilities: 

  • Strategic leader and SPOC for the Global Markets Americas Risk & Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) and related Risk Analytics.
  • Coordinate the execution of quarterly and annual risk assessments across Operational and Compliance risks.
  • Analyze and report on the Global Markets Americas Non-Financial Risk Profile through the development and monitoring or Key Risk Indicators and governance forums.
  • Review areas of risk and develop remediation programs to enhance the bank’s control framework.
  • Develop and lead thematic risk remediation programs and present the impact on the Global Markets Americas platform.
  • Identify and create risk process efficiencies.
  • Partner with Front-to-Back, 1LoD/2LoD, and local and global stakeholders on Risk analytic and remediation topics.
  • Support senior management, capital markets local and global stakeholders, and risks management teams in the identification and remediation of non-financial risks.
  • Provide advisory to senior management on adequate control framework on an ongoing basis.
  • Ensure compliance with local rules, regulations, and the bank’s internal policies and procedures. 

Minimum Required Qualifications:

  • Min 7 years of Capital Markets experience in a Front Office position, Business Management, RISK or Operational Risks Management departments.
  • Expertise in Risk & Control Self-Assessments.
  • Has been involved in operational process reviews, incident investigations, and/or remediation.
  • Integrated with regulators or internal audit.
  • Strong project management skills.
  • Strong problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to manage a team of juniors, including career & expertise development.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage priorities.
  • Strong team spirit and leadership skills
  • Excellent communication skills (written & spoken)
  • Comfortable presenting projects to regional and global management
  • Knowledge of automated trading or quantitative strategies is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Graduated in Engineering, Math, Computer Science, Economy, or Business Administration
  • Data mining skills
  • Excel Programming

FINRA Registrations Required:  

  • Not Applicable 

CFTC Swap Dealer Associated Person (if yes, NFA Swaps Proficiency Program is required): 

  • Not Applicable 

 

SEC Security-Based Swap Dealer Associated Person:

  • Not Applicable 

 

While the description above describes our ideal candidate, we encourage applicants to apply even if they do not fully meet the complete list of qualifications noted.

The expected starting salary range for this position is between $165,000 to $200,000 annually. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business line, and geographic/office location.

In addition, our comprehensive benefits package aims to support our employees in various aspects of their lives. From healthcare and wellness programs to retirement plans and childcare services, we prioritize the well-being and growth of our employees. Our benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k) Savings Plan, backup childcare, life, accident and disability insurance, mental health support and paid time off. Additional details about our benefits offerings, inclusive of eligibility for a discretionary bonus, will be provided during the hiring process.

 

About BNP Paribas:

 

BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach across the US, EMEA and APAC. It has a presence in 65 countries, with nearly 190,000 employees. The bank employs over 3,500 people in offices in the US across 10 states including New York, Jersey City, Chesterbrook, PA, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Miami, and Washington, DC. BNP Paribas has built a strong and diversified presence to support its client base. We continue to grow and strengthen our commitment to the US market through our Corporate & Institutional Banking activities. We are one of a few non-US banks to offer a full value chain for our clients, from trading to financing, and clearing and custody in the US with the international footprint and capacity to deliver both globally and locally. Leveraging the strength of our European roots, our network can support clients in virtually every region of the world, enabling more connectivity and efficiency wherever our clients conduct business. We take pride in our expertise and our ability to adapt while constantly looking ahead to create a more sustainable world.

As an international company with a global footprint, the unique cultures and viewpoints of our team members are an integral part of the fabric of BNP Paribas. We are a company with a purpose – to be a responsible and sustainable global leader. We aim to create an environment where our employees feel empowered to drive change, make an impact and be true to themselves. We employ talented individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, locally and globally, and are inspired by our employees who help us in cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace through initiatives such as our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Forum and Employee Resource Group (ERG) communities. We strive to be a workplace where all team members can grow and thrive and offer robust training, development, and mentoring opportunities to make that vision a reality. Our leaders are deeply committed to DEI and highly accessible to our employees, consistently soliciting feedback on how we can continue to support our employees to reach their highest potential. 

BNP Paribas. The Bank for a Changing World – https://usa.bnpparibas/en/homepage/join-us/our-opportunities/

BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.

Protect yourself from fraudulent job postings. Emails about jobs at BNP Paribas will always come from addresses ending @bnpparibas.com @us.bnpparibas.com, @ca.bnpparibas.com, or @br.bnpparibas.com. You should be suspicious of emails regarding employment with BNP Paribas coming from any other domains and should not respond. BNP Paribas will never send payments to or request payments from candidates for positions posted by BNP Paribas.  

Business Overview:

AFS Legal team consists of 4 senior lawyers and provides legal advice to the Asset Finance & Securitization (“AFS”) business in the Americas region.  AFS structures and executes a wide variety of securitized products including CLOs, ABCP, ABS and RMBS which are secured by a broad range of loans (e.g. corporate, auto and mortgages), leases (e.g. aircraft, equipment and fleet) and receivables (e.g. trade and credit card).

Candidate Success Factors:

Candidates are measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:

  • Results and Impact
    • Able to influence peers and team.
    • Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact.
    • Exercise appropriate autonomy in the execution and delivery of work. 
    • Responsible for driving outcomes, which have meaningful effect on team or department.
  • Leadership and Collaboration:
    • Creates trust with colleagues.
    • Acts in leadership capacity for projects, processes, or programs.
  • Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus: 
    • Able to build relationships with a mix of colleagues and clients.
    • Interacts regularly with management and department leaders.
    • Demonstrates the ability to influence stakeholders at the team level. 
  • Compliance Culture and Conduct: 
    • Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts.
    • Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards.

Responsibilities: 

  • Provide legal advice to AFS on the structuring and execution of a wide variety of securitized products which are secured by a broad range of loans, leases and receivables. 
  • Advise AFS on internal and regulatory requirements and assist them with credit approvals for new products and transactions.
  • Partner with AFS, liaise with external and other internal counsel and liaise with RISK, Compliance and other internal stakeholders.
  • Manage ad hoc projects as required.

Minimum Required Qualifications:

  • JD or LLM from an accredited US law school
  • Admission to NY bar 
  • At least 3+ years of law firm or in-house experience with both:
    1. Securitization
    2. Warehouse lending
  • Excellent: 
    1. Negotiation skills
    2. Oral and written communication skills
    3. Analytical skills
    4. Organization skills
    5. Interpersonal skills
  • Ability to:
    • Manage heavy workloads, multitask, prioritize and work under pressure
    • Tolerate ambiguity
    • Pay attention to detail
    • Maintain high standards of professionalism in all dealings with team members and internal and external clients
  • Technical: 
    • Microsoft Office

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Experience with either or both:
    1. Residential mortgage loans
    2. Commercial mortgage loans

FINRA Registrations Required:  

  • Not Applicable 

CFTC Swap Dealer Associated Person (if yes, NFA Swaps Proficiency Program is required): 

  • Not Applicable 

SEC Security-Based Swap Dealer Associated Person:

  • Not Applicable 

While the description above describes our ideal candidate, we encourage applicants to apply even if they do not fully meet the complete list of qualifications noted.

The expected starting salary range for this position is between $180,000 to $240,000 annually. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business line, and geographic/office location.

In addition, our comprehensive benefits package aims to support our employees in various aspects of their lives. From healthcare and wellness programs to retirement plans and childcare services, we prioritize the well-being and growth of our employees. Our benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k) Savings Plan, backup childcare, life, accident and disability insurance, mental health support and paid time off. Additional details about our benefits offerings, inclusive of eligibility for a discretionary bonus, will be provided during the hiring process.

