Job Description

- Product Controller

About BNP Paribas Group:

BNP Paribas Group is a leading European bank with a strong global footprint across 72 markets and more than 190,000 employees. The Group provides corporates, institutional and private investors with product and service solutions tailored to their specific needs. It offers a wide range of financial services covering corporate & institutional banking, wealth management, asset management, insurance, as well as retail banking and consumer financing through strategic partnerships.

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 also known as COCE (client operating center of excellence) is further divided into 4 departments i.e. Trade Processing & Support, PnL, Client Management & Change Management. Product Control in the wider market outside of BNP is Middle Office. Product Control consists of streams like Documentation & Reconciliation, Trade Support, P&L & Trading Portfolio & controls. Product Control teams are in regular contact with Market Front Office, Regional Back Office's and Regional Finance & other support teams for their BAU.

Job Title:

Assistant Manager/Manager (Rates/Fixed Income)

Date:

10th Aug 2022

Department:

Product control Stream 6

Location:

Bangalore

Business Line / Function:

COCE Product Control / PnL

Reports to:

(Direct)

Head of the Team

Grade:

(if applicable)

NA

(Functional)

NA

Number of Direct Reports:

0

Directorship / Registration:

NA

Position Purpose

• Provide a daily Economic, Step Reval and Risk Based PNL to each desk and to the Bank's management.
• Ensure that the PNL is calculated from the reference positions and that these positions are real and checked.
• Escalate any unusual P&L to the desk and management that may indicate a wrong position or transaction in the FO system.
• Run all the required controls on key elements of the PNL
• Document all exceptional PNL moves and adjustments for Management.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Produce accurate daily analysis of P&Ls to Trading desks and bank's management. This includes the 3 different P&L analysis required by the internal Valuation Policy and Regulators:
• Economic P&L (cash + PV) for Management and Accounting P&L reconciliation (performed by Finance)
• Step Reval P&L for VaR back-testing feeds and contribution to Regulatory ratios (used in the Dodd Franck and French Banking Law ratio calculations)
• Risk based P&L to validate the FO risk and models.
• Responsible for daily and monthly controls on key elements (positions, market data, adjustments, reserves) and liaise with internal departments in case of issues.
• Perform FO/MO reconciliations between Trading P&L estimations at T and Official MO P&L at T+ 1 and both explain and investigate P&L breaks to FO if any.
• Adjust the P&L if necessary to secure correct P&L reporting and document each
• Monitor daily Funding and fees.
• Interact daily with traders to explain the results of their P&Ls and seek their daily sign-off.
• Report, Comment and Validate the P&Ls into the Official Reporting tool
• Monitor and reconcile monthly R-IM and V&RC reserves during EOM process.
• Active follow up on updating documentation.
• Organize a monthly meeting with trading to go through all P&L issues during the last month.
• Escalate issues to management on the fly and via Orus.
• Confirm PV to dependent team/business.

Contributing Responsibilities

• Participate to global projects related to MO or P&L processes improvements.
• Participate to local projects related to systems migrations.
• Participate to the improvement of the productivity within the team by proposing initiatives

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

• Strong understanding of Bonds, Interest rates and FX products including its models and valuations
• Competency with MS Suite, especially Excel
• Communication Skills
• Decision Making
• Adaptability & Change Management:
• Ability to develop and leverage networks
• Ability to develop and adapt a process
• Result oriented approach
• Collaborate with remote teams

Specific Qualifications (if required)

• Attention to detail: Ability to notice any abnormal processes as well as any unusual dividends or prices for instance when monitoring and reconciling the various market data.
• Adaptability & Change Management: Ability to easily adapt to new situations (new booking systems, new products, new activities to manage...) as this is a constant changing environment
• Strong Client Focus: Capacity to work with various clients, especially FO. Need to be sensitive about the rationale of their requests and be proactive when replying to them. Work as partnership while consistently keeping an independent mindset.
• Escalation & Reporting process: Internal rules of reporting and escalation to Ops and FO need to be known & applied. The team member also needs to report any sensitive information/issues and escalate immediately to their management to allow proper time resolution

Skills Referential

Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Critical thinking

Creativity & Innovation / Problem solving

Resilience

Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)

Ability to set up relevant performance indicators

Ability to develop others & improve their skills

Analytical Ability

Ability to develop and adapt a process

Ability to understand, explain and support change

Education Level:

Bachelor/Masters Degree and or CA/CFA/FRM or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 5-8 years of experience in Product Control - P&L domain

Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)