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 is BNP Paribas’ capital markets business within the Corporate & Institutional Bank (CIB), delivering solutions across asset classes, and industry-leading services for clients including Institutional, corporate, private banks and retail distribution networks.

Global Markets encompasses seven global business lines; G10 Rates, Equity Derivatives, Forex & Local Markets, Commodity Derivatives, Credit, Prime Solutions & Financing and Primary Markets, helping their franchise of clients find effective ways to raise and invest capital as well as manage their exposure to risk.

Global Markets is made up of over 3,700 staff globally based in EMEA, the Americas and Asia Pacific, with the main trading floors located in London, Hong Kong, New York, Paris, Singapore and Tokyo.

Job Purpose

In partnership with marketers and trading, the Digital role helps deliver the Digital component of the overall client strategy across Global Macro. To work in coordination with the Global Macro sales & trading teams in executing the GBLs electronic and digital strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Developing and marketing the digital platform and BNPP digital tools capabilities across Global Macro.
To work in coordination with the Global Macro sales & trading teams in executing the GBLs electronic and digital strategy.
To monitor client activity - prepare various analysis and dashboards using Client data, activity statistics, overall performance across tools - and work with product managers, sales and trading teams to increase client activity on the platform and set development plans and delivery.
Develop understanding of industry trends on digital topics to ensure our FX business remains cutting edge.
Work with the distribution teams, product specialists and IT to understand and optimize front to back workflows.
Directing contribution to BNPP operational permanent control framework.
Understanding and valuing all business and transaction related risks, including market, credit, operational, compliance, legal, regulatory and reputation risks.

Requirements

Experience, Qualifications and Competencies

The Macro Digital role is expected to demonstrate the below listed skills and competencies at least at basic level.

Behaviour Skills

Ability to deliver / Results driven

Delivers tasks fully completed on time, based on objectives fixed.
Where relevant, works without supervision and asks for help and feedback when necessary.

Resilience

Has confidence in their own ability in relation to their daily duties and is aware of their own capabilities and limitations.
Remains composed when facing challenges.

Creativity & innovation/ problem solving

Takes interest in implementing new or innovative ideas, solutions, approaches and methods, testing them and suggesting improvement when relevant.
Shows curiosity in order to develop new ideas and different approaches.
Contributes to brainstorming sessions in order to find creative solutions or generate new ideas.

Client focused

Values positive and negative feedback from both internal and external clients. Takes necessary actions to either improve their client support/response or escalate to the appropriate person/service.
Is available and pleasant; understands clients’ needs and provides answers within their perimeter of responsibilities.

Proactivity

Takes into account the context of different circumstances to find opportunities and propose answers.
Actively identifies different types of development plans and is able to adjust and implement new practices accordingly.
Finds ways to learn more about topics directly related to their work, by being aware of the trends and main changes in their field of expertise.
Go the extra mile, additional reading, learning something new, ask questions if unsure, all helps to enhance career development.

Transversal Skills

Analytical Ability

Understands and selects information that is useful for performing the job.
Based on various data sources, can break down a problem into simple and complementary elements.
Identifies links or patterns between elements/situations/information.

Ability to develop and leverage networks

Work towards developing and maintaining a network of relationships internally and externally that they can contact to get help or support.

Ability to set up relevant performance indicator

Knows and uses key performance indicators.
Is able to produce simple indicators on their activity and scope.
Produces charts that are compliant to the company’s rules and norms to identify significant gaps in terms of performance.

Ability to develop and adapt a process

Able to adapt simple existing processes within their scope of action.

Business Skills

Data Mining & Processing
Disruptive Innovation
Business / IT relationship

Market, Product & Business

Is genuinely interested in financial markets and continually learning and staying abreast of new developments. Evidences a good appreciation of economics and market dynamics, with enough understanding to present views on market conditions and trends.

Business Risk

Demonstrates a good awareness of risk and fundamental risk concepts. Always considers risk in his/her daily activities and abides by the Key Front Officer Responsibilities and Guidelines.
Understands the market, credit, operational, compliance, legal, regulatory and reputational risks of transactions he/ she manages.

Conduct

Be a role model, supporting and fostering a culture of good conduct.
Demonstrate proactivity, transparency, and accountability for identifying and managing conduct risks.
Consider the implications of your actions on colleagues.

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).

PLEASE NOTE

You may only apply to four Long Term Internships over the course of a year. These may be across any business area.
Successful candidates for this long term internship will be considered for London ONLY.
Please discuss the available start dates with your interviewers.

Unsuccessful candidates’ CVs will be shared with other teams within BNP Paribas and considered for potentially suitable roles. In this way we hope to maximise opportunities for candidates and hiring teams. By submitting your CV for this role you agree to it being shared securely with other hiring teams within BNP Paribas for the relevant recruitment round.

Location: London

Duration: 11 months

A Bit More About Why You Should Join Us

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
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.

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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