About BNP Paribas:

BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach across the US, EMEA and APAC. It has a presence in 65 countries, with nearly 190,000 employees. The bank employs over 3,500 people in offices in the US across 10 states including New York, Jersey City, Chesterbrook, PA, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Miami, and Washington, DC. BNP Paribas has built a strong and diversified presence to support its client base. We continue to grow and strengthen our commitment to the US market through our Corporate & Institutional Banking activities. We are one of a few non-US banks to offer a full value chain for our clients, from trading to financing, and clearing and custody in the US with the international footprint and capacity to deliver both globally and locally. Leveraging the strength of our European roots, our network can support clients in virtually every region of the world, enabling more connectivity and efficiency wherever our clients conduct business. We take pride in our expertise and our ability to adapt while constantly looking ahead to create a more sustainable world.

As an international company with a global footprint, the unique cultures and viewpoints of our team members are an integral part of the fabric of BNP Paribas. We are a company with a purpose – to be a responsible and sustainable global leader. We aim to create an environment where our employees feel empowered to drive change, make an impact and be true to themselves. We employ talented individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, locally and globally, and are inspired by our employees who help us in cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace through initiatives such as our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Forum and Employee Resource Group (ERG) communities. We strive to be a workplace where all team members can grow and thrive and offer robust training, development, and mentoring opportunities to make that vision a reality. Our leaders are deeply committed to DEI and highly accessible to our employees, consistently soliciting feedback on how we can continue to support our employees to reach their highest potential. 

BNP Paribas. The Bank for a Changing World – https://usa.bnpparibas/en/homepage/join-us/our-opportunities/

BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.

Protect yourself from fraudulent job postings. Emails about jobs at BNP Paribas will always come from addresses ending @bnpparibas.com @us.bnpparibas.com, @ca.bnpparibas.com, or @br.bnpparibas.com. You should be suspicious of emails regarding employment with BNP Paribas coming from any other domains and should not respond. BNP Paribas will never send payments to or request payments from candidates for positions posted by BNP Paribas.  

BNP Paribas Open Sophomore Opportunity Summit January 14th & January 15th

The BNP Paribas Open Sophomore Opportunity Summit is a virtual 2-day interactive experience crafted in partnership with our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to immerse students in the culture of BNP Paribas and the potential for careers in our Banking, Markets and Corporate Function businesses units. Please apply to be invited to our virtual Summit!

You are invited to engage in dynamic conversations exploring the importance of

  • BNP Paribas’ net-zero commitment and focus on sustainability initiatives and financing. The Summit will offer you an up-close look at our sustainability efforts and the people leading them.
  • Championing Inclusion and belonging, an essential part of BNP Paribas’ cultural fabric, featuring insights from our ERGs, that focus on creating a space for people of all backgrounds, professional and personal growth, and advocating for allyship.  
  • Promoting growth via continued learning and development opportunities throughout the career journey.
  • Establishing BNP Paribas as a good place to work, learn and grow via ERG engagement, mentorship and our competitive benefits and wellness offerings.

Qualifications 

Current undergraduate, sophomore-level students with a Winter 2027-Spring 2028 graduation date are eligible to apply. All majors and academic backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Prior experience within financial institutions is not required!

Our Employee Resource Group Partners 

The BNP Paribas Open Sophomore Opportunity Summit is hosted in partnership with our Employee Resource Groups:

MixCity USA MixCity USA is the Group’s Gender Diversity ERG and is open to both Women and Men. MixCity USA serves to drive gender equity in the workplace through developing, empowering and increasing the representation of women* in the organization.   

(*) Includes nonbinary, transgender, cisgender and all who identify as women.

The ABILITY ERG provides a network for employees with disabilities or for those who are close to people with disabilities and focuses on physical and mental health challenges. We also support multiple initiatives to support career development for people with disabilities such as an annual Mentoring and Networking Day for local college students.

The Asian ERG’s mission is to champion DEI, to celebrate multi-cultural heritage, and to promote awareness and advocate for varied Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) community challenges. We achieve this by promoting greater understanding of cultural traditions, recognizing talents, exchange of professional knowledge, networking, and providing a platform for AAPI community.

The Interfaith ERG offers a forum for inclusion of spiritual faith diversity in the workplace. The interfaith ERG furthers professional development by examining business issues, economic topics, social and environmental challenges through the lenses of various spiritual faiths while creating a network of professionals eager to connect around the topic of faith and work.

The Military ERG brings together both Veterans and non-Veterans with the goal of supporting meaningful relevant initiatives. These initiatives employ philanthropic efforts targeted towards homeless or wounded veterans, as well as focus on efforts to assist service members in transitioning to civilian and corporate life.

BNP Paribas Pride USA fosters a workplace that is most welcoming to the LGBTQ+ community by supporting its members, facilitating connections among and beyond the LGBTQ+ employees, while promoting inclusiveness, equality and solidarity. LGBTQ+ employees and their allies come together and celebrate the freedom of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.  We strive to bring awareness of specific LGBTQ+ topics to all, as well as provide resources & support to the community. 

The REACH ERG is an inclusive, community-based for all employees of any affinity, focusing on topics related to career paths in order to help foster growth and development of junior staff at BNP Paribas. Through a broad range of events, REACH fosters connections across business lines and functions, allowing BNP Paribas professionals to actively drive their own careers.

What to Expect at the BNP Paribas Open Sophomore Opportunity Summit  

At BNP Paribas, we belong to a forward-thinking group where our Inclusion initiatives take center stage and where new ideas and fresh perspectives foster and nurture innovation.

The Summit will help you find success through:

  • Fireside chats and panels hosted by current Analysts and former interns, senior leaders and the BNP Paribas Employee Resource Groups
  • Open conversations and small group sessions hosted by business leaders and team members who will share their professional experiences and how they support BNP Paribas’s mission and values
  • Skills-building activities to build your resume and expand your professional knowledge and skillsets
  • Dedicated recruiting office hours with our Campus Recruiting team and hiring managers accessible for your questions
  • Networking

Following the virtual programing, participants may be invited to interview for the 2027 summer analyst internship.

Opportunities to Join the BNP Paribas Community

Through this Summit we hope that you can become a part of our business success and shape the future of BNP Paribas

We offer internship opportunities throughout a range of business lines and functions:

  • The Global Banking division provides sophisticated and diversified expertise across a variety of sectors in Financing, Cash Management and Financial Advisory Services for our clients
  • The Global Markets division delivers market-leading solutions – from hedging and financing opportunities across every asset class, to research and market intelligence
  • Functions – Business Management roles are wide ranged and include:
    • Operations: You will gain exposure to teams concentrating on trade processing, product controls, and project management.
    • Change & Solutions (Internal Consulting): The Change & Solutions Americas organization works closely with executive management and senior leadership to design and implement high-level, strategically important projects, and shape the development of the Bank in the region. The team delivers value across platforms through an integrated and agile approach with deep international interconnectivity across departments, and a strong focus on servicing internal clients.
    • Technology: The IT (Technology) Team aims to protect the bank, the interest of the bank, and its clients via IT Infrastructure, Cyber and Corporate Security, Operational Resilience, Application Production Support and IT and Operational Risk
    • Human Resources
    • Compliance

About BNP Paribas:

BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach across the US, EMEA and APAC. It has a presence in 65 countries, with nearly 190,000 employees. The bank employs over 3,500 people in offices in the US across 10 states including New York, Jersey City, Chesterbrook, PA, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Miami, and Washington, DC. BNP Paribas has built a strong and diversified presence to support its client base. We continue to grow and strengthen our commitment to the US market through our Corporate & Institutional Banking activities. We are one of a few non-US banks to offer a full value chain for our clients, from trading to financing, and clearing and custody in the US with the international footprint and capacity to deliver both globally and locally. Leveraging the strength of our European roots, our network can support clients in virtually every region of the world, enabling more connectivity and efficiency wherever our clients conduct business. We take pride in our expertise and our ability to adapt while constantly looking ahead to create a more sustainable world.

