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2025 - Summer Analyst Internship - Group Financial Security

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  • Internship
    Full-time
    Summer Internship
  • Banking & Finance
  • $75K
  • New York

Requirements

  • Our internship programs are a springboard for college students to launch their careers through exciting and intellectually stimulating opportunities.
  • They are highly driven, intellectually stimulating, and crafted to build your real-world capabilities. To succeed amongst our teams, we look for those with a strong academic story, sharp analytical skills, and the ability to articulate ideas well, to clients and colleagues alike.
  • Graduation year of Winter 2025 – Spring 2026
  • All majors accepted

Responsibilities

  • Perform analysis of existing and prospective counterparties and their beneficial owners for U.S. sanctions related risks, document and report findings, and communicate to management
  • Review of relevant KYC information, including beneficial owners, products/services offered, industry, jurisdiction, and negative news regarding business relationships under review
  • Assist with strategic and tactical projects focused on sanctions risk mitigation, transaction monitoring, risk assessments, audits, circumvention reporting, and voluntary self-disclosures
  • Partner closely with business and Compliance counterparts to understand sanctions related issues, to process accordingly and provide opinions towards resolution
  • Conduct focused or transversal reviews of specified entities across the globe to assess risk monitoring business practices, siting deficiencies and providing recommendations for action plans
  • Review regulatory guidelines to draft and approve sanctions related policies for broad acceptance across all compliance teams
  • Work with Project and Business Intelligence team as well as Paris and local IT teams to identify, design, and implement technological solutions for streamlining processes, identifying operational risks, and reporting findings to management

FAQs

What is the primary responsibility of the Group Financial Security U.S. (GFS U.S.)?

The primary responsibility of the GFS U.S. is to oversee and coordinate BNP Paribas’ compliance with U.S. and other international sanctions and embargoes.

What are the key objectives of the GFS U.S. unit?

The key objectives include ensuring compliance with U.S. sanctions, maintaining legal oversight, issuing norms and policies, providing advisory services on sanctions-related situations, managing U.S. sanctions-related transactions, sponsoring tools for sanctions filtering, risk assessing branches and affiliates for compliance issues, and conducting on-site controls to verify adherence to norms and policies.

What type of compliance does GFS U.S. focus on?

GFS U.S. focuses on compliance with U.S. sanctions and embargoes as well as other international sanctions.

How does GFS U.S. ensure that BNP Paribas complies with U.S. sanctions?

GFS U.S. ensures compliance by issuing norms, policies, and procedures, providing legal watch and advice, managing sanctions-related transactions and alerts, conducting risk assessments, and performing on-site controls.

Who provides oversight for legal aspects related to U.S. sanctions within GFS U.S.?

GFS U.S. liaises with Legal Affairs to maintain oversight of legal matters concerning U.S. sanctions.

What tools does GFS U.S. sponsor in relation to sanctions?

GFS U.S. sponsors tools that filter transactions against embargo and sanctions lists to ensure compliance.

How does the GFS U.S. assess risks related to non-compliance?

GFS U.S. conducts risk assessments of the Group’s branches and affiliates through a permanent risk oversight framework to identify and address non-compliance issues.

What type of controls does GFS U.S. perform to ensure compliance with norms and policies?

GFS U.S. performs on-site controls within BNP Paribas Group entities to verify compliance with the established norms and policies issued by GFS-NY.

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more than 190,000 employees, including more than 145,000 in Europe. BNP Paribas holds leading positions in its three major operating divisions: ⚆ Commercial, Personal Banking & Services for all the Group’s retail banking networks and several specialised businesses, including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval; ⚆ Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment and protection solutions; ⚆ Corporate & Institutional Banking, which is focused on corporate and institutional clients. The Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realise their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, the Group has four domestic markets (Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg) and BNP Paribas Personal Finance is the European leader in consumer lending. BNP Paribas is rolling out its integrated retail-banking model in Mediterranean countries, in Turkey, in Eastern Europe and a large network in the western part of the United States. In its Corporate & Institutional Banking and Investment & Protection Services activities, BNP Paribas also enjoys top positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific.