Topc Vp

TOPC VP (JOB NUMBER: MEX000060)

**About BNP Paribas Group**

BNP and Paribas merged in 2000 to create BNP Paribas. BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial and advisory services to its clients including large corporates, public institutions and financial institutions. BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a presence in over 70 countries, with more than 180,000 employees, including more than 140,000 in Europe. The Group has three operating divisions: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services (CPBS), Investment & Protection Services (IPS) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. The Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, Corporate and Institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, the Group has four domestic markets (Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg). BNP Paribas enjoys top positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific.

Fully integrated in the BNP Paribas Group, BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) is a leading provider of solutions framed in three business lines: Global Markets, Securities Services and Global Banking all offered to two client franchises: corporates and institutional, and operates across EMEA (Europe Middle East Africa), APAC (Asia Pacific) and the Americas. The bank is a global leader in Debt Capital Markets and Derivatives. It is a top European house in Equity Capital Markets and it has leading franchises in Specialized Financing. In Securities Services, it is a top five House worldwide: it provides multi asset, post trade and asset servicing solutions for institutional participants in the investment cycle, from the buy-side and sell-side to corporates and issuers. BNP Paribas CIB strives to service the global economy by providing solutions to its clients in financing (ECM, DCM, specialized financing), flow banking (trade finance and cash management), financial advisory (M&A, project finance), global markets (interest rates, credit, foreign exchange, equity derivatives), risk management, and securities services.

**About BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking in Mexico**

BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking has had a representation office in Mexico since 1966. Since then BNP Paribas has played an important role in financing Mexico’s development into the 21st century. BNP Paribas was one of the founders of Banco Nacional de Mexico (Banamex), one of Mexico’s largest banks, at the end of the 19th century, and stayed as a minority shareholder until the nationalization of the banking system in 1982. BNP was first established in Mexico more than half a century ago also acting as an important shareholder in Banco del Atlántico until 1982

BNP Paribas Mexico is expanding and has started operating in 2021 a full-fledged Mexican bank to better serve its clients through local operations performing local and global markets activities. Operations out of BNP Paribas Mexico include in particular trading and market making activities on interest rate derivatives, forex (spot and forward), bonds, repos and reverse repos on MBonos, UDI and Bonos. The coverage activities focusing on Mexican corporate and institutional clients will remain and expand.

**BNP Paribas CIB Mexico TOPC (Transversal Operational Permanent Control)**

**Mission Statement and Job Positioning and Description**

**AREA**

Transversal Operational Permanent Control (TOPC)

**HIERARCHICAL REPORTING LINE**

CIB Mexico COO

**FUNCTIONAL REPORTING LINE
Mexico Head of TOPC

**FUNCTIONAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE
CIB Mexico TOPC as well as nearshoring platforms and hubs providing TOPC management services to CIB Mexico (through SLA oversight)

**Mission Statement**

The Transversal OPC (“TOPC”) Vice President is responsible for coordinating, aligning, strengthening, and animating the broader OPC community embedded in BNPP businesses by standardizing and implementing consistent OPC methodologies within Mexico, ensuring alignment with the region, and ensuring ongoing monitoring.

Key activity categories are Governance, Risk Monitoring & Reporting, Permanent control plans and testing, and Remediation & Follow-up

This position reports hierarchically to the Mexico Head of TOPC, who in turns reports to CIB Mexico COO and functionally to the Americas Head of TOPC.

The TOPC team is also entrusted regulatory responsibilities, so the VP needs to support the following activities:
1. Representing BNPP Mexico towards CONDUSE, mainly to address periodic reporting and being a focal point for reception of claims, disputes and enquiries by users of the banking system,

2. Producing deliverables and address enquiries for BNPP Internal Comptrollership towards the Central Bank (BANXICO