As an international company with a global footprint, the unique cultures and viewpoints of our team members are an integral part of the fabric of BNP Paribas. We are a company with a purpose – to be a responsible and sustainable global leader. We aim to create an environment where our employees feel empowered to drive change, make an impact and be true to themselves. We employ talented individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, locally and globally, and are inspired by our employees who help us in cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace through initiatives such as our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Forum and Employee Resource Group (ERG) communities. We strive to be a workplace where all team members can grow and thrive and offer robust training, development, and mentoring opportunities to make that vision a reality. Our leaders are deeply committed to DEI and highly accessible to our employees, consistently soliciting feedback on how we can continue to support our employees to reach their highest potential.

BNP Paribas. The Bank for a Changing World – https://usa.bnpparibas/en/homepage/join-us/our-opportunities/

BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.

Protect yourself from fraudulent job postings. Emails about jobs at BNP Paribas will always come from addresses ending @bnpparibas.com @us.bnpparibas.com, @ca.bnpparibas.com, or @br.bnpparibas.com. You should be suspicious of emails regarding employment with BNP Paribas coming from any other domains and should not respond. BNP Paribas will never  send payments to or request payments from candidates for positions posted by BNP Paribas. 

Business Overview:

The Management of the BNP Paribas has committed to ensure compliance with AML/Embargo & Sanctions rules within the entire Group. In this context, Group Compliance has decided to have a strong and permanent set-up within the US: Group Financial Security US (“GFS US”). 

  • Established in 2014 and based in New York, GFS US is a Group Compliance Domain tasked with developing and implementing an industry-leading Office of Foreign Asset Control (“OFAC”) Compliance Program. 
  • GFS US is responsible for the overall supervision and coordination of BNP Paribas’ effort to comply with U.S. and other international sanctions and embargoes. In performing this function, GFS US works with other relevant functions responsible for risk assessments and controls, sanctions filtering and screening systems, and sanctions’ violation monitoring and reporting. 
  • GFS US is the main point of contact for the Group with U.S. Regulators regarding Sanctions Compliance. The Bank’s OFAC Compliance Program was the basis for the creation of the department, the organization of its teams, and their roles and responsibilities.

Candidate Success Factors:

Candidates are measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:

  • Results and Impact
    • Able to influence peers and team.
    • Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact.
    • Exercise appropriate autonomy in the execution and delivery of work. 
    • Responsible for driving outcomes, which have meaningful effect on team or department.
  • Leadership and Collaboration:
    • Creates trust with colleagues.
    • Acts in leadership capacity for projects, processes, or programs.
  • Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus: 
    • Able to build relationships with a mix of colleagues and clients.
    • Interacts regularly with management and department leaders.
    • Demonstrates the ability to influence stakeholders at the team level. 
  • Compliance Culture and Conduct: 
    • Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts.
    • Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards.

GFS US Norms Team Mandates: 

  • Assist and support Compliance Perimeters in their responsibility for complying with all relevant Laws, Rules, Regulations and Group policies related to Sanctions.
  • Assist and support the Group Financial Security U.S. Department.
  • More specifically, The Norms team is responsible for:
    1. Producing, reviewing and maintaining norms, procedures and guidelines relating to international financial sanctions for implementation across BNPP entities.
    2. Advising on the implementation of GFS Sanctions norms and processes based on inquiries from stakeholders (Compliance, Business, IG etc.).
    3. Reviewing and taking decisions on Derogations requests against Group Sanctions norms, in coordination with multiple stakeholders, including the Legal team.
    4. Playing a key role in group projects related to the normative framework rationalization.
    5. Contributing to the continuous enhancements of the GFS operating model for the review of sanctions derogations and the monitoring of the Sanctions Corpus activities.

Position Overview:

The successful candidate for the position of Vice President will report directly to the Deputy Head of GFS US Norms and support the Norms Team by contributing to a smooth and effective functioning of all document creation, editing and implementing. They will review existing Group policies and procedures and be asked to draft new procedures in order to address emerging sanctions process issues. They will also be tasked with being Group Financial Security’s primary liaison with Local Compliance and Business contacts for (i) advisory purposes with regards to the GFS Sanctions Corpus and (ii) all Sanctions Derogations Requests (“SDR”) related questions and risk acceptance reviews. Finally, they will assist the Head of GFS US Norms in responding to all policy-application requests received from Inspection Generale, external regulators and other GFS teams. This position requires up to 5-10% international travel.

Candidate Responsibilities: 

  • Contribute to the 3 workstreams dedicated to the management of the Sanctions Corpus, Sanctions Derogations and Transversal Activities.
    • Draft/review sanctions-related policies, procedures and guidelines in collaboration with other GFS teams, Legal Financial Security team and key stakeholders from Business Lines (Compliance and Business), through the management of dedicated Projects.
    • Review/ manage sanctions derogations related to GFS norms, policies and procedures (out of scope notifications, sanctions derogations requests) and ensure follow-up of remedial action plans.
    • Contribute to the data management and other transversal activities and projects, including ensuring process efficiency, production of metrics/KPIs and monitoring of norms activities, execution and review of quality assurance checks and 1LoD controls, management of findings and recommendations, creation and update of documents framing the Norms team activities (operational procedure, control plan, guidelines, user guides, checklists) and the design/delivery of Trainings in coordination with the GFS U.S. Learning team.
  • Ensure an advisory role on the implementation of GFS Sanctions norms and processes based on inquiries from various stakeholders (Compliance, Business, Legal, Internal Audit, Supervisors etc.), including in the context of an entity acquisition / portfolio acquisition / or in case of new activity starting from scratch.

Minimum Required Qualifications:

  • Undergraduate/Graduate degree: legal background, international/business law studies
  • 4-8 years’ experience in a legal, compliance, audit and banking environment (including working knowledge of data management banking products & services)
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly, concisely and effectively to a wide spectrum of external and internal audiences, including senior executives
  • Experienced at analyzing/interpreting regulation and applying regulation to Group standards for policies and procedures
  • Experienced at distilling bank policies and procedures and producing training materials
  • Ability to analyze and manage data; produce key performance indicators
  • Strong organizational skills with ability to drive multiple initiatives to completion simultaneously
  • Strong analytical and evaluative skills with ability to perform complex analyses, express opinion through clear and decisive argumentation
  • Proactivity, sense of initiative and rigor
  • Ability to conduct projects with global scale and embody firm values
  • Ability to embody firm values 
  • Strong command of Microsoft Office

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Fluent in both English and French language
  • Knowledge of BNP Paribas Group activities and organization a plus

FINRA Registrations Required:  

  • Not Applicable 

CFTC Swap Dealer Associated Person (if yes, NFA Swaps Proficiency Program is required): 

  • Not Applicable 

SEC Security-Based Swap Dealer Associated Person:

  • Not Applicable 

While the description above describes our ideal candidate, we encourage applicants to apply even if they do not fully meet the complete list of qualifications noted.

The expected starting salary range for this position is between $105,000 to $140,000 annually. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business line, and geographic/office location.

In addition, our comprehensive benefits package aims to support our employees in various aspects of their lives. From healthcare and wellness programs to retirement plans and childcare services, we prioritize the well-being and growth of our employees. Our benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k) Savings Plan, backup childcare, life, accident and disability insurance, mental health support and paid time off. Additional details about our benefits offerings, inclusive of eligibility for a discretionary bonus, will be provided during the hiring process.

About BNP Paribas:

BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach across the US, EMEA and APAC. It has a presence in 65 countries, with nearly 190,000 employees. The bank employs over 3,500 people in offices in the US across 10 states including New York, Jersey City, Chesterbrook, PA, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Miami, and Washington, DC. BNP Paribas has built a strong and diversified presence to support its client base. We continue to grow and strengthen our commitment to the US market through our Corporate & Institutional Banking activities. We are one of a few non-US banks to offer a full value chain for our clients, from trading to financing, and clearing and custody in the US with the international footprint and capacity to deliver both globally and locally. Leveraging the strength of our European roots, our network can support clients in virtually every region of the world, enabling more connectivity and efficiency wherever our clients conduct business. We take pride in our expertise and our ability to adapt while constantly looking ahead to create a more sustainable world.

