Professional Ethics APAC

Job description

BNP Paribas Overview
The BNP Paribas Group is a leader in banking and financial services, employing over 185,000 people across 75 countries and 5 continents. BNP Paribas Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) is a leading European investment bank with global leadership in many of our businesses. BNP Paribas CIB, with nearly 18,000 employees in over 50 countries, can offer you an exciting and truly global career.

At BNP Paribas CIB, we work continuously on behalf of our clients, helping them to realise their projects around the world. You can be an important part of this, helping us to serve our clients both in mature and emerging markets, providing them with financial solutions across a diverse range of expertise, products and services. Our origins lie in Europe but nearly a quarter of our employees now work in our multi-award-winning Asian offices and we are a committed player in all markets.

In Asia Pacific, BNP Paribas has been present in the region for over 150 years and have plans to grow our business from €2bl EUR to €3bl EUR by the end of 2016. With over 8,000 employees in the region and presence in 14 markets, including our 3 main centres in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, BNP Paribas offers you the chance to grow with us in Asia Pacific.

Department Overview
In an ever changing world with a continually shifting regulatory landscape, Compliance supports the CIB and RB&S teams globally to deliver award winning products and services to their clients. Compliance sits at the heart of BNP Paribas' internal control framework and is independent from the CIB and RB&S businesses.

In APAC, the Compliance function is being transformed in order to meet the requirements of a changing regulatory landscape in the Region and globally. We are committed to learning and, through our APAC Campus in Singapore, provide dedicated Compliance training and seminars to ensure our people are kept up to date with changes in regulation and best practices. With the function scheduled to almost double in size over the course of 2015, a career in Compliance at BNP Paribas offers you the opportunity to grow with us in Asia Pacific.

If you are dedicated and want to be on the cutting edge of the changing global financial services sector, a career in Compliance may be for you.

Overall Job Purpose
To adapt to the strengthening regulatory environment and meet regulatory requirements, BNPP has launched a group-wide program to transform Group Compliance. New Domain areas of specialism have been set up and Professional Ethics (PE) is one of those Domains of expertise.

Regional Professional Ethics domain is to promote a shared common culture of probity and improve staff behaviour.

Direct Responsibilities
Responsibilities of the APAC PE domain team include:
· Implementing rules, processes and controls for misconduct prevention, as well as prevention and follow-through of due process
· Ensuring the consistency of the Code of Conduct integration into the Region"s action principles for the employees
· Ensuring the good execution of the delegations by the operational perimeters
· Ensuring a permanent watch on dysfunction identification sources (alerts, escalations, incidents, hotline, risk assessment, IG recommendations (IG recommendations should be followed-up by COO) and regulators)
· Coordinating the monthly Regional PE committee that gathers the representatives of operational perimeters (if applicable)
· Defining generic PE controls. Coordinates with various PE Correspondents to ensure implementation and execution at country level in APAC.
· Handling the ethical alerts directly conveyed to him/her while guaranteeing confidentiality for whistle-blowers
· Ensuring the efficiency and support the smooth running of the personal transaction control system
· Performing training and ensures sensitization of PE topics. Coordination with PE Correspondents is required.
· Managing the deontological files of the G 100 members relevant to the APAC region
· Contributing and supporting the global PE projects and initiatives, as and when required

Desired profile

· University graduate with relevant professional qualifications
· Overall 5-7 years' experience, with 3-5 years' in a regional role with exposure on professional ethics and internal control framework is required
· General knowledge of the Region; In-depth knowledge of Greater China is preferred.
· Possess sense of ethics culture and literacy
· Ability to work independently and to decline requests that contradict to the policies
· Attention for details and possess an investigative and questioning nature
· Good verbal and written communication skills in English and Chinese
· Good computer skills in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint