Job Title: Assistant Manager

Department: Asset Management – Investment Operations / Reporting

About Business line/Function: Asset Management Reporting is responsible for transforming validated investment, accounting, pricing, and reference data into accurate, timely, and compliant reports for clients, regulators, and internal stakeholders. The function supports multiple reporting types across asset classes, geographies, and regulatory regimes.

Position Purpose

The Teamlead role provides day-to-day operational oversight of reporting activities, ensuring consistent delivery, quality adherence, and effective risk management. The role bridges execution and management by translating governance and expectations into operational outcomes.

The Teamlead is accountable for people management, workload planning, issue resolution, and control effectiveness within assigned teams.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

Oversee daily production and validation activities across assigned reporting processes.
Ensure compliance with SLAs, reporting calendars, quality thresholds, and control frameworks.
Act as the first escalation point for operational, data, delivery, and quality issues.
Review and approve critical outputs, exceptions, and escalations as required.
Manage capacity planning, workload distribution, and peak-period readiness.

Contributing Responsibilities

Coach, guide, and develop Processors and Validators on technical and quality expectations.
Support recruitment, training, performance management, and team development activities.
Drive process improvements, automation, and standardization initiatives.
Coordinate with global stakeholders, Reporting Solutions, Data teams, and Operations.
Support audits, regulatory reviews, and management reporting requirements.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Technical Competencies

Strong End-to-end understanding of Asset Management Reporting processes.
Ability to interpret reporting outputs, controls, and exceptions to assess delivery and quality risks.
Strong understanding of operational risk, control frameworks, and audit requirements.
Working knowledge of Investment products, fund structures and reporting methodologies.
Ability to assess process effectiveness and identify opportunities for standardisation and automation.
Capability to manage dependencies across Data Services, Reporting Solutions, Pricing, and Operations.

Behavioral Competencies

Strong people leadership and coaching capability.
Ability to take ownership and make timely decisions under delivery pressure.
Clear, confident communication with team members and stakeholders.
Ability to manage conflict, escalations, and competing priorities calmly and effectively.
Accountability mindset with a focus on quality, delivery, and risk prevention.
Adaptability to change and continuous improvement orientation.

Specific Qualifications

Post Graduate degree in Finance or a related discipline.

Strong understanding of data management principles within Asset Management, including data sourcing, transformation, enrichment, and distribution.

Experience working with investment data domains such as holdings, transactions, pricing, benchmarks, reference data, and corporate actions.

Ability to manage and validate data flows across upstream and downstream systems, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.

Familiarity with data reconciliation, break analysis, and root-cause identification across multiple data sources.

Understanding of data extracts, traceability, and impact analysis, especially in relation to reporting outputs.

Experience with data platforms, reporting tools, and databases used in Asset Management environments.

Prior experience in Data Services, Investment Operations, or Financial Data Management roles is preferred.

Proven experience in supervising reporting or operations teams.

Technical Skills

Skills Referential (Required knowledge, skills and abilities)

Delivery management and workload planning
Quality assurance and control oversight
Issue management and root-cause analysis
Risk identification and escalation
Process improvement and automation support
Strong working knowledge of reporting systems and tools

Behavioral Skills

Team leadership and mentoring
Stakeholder management and communication
Decision-making and problem-solving
Time and priority management
Resilience during peak cycles

Education Level: Post Graduate degree in Finance or a related field.

Location: Chennai , India

About BNP Paribas Group

BNP Paribas is the European Union's leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 65 countries and has nearly 185,000 employees, including more than 145,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services for the Group's commercial & personal banking and several specialized businesses including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval; Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment, and protection solutions; and Corporate & Institutional Banking, focused on corporate and institutional clients. Based on its strong diversified and integrated model, the Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, BNP Paribas has four domestic markets: Belgium, France, Italy, and Luxembourg. The Group is rolling out its integrated commercial & personal banking model across several Mediterranean countries, Turkey, and Eastern Europe. As a key player in international banking, the Group has leading platforms and business lines in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific. BNP Paribas has implemented a Corporate Social Responsibility approach in all its activities, enabling it to contribute to the construction of a sustainable future, while ensuring the Group's performance and stability.

About BNP Paribas India Solutions

Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, European Union's leading bank with an international reach. With delivery centers located in Bengaluru, Chennai and Mumbai, we are a 24x7 global delivery center. India Solutions services three business lines: Corporate and Institutional Banking, Investment Solutions and Retail Banking for BNP Paribas across the Group. Driving innovation and growth, we are harnessing the potential of over 10000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

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. 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.

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