Job Title: Team Leader – Fraud

Location: Solihull; a flexible hybrid working model which supports you as well as enabling you to work collaboratively with your colleagues

Contract: Full-time, Permanent

About Us

At BNP Paribas Personal Finance, we’re part of a global banking group with a simple mission: to provide straightforward consumer finance solutions that help customers make responsible financial decisions. We partner with leading UK retailers and brands to support their customers finance purchases responsibly.

The Role

We’re looking for a Team Leader to join our Fraud Operations team and play a key role in protecting our customers, partners and business from fraud risk.

Leading a team of Fraud Advisors, you’ll be responsible for driving operational performance, developing colleague capability and ensuring all customer and fraud-related activities are delivered in line with regulatory requirements and service standards. Working closely with Fraud Risk and Operational stakeholders, you’ll help identify emerging fraud trends, improve fraud controls and support the delivery of outstanding customer outcomes.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced people leader with a background in Fraud, Risk or Financial Services Operations who enjoys coaching teams, driving performance and making a real impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of Fraud Advisors, ensuring service levels, quality standards and performance targets are consistently achieved.

• Monitor fraud workstreams and fraud detection systems, proactively identifying unusual trends, risks and spikes in activity.

• Work closely with Fraud Risk teams to share insights, discuss fraud trends and support the continuous enhancement of fraud prevention controls.

• Manage team performance through regular coaching, one-to-ones, personal development plans and performance reviews.

• Ensure all fraud investigations, customer interactions and fraud decisions are compliant with regulatory requirements, internal policies and Consumer Duty principles.

• Take ownership of reporting requirements, providing accurate management information and performance updates to key stakeholders.

• Identify opportunities to improve operational processes, controls and customer journeys, driving continuous improvement initiatives across the team.

• Support the wider business through collaboration, problem solving and effective stakeholder engagement.

• Where required, represent the business in support of fraud-related prosecutions and investigations.

Skills & Attributes

• Previous experience within Fraud, Financial Crime, Risk, Fraud Prevention or a related operational environment.

• Proven people management or team leadership experience, with a passion for developing and motivating colleagues.

• Strong understanding of fraud processes, fraud trends and fraud risk management.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships.

• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workloads and manage competing demands.

• Results-focused with the ability to drive performance and deliver against operational KPIs and service levels.

• Good attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining high standards of accuracy and compliance.

• Understanding of Consumer Duty principles and regulatory requirements within Financial Services.

• Knowledge of CIFAS and fraud detection systems would be advantageous.

What’s in it for you?

As a Top Employer UK, we offer a supportive, inclusive environment and a flexible benefits package that you can tailor to your lifestyle. Highlights include:

• Competitive salary and comprehensive package, contributory pension, and health cash plan.

• Opportunity to buy/sell holiday giving you even more control over your work-life balance.

• Flexible benefits including private medical insurance and lifestyle discounts.

• A culture that values collaboration, development and wellbeing.

• Ongoing learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.

• The opportunity to lead a critical function that helps protect our customers and business from fraud risk.

Could this be you?

Making a positive impact is at the heart of everything we do. We’re looking for people who live by our values, who are positive, brave and own it.

Don’t let confidence hold you back. You don’t need to meet every requirement. If you have around 75% of the skills and experience we’re looking for and a passion for leadership, fraud prevention and customer outcomes, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now to join a team that makes a real impact.

Learn more about careers with us: https://www.bnpparibas-pf.co.uk/careers

Your Application Journey

• Call with our Talent Acquisition team

• Informal chat with the Hiring Manager

• Competency-based interview including a leadership and fraud-based scenario discussion

We aim to complete the process within 3-4 weeks, depending on availability. If you’re not shortlisted, we’ll still let you know the outcome. Please note that this role may close early once we have enough suitable applicants, so apply soon.

Equal Opportunities

We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace and ensuring equal opportunities for all, regardless of age, disability, gender, identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, or background.

The role 

We are looking for a talented and ambitious individual to join our Land Management team in Perth or Inverness. We are seeking individuals who demonstrate the attributes that are fundamental to becoming a successful Surveyor. 

The Graduate Programme supports you to become a Rural Chartered Surveyor with the RICS and a Fellow of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers, and the programme generally takes on average two years to complete.

Training and Development

•    Full APC training with the RICS and continued support for all graduates;

•    Full training with the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers;

•    Pre-APC mock interviews/presentation training and seminars;

•    Continuous Professional Development (CPD) lectures.