As an international company with a global footprint, the unique cultures and viewpoints of our team members are an integral part of the fabric of BNP Paribas. We are a company with a purpose – to be a responsible and sustainable global leader. We aim to create an environment where our employees feel empowered to drive change, make an impact and be true to themselves. We employ talented individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, locally and globally, and are inspired by our employees who help us in cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace through initiatives such as our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Forum and Employee Resource Group (ERG) communities. We strive to be a workplace where all team members can grow and thrive and offer robust training, development, and mentoring opportunities to make that vision a reality. Our leaders are deeply committed to DEI and highly accessible to our employees, consistently soliciting feedback on how we can continue to support our employees to reach their highest potential. 

BNP Paribas. The Bank for a Changing World – https://usa.bnpparibas/en/homepage/join-us/our-opportunities/

BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.

Protect yourself from fraudulent job postings. Emails about jobs at BNP Paribas will always come from addresses ending @bnpparibas.com @us.bnpparibas.com, @ca.bnpparibas.com, or @br.bnpparibas.com. You should be suspicious of emails regarding employment with BNP Paribas coming from any other domains and should not respond. BNP Paribas will never send payments to or request payments from candidates for positions posted by BNP Paribas.  

Business Overview:

Payments and Clearing Solutions (PCS) provides a full array of International and Domestic Cash Management Services (Customer Payments, Financial Institution Transfers, ACH and Check Collection Services) to our international and domestic banking customers and internal departments.  Additionally, is responsible for a broad range of monitoring, regulatory screening and reporting functions for operational control and end-of-day reconciliation. PCS processes on a regional platform, where a portion of US activity is processed in Montreal and a portion of Montreal’s activity is processed in New York. This is being done for a number of reasons, the most important of which is for business continuity and resiliency.  PCS is comprised of the following sub departments:  Payments & Level 1 Sanctions, Sanctions Enforcement and Exceptions, Client Support Services, PMO/Orga and Data Governance.

Sanctions Enforcements and Exceptions – The group is responsible for addressing any escalations of messages that are identified as “hits” against the sanctions lists and manages those transactions through completion or escalate them to Level 3.     

Candidate Success Factors:

Candidates are measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:

  • Results and Impact
    • Able to influence peers and team.
    • Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact.
    • Exercise appropriate autonomy in the execution and delivery of work. 
    • Responsible for driving outcomes, which have meaningful effect on team or department.
  • Leadership and Collaboration:
    • Creates trust with colleagues.
    • Acts in leadership capacity for projects, processes, or programs.
  • Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus: 
    • Able to build relationships with a mix of colleagues and clients.
    • Interacts regularly with management and department leaders.
    • Demonstrates the ability to influence stakeholders at the team level. 
  • Compliance Culture and Conduct: 
    • Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts.
    • Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards.

Responsibilities: 

  • Perform a Level 2 review of transactions that are referred to the OFAC Exception queue for potential sanctions violations.
  • Manage the OFAC Exception queues in order to ensure our deadlines are being met.
  • Conduct investigation on payments that need to be held for regulatory reasons pending additional information.
  • Conduct investigation on payments that are held by the next bank in chain for regulatory reasons.
  • Ensure adherence to all external regulatory and internal policy guidelines as dictated by the position. 
  • Perform other support operations functions to other areas within the bank as required. 
  • Review and analyze wire transfers, ACH payments and non-payment SWIFT messages escalated by Level 1 for potential sanctions violations. 
  • Ensure that all transactions escalated for Level 2 review are compliant to all external and internal regulations and policies.
  • Monitor case investigations making sure that proper follow-up is being made and responses are being addressed in a timely manner. 
  • Analyze information obtained from case investigations to make a clear determination on the proper course of action to be taken on the payment.
  • Validate file uploads to our filtering systems to ensure that list changes, additions or deletions are updated to the systems accurately.
  • Add/modify/delete entities as requested by the USFS team
  • Ensure all payments comply with BNP Paribas group payment transparency policy.
  • Participate in the department’s educational program through tutorials, training sessions, etc. 
  • Ensure SEE operations are conducted in the safest and most efficient manner possible.   
  • Maintain the highest possible regulatory standards of quality, while minimizing risk to both the Bank as well as to our customers. 
  • Make recommendation for procedural changes where deemed necessary.   
  • Keep abreast of changes, both regulatory and operational, which will have an impact on the department and the Bank.
  • Work closely with the U.S. and Group Financial Services, Legal and the Treasury in performing wire transfer searches or handling regular case investigations when deemed necessary.
  • Communicate with our customers and clients to expedite investigations.
  • Escalate complex case investigations to the Team Leader.
  • Extended hours/holidays may be required at times to meet operational needs.
  • Make direct contribution to BNPP operational permanent control framework.
  • Prepare and analyze various reports as needed

Minimum Required Qualifications:

  • Associate/BA degree from accredited college/university. 
  • 3-5 years’ experience in OFAC and Sanctions investigation. 
  • Strong understanding of Regulatory awareness, and the regulations that govern it.
  • Proficient knowledge and understanding of the OFAC processes and procedures.
  • Knowledgeable of Funds Transfer operations as well as the rules and regulations that govern it.
  • (This will include CHIPS, Fedwire, SWIFT, LYNX and ACH).
  • Excellent communication, verbal and written skills, as well as, attention to detail and accuracy.

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • ACAMS/ACSS certified.  

FINRA Registrations Required:  

  • Not Applicable 

CFTC Swap Dealer Associated Person (if yes, NFA Swaps Proficiency Program is required): 

  • Not Applicable 

SEC Security-Based Swap Dealer Associated Person:

  • Not Applicable 

While the description above describes our ideal candidate, we encourage applicants to apply even if they do not fully meet the complete list of qualifications noted.

The expected starting salary range for this position is between $75,000 to $85,000 annually. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business line, and geographic/office location.

In addition, our comprehensive benefits package aims to support our employees in various aspects of their lives. From healthcare and wellness programs to retirement plans and childcare services, we prioritize the well-being and growth of our employees. Our benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k) Savings Plan, backup childcare, life, accident and disability insurance, mental health support and paid time off. Additional details about our benefits offerings, inclusive of eligibility for a discretionary bonus, will be provided during the hiring process.

About BNP Paribas:

BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach across the US, EMEA and APAC. It has a presence in 65 countries, with nearly 190,000 employees. The bank employs over 3,500 people in offices in the US across 10 states including New York, Jersey City, Chesterbrook, PA, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Miami, and Washington, DC. BNP Paribas has built a strong and diversified presence to support its client base. We continue to grow and strengthen our commitment to the US market through our Corporate & Institutional Banking activities. We are one of a few non-US banks to offer a full value chain for our clients, from trading to financing, and clearing and custody in the US with the international footprint and capacity to deliver both globally and locally. Leveraging the strength of our European roots, our network can support clients in virtually every region of the world, enabling more connectivity and efficiency wherever our clients conduct business. We take pride in our expertise and our ability to adapt while constantly looking ahead to create a more sustainable world.

As an international company with a global footprint, the unique cultures and viewpoints of our team members are an integral part of the fabric of BNP Paribas. We are a company with a purpose – to be a responsible and sustainable global leader. We aim to create an environment where our employees feel empowered to drive change, make an impact and be true to themselves. We employ talented individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, locally and globally, and are inspired by our employees who help us in cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace through initiatives such as our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Forum and Employee Resource Group (ERG) communities. We strive to be a workplace where all team members can grow and thrive and offer robust training, development, and mentoring opportunities to make that vision a reality. Our leaders are deeply committed to DEI and highly accessible to our employees, consistently soliciting feedback on how we can continue to support our employees to reach their highest potential. 

BNP Paribas. The Bank for a Changing World – https://usa.bnpparibas/en/homepage/join-us/our-opportunities/

BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.

Protect yourself from fraudulent job postings. Emails about jobs at BNP Paribas will always come from addresses ending @bnpparibas.com @us.bnpparibas.com, @ca.bnpparibas.com, or @br.bnpparibas.com. You should be suspicious of emails regarding employment with BNP Paribas coming from any other domains and should not respond. BNP Paribas will never send payments to or request payments from candidates for positions posted by BNP Paribas.  

Business Overview:

The agency mortgage desk within G10 rates is looking for a TBA Trader. The agency MBS desk trades securities and structured products backed by the GSEs (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac) and Ginnie Mae.

Candidate Success Factors:

Candidates are measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:

  • Results and Impact
    • Able to influence peers and team.
    • Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact.
    • Exercise appropriate autonomy in the execution and delivery of work. 
    • Responsible for driving outcomes, which have meaningful effect on team or department.
  • Leadership and Collaboration:
    • Creates trust with colleagues.
    • Acts in leadership capacity for projects, processes, or programs.
  • Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus: 
    • Able to build relationships with a mix of colleagues and clients.
    • Interacts regularly with management and department leaders.
    • Demonstrates the ability to influence stakeholders at the team level. 
  • Compliance Culture and Conduct: 
    • Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts.
    • Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards.

 

Responsibilities: 

  • This is a Associate/VP/Director level role that will report to the head of MBS Trading. 
  • Trading role will focus on market making and risk management of TBAs and New Production Specified Pools.
  • Provide liquidity through market making to BNPP client base.  Work with head of trading and sales on expanding the Flow TBA franchise both domestically and overseas. 
  • Write daily commentary to be distributed to the salesforce, hold conference calls with clients to discuss the market and trade ideas. 
  • Work with our quant and research team on improving existing analytics and relative value framewors.
  • Contribute to and facilitate with trading middle office, the confirmation of daily P&L at the close of the day.
  • Monitor market news and events and evaluate the risk and opportunities for clients and the firm’s positions and strategy.
  • Attend relevant regulatory and product/skill training and keep up to date with market issues.
  • Maintain open communication with team and direct line management to resolve risk and P&L discrepancies and fulfil notification requirement.

Minimum Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or a related field
  • Preferred: 4-8 years’ previous work experience in a trading capacity
  • Experience in MBS Pass-through TBAs preferred
  • Competencies
  • Attention to detail
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Proactive
  • Ethics and integrity
  • Ability to work well under pressure
  • Analytical
  • Capital Markets Knowledge
  • Strong communication skills, including capacity to present trade ideas to internal and external clients

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • 4+ years’ previous work experience in a trading capacity 
  • Existing client relationships

 

FINRA Registrations Required:  

  • Series 7, 63 required.

CFTC Swap Dealer Associated Person (if yes, NFA Swaps Proficiency Program is required): 

  • Yes

 

SEC Security-Based Swap Dealer Associated Person:

  • Yes

 

While the description above describes our ideal candidate, we encourage applicants to apply even if they do not fully meet the complete list of qualifications noted.

The expected starting salary range for this position is between $225,000 to $265,000 annually. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business line, and geographic/office location.

In addition, our comprehensive benefits package aims to support our employees in various aspects of their lives. From healthcare and wellness programs to retirement plans and childcare services, we prioritize the well-being and growth of our employees. Our benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k) Savings Plan, backup childcare, life, accident and disability insurance, mental health support and paid time off. Additional details about our benefits offerings, inclusive of eligibility for a discretionary bonus, will be provided during the hiring process.

 

About BNP Paribas:

 

BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach across the US, EMEA and APAC. It has a presence in 65 countries, with nearly 190,000 employees. The bank employs over 3,500 people in offices in the US across 10 states including New York, Jersey City, Chesterbrook, PA, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Miami, and Washington, DC. BNP Paribas has built a strong and diversified presence to support its client base. We continue to grow and strengthen our commitment to the US market through our Corporate & Institutional Banking activities. We are one of a few non-US banks to offer a full value chain for our clients, from trading to financing, and clearing and custody in the US with the international footprint and capacity to deliver both globally and locally. Leveraging the strength of our European roots, our network can support clients in virtually every region of the world, enabling more connectivity and efficiency wherever our clients conduct business. We take pride in our expertise and our ability to adapt while constantly looking ahead to create a more sustainable world.

As an international company with a global footprint, the unique cultures and viewpoints of our team members are an integral part of the fabric of BNP Paribas. We are a company with a purpose – to be a responsible and sustainable global leader. We aim to create an environment where our employees feel empowered to drive change, make an impact and be true to themselves. We employ talented individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, locally and globally, and are inspired by our employees who help us in cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace through initiatives such as our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Forum and Employee Resource Group (ERG) communities. We strive to be a workplace where all team members can grow and thrive and offer robust training, development, and mentoring opportunities to make that vision a reality. Our leaders are deeply committed to DEI and highly accessible to our employees, consistently soliciting feedback on how we can continue to support our employees to reach their highest potential. 

BNP Paribas. The Bank for a Changing World – https://usa.bnpparibas/en/homepage/join-us/our-opportunities/

BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.

Protect yourself from fraudulent job postings. Emails about jobs at BNP Paribas will always come from addresses ending @bnpparibas.com @us.bnpparibas.com, @ca.bnpparibas.com, or @br.bnpparibas.com. You should be suspicious of emails regarding employment with BNP Paribas coming from any other domains and should not respond. BNP Paribas will never send payments to or request payments from candidates for positions posted by BNP Paribas.  

2026 – Summer Associate – Global Banking, Energy, Resources & Infrastructure

Global Banking – Asset Finance & Securitization

Location: New York, NY

Business Overview:

Our Global Banking division provides sophisticated and diversified expertise in financing, cash management and financial advisory services for our clients. We combine our global expertise and local presence to best support the complex needs of our multinational clients.

ERI (Energy, Resources, & Infrastructure) combines in one group the expertise across infra & energy and EV supply chain with a strong focus on Low Carbon (including Renewables), Digital Infra and Sustainable segments.  ERI’s mission is to be a market leader in the Americas and a solution provider for value-added structured debt advice and transaction execution. ERI focuses on various transaction types in those sectors, including green-field or brownfield developments, refinancing and acquisitions for single assets or portfolio of assets.

ERI advises, arranges and/or structures loans, project bonds or multilateral financings that are suitable to client activities in sectors as diverse as renewable & other Low Carbon; & transmission lines; Digital/TMT infrastructure ; selected thermal power and energy infrastructure ; and other infrastructure projects, (including  subways & electric bus fleet, Water and selected other infrastructure, etc.) with an eye to the low carbon, sustainable, digital and/or other socio-economical impact. ERI primarily benefits from longstanding involvement and experience in both advisory and arranging, enabling the team to structure complex limited-recourse or other financings through a combination of various funding outlets – such as debt capital markets, commercial banks, multilateral or development agencies, export credit, etc.

ERI’s primary revenue sources are fees (advisory, structuring, underwriting and upfront) and margin revenues. The team also provides BNPP with cross-sell opportunities focused on Global Markets, M&A, Export Finance and Commodity Trading with whom it regularly executes joint assignments

 

Candidate Success Factors:

Candidates are measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:

  • Results and Impact
    • Able to influence peers and team.
    • Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact.
    • Exercise appropriate autonomy in the execution and delivery of work. 
    • Responsible for driving outcomes, which have meaningful effect on team or department.
  • Leadership and Collaboration:
    • Creates trust with colleagues.
    • Acts in leadership capacity for projects, processes, or programs.
  • Client, Customer, and Stakeholder Focus: 
    • Able to build relationships with a mix of colleagues and clients.
    • Interacts regularly with management and department leaders.
    • Demonstrates the ability to influence stakeholders at the team level. 
  • Compliance Culture and Conduct: 
    • Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts.
    • Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values, and displays high ethical standards.

