Bonds Confirmations Analyst

About the job

Your Main Activities Are

Provide operational support for Sales and Trading desks across various asset classes, ensuring accurate trade booking and front-to-back process integrity
Validate and allocate trades, ensuring bookings feed correctly into back office systems
Manage trade matching and confirmation processes across various platforms, ensuring trades are allocated, validated and discrepancies are resolved quickly
Perform reconciliations and exception management to mitigate operational risk and ensure trade accuracy
Support client lifecycle management, including onboarding, reference data maintenance, and documentation validation
Manage collateral workflows, including posting and withdrawing
Handle high volumes of transactions, ensuring that all trades are processed accurately and within tight deadlines while minimizing risk and exposure
Liaise with internal and external stakeholders, including sales & trading desks, clients, legal counsel, and operations teams, to resolve trade-related issues and ensure smooth settlement
Continuously enhance operational efficiency through automation and process improvement initiatives
Actively participate in process reviews and contribute to building more effective and scalable operations

Profile and Skills to Success

Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Finance or Accounting
Fluency in English
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Tools, namely Excel
Ability to collaborate
Attention to detail
Good organisational skills
Critical thinking and and client focused

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Why joining BNP Paribas?

Leading player in banking and financial services in Europe, BNP Paribas operates in 64 countries and has nearly 178,000 employees, including more than 144,000 in Europe

The Group holds key positions in several areas of banking and financial services that are structured around three operating divisions:

In Portugal since 1985, BNP Paribas today has more than 9.220 employees, distributed across the Group's 10 business entities established in the country. Its presence also extends to 11 centres of expertise providing value-added services to various countries where the BNP Paribas Group also operates.

BNP Paribas ´ambition is to cultivate an open and responsive environment for all that encourages collaboration and interaction. We demonstrate our commitment by actively contributing to the Group’s Diversity and Inclusion strategy and goals, in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. As part of our local Corporate and Social Responsibility – Diversity & Inclusion strategy, BNP Paribas Portugal is committed to:

Promote a fair and unbiased recruitment process and offer professional development opportunities to all employees
Celebrate diversity and advocate for inclusion, both externally and internally, encouraging employee’s participation, creating space for different voices to be heard.

To foster the effort of BNP Paribas Portugal, multiple initiatives and events take place throughout the year where our people can find out more on the importance of diversity inclusion at the workplace and in our society.

At BNP Paribas, we embrace a Smart Working framework based on trust, autonomy and collaboration. Within this framework, eligible employees can benefit from flexible remote working options adapted to our hybrid working environment. To ensure a comfortable and efficient working setup, eligible employees are provided with both office and home equipment, are entitled to an equipment allowance and can benefit from exclusive partnerships to purchase additional items at reduced prices.

Supporting employees in a hybrid way of working while providing them with the means to maintain a work-life balance is an essential dimension of our Smart Working program. At BNP Paribas, we care about our employees’ wellbeing and promote a culture of good integration between work and personal life.

• Please note that only applications submitted in English will be considered
• In case you are selected for this role, further documentation will be requested to support your hiring process