Position Purpose:
Provide pricing capacity for internal/external clients; manage mkt risk properly.
Direct Responsibilities
• Initiate the KYC on boarding process and is responsible to collect the KYC data (with support of the appropriate teams in charge of due diligence);
• Responsible for ensuring that customer due diligence has been completed to a satisfactory standard and is kept up-to-date;
• In the KYC package, make an assessment whether starting a new relationship or maintaining an existing relationship with a customer is appropriate, in respect of the reputation and the money laundering/terrorist financing/sanctions/PEP risks, irrespective of the possible type of business the customer is currently doing or intends to do with the bank or other Financial Institutions including risks and mitigants;
• Uses the KYC scoring grid and his/her judgment to determine the sensitivity, assisted by the teams in charge of due diligence. Sign off KYC package prepared by due diligence team as a relationship manager; • Participate in Customer Acceptance Committee (‘CAC’) and provides the CAC with all information and documentation required;
• contributes to the detection of any unusual and/or suspicious transactions by his/her customer with due reporting to a Compliance Officer;
• and employs his/her best efforts to maintain a thorough knowledge of his/her customer from available documentary sources and regular direct contacts with them;
• Responsible for the KYC up-to date in accordance with the Bank’s standards. In particular, he/she must trigger an ad-hoc review or recertification as soon as necessary, notably in case of becoming aware of client-related event in connection with any of their customers in the field of AML-CTF, in accordance with the relevant KYC policies and procedures;
• When acting as Secondary Site RM of Legal Entities benefiting from the passport procedure, responsibility of the Secondary Site RM is to acknowledge and approve, on behalf of the Secondary Site,
the KYC onboarding or recertification due diligence (performed and completed by the Primary Site) for Legal Entities being rated medium risk and low risk, and submit the customer’s KYC file to a CAC for a Legal Entity being rated high risk by the Primary Site;
• Ensure compliance with Bank’s policies/procedures and regulatory requirements, in particular with regards to the KYC responsibilities and duties, as per relevant policies and procedures.
• Exercises constant vigilance and immediately reports any known or suspected adverse information, suspicions or integrity concerns that develop during the relationship, as well as any other factors indicating that an increase in risk level or due diligence level may be appropriate
• Endeavor to ensure the quality of the Bank’s portfolio remains sound and healthy.
• Buy and sell a defined range of instruments ﴾as per desk mandate﴿ for our clients and take positions on behalf of the Bank within defined limits to facilitate client business.
• Provide market liquidity through market making in a defined range of instruments ﴾as per desk mandate﴿ and limits; put in place hedging if appropriate.
• Monitor market news and events and evaluate the risk and opportunities for positions and strategy
• Closely follow‐up the counterparty risk and any potential excess of credit line all market risks and any limit excess.
BOOKING:
• Ensure all pre‐trade requirements are conducted. ﴾credit lines check in particular﴿
• Ensure that all transactions are timely and accurately booked in appropriate trade capture systems.
• Ensure that all transactions are timely sent to middle office and/or back office.
INDEX CONTRIBUTION:
• Responsible for submission of public indexes as approved under the Index Acceptance Committee ﴾IAC﴿ with the condition that it is authorized in the mandates, as recorded in FORMA and in accordance with the relevant internal guidelines / requirements /procedures / key responsibilities and external / regulatory requirements / code Submitters and Reviewers as well as their respective back‐ups of the contributions are expected to comply strictly with the Group policy regarding their professional standards, as well as their duty to support the market integrity ﴾Group Code of Conduct principals﴿. They are to comply with all local requirements prescribed by the Authority on such contributions.
• Any attempts to manipulate submissions are subject to the disciplinary procedures, sanctions according the Group policies
• Bonds end of day bonds marking can be used for Iboxx contribution
PNL
• Contribute to the daily P&L at the close of the day and facilitate its confirmation by Middle‐Office.
• Prepare a P&L explain each day and escalate any unexplained elements to desk head for sign off.
