YOUR JOB IN A NUTSHELL
Ready to play a key role in protecting the bank’s operations? At BNP Paribas Fortis, our Operational Permanent Control (OPC) team works at the heart of risk management, ensuring that daily processes run safely and effectively. We collaborate with business teams to analyse risks, improve controls, and prevent errors, fraud, and regulatory issues. Help us build a stronger, more secure bank for all.
AND IN DETAIL
A key role in supporting operational safety and risk awareness across the bank.
Your Mission
As an OPC Risk Analyst at BNP Paribas Fortis, the role involves acting as a strategic partner for operational risk management. Working closely with business teams and second-line defence functions (such as Compliance and Risk Monitoring), the OPC Risk Analyst helps to identify key risk areas and propose practical solutions to reduce them. This role is essential in ensuring management stays focused on the most important risk priorities.
Your key responsibilities
1. Identify and monitor risks : carry out risk self-assessments (RCSA – Risk and Control Self-Assessment) on business processes both regularly and when specific issues arise. Evaluate risks by combining feedback from teams, process understanding, and available data.
2. Review and improve controls : assess whether current controls are effective, practical, and correctly applied. Recommend improvements and ensure they align with the organisation’s risk appetite (the level of risk the bank is willing to accept).
3. Advise and support management : contribute to decision-making processes in risk-related areas such as new activities, risk acceptance, and regulatory responses. Actively promote risk awareness and support management in understanding operational risks that may influence strategic decisions.
4. Collaborate across teams : work closely with other Operational Permanent Control (OPC) teams and regularly communicate with business partners to build strong working relationships. Share insights and proactively highlight risk areas that require attention.
What makes this role engaging?
Involvement in strategic discussions that directly shape the bank’s risk approach. A role that combines data analysis, process improvement, and advisory work. Close collaboration with various departments, offering a broad view of the bank’s operations. The chance to develop expertise in risk management while contributing to the bank’s long-term security and stability.
YOUR TALENTS AND COMPETENCES
5. Ability to take on a dynamic, proactive role as a facilitator, working smoothly with both internal teams and external partners.
6. Strong analytical skills, with the capacity to summarise complex information clearly and efficiently.
7. Quick to spot links, patterns, and potential impacts across different activities and processes.
8. Natural ease with project-based work, coordination, and managing multiple priorities.
9. Knowledge of compliance, risk management, or process management, or a strong willingness to develop this knowledge rapidly.
10. Confident and fluent communicator in Dutch, French, and English, both spoken and written, including delivering presentations to senior management.
11. Excellent command of MS Office tools, particularly Excel and PowerPoint; specific training on OPC tools will be provided.
WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER
OUR IMPACT
As a company, we implement concrete and sustainable solutions to reduce our environmental footprint, such as saving paper and resources, recycling our waste, encouraging the use of green transport, buildings that are designed and managed to limit our impact, etc.
YOUR CAREER PERSPECTIVES
The departments that make up BNP Paribas Fortis cover a wide range of activities. You will therefore have many opportunities for ‘horizontal’ and ‘vertical’ career development.
OUR OFFER
You will enjoy a permanent contract with an attractive salary package. You'll be working at our Brussels headquarters, just a short stroll from the railway station. We support your work-life balance by offering a mixture of in-person and remote work, among other things.
OUR ENGAGEMENT
At BNP Paribas Fortis, we want to attract and retain all talent, whatever their gender, age, background or sexual orientation, and irrespective of whether they are living with a disability, as every person has their own experiences and their own identity. All of our full-time vacancies are also open to candidates wishing to work on an 80% or 90% full-time equivalent basis.
TEMPTED BY THE CHALLENGE?
A first selection is made based on your CV and motivation letter. Are we convinced that you are the right candidate? Then we will contact you.
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