Intern - Chief of Staff Office (12 months)

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Job Description

Overall Purpose
Support the evolution of the Natixis CIB UK Branch. Coordinate and manage cross-departmental initiatives to improve and strengthen the operating modelncluding providing support to the management of the UK Branch resilience framework.

Assess how the most material risks for London Branch are being managed, defining and implementing control actions to mitigate those risks. Provide guidance to business lines and various departments on the implementation of their control setup.

Provide focused support to the Investment Banking, Real Assets, Global Trade and Coverage businesses, driving analysis, process improvement, controls, and strategic initiatives.

Work closely with Second Line of Defence teams and assist to apply relevant global and local rules, policies, and standards consistently across all Natixis CIB London Branch.

This role is a First Line of Defence position.
Main Responsibilities
Risk Assessment & Controls
* Analysing first line risk indicators / data points (KRI, Risk Assessments) to identify trends or areas of potential heightened risks and where necessary escalate to senior management
* Coordination of monthly control campaigns and associated QA
* Independently assess, oversee and challenge the effectiveness of the first line of controls
* Working closely with CIB supervisors and senior management to ensure remediation plans are created and where necessary resources aligned to address control weaknesses
* Monitoring of risk events and tracking timely closure across the businesses and escalation where necessary.
* Assist in the management of the UK Branch resilience framework, including regular assessment and reporting
* Ensuring local supervision infrastructures remain compliant with relevant statutory requirements at all times while supporting the establishment of global minimum standards for Natixis
* Monitoring of indicators to ensure relevant supervisors are adhering to supervision requirements and escalating issues in the relevant forums and to the Natixis UK Risk Board as necessary
* Overseeing the services provided by intragroup functions, ensuring SLAs are adhered to and regularly reviewed
* Maintenance of the UK Branch policies & procedures framework
* Close collaboration with Second and Third Lines, as well as with Head Office CIB teams
* Ad hoc project management
* Take in charge business continuity topics, monitoring of suppliers and providers where members of the teams are contract managers, or place reliance on internal service providers
* Assist in the Business Management support to the UK Banking business lines
* Provide support for the monitoring of operational processes and review of indicators
* Coordinate ad-hoc strategic studies
* Ensure that internal policies and procedures relevant to activities, products and trades approvals are respected
* Assist the head of business in assessing impact of new regulation
* Document relevant team's procedures in line with bank's policies
* Contribute to bank's initiatives aiming at strengthening supervision, risk and controls frameworks, on both financial and non-financial risks
* Assist in coordinating the business lines engagement with external requests (such as ad-hoc, regulator requests or visits) or internal requests (from Compliance, or Audit).

Governance & Supervision

Support to the Business

Required Skills/Qualifications/Experience

* Knowledge and ideally a first experience in a CIB
* Proficient in Microsoft Office application (Excel, PowerPoint).
* Possess good interpersonal skills
* Excellent analytical skills, capacities to articulate conclusions based on data
* Capacity to maintain confidentiality of information
* Good presentation skills
* Autonomous, Rigorous & well organised
* Ability to work under time pressure
* Curiosity and genuine interest in the business
* Attention to details