• Provide management with accurate information to analyze the P&L structure
• Monitor the level of broker fees ensure their relevance vis a vis the current market practice and desk activity
• Work closely with the procurement group and Middle Office to minimize broker and custodian fees
Contributions
Booking
• Work with operational support functions to facilitate and monitor the settlement process.
• Respond swiftly to any issues escalated from MO and BO staff
COMMUNICATION, TEAMWORK and TRAINING
• Maintain fluid communication with other front office teams.
• Build, maintain and improve rates trading team, facilitate transparent and proper communication.
• Keep all Business Partners in the loop of major organization change that may impact the soundness of operations.
• Help Business Partners understand business priorities and requirements.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of process and systems.
• Inform management of any major operational incidents, specific risks arising or P&L potential damage.
• Attend relevant regulatory and product/skill training and keep up‐to‐date with market issues.
Contributing Responsibilities
COMPLIANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT
• Comply with regulatory, contractual and internal authorized framework.
• Contribute to the implementation of operational permanent control policies and procedures in day-to-day business activities, such as Control Plan
• Work closely with compliance and legal in handling counterpart or exchanges complaints.
• Request a New Activity Committee to be held whenever required Held a Transaction Approval Process ﴾TAC﴿ is whenever required or involve risk, compliance or LTMG when a transaction present an unusual risk.
• Report swiftly all operational incidents to Trading Business Management.
• Actively contribute to the risk identification and control framework reinforcement by suggesting new procedures, evolution of existing ones, of new risk indicators.
• Direct contribution to BNP Paribas operational permanent control framework
• Working with sales colleagues, play a role in developing new and innovative products and services to meet client requirements. Develop the skills of traders.
• Contribute to the development, with sales and trading management, of relevant sales and trading policies.
• Co‐ordinate and encourage the effective interaction of trading teams with appropriate operational and risk areas, for example market risk and compliance.
• Working with trading management facilitate effective interaction between sales and execution areas.
• Encourage and monitor attendance of direct reports at relevant regulatory and product/skills based training.
• Encourage and maintain effective open communication with all direct reports
• Contribute to the reporting of all incidents according to the Incident Management System
• Ensure audit recommendations are resolved within the specific timeline.
• Endeavor to ensure the quality of the Bank’s portfolio remains sound and healthy
• Comply with regulatory requirements and internal guidelines
Direct Responsibilities
– Primarily responsible for the production support of all onshore systems of China Securities, providing proactive and reactive support to our business and clients.
· Reactive :
o Incident management – business and technology communication, coordination and resolution of incidents, from external issues such as exchange problems to in-house/vendor application bugs impacting the production environment.
o Problem management – post incident review with strong focus on permanent resolution and re-occurrence avoidance.
o Investigations into system behavior with queries directly from the business user and external parties (Clients, Exchanges, regulatory bodies, etc.)
· Proactive :
o Drive an excellent operational environment for all business applications from daily tasks, incident & problem management, change and new application / service onboarding.
o Act as primary liaison from technology for local business/external initiatives. Ensure the technology solutions delivered by global/regional teams meet the local requirements.
o Work with regulatory bodies/exchange/external partners around the IT solutions/deliveries.
o Close collaboration with regional/global teams to leverage on best practice, processes, resources, and ensuring there is a common/collective approach to issues/problems
o Release management – being the gatekeepers for the production environment, ensuring all changes are understood and scheduled appropriately
o Deployments – binary/configuration changes to onshore systems after market close or during weekend
o Preparation for market events such as mandatory exchange upgrades, expiry days, index rebalance days, etc.
o Automation of delivery pipeline & repetitive tasks
– Minimizing operational failure, including but not exclusively, the risk of fraud, by helping to devise, and by implementing, sufficient regular controls
– Ensuring appropriate escalation to management and/or Permanent Control (or Compliance as appropriate) as soon as an issue is identified
– Permanent control aspects:
o Direct contribution to BNPP operational permanent control framework.
o Contribute to the implementation of operational permanent control policies and procedures in day-to-day business activities, such as Control Plan
o Comply with regulatory requirements and internal guidelines
o Contribute to the reporting of all incidents according to the Incident Management System
o Ensure audit recommendations are resolved within the specific timeline.