 

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

Our programs are a springboard for graduate students to launch their careers through exciting and intellectually stimulating opportunities. To succeed amongst our teams, we look for those with a strong academic story, sharp analytical skills, and the ability to articulate ideas well-to clients and colleagues alike.

  • Graduation year of December 2026 – June 2027
  • Strong writing skills
  • Strong analytical and quantitative skills
  • Proactivity and ability to deliver in a challenging environment
  • Technical proficiency in MS office, including Word, Excel, and Power Point
  • Advanced Degree

WHAT DOES A SUMMER 2026 INTERNSHIP WITH BNP PARIBAS LOOK LIKE?

At BNP Paribas, our people are our greatest asset, and we are committed to helping you grow from day one. The internship program is our primary source for hiring early talent into the Bank, providing you with the network and resources you need to build a successful career.

Over 10 weeks, you will acquire in-depth insight into BNP Paribas and gain valuable and practical experience. Whichever area you are placed in, you will join a team of award-winning specialists in a dynamic, collaborative environment. Through the program, interns have a distinct opportunity to gain guidance from mentors and exposure to senior leaders within the Bank.

As an Intern, you will:

  • Engage in an initial induction training that will set you up to succeed, and allow you to network with your intern class across all business divisions
  • Complete technical projects and collaborate with colleagues across the Bank, gaining exposure to real work in order to identify your skills and explore where your interests align 
  • Participate in weekly senior speaker events and roundtable discussions to gain a comprehensive understanding of financial markets and the industry
  • Network with colleagues and learn about industry topics through workshops and speaker series, as well as through philanthropy and social events

 

 

About BNP Paribas:

BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach across the US, EMEA, and APAC. It has a presence in 65 countries, with nearly 190,000 employees. The bank employs over 3,500 people in offices in the US across 10 states including New York, Jersey City, Chesterbrook, PA, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Miami, and Washington, DC. BNP Paribas has built a strong and diversified presence to support its client base. We continue to grow and strengthen our commitment to the US market through our Corporate & Institutional Banking activities. We are one of a few non-US banks to offer a full value chain for our clients, from trading to financing, and clearing and custody in the US with the international footprint and capacity to deliver both globally and locally. Leveraging the strength of our European roots, our network can support clients in virtually every region of the world, enabling more connectivity and efficiency wherever our clients conduct business. We take pride in our expertise and our ability to adapt while constantly looking ahead to create a more sustainable world.

As an international company with a global footprint, the unique cultures and viewpoints of our team members are an integral part of the fabric of BNP Paribas. We are a company with a purpose – to be a responsible and sustainable global leader. We aim to create an environment where our employees feel empowered to drive change, make an impact and be true to themselves. We employ talented individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, locally and globally, and are inspired by our employees who help us in cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace through initiatives such as our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Forum and Employee Resource Group (ERG) communities. We strive to be a workplace where all team members can grow and thrive and offer robust training, development, and mentoring opportunities to make that vision a reality. Our leaders are deeply committed to DEI and highly accessible to our employees, consistently soliciting feedback on how we can continue to support our employees to reach their highest potential. 

BNP Paribas. The Bank for a Changing World – https://usa.bnpparibas/en/homepage/join-us/our-opportunities/

BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.

Protect yourself from fraudulent job postings. Emails about jobs at BNP Paribas will always come from addresses ending @bnpparibas.com @us.bnpparibas.com, @ca.bnpparibas.com, or @br.bnpparibas.com. You should be suspicious of emails regarding employment with BNP Paribas coming from any other domains and should not respond. BNP Paribas will never send payments to or request payments from candidates for positions posted by BNP Paribas.  

Business Overview:

The Global Macro Trading Rates Support team is part of a global team supporting the Front Office trading applications used by the Global Macro Rates business in the Americas, as well as providing follow the sun support for the Global Macro Rates business in Europe and APAC. The team is concerned with the production support and release of solutions providing discreet functionality, driven by the Global Macro Rates business. The systems are used globally with major hubs in London, New York, Singapore, Tokyo, Paris and Brussels.

Candidate Success Factors:

Candidates are measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:

  • Results and Impact
    • Able to influence peers and team.
    • Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact.
    • Exercise appropriate autonomy in the execution and delivery of work. 
    • Responsible for driving outcomes, which have meaningful effect on team or department.
  • Leadership and Collaboration:
    • Creates trust with colleagues.
    • Acts in leadership capacity for projects, processes, or programs.
  • Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus: 
    • Able to build relationships with a mix of colleagues and clients.
    • Interacts regularly with management and department leaders.
    • Demonstrates the ability to influence stakeholders at the team level. 
  • Compliance Culture and Conduct: 
    • Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts.
    • Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards.

Responsibilities: 

The candidate will have to provide proactive and reactive support to the Global Macro Rates business and its clients whilst working closely with development and research teams. The candidate will also be expected to contribute to and lead projects. He/She will also have the opportunity to be involved in on-boarding applications into the production environment and working with the global teams on transformational projects. Opportunities to build cross organizational relationships through leading projects within the team. His/Her responsibilities include:

  • General 
    • Develop a good relationship with Trading, Sales, Research, Business Management, Developers, BAs, and any other team involved in the Global Macro Rates business process.
    • Maintain continuous communication with the stakeholders by floor walks, organizing, participating in meetings, conferences and informal discussions.
    • Ensure that the IT management is aware of the problematics, achievements, projects and tasks performed by the team.
    • Spearhead’s proposals to the business and IT stakeholders targeting the improvement of the Global Macro Rates platform.
    • Project delivery
    • Work in collaboration with the team on the priorities of the multiple projects given to the team.
    • Own knowledge based on wiki for all in-scope activities
  • Production maintenance and enhancement
    • Ensure all APS procedures are followed by teams performing Global Macro Rates Support in Production
    • Provides 1st and 2nd level support. 
    • Ensure a smooth handover happens between the regions during the SOD and EOD.
    • Manage and own P1/P2 incidents and problems end to end.
    • Provide workarounds to reduce the Business impact/outage of a critical or major incident.
    • Communicate with internal users and management over incidents and post-mortems.
    • Ensures all support issues are correctly logged in the Bank incident management system. 
    • Initiates task force over critical incidents
    • Implement automation to reduce the number of repetitive and manual tasks, and control the risk associated with them.
    • Participate in DRP/BCP exercises.
    • Participate in weekend health checks of IT systems to ensure smooth SOD for business lines.
    • Communicates globally to support teams with the new functionalities and organize training when required.

Minimum Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in a numerate subject (Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics, etc…) required.
  • Minimum 5 years’ experience in Application Support
  • Strong analytic and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to work under pressure in a changing environment and capability to cope calmly with stressed users facing system issues.
  • Ability to clearly explain technical/functional issues.
  • Flexible to work in shifts, generally between 7am EST – 07:00 pm and there will be a possibility of extending it until 9:30pm EST.

Preferred Qualifications: 

Experience in an application support role in a dynamic environment is a necessity for this role; there is often a great deal of urgency associated with resolving incidents and candidates need to be able to prioritize proactively when resource conflicts arise. Strong technical knowledge in the disciplines mentioned below is a pre-requisite, as well as excellent analytical reasoning and practical decision making, combined with an ability to communicate across a broad range of business functions and at all levels of the organization.

  • Master’s degree in a numerate subject (Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics, etc…) required.
  • Minimum 5 years’ experience in Electronic Markets Application Support
  • Strong analytic and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to work under pressure in a changing environment and capability to cope calmly with stressed users facing system issues.
  • Ability to clearly explain technical/functional issues.
  • Knowledge of Global Macro Rates business products and Electronic Markets.
  • Knowledge of Networks, Market Data and messaging technologies
  • Knowledge of scripting languages is beneficial. (Ex. Python/Java/C#.)

FINRA Registrations Required:  

  • Not Applicable 

CFTC Swap Dealer Associated Person (if yes, NFA Swaps Proficiency Program is required): 

  • Not Applicable 

SEC Security-Based Swap Dealer Associated Person:

  • Not Applicable 

While the description above describes our ideal candidate, we encourage applicants to apply even if they do not fully meet the complete list of qualifications noted.

