Data Quality Analyst

Job description

BNP Paribas is a leading European bank with an international reach. It has a presence in 74 countries, with more than 192,000 employees – including more than 146,000 in Europe and over 4,000 in Portugal alone.

BNP Paribas is present in Portugal since 1985, having been one of the first foreign banks to operate in the country. Today, BNP Paribas has several entities operating directly in this territory, offering a wide range of integrated financial solutions to support its clients and their businesses.

Worldwide, 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.

BNP Paribas is recruiting for its European Finance Operations Center in Lisbon, part of the Group Finance function. Group Finance is responsible for compiling and processing accounting and financial information in order to ensure its publication and to provide Executive Management with the necessary information for the entire Group's financial management.

Within GFS, Credit Risk Reporting covers the production and analysis of credit risk regulatory reporting for the Group, as well as sub-groups such as BNP Paribas Personal Finance, BNP Paribas Fortis and BGL BNP Paribas.

Reports are provided to external bodies, including the ECB (European Central Bank), ACPR (French banking regulator), BIS (Bank of International Settlements), Bank of France as well as internal stakeholders (Top Management, Management Control, Risk Functions, Business Lines).

Activities performed by the Credit Risk Reporting team are mainly related to:

• Solvency reporting (COREP, Basel II & III, Pillar III, Large Exposures)

• Regulatory reporting: International commitments, SREP (Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process)

• Collective provisions calculation and analysis

Reports are created based on the collection of detailed information provided by the entities and business lines of BNP Paribas using Group reporting tools. Results are controlled, analysed and completed with accounting data in order to ensure that the reports are exhaustive.

In this context, the main objective of a member of the Data Quality team is to improve the quality of the reports produce by the analysts. A member of this team can be involved in improving the flows received, the process applied by the analysts and more generally the CRR department activity.

ROLE AND RESPONSABILITIES

· Process control, planning of production, internal audits, process improvement
· Produce data quality reporting
· Regularly update the management of the department of progress achieved
· Monitor the effective implementation of the major action plans
· Coordination with related businesses (Risk, Finance, Capital Manager)

PROFILE

· Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Business or related field
· Knowledge of prudential and regulatory environments (Basel III, COREP, FINREP) is a plus
· Knowledge of international accounting framework (IFRS standards) is a plus
· Experience with Microsoft tools (Excel, Power Point, Word and Access)
· Experience with SQL
· Fluent in English
· Knowledge of French is a plus / Willing to learn, to explore new languages (French)
· Strong analytical and problem solving skills
· Relationship & communication skills
· Ability to adapt to changing regulatory and IFRS environments
· Ability to work under tight deadlines

BNP Paribas is an equal opportunity employer and proud to provide equal employment opportunity to all job seekers. We are actively committed to ensuring that no individual is discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Equity and diversity are at the core of our recruitment policy because we believe that they foster creativity and efficiency which in turn increase performance and productivity. We strive to reflect the society we live in, while keeping with the image of our clients.