BNP Paribas

Vice President-Head of Strategic Tools

BNP Paribas$140K — $205K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7 years in IT Front Office
  • Experience with market making software
  • Knowledge in risk and P&L software
  • Strong equity or fixed income knowledge
  • Proficient in software development
  • Exceptional communication skills
  • Proven ability to lead teams and projects

Responsibilities

  • Drive digital transformation of Neat, Allegro, and CB platforms globally
  • Maintain clear communication with US trading desks and CB trading teams
  • Prioritize tasks, provide arbitration, and update on progress
  • Uphold development best practices within the team
  • Lead hiring, development, and performance evaluations
  • Ensure high quality in managing vulnerabilities and regulatory compliance
  • Act as a senior technical and functional leader
  • Ensure platform stability for Neat, Allegro, and CB globally

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) Savings Plan
  • Backup childcare services
  • Life, accident, and disability insurance
  • Mental health support
  • Generous paid time off
  • Eligibility for discretionary bonus
Full Job Description
Business Overview:

Global Markets IT Risk & P&L (GMRiPL) employs staff across London, Paris, NewYork, India and Asia, building software for Risk, P&L, Financial Resources and Referential data.

The department develops tools that assess and report risk for every trade across all asset classes. These overnight or real-time solutions rely heavily on quantitative models and the bank's massive computation farm.

Our P&L systems quantify the bank's profit or loss and explain drivers-distinguishing market-wide trends from strategy effects, and high-risk, high-margin trades from large volumes of low-risk, low-margin activity.

The Neat and Allegro are developing a framework allowing trading and sales to aggregate and visualize a wide range of financial data in flexible dashboard. The team is primary based in Europe and have US presence to support local business.

The Convertible Bond IT team is part of GM RiPL and focuses on Convertible Bond market making software (CB Monitor) allowing the CB business to offer secondary market to its clients. The team is co-located in US and UK.

The position will encompass these two teams as part of this stream called Strategic Tools.

Candidate Success Factors:

Candidates are measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:
  • Results and Impact
    • Able to influence peers and team.
    • Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact.
    • Exercise appropriate autonomy in the execution and delivery of work.
    • Responsible for driving outcomes, which have meaningful effect on team or department.
  • Leadership and Collaboration:
    • Creates trust with colleagues.
    • Acts in leadership capacity for projects, processes, or programs.
  • Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus:
    • Able to build relationships with a mix of colleagues and clients.
    • Interacts regularly with management and department leaders.
    • Demonstrates the ability to influence stakeholders at the team level.
  • Compliance Culture and Conduct:
    • Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts.
    • Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards.

Responsibilities:

  • Drive digital transformation of Neat, Allegro in Amer and CB platform globally
  • Ensure transparent communication with US traders and CB trading desks across the world
  • Ensure and communicate clear prioritization, arbitration and progress updates
  • Ensure respect of development best practices within the team
  • Lead hiring process, people development and performance reviews to support the staffing strategy
  • Guarantee high level of quality vulnerability, obsolescence, devops and regulatory topics
  • Act as a senior technical and functional leader
  • Ensure stability of the Neat, Allegro in Amer and CB Platform globally


Minimum Required Qualifications:

  • 7 years in IT Front Office
  • Experience on market making softwares
  • Experience on risk and pnl softwares
  • Strong equity or fixed income knowledge
  • Strong software development knowledge
  • Strong communication skills
  • Capacity to lead teams and project

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 10 years in IT Front Office
  • Experience on market making softwares
  • Experience on risk and pnl softwares
  • Strong equity knowledge
  • Strong software development knowledge (ideally c++, c#)
  • Strong communication skills
  • Previous management experience

FINRA Registrations Required:

  • Not Applicable

CFTC Swap Dealer Associated Person (if yes, NFA Swaps Proficiency Program is required):
  • Not Applicable

SEC Security-Based Swap Dealer Associated Person:

  • Not Applicable

While the description above describes our ideal candidate, we encourage applicants to apply even if they do not fully meet the complete list of qualifications noted.

The expected starting salary range for this position is between $140,000 to $205,000 annually. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business line, and geographic/office location.

In addition, our comprehensive benefits package aims to support our employees in various aspects of their lives. From healthcare and wellness programs to retirement plans and childcare services, we prioritize the well-being and growth of our employees. Our benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k) Savings Plan, backup childcare, life, accident and disability insurance, mental health support and paid time off. Additional details about our benefits offerings, inclusive of eligibility for a discretionary bonus, will be provided during the hiring process.

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