Roles and Responsibilities

Main Accountabilities

•    To work on day to day tasks as set by line manager and APC supervisor;

•    To take responsibility for work and projects as appropriate to the team/department in which they currently work;

•    To liaise with APC supervisor and counsellor on a regular basis to discuss progress towards the APC;

•    Ability to prioritise and manage own workload

Deliver to Client

•    Relevant understanding of business/department context;

•    Accuracy and quality of reporting to clients;

•    Personable communication style;

•    Is responsive to the needs of the client and looks for ways to improve delivery and relationship

Clients and Business Development

•    Proactive in building relationships with internal and external contacts and responsive and helpful to clients

•    Relevant understanding of business/departmental context

•    Accuracy and quality of reporting to clients

People

•    Shares expertise with colleagues;

•    Proactively communicates to colleagues in office and around the business;

•    Works collaboratively with others in a team;

•    Ability to work flexibly on own initiative and as part of a team

•    Ability to manage relationships with tact and diplomacy;

•    Awareness of Equal Opportunities

Systems and Process

•    Works within clearly defined, well established processes under regular supervision.

•    Solves problems by following well defined processes and precedents

•    Consults more experienced colleagues on more difficult or unfamiliar situations

Company

•    Conscious of and takes steps to protect the interests of BNP Paribas Real Estate and Strutt & Parker employees and reputation.

Person Specification

The successful candidate is likely to be:

•    A great communicator, both written and oral.

•    A team player, able to develop a close working relationship with colleagues

•    Commercially astute with good numeracy skills

•    Ambitious, energetic, self-motivated, curious, and happy to network with a business development orientated attitude.

•    Interested in farming and food production systems.

•    Experience of hands-on practical farming

•    An interest in Rural or heritage property

•    An interest in the environment and sustainability

Skills/Qualifications

•    University Degree

•    Excellent research and analytical skills 

•    Excellent IT skills including use of MS Office

•    Practical Rural experience would be beneficial

Key Skills/Competencies

•    Competent using all Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint);

•    Interpersonal skills – confident communications with the ability to express opinions clearly and convincingly;

•    Determination – focused on working to reach objectives. 

•    Motivated and committed to a career within Surveying;

•    Analytical capability – good problem-solving skills and logical approach.

Qualifications

•    Already working towards or willingness to work towards a RICS accreditation

We are proud to offer award-winning benefits to support and reward our employees:

•    Health & Leisure: Health Cash Plan, 25 days annual leave + public holidays (the option of purchasing up to 5 additional days via flex benefits), health screening, gym discounts, wellbeing support, volunteering opportunities, cycle to work scheme, eye care voucher, travel & retail discounts, travel insurance, concierge service, kids pass, open fairways golf card, great company culture and social events (including sports teams, charity events, art pass), perks at work 

•    Financial: Pension, life assurance at 8 x basic salary, group income protection (long term disability insurance), interest free season ticket loan, bonus scheme – you will be eligible to participate in the Company’s Bonus Scheme, share incentive plan, financial and mortgage advice 

Strutt and Parker is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, colour, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.

#LI-ONSITE

The role

The Client Onboarding Analyst (COA) is responsible for onboarding new accounts, performing periodic reviews in accordance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations or as set by internal policies and procedures for the Strutt and Parker Business Lines.  The COA will undertake enhanced due diligence to understand the AML risks for all high risk client and counterparty relationships to ensure that appropriate Know Your Client (KYC) requirements, fee agreements and other due diligence information are obtained and maintained in accordance with internal and regulatory standards. 

The candidate will have previous experience of working in an AML environment and be able to provide a high level of service to both the team and our clients. By demonstrating self-motivation, with reliability and flexibility being essential skills, as well as being competent working independently and within a team setting. This fast paced role will support various Residential and Rural UK teams, working alongside the Compliance team participating in the CAC decision making process and includes day-to-day contact with our Customers.

Key deliverables

•    Under direct supervision of the RESI KYC Team Managers, complete due diligence on new and existing accounts to ensure compliance with requirements of BNP Paribas Group’s AML / KYC policies. 

•    Supporting all Sales and Lettings offices with KYC, proactively resolving ad-hoc queries related to all aspects of AML analysis.

•    Where required, establish and maintain trusted relationships with our Customers to facilitate and accelerate the on-boarding processes. The majority of these interactions will apply to High Risk Individuals / Legal Entities / Wealth Structures.

