Intern – UK Business Management Sales & Structuring (12 months)

Natixis NY Branch; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Natixis NY Branch in London offers a 12-month Internship in UK Business Management Sales & Structuring within Global Markets. Support Sales and Structuring activities, contribute to governance, and assist with regulatory and risk controls.

The role focuses on risk assessment, control design, and collaboration with Compliance, Conduct and Risk teams. Strong analytical and MS Office skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Good interpersonal skills and ability to deal with multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical skills, ability to articulate conclusions from data.
• Capacity to maintain confidentiality of information.
• Good presentation skills.
• Autonomous.
• Rigorous and well organized.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to work under time pressure.
• Curiosity and genuine interest in the business.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint).

Responsibilities

• Contribute to risk assessments and remediation of gaps in coordination with Compliance, Conduct and Risk functions.
• Participate in design, review and production of management information related to the control framework.
• Contribute to oversight of investigations and action plans for operational incidents and client complaints.
• Contribute to oversight of business continuity plans and business impacts assessments.
• Participate in the organization of Business Control Committees with supporting documentation and actions follow-up.
• Assist in coordinating external regulator requests or internal audits.
• Perform daily, monthly and annual controls related to UK regulatory requirements (KYC, Consumer Duty).
• Review control results across GM UK Sales & Structuring activities.
• Assist in NPNA process and design of controls for new activities.
• Support quarterly business reviews and budgeting processes.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Analytical skills

Confidentiality

Presentation skills

Autonomous

Rigorous organization

Attention to detail

Time management

Curiosity about business

MS Office (Excel/PowerPoint)

Job description

Intern – UK Business Management Sales & Structuring (12 months)

• Internship
• 21383
• London

Job Description

Overall Purpose

Internship position within Global Markets Business Management. The purpose of the role is to support Global Markets Sales and Structuring activities in the following main areas:

• Oversee the 1st line of defence framework. Prepare Management Information on control results / issues.
• Perform daily and monthly controls related to KYC requirements.
• Contribute to the 1st line of defence Governance (Business Control Committees, Retail Distribution).
• Identify, raise and monitor the remediation of operational incidents and client complaints.
• Monitor the financial performance of its activities.

Contribute to the coordinarion of support functions to ensure alignement with business needs / strategy.

Main Responsibilities

Supervision and Control

• Contribute to risk assessments : identification of key risk areas and corresponding control framework, review and remediation of gaps in coordination with Compliance, Conduct and Risk functions.
• Participate in the design, review and production of management information related to the controlf framework.
• Contributie to the oversight of investigations and action plans for operational incidents and client complaints.
• Contribute to the oversight of business continuity plans and business impacts assessments.
• Participate to the organisation of Business Control Committees: supporting documentation, minutes, actions follow-up.
• Participate to the design and update of procedures and guidelines.
• Assist in coordinating the business lines engagement with external requests (such as ad-hoc regulator requests or visits) or internal requests (Audit, Internal Controls).
• Perform daily, monthly and annual controls related to specific UK regulatory requirements (KYC, Consumer Duty…)
• Review the results of controls performed by other functions / departments in London or in other locations in relation to GM UK Sales & Structuring activities.

New Products / New initiatives

• Assist business in triggering and monitoring the NPNA process.
• Participate in the design of dedicated procedures and controls for new activies.
• Follow up completion of conditions related to approved activities / products.

Financial and Commercial Monitoring

• Provide support for the preparation of quarterly business reviews and yearly budget processes.
• Contribute to specific initiatives on client segments by providing commercial indicators on performance, x-selling, onboarding, credit limits and legal documentation.
• Monitor commercial intensity and ensure good use of the CRM.
• Assist in drafting senior management presentations and reports.

Project Management

• Assist in implementing GM projects in relation with the front to back stakeholders: encompassing Business Support, Risks, Compliance, IT, Finance, be these in London, Paris or in any other location. Get all parties in synchronisation to contribute fully to the development of GM Sales & Engineering.
  • Build business cases
  • Project Planning: with all stakeholders, preparation of to do lists of specific tasks, set the required resources, milestones, deadlines and expected deliveries.
  • Project execution & tracking. UAT & implementation.
  • Help Global Market Sales & Structuring in drafting core operating procedures.
  • Issue identification and resolution.

Required Skills/Qualifications/Experience

• Good interpersonal skills and ability to deal with multiple stakeholders
• Excellent analytical skills, capacities to articulate conclusions based on data
• Capacity to maintain confidentiality of information
• Good presentation skills
• Autonomous
• Rigorous & well organised.
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work under time pressure
• Curiosity and genuine interest in the business
• Proficient in Microsoft Office application (Excel, PowerPoint).