Senior Administrator

SENIOR ADMINISTRATOR - TRADE MANAGEMENT (JOB NUMBER: 21910)

**BNP Paribas Securities Services is a multi-asset servicing specialist with local expertise in 36 markets around the world and a global reach covering 95 markets.**
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**This extensive network enables us to provide our institutional investor clients with the connectivity and local knowledge they need to navigate change in a fast-moving world.
**As of 31 December 2016, BNP Paribas Securities Services had USD 9,070 trillion in assets under custody, USD 2,067 trillion in assets under administration, 10,166 funds administered and over 10,080 employees.**

We are looking to recruit a Senior Administrator to join our Trade Management and Treasury Department within Middle Office. The team provide administration activities which support trade settlement in the market and accurate start of day positions for our client. This support includes:
Trade capture across Securities, FX and Money Market products-
- Trade matching via electronic platform and manual confirmations-
- Trade settlement-
- Cash and Stock Reconciliation-
- Client, Broker and Custodian ReportingThe Trade Management team is responsible for the above client service in relation to securitised products including equities, bonds and unit trusts and cash products including FX, money market and loans.

The Senior Administrator role is primarily to support the production cycle of the Trade Management team ensuring client service delivery and commitments are met.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Client Service Delivery and controls**To ensure a high quality client service is delivered to all clients-
- Ensure the service level provided by the team adheres to the Client Service Delivery agreements-
- Ensure adherence to core standard operating models-
- Build strong, professional relationships with clients and be an ambassador for BNP Paribas-
- Develop internal stakeholder relationships with the wider team as well as general business support-
- Support external counterparty relationships, providing feedback for performance reviews e.g. brokers and custodians**Continuous Improvement & New Business**Proactive generation of ideas for improvements to systems and processes in support of client requirements and BNP Paribas Securities Service strategic objectives.-
- Support the development and implementation of such improvements-
- Involvement in the design and implementation of resilient processes and systems to support new/changes to business products including mandatory changes to market/governance and regulations-
- Innovate & continually challenge status quo within the governance and framework of our change program- **Risk Management**Ensure adherence to the risk and control framework, including team and departmental procedures, managing risk effectively and efficiently within the team-
- Ensure an effective and robust governance structure is in place for the team-
- Accuracy - focusing on getting it right first time-
- Support business contingency plans as required-
- Ensure adequate internal controls are in place and correctly followed to mitigate operational risk-
- Ensure that internal and external audit/compliance/risk requirements are met**Personal Development**Proactively manage own personal development through engagement with manager on development plan-
- Consider personal objectives in line with business objectives, driving forward personal development opportunities**Budget Management**Understand the factors which influence unit cost eg capacity/workload drivers**Strategy and Governance**Contribute to raising the profile of the UK branch of BNP Paribas Securities Services.**Key stakeholders**:
- Internal cross functional teams-
- External clients-
- Brokers and custodians**Skills and Experience Required**

Required:
Product knowledge-
- Strong risk management awareness-
- Accuracy and meticulous attention to detail-
- Involvement in change initiatives with ability to adapt to an ever changing environment-
- Strong client service skills-
- Familiarity financial marketsDesirable:
Degree Qualified-
- IOC qualifications-
- Accounting Practices-
- Language Skills**Equal Opportunities**

**As an employee with BNP Paribas Securities Services, we want to make sure that you are rewarded for your commitment. As such, you will be entitled to our award winning benefits package which includes a generous holiday allowance of at least 34 days (including bank holidays), a non-contributory pension of 8.5%, private healthcare and GP service all as standard, along with a number of personal insurances such as income protection, life assurance and personal accident insurance. We believe in ensuring all our employees have a positive work life balance and so in addition to the core benefits you will also have access**
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**to a variety of flexible lifestyle benefits including dental cover, childcare vouchers, cycle to work schemes, season ticket loans and reduced cinema and gym membership to name a few.**

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