Kyc Associate

Position Purpose

Responsible to manage the daily operations/ workflow relating to various client/Trading portfolios across CIB business, ensuring high-quality service to internal and external clients of BNP Paribas in the three departments of CEP, Global Markets and ALMT Operations.

Understanding of Investment Banking operations.

Collaborate with the team to achieve common goals and devise innovative problem-solving strategies. Plan and prioritize work efficiently.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities can be in any of the following departments managing daily Transaction Processing Operations.

CEP  KYC Operations, Client Referential, Client Services, OCRM and AML transaction monitoring.

GMO - Processing & Support: Trade Processing, DEC Operations, Clearing and Settlement Operations, Instrument Data Ops Referential, External Reconciliations, Asset Servicing & Tax, Inventory Management, Payments, Client Services, Post settlement reconciliation, Regulatory Reporting, and other transversal services.

Product Control: PNL and Valuations Control, Reconciliation & Control, Compression, OTC- Documentation, Trading and Portfolio Controls, OTC, LD Trade Validation and Securities Trade

Validation & Docs.

1. Maintain effective communication channels with peer groups.

2. Collaborate with internal teams and escalate unresolved issues promptly.

3. Participate in brainstorming sessions and cross training to share best practices and ideas.

4. Responding to client queries & Front office queries.

5. Liaison with trading desk and related stakeholders to escalate any trade or booking issues.

6. To perform day-to-day trade & position reconciliation and analyze all the breaks arisen from the related reconciliation reports to ensure proper control and measure the associated risks on all outstanding breaks.

7. Validate the trades in the booking systems.

8. Perform standardized and specific controls as per control plan and upon agreed schedule.

9. Provide standardized and specific reports as per requirement and upon agreed schedule.

10. Contribute to transversal projects coordinated by Projects teams.

11. Contribute to Risk Control framework: End-of-day Risk Limits, Intraday Risk Limits and Trader Mandates.

12. Ensure that daily end-of-day/intraday limits and mandate breaches are investigated, understood, promptly escalated according to the global policy and all the comments are well documented in the daily/weekly/monthly summary reports and Dashboard.

13. Summarize and report outstanding issues to global V&RC management, coordinate to resolve the issue.

14. Validate the official Economical P&L figures and the related P&L explains and investigate the discrepancies with the Front Office Predict.

15. Participate to global projects, local projects and improvement of the productivity within the team by proposing initiatives.

16. Accountable for end-to-end transaction management lifecycle for their respective client coverage.

17. Collaborate with technology/support team to help identify internal and external facing technology improvement opportunities.

18. Perform due diligence on Institutional clients across all risks for SDD, CDD & EDD files.

19. Perform required KYC screenings on customers documenting the information obtained on the clients as required by global KYC procedure.

20. Process the reconciliation vis--vis the clearing house (trades, position, premium, Initial margin, variation margin, fees etc.) for various Asian markets.

Contributing ideas to improve the process by identifying appropriate control measures.

Technical & Behavioural competencies

• •       University Graduate in Finance or Operations
• •       Knowledge of Capital Markets, Financial Instruments, and Investment Banking.
• •       Proficient in MS Office, especially Excel.
• •       Strong analytical, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• •       Collaborative mind-set
• •       Ability to handle high workloads, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines.
• •       Team player, flexible to work in shifts.
• • Results-oriented & client focus