The expected starting salary range for this position is between $145,000 to $205,000 annually. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business line, and geographic/office location.

In addition, our comprehensive benefits package aims to support our employees in various aspects of their lives. From healthcare and wellness programs to retirement plans and childcare services, we prioritize the well-being and growth of our employees. Our benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k) Savings Plan, backup childcare, life, accident and disability insurance, mental health support and paid time off. Additional details about our benefits offerings, inclusive of eligibility for a discretionary bonus, will be provided during the hiring process.

About BNP Paribas:

BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach across the US, EMEA and APAC. It has a presence in 65 countries, with nearly 190,000 employees. The bank employs over 3,500 people in offices in the US across 10 states including New York, Jersey City, Chesterbrook, PA, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Miami, and Washington, DC. BNP Paribas has built a strong and diversified presence to support its client base. We continue to grow and strengthen our commitment to the US market through our Corporate & Institutional Banking activities. We are one of a few non-US banks to offer a full value chain for our clients, from trading to financing, and clearing and custody in the US with the international footprint and capacity to deliver both globally and locally. Leveraging the strength of our European roots, our network can support clients in virtually every region of the world, enabling more connectivity and efficiency wherever our clients conduct business. We take pride in our expertise and our ability to adapt while constantly looking ahead to create a more sustainable world.

As an international company with a global footprint, the unique cultures and viewpoints of our team members are an integral part of the fabric of BNP Paribas. We are a company with a purpose – to be a responsible and sustainable global leader. We aim to create an environment where our employees feel empowered to drive change, make an impact and be true to themselves. We employ talented individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, locally and globally, and are inspired by our employees who help us in cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace through initiatives such as our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Forum and Employee Resource Group (ERG) communities. We strive to be a workplace where all team members can grow and thrive and offer robust training, development, and mentoring opportunities to make that vision a reality. Our leaders are deeply committed to DEI and highly accessible to our employees, consistently soliciting feedback on how we can continue to support our employees to reach their highest potential. 

BNP Paribas. The Bank for a Changing World – https://usa.bnpparibas/en/homepage/join-us/our-opportunities/

BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.

Protect yourself from fraudulent job postings. Emails about jobs at BNP Paribas will always come from addresses ending @bnpparibas.com @us.bnpparibas.com, @ca.bnpparibas.com, or @br.bnpparibas.com. You should be suspicious of emails regarding employment with BNP Paribas coming from any other domains and should not respond. BNP Paribas will never send payments to or request payments from candidates for positions posted by BNP Paribas.  

Business Overview:

The U.S. Financial Security Transaction Monitoring Optimization Department’s AML Business Analyst – Data Scientist is responsible for tuning and optimization, develop AI/ML based AML solutions, capturing business requirements, assisting on the user acceptance testing of a variety of platforms including Actimize based AML monitoring models, as well as, various other AML, KYC, and Sanctions systems as required. Act as a Business/Systems Analyst, Specification Writer, Implementation Support Resource and Subject Matter Advisor, engaging a diverse set of Business groups (Compliance, Business, Risk, etc.) and Technology groups to deliver solutions for Financial Compliance/Regulatory Reporting needs.

Candidate Success Factors:

Candidates are measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:

  • Results and Impact
    • Able to influence peers and team.
    • Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact.
    • Exercise appropriate autonomy in the execution and delivery of work. 
    • Responsible for driving outcomes, which have meaningful effect on team or department.
  • Leadership and Collaboration:
    • Creates trust with colleagues.
    • Acts in leadership capacity for projects, processes, or programs.
  • Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus: 
    • Able to build relationships with a mix of colleagues and clients.
    • Interacts regularly with management and department leaders.
    • Demonstrates the ability to influence stakeholders at the team level. 
  • Compliance Culture and Conduct: 
    • Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts.
    • Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards.

Responsibilities: 

  • Perform statistical analysis to tune and optimize thresholds and alert scores for new model implementations and existing models including but not limited to negative testing, hypothesis testing, various regression analysis techniques, clustering analysis, tests for activity and behavior variances and other sensitivity and productivity analyses. 
  • Develop Artificial Intelligence/Machine learning based AML solutions and calibrate them on a regular interval. 
  • Make recommendations to improve AML monitoring by conceptualizing and developing new risk models or alternative mechanisms like reports and Operational-Controls to address emerging trends and red flags and to mitigate potential risks arising from the use of existing ones used for transaction monitoring.
  • Evaluate existing models and scenarios; conducting model and scenario tuning, optimization and validation.
  • Rationalize and document business rules, thresholds, parameters and scoring methodology of the system. 
  • Conceptualize and develop new rules/models to address emerging trends and red flags.
  • Partner with various teams within Compliance, Risk and IT globally for project implementation, to assess impact across the program (like Data Governance, Model Implementation, Red Flag Coverage Assessment, Reporting, Control-Oversight, Policies, Procedures and Training) and to ensure consistency in AML processes without compromising on local coverage requirements.
  • Ensure detailed and exhaustive testing of both data and display through UAT test plans, scenarios, scripts and procedures based on business requirements and/or functional specifications of various AML reports, platforms and systems (case management, negative news, etc.).
  • Ensure that governance and control-oversight framework (including RACI) are being adhered to in BAU tasks as well as ongoing projects (like changes and updates to systems, system modifications. lists updates and platform upgrades); propose and implement if the framework doesn’t exist.

Minimum Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree (or beyond) with outstanding academic credentials
  • 5 – 8 years of relevant industry experience 
  • Professional experience at a large financial institution or financial services data types 
  • Understanding of statistics, different distributions, hypothesis testing, regression etc.
  • Self-sufficiency in SQL (functions, procedures and packages)
  • Data analytics and mining
  •  Excellent Analytical, oral and written communication skills—the ability to communicate with varied audiences and stakeholders (IT, senior management, etc.)
  • Excellent interpersonal skills necessary to work effectively with colleagues

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • AML Data Analytics/science professional that can apply data analysis and statistical modeling techniques to improve a business process and present recommendations, not just results, in a non-technical, business-friendly way for consideration by Compliance senior management stakeholders
  • Experience with data visualization tools like Tableau, Spotfire, Qlikview, Power BI
  • ACAMS certified
  • Experience with AML transaction monitoring tools like Actimize, Mantas, Norkom etc.
  • Good understanding of AML processes and relevant regulatory issues
  • Must possess the ability to research and resolve issues independently while working across teams to acquire information
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and tasks with the skills to adapt to changes in a fast-paced environment

FINRA Registrations Required:  

  • Not Applicable 

CFTC Swap Dealer Associated Person (if yes, NFA Swaps Proficiency Program is required): 

  • Not Applicable 

SEC Security-Based Swap Dealer Associated Person:

  • Not Applicable 

While the description above describes our ideal candidate, we encourage applicants to apply even if they do not fully meet the complete list of qualifications noted.

The expected starting salary range for this position is between $120000 to $185000 annually. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business line, and geographic/office location.

In addition, our comprehensive benefits package aims to support our employees in various aspects of their lives. From healthcare and wellness programs to retirement plans and childcare services, we prioritize the well-being and growth of our employees. Our benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k) Savings Plan, backup childcare, life, accident and disability insurance, mental health support and paid time off. Additional details about our benefits offerings, inclusive of eligibility for a discretionary bonus, will be provided during the hiring process.

About BNP Paribas:

BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach across the US, EMEA and APAC. It has a presence in 65 countries, with nearly 190,000 employees. The bank employs over 3,500 people in offices in the US across 10 states including New York, Jersey City, Chesterbrook, PA, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Miami, and Washington, DC. BNP Paribas has built a strong and diversified presence to support its client base. We continue to grow and strengthen our commitment to the US market through our Corporate & Institutional Banking activities. We are one of a few non-US banks to offer a full value chain for our clients, from trading to financing, and clearing and custody in the US with the international footprint and capacity to deliver both globally and locally. Leveraging the strength of our European roots, our network can support clients in virtually every region of the world, enabling more connectivity and efficiency wherever our clients conduct business. We take pride in our expertise and our ability to adapt while constantly looking ahead to create a more sustainable world.