Contributing Responsibilities
– Implement continuous improvement, including operational efficiency, production monitoring, and policy/procedures
– Work closely with various teams (business, operations/finance and compliance), regional/global peers and 3rd party vendors to deliver projects on-time and with high quality.
– Focus on transformational project work across the wider IT Production organization
– Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science (or related).
– 3-8 years working experience in financial institution as IT professional.
– Fluent in Mandarin and English (spoken and written)
– Experience in managing vendor and supplier relationships is desired.
– Knowledge of markets products (Equities, F&O) & Regulator Reporting
– Good understanding of SSE/SZSE Product/trading rules, CSRC/ CSDC regulations
– Good mindset of risk management and cyber security.
Technical:
– Expertise on ITSM and ITIL framework
– Good knowledge with monitoring and deployment tools
– Strong Application support skills with Devops capability, including
o Scripting: Linux/shell, Perl, etc.
o Ability to write SQL to extract, patch data and troubleshooting with rational DB
o Knowledge In-memory data structure store (Redis)
o Web programming (JSP, React), Python or Java is desired
o Understanding of Agile methodology is a plus
Behavioral:
– Self-sufficient drive and ability to work round blockers in a sustainable manner
– Strong analytical and problem solving skills
– Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and excellent problem solving abilitie
– Proactive and able to work independently
ROLE DESCRIPTION AND PURPOSE
The Multi-Asset Investments China team is part of the global Multi-Asset Solutions team that is providing comprehensive services to institutional clients and distribution channels globally including, but not limited to, Multi-Asset portfolio solution design and implementation, quantitative investment, overlay management, structuring of complex products and asset allocation advice. The broader team is consisting out of experts on Multi-Asset Investment, Quantitative Investment, Structured Management, Insurance and Pensions, and Portfolio Construction. For our China based team we are looking for a Portfolio Manager that could help to grow the Multi-Asset investment, Structured solutions and Quantitative investment business in China.
The Portfolio Manager will conduct research, implement investment strategies and manage portfolios, involving complex cross asset/factor investing and derivative structures in order to construct new investment solutions. An important part of the role is identifying market opportunities to create new solutions resulting from specific client needs and appetite, regulatory changes or structural dislocations in financial markets, liaising with sales teams.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage portfolio investment for China clients. Understand local clients’ specific objectives and constraints, and select appropriate investment framework and instruments, ensure the implementation meets with compliance requirements, consistent with team’s investment views and ensure smooth operations of portfolios.
- Perform reporting, attribution analysis and risk decomposition to explain the characteristics of the portfolio, Present analysis and investment views towards external and internal clients. – Design and construct investment solutions in line with client requirements across asset classes and in different distribution formats, implement and manage these solutions
- Generate ideas and new thoughts to improve existing products and solutions
- Work closely with the Quantitative Research Group and the Portfolio Design Team for models development, idea generation, innovation, new investment techniques and thought leadership
- Participates in marketing and client events, industry conferences, media contacts, written research, etc.
- For all staff other than managers (permanent control aspects):
- Direct contribution to BNPP operational permanent control framework.
- Contribute to the implementation of operational permanent control policies and procedures in day-to-day business activities, such as Control Plan.
- Comply with regulatory requirements and internal guidelines.
- Contribute to the reporting of all incidents according to the Incident Management System.
- Ensure audit recommendations are resolved within the specific timeline.
- Ensure compliance with Company’s policies/procedures and regulatory requirements, in particular with regards to the KYC responsibilities and duties, as per relevant policies and procedures, and the summary of responsibilities list attached hereto.
