Role description
An element to ensure that Client remains to be perceived as a “trusted financial companion”, the bank has to provide certainty: it has to minimise the error impact and put the customer first. The staff of Operational Permanent Control (OPC) guarantees that at all time the operational risks are under control. These risks are front-to-back and include the aspects of Fraud, Conduct, Compliance, Regulatory, ICT Risk, Third Party and other risk types identified with other internal control functions to which our teams at Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB: forex, interest rate derivatives, securities, structured/syndicated loans, mergers…) are exposed.
Within the department of Corporate Banking:
we provide advice to improve / correct operational risks / hiccups (flaws, regulatory non-conformity, etc.);
we (co)define and draw attention to upcoming changes having an impact on the operational risk profile;
we report control results and status of remediating actions, with escalation (if needed).
To able to guarantee the above, we are in regular contact with the Business Managers in our scope (Front-to-Ops), the Functions of the Bank (Risk, Compliance, etc.), and the Internal Audit.
Within CIB Client , we are regularly in contact with our colleagues in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle-East, and Africa) – especially with our colleagues in Paris – to:
guarantee that we are in line with the recent developments at the level of Group client;
ensure the local deployment of these developments;
contribute to the harmonisation of the instruments for operational risks management and measurement.
Function Description:
OPC CIB client is looking for an administrative / operational profile with a first experience as project officer to strengthen the team to:
Take up a small portfolio of controls to execute;
lead a small project around procedure management ensuring that the inventory is up-to-date (metadata wise), creation of work instructions for the two procedure management tools, creation of a check-list ensuring the right level of quality per procedure revision, etc.
work with team colleagues on the control cartography for Global Banking (structured loans) to guarantee a full view on the controls applicable and performed in our teams in Brussels, Paris, and Lisbon and identify them upstream in the common control Group tool enabling us to report them quarterly in the risk committees.
More smaller projects can be added along the way.
Required experience / knowledge
Mandatory skills
Strong technical writing skills
Excellent experience with Excel (handling high volumes of data)
Good expertise in the other MS Office tools
Business experience
Mandatory
Business knowledge of Capital Markets /credits and its risks;
Preferable
Knowledge of the different aspects of the Compliance domains (including the regulatory aspects).
Soft skills:You have an analytical mind-set and an affinity with IT;
You are autonomous and you have strong organisational and prioritisation skills;
You are pragmatic and you use objective elements to convince our stakeholders;
You are a team player;
You make easily contact and you feel yourself comfortable to negotiate and defend your ideas.