As an international company with a global footprint, the unique cultures and viewpoints of our team members are an integral part of the fabric of BNP Paribas. We are a company with a purpose – to be a responsible and sustainable global leader. We aim to create an environment where our employees feel empowered to drive change, make an impact and be true to themselves. We employ talented individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, locally and globally, and are inspired by our employees who help us in cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace through initiatives such as our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Forum and Employee Resource Group (ERG) communities. We strive to be a workplace where all team members can grow and thrive and offer robust training, development, and mentoring opportunities to make that vision a reality. Our leaders are deeply committed to DEI and highly accessible to our employees, consistently soliciting feedback on how we can continue to support our employees to reach their highest potential. 

BNP Paribas. The Bank for a Changing World – https://usa.bnpparibas/en/homepage/join-us/our-opportunities/

BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.

Protect yourself from fraudulent job postings. Emails about jobs at BNP Paribas will always come from addresses ending @bnpparibas.com @us.bnpparibas.com, @ca.bnpparibas.com, or @br.bnpparibas.com. You should be suspicious of emails regarding employment with BNP Paribas coming from any other domains and should not respond. BNP Paribas will never send payments to or request payments from candidates for positions posted by BNP Paribas.  

Business Overview:

BNP Paribas’ Global Markets (GM) business offers a broad range of products and services in the global interest rate, credit, currency, equities & commodity markets. Global Markets help their franchise of clients find effective ways to raise and invest capital as well as manage their exposure to risk. Their client base comprises of hundreds of corporations, institutional investors, banks, governments and supranational organizations. Global Markets has the scale and reach to conduct business anywhere in the world and deliver products denominated in almost all of the world’s currencies. Their global network comprises more than 3,000 professionals working on our six main trading floors in London, Hong Kong, New York, Paris, Singapore and Tokyo. They are supported by regional offices throughout Europe, the Americas, Middle East and Asia-Pacific.

The Client Integration Team is a critical component of our organization, playing a key role in facilitating seamless onboarding of our clients across various segments, including Hedge Funds, Regulated Funds, Banks, Insurance companies, Pension Funds, and Public Institutions. Our team’s mission is to partner with Sales and Relationship Managers to ensure efficient and effective integration of new clients, enabling them to fully leverage our services and solutions. To achieve this, we collaborate closely with various internal stakeholders and functions, including Know Your Customer (KYC), Credit, Regulatory, and Legal teams, to ensure a comprehensive and compliant onboarding process. By working closely with these teams and the Sales teams and RMs, we strive to deliver exceptional client experiences, drive business growth, and strengthen our relationships with key stakeholders.

Candidate Success Factors:

Candidates are measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:

  • Results and Impact
    • Able to influence peers and team.
    • Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact.
    • Exercise appropriate autonomy in the execution and delivery of work. 
    • Responsible for driving outcomes, which have meaningful effect on team or department.
  • Leadership and Collaboration:
    • Creates trust with colleagues.
    • Acts in leadership capacity for projects, processes, or programs.
  • Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus: 
    • Able to build relationships with a mix of colleagues and clients.
    • Interacts regularly with management and department leaders.
    • Demonstrates the ability to influence stakeholders at the team level. 
  • Compliance Culture and Conduct: 
    • Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts.
    • Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards.

Responsibilities: 

  • Responsible for overseeing the onboarding process for new Clients and maintaining existing relationships as part of the end-to-end client coordination process
  • Establish end-to-end client management processes and enforce through policies and procedures 
  • Facilitate Global coordination and collaboration with various stakeholders (KYC, Credit, Legal, Compliance; Sales, Relationship Managers; Regulatory) 
  • Responsible for regulatory requirements collection, review and adherence 
  • Ensure internal/external systems setup 
  • Oversee the mitigation of risks related to the processes; facilitate escalations when required 
  • Participate, as needed, in external & internal audits of the Bank’s functions and processes.
  • Set an example and promote a culture of delivery excellence within the team, encourage an environment of openness that welcomes effective challenge and supports open discussion.
  • Monitor the ongoing production process and the effective utilization of resources.
  • Act on feedback from client reviews to maintain client satisfaction.
  • Assist in dealing with technical queries from clients / auditors / internal stakeholders.
  • Take responsibility for personal development and training.

Minimum Required Qualifications:

  • 3-5 years of Client Management, Operations, Credit, Due Diligence, and/or Legal Negotiations experience
  • Understanding of relevant legal agreements (ISDA/CSA, GMRA, MSFTA, Side Letters, NDA’s, ETSA, Options Agreements etc.)
  • Understanding how a large financial institution operates, with knowledge of both trade and client lifecycles.
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Strong functional expertise in one or more areas (Risk, Legal, Due Diligence, Client Management, Operations)
  • Deep understanding of banking regulations and operations 

FINRA Registrations Required:  

  • Not Applicable 

CFTC Swap Dealer Associated Person (if yes, NFA Swaps Proficiency Program is required): 

  • Not Applicable 

SEC Security-Based Swap Dealer Associated Person:

  • Not Applicable 

While the description above describes our ideal candidate, we encourage applicants to apply even if they do not fully meet the complete list of qualifications noted.

The expected starting salary range for this position is between $80,000 to $105,000 annually. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business line, and geographic/office location.

In addition, our comprehensive benefits package aims to support our employees in various aspects of their lives. From healthcare and wellness programs to retirement plans and childcare services, we prioritize the well-being and growth of our employees. Our benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k) Savings Plan, backup childcare, life, accident and disability insurance, mental health support and paid time off. Additional details about our benefits offerings, inclusive of eligibility for a discretionary bonus, will be provided during the hiring process.

About BNP Paribas:

BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach across the US, EMEA and APAC. It has a presence in 65 countries, with nearly 190,000 employees. The bank employs over 3,500 people in offices in the US across 10 states including New York, Jersey City, Chesterbrook, PA, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Miami, and Washington, DC. BNP Paribas has built a strong and diversified presence to support its client base. We continue to grow and strengthen our commitment to the US market through our Corporate & Institutional Banking activities. We are one of a few non-US banks to offer a full value chain for our clients, from trading to financing, and clearing and custody in the US with the international footprint and capacity to deliver both globally and locally. Leveraging the strength of our European roots, our network can support clients in virtually every region of the world, enabling more connectivity and efficiency wherever our clients conduct business. We take pride in our expertise and our ability to adapt while constantly looking ahead to create a more sustainable world.

As an international company with a global footprint, the unique cultures and viewpoints of our team members are an integral part of the fabric of BNP Paribas. We are a company with a purpose – to be a responsible and sustainable global leader. We aim to create an environment where our employees feel empowered to drive change, make an impact and be true to themselves. We employ talented individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, locally and globally, and are inspired by our employees who help us in cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace through initiatives such as our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Forum and Employee Resource Group (ERG) communities. We strive to be a workplace where all team members can grow and thrive and offer robust training, development, and mentoring opportunities to make that vision a reality. Our leaders are deeply committed to DEI and highly accessible to our employees, consistently soliciting feedback on how we can continue to support our employees to reach their highest potential. 

BNP Paribas. The Bank for a Changing World – https://usa.bnpparibas/en/homepage/join-us/our-opportunities/

BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.

Protect yourself from fraudulent job postings. Emails about jobs at BNP Paribas will always come from addresses ending @bnpparibas.com @us.bnpparibas.com, @ca.bnpparibas.com, or @br.bnpparibas.com. You should be suspicious of emails regarding employment with BNP Paribas coming from any other domains and should not respond. BNP Paribas will never send payments to or request payments from candidates for positions posted by BNP Paribas.