•    Provide guidance and support to the front office with regards to on-boarding polices and account initiation.

•    Perform periodic reviews of accounts as required by the onboarding policies.

•    Actively participate in developing, testing and implementing new or enhanced CDD processes and other process improvement initiatives as required.

•    Proactively resolve queries received from the Relationship Managers (RMs) and Local COT (LCOT) , highlighting and escalating issues in a timely manner.

•    Establish and maintain effective relationships with front office staff and the Compliance Team.

•    Provide training and guidance to staff on client onboarding procedures where required.

Person specification

Essential experience

•    Demonstrable experience and undertaking enhanced client due diligence, including completing independent searches and sanction checks.

•    Prior experience interpreting policies and procedures associated with AML regulations.

•    Working knowledge of third party global information sources used to complete client due diligence searches

•    Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

•    Knowledge of MS Office: Word, Excel and Outlook, internet search engines.

•    An interest / working knowledge of the real estate business (preferred, but not a pre-requisite).

Personal qualities

•    Personable and people orientated

•    Principled and self-assured

•    Strong communicator

•    Able to multitask and manage to tight timelines and deliverables.

•    Able to prioritize and work in an organized fashion.

•    Extremely detail oriented.                      

•    Open to change and future orientated

•    Creative thinker able to make well thought out decisions

•    Responsive to clients and colleagues

•    Commercially astute

We are proud to offer award-winning benefits to support and reward our employees:

•    Health & Leisure: Health Cash Plan, 25 days annual leave + public holidays (the option of purchasing up to 5 additional days via flex benefits), health screening, gym discounts, wellbeing support, volunteering opportunities, cycle to work scheme, eye care voucher, travel & retail discounts, travel insurance, concierge service, kids pass, open fairways golf card, great company culture and social events (including sports teams, charity events, art pass), perks at work 

•    Financial:  Pension, life assurance at 8 x basic salary, group income protection (long term disability insurance), interest free season ticket loan, bonus scheme – you will be eligible to participate in the Company’s Bonus Scheme, share incentive plan, financial and mortgage advice 

Strutt and Parker is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, colour, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.

Job Title: Partner Risk Management Analyst
Location: Solihull; a flexible hybrid working model which supports you as well as enabling you to work collaboratively with your colleagues
Contract: Full-time, Permanent

About Us

At BNP Paribas Personal Finance, we’re part of a global banking group with a simple mission: to provide straightforward consumer finance solutions that help customers make responsible financial decisions. We partner with leading UK retailers and brands to support their customers to finance purchases responsibly.

The Role

As a Partner Risk Management Analyst, you’ll help ensure BNP Paribas Personal Finance UK works with financially stable partners and that effective controls are in place to identify and manage partner-related risks. You’ll monitor financial data, maintain risk scorecards, and support credit reviews to protect the business from potential partner failures as our customer base grows.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in conducting Partner Risk Management credit reviews for all existing partners, including financial and KPI monitoring.
 • Maintain and analyse the internal partner risk scorecard database, ensuring data accuracy and highlighting trends or anomalies.
 • Prepare and present risk reports for business line forums and management meetings, including meeting packs and minutes.
 • Support the completion of key controls forming part of the Partner Risk Management control framework.
 • Collaborate with commercial teams to investigate and assess irregularities identified in risk reporting.
 • Monitor partner-related media alerts and regulatory updates (e.g. FCA) and escalate findings where necessary.
 • Assist in the credit review and underwriting of new partners across Point of Sale, Home Improvements, and Motor Finance.

Skills & Attributes

• Background in accounting or experience analysing financial statements.
 • Strong analytical skills and exceptional attention to detail.
 • Ability to make sound, informed decisions using available data.
 • Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise effectively.
 • Strong interpersonal and communication skills to work collaboratively across teams and influence at all levels.
 • Self-motivated, proactive, and eager to learn within a fast-paced environment.

Could this be you?

Making a positive impact is at the heart of everything we do. We’re looking for people who live by our values—Positive, Brave, and Own It. Don’t let confidence hold you back. You don’t need to meet every requirement—if you have around 75% of the skills and the right attitude, we’d love to hear from you.

What’s in it for you

As a Top Employer UK, we offer a supportive, inclusive environment and a flexible benefits package that you can tailor to your lifestyle. Highlights include:
 • Competitive salary and comprehensive package, contributory pension, and health cash plan
 • Opportunity to buy/sell holiday giving you even more control over your work-life balance
 • Flexible benefits including private medical insurance and lifestyle discounts
 • A culture that values collaboration, development, and wellbeing

Apply now to join a team that makes a real impact.

Learn more about careers with us: https://www.bnpparibas-pf.co.uk/careers

Your Application Journey

• Call with our Talent Acquisition team
 • Informal chat with the Hiring Manager (30 minutes)
 • Competency-based interview (60 minutes)

We aim to complete the process within 3–4 weeks, depending on availability. If you’re not shortlisted, we’ll still let you know the outcome. Please note that this role may close early once we have enough suitable applicants, so apply soon.

Equal Opportunities

We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace and ensuring equal opportunities for all, regardless of age, disability, gender, identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, or background.

Job Title: Test Analyst

Location: Solihull; a flexible hybrid working model which supports you as well as enabling you to work collaboratively with your colleagues

Contract: Full-time, Permanent

About Us

At BNP Paribas Personal Finance, we’re part of a global banking group with a simple mission: to provide straightforward consumer finance solutions that help customers make responsible financial decisions. We partner with leading UK retailers and brands to support their customers finance purchases responsibly.

The Role

We’re looking for a Test Analyst to join our IT function and play a key role in delivering high-quality technology solutions across the business.

Working closely with Business Analysts, Developers and Project Teams, you’ll be responsible for validating that new and enhanced systems meet business requirements and customer expectations. You’ll contribute across the full software testing lifecycle, supporting test planning, test execution, defect management and quality assurance activities to ensure successful project delivery.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys problem solving, collaborating with stakeholders and driving quality improvements within an Agile environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, prepare and execute functional, regression and scenario-based test cases to support project delivery.

• Develop and maintain manual and automated test scripts, ensuring effective test coverage across applications and systems.

• Analyse business requirements, user stories and project documentation to create robust testing approaches.

• Execute testing activities and accurately document results, ensuring clear audit trails and test evidence are maintained.

• Identify, document and track defects using tools such as JIRA or TFS, participating in defect triage and resolution activities.

• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), helping business users understand testing processes and execute test scenarios.

• Produce testing progress reports and provide updates to project stakeholders throughout the testing lifecycle.

• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, identifying opportunities to enhance testing processes, automation and quality standards.

• Participate in root cause analysis activities to prevent recurring defects and improve future delivery outcomes.

Skills & Attributes

• Previous experience within a Software Testing, Test Analyst or Quality Assurance role.

• Strong understanding of software testing principles, methodologies and best practices.

• Experience working within Agile environments, including Scrum delivery frameworks.

• Experience creating and executing both manual and automated test scripts.

• Familiarity with test automation tools and frameworks.

• Experience using defect management tools such as JIRA or TFS.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail.

• Knowledge of SQL or database concepts to support testing, investigation and data validation activities.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and business teams.

• ISTQB Foundation certification or equivalent experience would be advantageous.

• Exposure to programming or scripting languages such as VBA, Java or similar would be beneficial.

What’s in it for you?

As a Top Employer UK, we offer a supportive, inclusive environment and a flexible benefits package that you can tailor to your lifestyle. Highlights include:

• Competitive salary and comprehensive package, contributory pension, and health cash plan.

• Opportunity to buy/sell holiday giving you even more control over your work-life balance.

• Flexible benefits including private medical insurance and lifestyle discounts.

• A culture that values collaboration, development and wellbeing.

• Access to learning and development opportunities to support your technical and professional growth.

• The opportunity to work on business-critical projects within a leading global financial services organisation.

Could this be you?

Making a positive impact is at the heart of everything we do. We’re looking for people who live by our values, who are positive, brave and own it.

Don’t let confidence hold you back. You don’t need to meet every requirement. If you have around 75% of the skills and experience we’re looking for and are passionate about delivering quality technology solutions, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now to join a team that makes a real impact.

Learn more about careers with us: https://www.bnpparibas-pf.co.uk/careers

Your Application Journey

• Call with our Talent Acquisition team

• Informal chat with the Hiring Manager

• Competency-based interview including a technical assessment

We aim to complete the process within 3-4 weeks, depending on availability. If you’re not shortlisted, we’ll still let you know the outcome. Please note that this role may close early once we have enough suitable applicants, so apply soon.

Equal Opportunities

We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace and ensuring equal opportunities for all, regardless of age, disability, gender, identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, or background.

Company purpose:

Our company purpose is to contribute to a responsible and sustainable economy by financing and advising clients according to the highest ethical standards.

