Data Analytics

In Asia Pacific, BNP Paribas is one of the best-positioned international financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence since 1860. Currently with over 18,000 employees* and a presence in 13 markets, BNP Paribas provides corporates, institutional and private investors with product and service solutions tailored to their specific needs. It offers a wide range of financial services covering corporate & institutional banking, wealth management, asset management, insurance, as well as retail banking and consumer financing through strategic partnerships.

Worldwide, BNP Paribas has a presence in 68 markets with more than 193,000 employees. It has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. Asia Pacific is a key strategic region for BNP Paribas and it continues to develop its franchise in the region.
- excluding partnerships

At BNP Paribas, we passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued, respected and can bring their authentic selves to work. We prohibit Discrimination and Harassment of any kind and our policies promote equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants, irrespective of, but not limited to their gender, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, colour, national origin, age, religion, social status, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status etc. As a global Bank, we truly believe that inclusion and diversity of our teams is key to our success in serving our clients and the communities we operate in.

**Position Purpose**:
The role will lead the Data Analytics team in BIS - IT Security. This is a hands-on data analytics and reporting manager role. You will work with the executive leadership team and managers to understand, develop and drive enhancement to the cybersecurity controls within the bank.

In this role you will work closely with multiple areas of the business (focusing on enhancing Cybersecurity controls) to proactively identify areas that data analytics can support and agree roadmaps for control improvements. This role will also require you to provide leadership in data analytics across the organisation with identifying control capability gaps and facilitating data innovation, using AI/ML and advanced and predictive analytics.

**Responsibilities**

**Direct Responsibilities**
- Lead a team of Data Scientists and Data Analysts to devise strategies and solutions to support data analytics and reporting capabilities across all business functions
- Focus on data democratization and building user self-help capabilities, enabling organization wide data driven decision making
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, advise on analytical approaches, explore solutions to address business challenges
- Proactively discover and incorporate new insights from all data sources / raw datasets
- Continuously explore and implement new technologies, tools and techniques that will overall improve data processing, enhance the analytics solution or produce effective and engaging visualization

**Contributing Responsibilities**
- Participate and drive initiatives using Data Science to enhance, streamline and improve the cybersecurity controls
- Experience in implementing real-time/streaming data ingestion solutions, real-time data analytics solutions
- Experience in presenting analytics results effectively using data visualization & analytics tools such as Tableau and ThoughtSpot
- Working experience on Big Data development and related technologies (e.g. PowerBI, R, Python, Java, Spark, SQL & NoSQL databases)
- Comfortable working with very large volumes of data of various structured/unstructured data formats
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills

**Technical & Behavioral Competencies**:

- Exceptional communication and advocacy skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to express complex technical issues in an easily understood manner.
- Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively and respectfully with both business-oriented executives and technology-oriented personnel in teams across the organization.
- Team player
- Investigation mindset and skill required.
- Ability to think like a threat actor to defend against cyber attacks

**Specific Qualifications (if required)**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics or a related degree or equivalent experience
- At least 10 years of relevant working experience, with relevant IT and Cybersecurity certification