Company Purpose
Our company purpose is to contribute to a responsible and sustainable economy by financing and advising clients according to the highest ethical standards.
Our Employer Promise Is Built Around Three Pillars
- Being a great place to work.
- Committed to sustainability and having a positive impact.
- Being dedicated to the development of our people.
Business Area
In the UK, Global Banking focuses on 4 main business areas: Corporate Clients Group, Capital Markets, Low Carbon Transition Group and Transaction Banking.
This role sits within Capital Markets, which is a platform designed to provide a fully integrated offer across debt and equity, and work closer with its issuer and investor clients.
The Energy, Resources & Infrastructure (ERI) team sits within the Real Assets EMEA department within Capital Markets, and has a leading position as adviser and arranger of limited recourse financing solutions across the EMEA region in the Infrastructure and Energy sectors.
The team advises clients with respect to their debt financing needs, arranges and structures debt financing as mandated lead arranger, cross sells other products of the bank (including hedging and cash management solutions), acts as coverage for certain clients and monitors its exposure to transactions on its book. The team is located in Paris, Brussels and London (main hubs), with local teams in Milan and Madrid.
Within ERI, the Transaction team is in charge of execution and origination support for new deals, in close cooperation with the Sector teams (organised by sector) and the Credit Portfolio Management (CPM) team.
Job Purpose
- Assist the senior team members in the day-to-day business activities.
- Contribute to a variety of tasks allowing a general introduction to the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute on the day to day execution of deal activity across Energy, Resources & Infrastructure EMEA.
- Ensure quality and timely preparation of all materials required for deal preparation.
Marketing and Origination Support
- Contribute to the preparation of screening memos, commercial proposals/pitches and, as applicable, research papers, preliminary financial modelling and debt sizing analysis.
- Prepare presentations and pitches.
- Perform background industry and company research, synthesising information from diverse sources.
- Interact with internal parties in both marketing and execution.
- Track developments in the market.
Execution
- Develop or review / run financial models, prepare related deliverables and (as applicable) interact with the client on those aspects.
- Actively contribute to the preparation of credit papers, information memoranda and certain due diligence aspects (in particular any model audit).
- Participate in legal aspects (notably those aspects of the term sheet and finance documentation related to the model).
- Assist in the KYC on-boarding process.
- Challenge senior officers on both commercial and technical aspects of transactions.
- Ensure handover of the responsibility for new deals to the Portfolio & Analytics team upon closing, in accordance with agreed guidelines.
Regulation
- Ensure that all regulatory and commercial training is completed on time and refreshed as required.
- Responsible for adherence to the Bank’s corporate policies, to its internal Compliance regulations as well as to appropriate external Regulators.
- Comply with applicable laws, regulatory requirements, procedures, Group compliance standards, as well as with the 7 themes and the anti-corruption addendum of the Code of Conduct: Customers‘ interest, Financial Security, Market Integrity, Professional ethics, Respect for Persons, Group Protection, and Involvement within Society - and notably the completion of mandatory trainings in due time.
Requirements
Technical:
Qualifications
- A degree from a leading university with an excellent academic record; or equivalent work experience.
Experience
- Previous experience within top tier investment bank or infrastructure fund and in similar business area.
Client
- Understand clients' needs and provides a first level of answer within his/her perimeter of responsibilities.
Expertise
- Proven credit analysis experience and commercial knowledge of capital markets, including debt markets and ERI sectors.
- Excellent quantitative and analytical skills.
- Determination to learn and improve performance.
- Capacity to meet deadlines under pressure.
- Circulate correctly and in a timely manner information to senior members.
- Rigour and detail oriented, allowing to gradually increases level of autonomy and efficiency in production of models and analysis.
IT
- IT literacy in Microsoft Office.
Language
- Fluency in English is mandatory; another European language would be beneficial.
Behavioural
People
- Strong team player.
- Creativity in suggesting adequate ways to solve issues.
- Critical of own work / Professional reaction to positive and negative feed-back and use of this feed-back to improve.
Conduct
- Be a role model, supporting and fostering a culture of good conduct.
- Strong capacity to support and foster a culture of good conduct.
- Demonstrate proactivity, transparency and accountability for identifying and managing conduct risks.
- Consider the implications of your actions on colleagues, partners and clients before making decisions, and escalate issues to your manager when unsure.
And of course, we expect all our colleagues to embody and practice the Group values (alignment with the Bank’s strategy, commitment, work ethic, integrity and Code of Conduct).
A Bit More About Why You Should Join Us
- We’re a great place to work
We aim for optimal work/life balance (depending on role, this includes hybrid working, flexible working and agile).
We are proud of our award-winning flexible benefits and health & wellbeing strategy. Our flexible benefits include:
- Generous holiday allowance of at least 26 days (plus bank holidays) – with option to buy and sell holidays.
- Valuable financial plans – a 12% non-contributory pension which has been moved to sustainable investments*, life assurance*, income protection and personal accident insurance.
- Extensive wellbeing and mental health offering – one of the most advanced private medical schemes in the UK, dental cover, wellbeing app, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy support, subsidised gym memberships, bespoke health assessments including genetic testing, Private GP (including digital GP services to parents of employees), Employee Assistance Programme, menopause & fertility support (we are an accredited Menopause Friendly Employer), neurodiversity assessment and support.
- Key onsite services and facilities in London – include physiotherapy, nutrition, massage therapy, physiology, mental health first aiders, seasonal flu vaccinations and free onsite fitness centre.
- Plus, emergency back-up care for dependants, green car leasing, season ticket loan, and a range of other benefits.
- Subject to relevant caps
- As the eurozone’s largest bank, we are committed to having a positive impact in the world.
For example, we are committed to Net Zero in all of our financing and investment portfolios by 2050. By 2030, 80% of our energy production financing will be low carbon.
But impact for us means more than climate. It means empowering our people every day. Everyone gets four volunteering days each year - in 2023, we achieved over 18,000 hours of volunteering across the UK and reaching over 4,500 young people.
We support our people to develop skills to adapt to the ever-evolving world of work and to prepare for the jobs of today and tomorrow. We do this through a comprehensive training offering, talent programmes, mentoring, career days and inhouse career tools.
We are proud of the number of our people who progress and secure new roles internally. In fact, in 2023, nearly half of our positions in UK CIB were filled internally.
Investing in our people also means we have a collaborative and inclusive culture:
- Direct feedback from our people shows that our internal culture sets us apart from our industry peers.
- Each year, nearly 30,000 employees globally are involved in professional networks that play an active role in promoting Diversity and Inclusion within the Group. These include our:
- Pride Network, Ability Network (which supports disabled employees), MixCity (gender equality network), Women in Global Markets, Women in Global Banking, Women in IT, Diversity Equity & Inclusion in Technology, Early Careers Network, Multicultural Network and Parents & Carers Network.
Equal Opportunities
BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.
Adjustments
We don’t want anyone to be disadvantaged in our recruitment processes, so if you have a disability or health condition which may mean that you’d benefit from some adjustments or additional support, please let us know as early in the process as possible.
PLEASE NOTE
- You may only apply to four Long Term Internships over the course of a year. These may be across any business area.
- Successful candidates for this long term internship will be considered for London ONLY.
- Please discuss the available start dates with your interviewers.
Unsuccessful candidates’ CVs will be shared with other teams within BNP Paribas and considered for potentially suitable roles. In this way we hope to maximise opportunities for candidates and hiring teams. By submitting your CV for this role you agree to it being shared securely with other hiring teams within BNP Paribas for the relevant recruitment round.