Our employer promise is built around three pillars:

• Being a great place to work

• Committed to sustainability and having a positive impact

• Being dedicated to the development of our people

Business area

The Electronic Equities business provides clients execution services on over 100 markets in more than 30 countries worldwide. 

We provide the full spectrum of capabilities: from Sponsored or Direct Market Access to Smart Order Router and Algorithmic Execution. 

Technology is a key factor in the success of this business; hence we focus on a small number of technologies and platforms, each dedicated and optimised for a particular function to achieve best results. 

We look to build compact, flat and global teams, actively collaborating between each other and with the business. 

We are a team with engineering culture, we value hands-on technical skills at any level.

Job Purpose

Trading Algorithm Strategist is a senior role within the Algo dev team as a highly skilled engineer. Responsible for developing and implementing sophisticated trading algorithms that enhance the execution capabilities of our broker platform for our valued clients. 

This role requires a blend of strong technical skills and the ability to work collaboratively across multiple teams. Required to optimize our algorithmic logic and develop high-performance logic for quantitative trading strategies. Ability to build, design and architect technological solutions.

The Trading Algo Strategist will join a globally distributed team developing strategic Algo applications. The applications are deployed providing Best Execution Algorithms, SOR (Smart Order Routing), CRB (Centralized Risk Book) and IOB (Internal Order Book) capabilities. 

These are low-latency, high-throughput, resilient applications which require careful consideration of both functional and non-functional requirements. 

Typically, the team will work on various development tasks depending on experience such as implementing new features for clients further improving latency, and others.

Expected to suggest technological improvements for the platform to ensure the good evolution of the platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize trading algorithms to ensure the best execution for our broker platform.
• Collaborate with various teams, including development, quantitative analysts, and business stakeholders, to understand and address their needs.
• Design and implement strategic components that drive the performance and efficiency of our trading systems.
• Liaise directly with business users to understand systems issues affecting trading algorithm and software
• Conduct thorough analysis and research to identify opportunities for algorithmic improvements.
• Ensure the security and reliability of trading algorithms through rigorous testing and validation.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to continuously enhance our trading strategies.
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for any issues related to trading algorithms.
• Contribute to the core development of our trading framework, ensuring robustness, scalability, and efficiency.
• Provides hands-on development assistance and mentoring on distributed architecture, design patterns, coding best practices as necessary for other members of the development team
• Being autonomous on project management and being pro-active on suggesting technical solutions

Requirements

Essential

• Strong programming skills, particularly in C++ and other relevant languages.
• Proven experience as a Trading Algorithm Strategist or a similar role.
• Deep understanding of financial markets, trading strategies, and algorithmic trading.
• Excellent communications skills, able to communicate clearly and effectively.
• Ability to comprehend and translate business, quantitative, and technological requirements into effective solutions.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Finance, Mathematics, or a related field.

Preferred

• Prior experience with Linux (RHEL preferred) scripting, common tools.
• Prior experience with TCP/IP and UDP/Multicast networking and inter-process communication
• Working knowledge of enterprise development toolchain and approaches
• Experience with market data feeds, order execution, and risk management systems.
• Experience with Python and/or scripting languages.
• Experience with automated testing harnesses for performance and functional testing.

And of course, we expect all our colleagues to embody and practice the Group values (alignment with the Bank’s strategy, commitment, work ethic, integrity and Code of Conduct).

A bit more about why you should join us

1. We’re a great place to work

We aim for optimal work/life balance (depending on role, this includes hybrid working, flexible working and agile)

We are proud of our award-winning flexible benefits and health & wellbeing strategy. Our flexible benefits include:

• Generous holiday allowance of at least 26 days (plus bank holidays) – with option to buy and sell holidays.

• Valuable financial plans – a 12% non-contributory pension which has been moved to sustainable investments*, life assurance*, income protection and personal accident insurance.

• Extensive wellbeing and mental health offering – one of the most advanced private medical schemes in the UK, dental cover, wellbeing app, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy support, subsidised gym memberships, bespoke health assessments including genetic testing, Private GP (including digital GP services to parents of employees), Employee Assistance Programme, menopause & fertility support (we are an accredited Menopause Friendly Employer), neurodiversity assessment and support.

• Key onsite services and facilities in London – include physiotherapy, nutrition, massage therapy, physiology, mental health first aiders, seasonal flu vaccinations and free onsite fitness centre.

• Plus, emergency back-up care for dependants, green car leasing, season ticket loan, and a range of other benefits.

