Manager Leader Head of Agency

**Company Description**:
Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking is a leading global financial institution that provides advisory, investment banking, financing, corporate banking and capital markets services to corporations, financial institutions, financial sponsors and sovereign and supranational organizations worldwide.

Our teams of experts in close to 30 countries advise clients on their strategic development, helping them to grow and transform their businesses, and maximize their positive impact. Natixis CIB is committed to aligning its financing portfolio with a carbon neutrality path by 2050 while helping its clients reduce the environmental impact of their business.

As part of Groupe BPCE, the second largest banking group in France through the Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne retail networks, Natixis CIB benefits from the Group’s financial strength and solid financial ratings (Standard & Poor's: A+, Moody's: A1, Fitch Ratings: A+, R&I: A+).

You join the CIB COO, and more specifically the Global Banking Operations (GBO) scope as a Leader manager dedicated to the implementation and monitoring of structured commodity financing initiated by the Global Trade business line.

You are directly attached to the Head of Agency & Working Capital, the scope covered includes 14 employees.

Your daily tasks are:

- Supervise the functions of the agent and middle offices carried out by the team you supervise:

- Set up new operations in coordination with the origination and structuring teams, as well as with the legal department;
- Monitoring of the smooth running of operations and management events: monitoring of uses, collateral, covenants, amendments... ,
- Coordination of the lender pools and management of the relationship with the borrower client.
- Supervise the monitoring of risks and collateral placed under the responsibility of the Middle Officers of the operations of a dedicated portfolio of clients in compliance with the limits and ratios granted by the Risk Department,
- Instill a risk culture and lead training and awareness sessions around the monitoring of risks associated with our financing (credit, operational, compliance sanctions & AML...),
- Actively participate in business structuring projects such as the Risk Management Programmme, automation projects, operational risk reduction,
- Encourage and oversee the continuous improvement dynamic by coordinating action plans, particularly in response to operational incidents, customer complaints or inefficiencies.

You are the preferred interface of the front office for those who know how to understand issues and problems, but also other stakeholders and internal and/ or external stakeholders at the Bank (Trade Finance back offices, risk management, compliance management, foreign platforms etc.), with whom you communicate for the benefit of the funded projects and the Bank.

You work in an international environment, Within a community of experts that places excellence, impact and collective action at the heart of everything it does.

**#TransformativeFinance**

This position is based in Paris with the ability to work from home.

As a top employer, we put our employees at the centre of our attention. Internal mobility, career development and training allow you to grow and develop throughout your career.

You work in a hybrid, inclusive and collaborative working environment.

You also have the opportunity to commit yourself to society and causes that are close to your heart through our corporate foundation.

**About the recruitment process**

You will be contacted by one of our recruiters before meeting with our business experts (manager, team member or business line).

**Required Skills/Qualifications/Experience**:
About you: If you recognize yourself in the following description, you are made to work with us

You have at least 5 years of experience in managing an activity ideally within a CIB activity: banking operations, international trade, support functions...

You are proficient in:

- Team management in a change management context (IT tool, digitalization...);
- Complex project management;
- Process optimization.

You have excellent interpersonal skills, a very good listening ability, you are:

- Able to collaborate and work in teams, synthesize and simplify;
- Organized, reliable and rigorous;
- Has a keen sense of communication.

You have a C1 level of English.