Associate Level 1

**DEC -Clearing**

**About BNP Paribas Group**:
BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a presence in 71 countries, with approximately 199,000 employees. The Group has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. The Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporate and institutional clients) to realise their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance.

**About BNP Paribas India Solutions**:
Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas Group, a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. With delivery centers located in Mumbai and Chennai, we are a 24x7 global delivery center. We partner various business lines of BNP Paribas such as Corporate and Institutional Banking, Wealth Management, Retail Banking through three verticals - Information Technology, Operations and Finance Shared Services.

**About Business line/Function**:
Global Market Operations (GMO) covers Front Office activities such as ALM/Treasury and Fixed Income local booking. GMO consists of various streams, Control and Investigations, Settlement, Collateral and Reconciliation. GMO teams are also in regular contact with Capital Market Middle Office, Regional Back Office’s and Regional Finance.

**Job Title**:
Associate /Sr. Associate

**Date**:
2021

**Department**:
DEC- Clearing

**Location**:
Bengaluru

**Business Line / Function**:
Derivatives Execution & Clearing Operations

**Reports to**:
(Direct)

Team leader/Assistant Manager

**Grade**:
(if applicable)

NA

(Functional)

**Number of Direct Reports**:
NA

**Directorship / Registration**:
NA

**Position Purpose**:
Work effectively with team members to accomplish common goals. Generate creative solutions to problems, Ability to plan work ahead and to prioritize workload in an organized manner.

Undertake a variety of financial and non-financial tasks in order to help guarantee the company’s revenues; handle the processing of incoming payments along with the issuing of necessary paperwork.

**Responsibilities**

Middle-office
- Be the 1st point of contact for all counterparties (clients, brokers, CCPs) with regards to trade allocation/clearing
- Top day trade monitoring and allocation for involved exchanges to ensure STP trade flow
- Follow up of pending trades closely and ensure all clients trades are booked at T day
- Perform timely reconciliation between internal systems and Exchanges ones
- Identify, assess, monitor and control the risks of the activity

Back office
- Clearing Houses vs Back Office Reconciliations (margins, premiums, positions, initial margins)
- Ensure that reports sent to clients are reliable
- Manage daily payments and intra-day margin calls
- Ensure that all clients related issues, queries and request are addressed in an efficient, accurate and timely manner
- Monitoring of corporate action events impacting the underlying contracts
- Follow up of instructions settlement processing
- Maintenance of the accountancy balance (Market fees reconciliation, CCP vs client cash flows )
- Participate in projects to drive the business forward to deliver internal or market system releases (Market releases, MO/BO tools enhancements )
- Monitoring position for T and t+1
- Process the reconciliation vis-à-vis the clearing house (trades, position, premium, Initial margin, variation margin, fees etc.) for various markets across globe.
- Follow-up & solving client queries
- Adhere to daily checklist to ensure controls are followed.
- Contributing ideas to improve the process by identifying appropriate control measures.
- Ensure importance is given to four eye validation for each activity
- Ensure proper documentation for the purpose of risk and audit trail
- Abiding the Service Level Agreements.
- Ability to work independently, as well as in a team environment, prioritizes multiple

Tasks and meets strict deadlines.
- Highlight any unresolved open items to the respective process Managers.

**Risk control**
- Monitor activity progress against the goals and take appropriate corrective action as and when it is required
- Control and ensure that all tasks are processed accurately and on a timely manner
- Identify risk, suggest implementation of a first level of control.

**Contributing** **Responsibilities**
- Deal with client and brokers issues escalated by the team and share it with the management when appropriate
- Participate in client visits (if required) and conference calls
- client focus
- Collaborate /Liaise with other BNPP teams/stakeholders.
- Ensure that procedures are updated and validated on a timely manner
- Perform an