* Subject to relevant caps

2. As the eurozone’s largest bank, we are committed to having a positive impact in the world.  

For example, we are committed to Net Zero in all of our financing and investment portfolios by 2050. By 2030, 80% of our energy production financing will be low carbon.

But impact for us means more than climate. It means empowering our people every day. Everyone gets four volunteering days each year – in 2023, we achieved over 18,000 hours of volunteering across the UK and reaching over 4,500 young people.

3. We believe in our people

We support our people to develop skills to adapt to the ever-evolving world of work and to prepare for the jobs of today and tomorrow. We do this through a comprehensive training offering, talent programmes, mentoring, career days and inhouse career tools.

We are proud of the number of our people who progress and secure new roles internally. In fact, in 2023, nearly half of our positions in UK CIB were filled internally. 

Investing in our people also means we have a collaborative and inclusive culture:

• Direct feedback from our people shows that our internal culture sets us apart from our industry peers.

• Each year, nearly 30,000 employees globally are involved in professional networks that play an active role in promoting Diversity and Inclusion within the Group. These include our:

Pride Network, Ability Network (which supports disabled employees), MixCity (gender equality network), Women in Global Markets, Women in Global Banking, Women in IT, Diversity Equity & Inclusion in Technology, Early Careers Network, Multicultural Network and Parents & Carers Network.

Equal opportunities 

BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.

Adjustments

We don’t want anyone to be disadvantaged in our recruitment processes, so if you have a disability or health condition which may mean that you’d benefit from some adjustments or additional support, please let us know as early in the process as possible.

#LI-Hybrid

Company purpose:

Our company purpose is to contribute to a responsible and sustainable economy by financing and advising clients according to the highest ethical standards.

Our employer promise is built around three pillars:

• Being a great place to work

• Committed to sustainability and having a positive impact

• Being dedicated to the development of our people

Business area

The Electronic Equities business provides clients execution services on over 100 markets in more than 30 countries worldwide. 

We provide the full spectrum of capabilities: from Sponsored or Direct Market Access to Smart Order Router and Algorithmic Execution. 

Technology is a key factor in the success of this business; hence we focus on a small number of technologies and platforms, each dedicated and optimised for a particular function to achieve best results. 

We look to build compact, flat and global teams, actively collaborating between each other and with the business. 

We are a team with engineering culture, we value hands-on technical skills at any level.

Job Purpose

Trading Algorithm Strategist is a role within the Algo dev team as a highly skilled engineer. Responsible for developing and implementing sophisticated trading algorithms that enhance the execution capabilities of our broker platform for our valued clients. 

This role requires a blend of strong technical skills and the ability to work collaboratively across multiple teams. Required to optimize our algorithmic logic and develop high-performance logic for quantitative trading strategies. Ability to build, design and architect technological solutions.

The Trading Algo Strategist will join a globally distributed team developing strategic Algo applications. The applications are deployed providing Best Execution Algorithms, SOR (Smart Order Routing), CRB (Centralized Risk Book) and IOB (Internal Order Book) capabilities. 

These are low-latency, high-throughput, resilient applications which require careful consideration of both functional and non-functional requirements. 

Typically, the team will work on various development tasks depending on experience such as implementing new features for clients further improving latency, and others.

Expected to suggest technological improvements for the platform to ensure the good evolution of the platform

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize trading algorithms to ensure the best execution for our broker platform.
• Collaborate with various teams, including development, quantitative analysts, and business stakeholders, to understand and address their needs.
• Design and implement strategic components that drive the performance and efficiency of our trading systems.
• Liaise directly with business users to understand systems issues affecting trading algorithm and software
• Conduct thorough analysis and research to identify opportunities for algorithmic improvements.
• Ensure the security and reliability of trading algorithms through rigorous testing and validation.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to continuously enhance our trading strategies.
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for any issues related to trading algorithms.
• Contribute to the core development of our trading framework, ensuring robustness, scalability, and efficiency.
• Being autonomous on project management and being pro-active on suggesting technical solutions

Requirements

Essential

• Strong programming skills, particularly in C++ and other relevant languages.
• Excellent communications skills, able to communicate clearly and effectively.
• Ability to comprehend and translate business, quantitative, and technological requirements into effective solutions.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Finance, Mathematics, or a related field.

Preferred

• Proven experience as a Trading Algorithm Strategist or a similar role.
• Prior experience with Linux (RHEL preferred) scripting, common
• Understanding of financial markets, trading strategies, and algorithmic trading.
• Prior experience with TCP/IP and UDP/Multicast networking and inter-process communication
• Working knowledge of enterprise development toolchain and approaches
• Experience with market data feeds, order execution, and risk management systems.
• Experience with Python and/or scripting languages.
• Experience with automated testing harnesses for performance and functional testing.

And of course, we expect all our colleagues to embody and practice the Group values (alignment with the Bank’s strategy, commitment, work ethic, integrity and Code of Conduct).

A bit more about why you should join us

1. We’re a great place to work

We aim for optimal work/life balance (depending on role, this includes hybrid working, flexible working and agile)

We are proud of our award-winning flexible benefits and health & wellbeing strategy. Our flexible benefits include:

• Generous holiday allowance of at least 26 days (plus bank holidays) – with option to buy and sell holidays.

• Valuable financial plans – a 12% non-contributory pension which has been moved to sustainable investments*, life assurance*, income protection and personal accident insurance.

• Extensive wellbeing and mental health offering – one of the most advanced private medical schemes in the UK, dental cover, wellbeing app, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy support, subsidised gym memberships, bespoke health assessments including genetic testing, Private GP (including digital GP services to parents of employees), Employee Assistance Programme, menopause & fertility support (we are an accredited Menopause Friendly Employer), neurodiversity assessment and support.

• Key onsite services and facilities in London – include physiotherapy, nutrition, massage therapy, physiology, mental health first aiders, seasonal flu vaccinations and free onsite fitness centre.

• Plus, emergency back-up care for dependants, green car leasing, season ticket loan, and a range of other benefits.

* Subject to relevant caps

2. As the eurozone’s largest bank, we are committed to having a positive impact in the world.  

For example, we are committed to Net Zero in all of our financing and investment portfolios by 2050. By 2030, 80% of our energy production financing will be low carbon.

But impact for us means more than climate. It means empowering our people every day. Everyone gets four volunteering days each year – in 2023, we achieved over 18,000 hours of volunteering across the UK and reaching over 4,500 young people.

3. We believe in our people

We support our people to develop skills to adapt to the ever-evolving world of work and to prepare for the jobs of today and tomorrow. We do this through a comprehensive training offering, talent programmes, mentoring, career days and inhouse career tools.

We are proud of the number of our people who progress and secure new roles internally. In fact, in 2023, nearly half of our positions in UK CIB were filled internally. 

Investing in our people also means we have a collaborative and inclusive culture:

• Direct feedback from our people shows that our internal culture sets us apart from our industry peers.

• Each year, nearly 30,000 employees globally are involved in professional networks that play an active role in promoting Diversity and Inclusion within the Group. These include our:

Pride Network, Ability Network (which supports disabled employees), MixCity (gender equality network), Women in Global Markets, Women in Global Banking, Women in IT, Diversity Equity & Inclusion in Technology, Early Careers Network, Multicultural Network and Parents & Carers Network.

Equal opportunities 

BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.

Adjustments

We don’t want anyone to be disadvantaged in our recruitment processes, so if you have a disability or health condition which may mean that you’d benefit from some adjustments or additional support, please let us know as early in the process as possible.

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BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and a key player in international banking. We operate in 65 countries and employ 190,000 people, including nearly 145,000 in Europe. Our Group holds key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services; Investment & Protection Services; and Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) for corporate and institutional clients.

BNP Paribas’ CIB UK Legal department is a dynamic and integral part of the bank’s activities, providing expert Legal advice and support across a wide range of activities. Our teams work closely with the business on transactional, advisory and governance matters and on disputes. It is led by dedicated professionals who ensure that the bank’s interests are protected while adhering to the highest Legal, regulatory and ethical standards. The department is involved in various initiatives, including work experience programs, diversity and inclusion efforts, and Legal technology advancements, reflecting its commitment to excellence, innovation and efficiency in the Legal field.

  About the Graduate Programme

You will be part of a class of recent graduates and will join an 18-month intensive learning programme of three rotations in various environments within BNP Paribas Legal. Your journey through the Legal department will provide you with an experience that will enhance your skills. Fully integrated into the various Legal environments, you will contribute to Legal activities and participate in its strategic projects.

The rotations:

• The first rotation is carried out in the Legal team that you will join permanently at the end of the Graduate Programme.
• The second rotation is planned abroad to allow you to discover the international dimension of the Group.
• The last rotation will complete your experience in a Legal team whose missions are meaningful for your career path.