KEY INTERNAL/ EXTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS
- Internal: Sales Team, Trading Team, Solutions Team, Portfolio Design Team, Quant Research Group, Legal, Compliance, IT, Risk, Operations
- External: Institutional Clients and Distribution Channels, Joint Ventures
ROLE REQUIREMENTS
ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
- 5+ years of experience conducting investment management / quantitative research activities,
- English and Mandarin
- Demonstrable experience of quantitative research and investment, and structuring funds/products. Good understanding of various types of quantitative investment and structured solutions such as cross-asset solutions, Factor Investing/ Risk Premia solutions, derivatives, structured notes, etc. in China (and preferrable outside of China), preferably with machine learning investment experience
- Quantitative academic (MA) background preferably complemented with CFA
- Experience in building and implementing quantitative investment, portfolio construction processes and tools
- SAC and AMAC qualified
- Not currently being banned from entry into securities market
- Of sound character and good professional ethics
Position Purpose
- Support China Securities CEO Office on all aspects of business and regulatory subjects;
- Work closely with Office Manager and provide administrative support;
- Internship period required: 3-5 days a week for at least 4-5 months in Shanghai
Direct Responsibilities
Support to Territory Management
- Provide support to the Company’s CEO Office on the business transversal management;
- Support CEO office in the daily regulatory reporting & filing;
- Support the local regulatory reporting inventory management;
- Prepare documents and presentation for the management;
- Support the Company’s local procedures management;
- Support to the staff onboarding and offboarding administrative tasks;
- Ad hoc tasks as requested by the supervisor.
Support to Office Administration
- Provide secretarial support to CEO Office;
- Act as Receptionist, responsible for receiving visitors, answering incoming calls;
- Control meeting room booking for clients and colleagues
- Support for the various needs in maintaining the office premises, furniture, non‐IT equipment.
- Monthly reconciliation of the office access reports;.
- Ad-hoc documents required for General Services related.
Support to management of the Front Office mobile phones
Follow the instruction and tasks defined by Compliance procedure on Front Office Mobile Phone Management during the Trading hours;
- keep record of the mobile phone deposit box;
- Witness investment dealers to turn in and retrieve mobile phones and fill in relevant information to ensure accurate information.
Permanent Control Aspects
- Direct contribution to BNPP operational permanent control framework.
- Contribute to the implementation of operational permanent control policies and procedures in day-to-day business activities, such as Control Plan
- Comply with regulatory requirements and internal guidelines
- Contribute to the reporting of all incidents according to the Incident Management System
- Ensure audit recommendations are resolved within the specific timeline.
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
Technical:
- Proficiency in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Power BI, as well as using tools for presentation to stakeholders or senior management
- Strong communication skills in written and spoken Chinese and English
- Familiarity with the regulatory landscape in China
Behavioural:
- Self-motivated, decisive with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands with pressing deadlines for multiple tasks
- High Ethical standard
Direct Responsibilities
- Direct contribution to BNPP operational permanent control framework.
- Contribute to the implementation of operational permanent control policies and procedures in day-to-day business activities, such as Control Plan.
- Comply with regulatory requirements and internal guidelines.
- Contribute to the reporting of all incidents according to the Incident Management System
- Ensure audit recommendations are resolved within the specific timeline.
Business Responsibilities
- Responsible for the submission all regulatory reports, data, announcements, and information disclosure of the asset management business of securities companies (CSRC, PBoC, AMAC, and SAC); complete the submission and information disclosure of regular regulatory reports and temporary regulatory reports in a timely and accurately.
- Responsible for compiling the process manual of asset management business information disclosure business and improving the design of information disclosure process.
- Responsible for account setting, OTC transaction confirmation, capital settlement and other business operations of the investment trading system.
- Responsible for the daily EOD settlement of investment trading system and other business operations of the investment trading system.
- Responsible for the account management of the fundraising and TA settlement account and the custody account, including but not limited to account opening, authorization, fund transfer, reconciliation, de-register, etc.
