HireTalent – Diversity Staffing & Recruiting Firm Looking for Operations Analyst/ P&L Controller at Montreal, Quebec, Canada Full Time

Title: Operations Analyst/ P&L Controller

Duration: 18+Months contract

Job Id: 14159476/ 14154673

Location: Montreal, QC

Client: BNP Paribas

Working hours: 8:00am to 5:00pm

Departmental Objectives

• The preparation of daily and monthly management revenues for ALM Treasury, and their reconciliation with the estimates of the traders and with the financial accounts
• Ensuring the Economic P&L is correct at the most granular level (Deal level or P&L Explain effect level when relevant).
• Informing FO trading of any issue or adjustment having an impact on FO risks or on Cash management.
• Responsible for maintaining an Audit Trail of all reconciliations, adjustments, FO sign-offs and MO P&L validations
• Analysis and reporting of daily P&L with detailed breakdown for multiple products including repo, loan and deposits, treasuries, listed derivatives, FX and IR swaps.
• Reconciliation of PnL to Front office estimates (when available) with detailed breakdown of P&L drivers
• Contribution to resolution of Back office ledger vs. P&L systems breaks
• Ensuring the pricing configuration complies with trading strategy and internal controls, collaboration with V&RC and Risk required to enforce consistency
• Analysis, understanding and commentary on PnL using analytical tools
• Working with front office and trade support part of the middle office to resolve operational and booking issues
• Participation in business development initiatives across BNP Paribas support functions and locations
• Ensuring the MTD management P&Ls are consistent with the final end of month general ledger P&L
• Discussing and reviewing trading P&Ls with management
• Work closely with Finance to address Economic/Finance P&L breaks
• Ensure timely and efficient dissemination of data and the resolution of inquiries
• Identify and escalate time / risk sensitive issues
• Cohesively explain and maintain own position, logically, in light of differing views

Culture

· Focus on the needs of the business

· Act with integrity, accepting responsibility for actions

· Recognize opportunities for creativity and development of processes

· Achieve a sensible work/life balance.

Minimum Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required
• At least 2 years of experience in in P/L, Valuation, Trade support, Risk or Finance including at least 1 years in a P&L function.
• Working Knowledge of the following financial products: Loans & Deposits, FX Products, Interest Rate Swaps, Bonds, Repos, and Listed Derivatives.
• Strong Excel & PC skills with proven ability to work with multiple systems
• Strong problem solving skills
• Spirit of continuous improvement
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills a must
• Display good relationship qualities, team spirit, and ability to work across teams
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment and to consistently meet deadlines
• Attention to detail and accuracy is imperative

Preferred Qualifications:

• Graduate degree in Finance, Accounting, Math , Engineering or other quantitative disciplines
• Experience in pricing, valuation or hedging of derivatives
• Project management experience deploying new models or system migration.
• Working Knowledge of programming languages – such as VBA & Python
• Experience with Fair Value Hedging methodologies (Interest Rate hedging, currency hedging, etc.)
• Working Knowledge of best practices related to funding methodologies, cost of carry analysis, or other cash management related functions.
• Working knowledge of liquidity P&L computation including balance sheet value at risk and liquidity transformation for cash products.