In addition, you will benefit from:

• A cross-functional learning experience, a springboard, and a career accelerator
• Networking opportunities
• Personalized and enhanced HR support
• A working environment conducive to exchanges and sharing, especially with the other Graduates who will form the class
• A defined career path

  

Job Purpose – Commodities, Credit, FX and Rates (CCFR) Team

This specific role will be based in the Legal CCFR team; an organisation within LEGAL comprising legal professionals providing legal support to business lines throughout the BNP Paribas Group in relation to Credit, Commodities, FX and Rates matters. The team is part of the LEGAL Derivatives Platform.

Purpose:

The CCFR Analyst supports other more senior members of the CCFR team in providing specialist legal and/or regulatory advice to the business in order to ensure that the business is supported, and able to achieve its objectives, on all matters relating to CCFR, whilst effectively identifying and managing legal risk. The work undertaken by a CCFR Analyst will be a mix of independent work and also assisting and supporting the work of more senior members of the CCFR Legal team on more complex projects.

Scope:

UK role but may advise on transactions across EMEA

The CCFR Analyst assists on projects, develops relationships with stakeholders and undertakes tasks in order to assist and enable more senior members of the CCFR team to provide high quality legal advice to the business.
  

Key Responsibilities

  

Requirements

  

And of course, we expect all our colleagues to embody and practice the Group values (alignment with the Bank’s strategy, commitment, work ethic, integrity and Code of Conduct).

  

A bit more about why you should join us

  

1. We’re a great place to work

We aim for optimal work/life balance (depending on role, this includes hybrid working, flexible working and agile)

We are proud of our award-winning flexible benefits and health & wellbeing strategy. Our flexible benefits include:

* Subject to relevant caps

  

2. As the eurozone’s largest bank, we are committed to having a positive impact in the world.  

For example, we are committed to Net Zero in all of our financing and investment portfolios by 2050. By 2030, 80% of our energy production financing will be low carbon.

  

But impact for us means more than climate. It means empowering our people every day. Everyone gets four volunteering days each year – in 2023, we achieved over 18,000 hours of volunteering across the UK and reaching over 4,500 young people.

  

3. We believe in our people

We support our people to develop skills to adapt to the ever-evolving world of work and to prepare for the jobs of today and tomorrow. We do this through a comprehensive training offering, talent programmes, mentoring, career days and inhouse career tools.

  

We are proud of the number of our people who progress and secure new roles internally. In fact, in 2023, nearly half of our positions in UK CIB were filled internally. 

  

Investing in our people also means we have a collaborative and inclusive culture:

Equal opportunities 

BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, or any other Legally protected status.

  

Adjustments

We don’t want anyone to be disadvantaged in our recruitment processes, so if you have a disability or health condition which may mean that you’d benefit from some adjustments or additional support, please let us know as early in the process as possible.

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Settlements Specialist

Location: Solihull; a flexible hybrid working model which supports you as well as enabling you to work collaboratively with your colleagues

Contract: 12 month Fixed Term Contract

About Us

At BNP Paribas Personal Finance, we’re part of a global banking group with a simple mission: to provide straightforward consumer finance solutions that help customers make responsible financial decisions. We partner with leading UK retailers and brands to support their customers finance purchases responsibly.

The Role

As a Settlements Specialist at BNP Paribas PF UK, you will be responsible for compiling, processing and settlement of company partnership payments, dealing with statement enquiries and the reclaim of commissions and cancellation of agreements. This is a great opportunity for someone in the settlements space to gain exposure to / learn further around finance in a Financial Services company.

Key Responsibilities

Skills & Attributes

Could this be you?

Making a positive impact is at the heart of everything we do. We’re looking for people who live by our values, who are positive, brave, and own it. Don’t let confidence hold you back. You don’t need to meet every requirement – if you have around 75% of the skills and the right attitude, we’d love to hear from you.

What’s in it for you

As a Top Employer UK, we offer a supportive, inclusive environment and a flexible benefits package that you can tailor to your lifestyle. Highlights include:

Apply now to join a team that makes a real impact.

Learn more about careers with us: https://www.bnpparibas-pf.co.uk/careers 

Your Application Journey 

We aim to complete the process within 3-4 weeks, depending on availability. If you’re not shortlisted, we’ll still let you know the outcome. Please note that this role may close early once we have enough suitable applicants, so apply soon.

Equal Opportunities

We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace and ensuring equal opportunities for all, regardless of age, disability, gender, identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, or background.