Audit and Inspection:
Being a bank, BNP Paribas relies on a strong audit system to insure all businesses are secure and able to serve clients. Its role is to evaluate independently the quality of risk management, control and company’s strategic decision processes. Its objective is to help the Group to meet its financial transparency, value-creating and risk management requirements while the work environment is getting more and more complex.
Auditors intervene fully independently in all of BNP Paribas' entities and in all areas and all countries. They may examine any issue and have total access to all information throughout the Group. They realise their controls particularly on risk management frameworks in all the entities of the Group, which makes this position a true learning experience.

Compliance:
To restore market confidence, legislators have become particularly vigilant. They have made many recommendations and strengthened regulations. As a result, BNP Paribas strengthened its compliance system to make sure that all businesses follow the rules and are responsible for their actions. Compliance makes client relations secure by protecting the Group’s reputation. Compliance ensures banking secrecy and constant vigilance. Compliance contains two important dimensions: the duty to advise and provide information and traceability. At BNP Paribas, compliance is based on four fundamental notions: financial security, professional ethics, market integrity, primacy of clients’ interests.

Focus: internal auditor

During an assignment, the auditor:
• Analyses risks and ensures full compliance with local law and reporting rules;
• Evaluates the reliability and relevance of internal-control mechanisms;
• Assesses the effectiveness of the audited department;
• Gives recommendations on management, methods, and procedures in order to optimise the use of material and human resources.

Between assignments, the auditor:
• Writes reports, based on analyses;
• Keeps abreast of the latest tools and techniques;
• Trades learning experiences with colleagues;
• Keeps in constant contact with outside experts.

Internal auditors guarantee the respect of the Group strategy.

BNP Paribas counts today almost 1, 000 internal auditors spread over the different businesses, territories and activities of the Group. This international function uses the same working methods and tools that meet the common standards of professionalism.

Three different auditor profiles exist in the Group:

• Auditor of entity
Auditor of entity works in a geographically defined entity (New York, Madrid…) that manages several businesses or within one particular business, such as equities, insurance, retail banking, finance…

• Auditor of senior management
Auditor of senior management – called inspector – conducts his/her assignments throughout all BNP Paribas’ and its subsidiaries activities, in France and abroad. The assignments can treat all subject, geographic zone or activity, such as credit risk in New York, equity derivatives in Tokyo, a retail banking group of agencies in Marseille, support functions in London…

• Specialised auditor
Specialised auditors have technical skills in a specific field: information systems, accounting, statistics, mathematics… They manage first and foremost assignments that come within their field of expertise and that may concern all activities of the Group. The assignments can treat of various subjects, like for examples the governance of the Group’s information systems, examining the accounting system of securities services in London or the economic capital calculation for the market risk.

The BNP Paribas group is looking for candidates with university-level qualifications, combining the skills and the following fundamental qualities needed to succed as an internal auditor:
• Sound judgment;
• Ability to analyse and summarise;
• Intellectual curiosity;
• Independence of mind;
• Team spirit;
• Ability to listen and communicate.

But more than a regognised qualification or track record meeting our requirements, what is essential is your desire to join us, your capacity to adapt and your ability to convince.
We are recruiting new talent all year round.

Being an auditor is a gateway to activities that are core to our businesses. With a widen vision of the organization, the auditor can then cultivate capacities of analysis, judgment, and dialogue... Through his/her missions, the auditor acquires a diversity of professional experiences which are assets for a successful career within the BNP PARIBAS group.

Risk, Control, Audit