- Responsible for reviewing the data of TA/FA business results and daily business management.
- Responsible for reviewing the terms of operation such as asset management plan contracts, business agreements, and operating memo.
- Closely follow the relevant laws, regulations and regulatory policies of the asset management business, and conduct research on regulatory information disclosure.
- Cooperate with IT to complete the OPS business system requirements or system upgrade testing.
- Complete other tasks assigned by the OPS head.
- For all staff other than managers (permanent control aspects):
- Direct contribution to BNPP operational permanent control framework.
- Contribute to the implementation of operational permanent control policies and procedures in day-to-day business activities, such as Control Plan.
- Comply with regulatory requirements and internal guidelines.
- Contribute to the reporting of all incidents according to the Incident Management System.
- Ensure audit recommendations are resolved within the specific timeline.
- Ensure compliance with Company’s policies/procedures and regulatory requirements, in particular with regards to the KYC responsibilities and duties, as per relevant policies and procedures, and the summary of responsibilities list attached hereto.
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
- Experience in TA or FA in an Operations aligned background.
- Familiar with Chinese financial markets operating and regulatory landscape.
Specific Qualifications
- Passed the SAC and AMAC qualifications exam is a must.
- Have not been banned from entry into securities market.
- Of sound character and good professional ethics.
Responsibilities
- Strong trading expertise in Listed Derivatives and OTC Products and preferably experience in trading Fixed Income products. Working knowledge across the following broad based list of products:
- Listed products include (not exhaustive) : Equity, ETFs, Futures and Options, Listed Open Funds (LOF), Fixed income
- Fixed Income: China Inter Bond Market
- FX Spot / Forward / Swaps / Options.
- OTC Derivatives: IRS, CDS, ILS, TRS, Swaptions.
- Manage relationships with Investment teams.
- Seek optimal client satisfaction through execution, communication, and relationships.
- Play an integral part on a ‘valued added’ basis to investment process by leveraging market knowledge and counterparty contact to improve performance and influence outcomes.
- Gather and report market intelligence to Portfolio Management teams.
- Manage relationships with brokers / counterparties.
- Maintain and develop strong, transparent and constructive relationships with brokers to obtain the best service for the firm’s clients.
- Perform control functions (level 1 controls) in line with BNPP AM policies
- Where necessary, gather information required to perform controls.
- Work with different teams (internal and external) to optimize reports used for controls thereby reducing manual work
- Review Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) report on a daily basis where available and explain any major deviations to the desk head / direct reporting line for sign off. Where no TCA report is available, this may require the trader to preparing a P&L report each day.
- For all staff other than managers (permanent control aspects):
- Direct contribution to BNPP operational permanent control framework.
- Contribute to the implementation of operational permanent control policies and procedures in day-to-day business activities, such as Control Plan
- Comply with regulatory requirements and internal guidelines
- Contribute to the reporting of all incidents according to the Incident Management System
- Ensure audit recommendations are resolved within the specific timeline.
Key Internal / External Relationships
- Internal: GTF APAC, Portfolio Managers, Risk and Compliance Teams
- External: Brokers, Vendors (eg, Hundsun), Regulators
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
- Analytical skills: Identifies all aspects of a subject and examines them in a critical way to construct a broad point of view.
- Accuracy: Constantly attentive to the precision and thoroughness of the information sent and to the quality of the work.
- Risk Management: Detects, analyzes and measures risks relating to activities in the organization and marketplace.
- Communication skills: Expresses his / her messages, both orally and in writing, in an effective, organized way.
- Teamwork: Knows how to work in a team and/or across teams, acts bearing common interests and respect for fellow team members.
- Taking Initiative: Works proactively and independently, implementing work processes, ideas and solutions.
- Results-Driven: Seeks to achieve the objectives set within the defined timeframe, continuously seeks optimum performance.
- Willingness to learn : Trading in multi assets; ability and willingness to learn to trade in different asset class.