Senior Desk Captain - Global Markets IT - Vice President

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Company purpose:

Our company purpose is to contribute to a responsible and sustainable economy by financing and advising clients according to the highest ethical standards.

Our employer promise is built around three pillars:

• Being a great place to work

• Committed to sustainability and having a positive impact

• Being dedicated to the development of our people

Business area

Global Markets (GM) IT Risk and P&L development consists of approximately 400 people spread between London, Paris, New York, India and Asia, developing software to support systems for Risk, P&L and Financial Resources data for Global Markets.

Within GM IT Risk and P&L development, the Data Services team are responsible for key systems for storing, aggregating and reporting Global Markets Risk and P&L data.

Job purpose

As a Senior Desk Captain, you will play a pivotal role in advancing the data quality and governance across Global Markets, taking ownership of overall topics concerning the various Global Markets value chains. This position focuses on vital operations including Front Office to RISK, and Front Office to Finance & Operations. You will lead efforts to establish stringent frameworks, refine issue management processes, and remediate issues to ensure operational efficiency and compliance with regulatory standards.

Key responsibilities

• Take responsibility for overall topics (for example but not limited to CCR, FRTB PLA, SA) and ensure the processes for each topic are well understood by the desk captains working on this topic.
  • Ensure that the Target Operating model is well established for any topic you take responsibility for.
  • Ensure that the interactions and responsibilities between all stakeholders (including GM IT Dev, APS, QM Quant Research, Risk and Front Office) are clearly defined.
  • Ensure that effective monitoring and reporting solutions are put in place to track the efficiency of the various chains involved.
  • Define and build Key Performance Indicators and use them to communicate performance to senior stakeholders.
• Act as a subject matter expert for the topics that you are involved in, including mentoring of junior team members and training of people in other teams in the topics you are covering.
• Monitor and analyse daily data accuracy and integrity across critical processes such as booking trade lifecycle, market data, fixing, pricing, and risk management of portfolios.
• Stream issue identification and assigning resolutions to relevant teams for prompt remediation. Work closely with CCR, T2RS, RISK, GMQR, IT, and Ops teams. Manage escalation processes.
• Addressing structural issues and driving strategic remediation by proposing actionable solutions to technical teams.
• Identify system inefficiencies and exploring potential synergies and improvements across platforms.
• Escalate significant issues to relevant forums (e.g., DATA CORE, GBL CORE, Data Quality Oversight Panel).
• Monitor and report on the effectiveness of implemented fixes, providing actionable insights and recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Raise any potential refinements in issue management procedures to streamline the identification, analysis, and resolution of data quality issues.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience of communicating with senior stakeholders in Front Office, GM QR, Risk and Middle Office.
• Expert knowledge of at least one business line and a strong understanding of Global Markets, in particular topics concerning Risk and P&L.
• Strong technical skills and knowledge of global markets systems, to the level where you can converse easily with the development teams involved.
• Strong understanding of financial markets, data management processes, and regulatory standards.
• In-depth knowledge of the production chain and global markets systems.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for interaction with a wide range of production teams and managers.
• Expert data analysis skills to identify and classify issues from large sets of daily production data.
• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Good knowledge of desk-specific products and risks.
• Ability to follow risk and market evolution.

The above skills are not necessarily expected at the start of the role, but a willingness and openness to train and develop into this role under the guidance of existing experts is crucial.

And of course, we expect all our colleagues to embody and practice the Group values (alignment with the Bank's strategy, commitment, work ethic, integrity and Code of Conduct).

A bit more about why you should join us

1. We're a great place to work

We aim for optimal work/life balance (depending on role, this includes hybrid working, flexible working and agile)

We are proud of our award-winning flexible benefits and health & wellbeing strategy. Our flexible benefits include:

• Generous holiday allowance of at least 26 days (plus bank holidays) with option to buy and sell holidays.

• Valuable financial plans a 12% non-contributory pension which has been moved to sustainable investments*, life assurance*, income protection and personal accident insurance.

• Extensive wellbeing and mental health offering one of the most advanced private medical schemes in the UK, dental cover, wellbeing app, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy support, subsidised gym memberships, bespoke health assessments including genetic testing, Private GP (including digital GP services to parents of employees), Employee Assistance Programme, menopause & fertility support (we are an accredited Menopause Friendly Employer), neurodiversity assessment and support.

• Key onsite services and facilities in London include physiotherapy, nutrition, massage therapy, physiology, mental health first aiders, seasonal flu vaccinations and free onsite fitness centre.

• Plus, emergency back-up care for dependants, green car leasing, season ticket loan, and a range of other benefits.

* Subject to relevant caps

2. As the eurozone's largest bank, we are committed to having a positive impact in the world.

For example, we are committed to Net Zero in all of our financing and investment portfolios by 2050. By 2030, 80% of our energy production financing will be low carbon.

But impact for us means more than climate. It means empowering our people every day. Everyone gets four volunteering days each year - in 2023, we achieved over 18,000 hours of volunteering across the UK and reaching over 4,500 young people.

3. We believe in our people

We support our people to develop skills to adapt to the ever-evolving world of work and to prepare for the jobs of today and tomorrow. We do this through a comprehensive training offering, talent programmes, mentoring, career days and inhouse career tools.

We are proud of the number of our people who progress and secure new roles internally. In fact, in 2023, nearly half of our positions in UK CIB were filled internally.

Investing in our people also means we have a collaborative and inclusive culture:

• Direct feedback from our people shows that our internal culture sets us apart from our industry peers.

• Each year, nearly 30,000 employees globally are involved in professional networks that play an active role in promoting Diversity and Inclusion within the Group. These include our:

Pride Network, Ability Network (which supports disabled employees), MixCity (gender equality network), Women in Global Markets, Women in Global Banking, Women in IT, Diversity Equity & Inclusion in Technology, Early Careers Network, Multicultural Network and Parents & Carers Network.

Equal opportunities

BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.

Adjustments

We don't want anyone to be disadvantaged in our recruitment processes, so if you have a disability or health condition which may mean that you'd benefit from some adjustments or additional support, please let us know as early in the process as possible.

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