Reconciliations Manager, Middle Office

RECONCILIATIONS MANAGER, MIDDLE OFFICE (JOB NUMBER: C D000539)

As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance.

We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.
- BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community
- BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization
- Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness
- BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds

BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.

More information
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Award Obtained
BNPP has won Top employer Europe award in a 10th consecutive year

**Position Purpose**

Middle Office forms part of the Asset & Fund Services division of BNP Paribas Securities Services, supporting a variety of assets classes including Equities, Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, Cash, Listed Derivatives, OTC and Reconciliations. Additionally the team provides support to our client’s start of day positions, matching and monitoring of settlements, cashflows and reporting.

The roles within the Sydney Middle Office team are organised in alignment with the Global Middle Office processes of Asset Servicing, Transaction Management, OTC, Account Management and Business Transformation.

The Sydney Middle Office team’s primary purpose is to ensure our clients receive high quality Middle Office services. This includes the execution of daily production to meet SLAs and KPIs, management of queries, resolution of issues, deliver on client change and continual development of our operating model.

The Sydney Middle Office team is also responsible for oversight of outsourced functions, including their daily operations and overall performance.

We value teamwork, maintaining good working relationships internally and with our clients, ownership of our risk and control environment.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Responsible for all reconciliations within our Fund Accounting and Middle Office Services in an outsourced environment
- All reconciliations are monitored, reported, accurate, delivered on time, meet key risk targets
- Communicate with key business owners and clients on reconciliation reporting, trends, processes and controls
- Work closely with off shore teams and be key point person for escalations
- Support and lead key business change as it relates to reconciliations
- Be the key point in the region (Australia and New Zealand) for reconciliations

**Change and Execution**
- Support client change and new services initiatives as required
- Generate ideas for process improvement to systems and processes

**Risk Management**
- Adhering to the risk and control framework, including the maintenance and update of internal procedures.
- Incident report are managed within required timeframes
- Manage incident process effectively and within reasonable timeframes.
- Back-up and contingency plans maintained and understood in the event of system outages.

**Competencies (Technical / Behavioral)**

**Competencies**
- Teamwork - Listen and responds constructively to other team members’ ideas. Builds strong partnerships across the firm and externally to help achieve results for the firm and client alike.
- Creativity and Innovation - takes a different perspective to a problem and goes beyond the existing frameworks suggesting new ideas which are suitable for their clients;
- Accountability - committed to achieving the organisation's objectives. Demonstrates perseverance and is accountable for own actions.
- Attention to detail - ensures accuracy and implements processes to ensure quality of output. Ensures high personal standards in all areas of work.
- Team orientation - works with the team and the broader organisation towards shared goals and treats all colleagues and clients as partners
- Planning & execution - establishes courses of action for self and others to ensure work is completed efficiently. Effectively manages own time and resources to meet deadlines and quality standards

**Specific Qualifications Required**

**Qualificati