Expert Model Risk Auditor – Brussels

YOUR JOB IN A NUTSHELL

Within RISK IR’s "Framework, Processes & Systems" (FPS) team, you will assess and enhance for the whole BNP Paribas Group the processes and IT systems supporting credit, market, and counterparty risk measurement. Your role ensures regulatory compliance and operational robustness according to the model risk management framework while contributing to the Group’s risk resilience.

Join a team of ~30 auditors across Paris, Brussels, Rome, and Lisbon, part of the broader RISK IRC global network (London, New York, Montreal, etc.). Your work will directly impact safer, smarter risk management.

AND IN DETAIL

Where rigor meets impact

You Will Strengthen The Group’s Risk Resilience By

• Ensuring excellence in risk measurement and control systems, guaranteeing compliance with regulatory standards in a model-driven environment.
• Leading independent, end-to-end reviews of risk frameworks—acting as the second line of defense to assess their robustness and reliability.
• Turning complexity into action: Delivering clear, high-impact reports and presenting findings to RISK leadership, driving meaningful improvements where risks are identified.
• Driving accountability: Monitoring the implementation of recommendations to confirm that corrective actions fully resolve root causes.
• Reporting the results of your assessments to the European supervisor in the name of the BNP Paribas Group.
• Expanding your strategic influence: Working on diverse, high-visibility topics across the Group’s entities, engaging directly with Senior Management and gaining a 360° perspective on credit, market, and counterparty risk systems.
• Accelerating your career: This role’s cross-functional exposure opens doors—whether advancing within RISK or transitioning to other key business areas.
• Embracing innovation: Our department actively promotes AI adoption, providing auditors with cutting-edge tools and supporting their evolution in a tech-driven risk landscape.
  
  

A role for analytical minds who thrive at the intersection of precision, regulation, and strategic impact.

YOUR TALENTS AND COMPETENCES

We’re Looking For Analytical, Rigorous Professionals Who Thrive In a Collaborative, High-impact Environment. If This Sounds Like You, We’d Love To Connect

• Relevant experience: 5+ years in audit, internal control, or risk management, with a focus on process optimization, regulatory compliance, or system controls. Diverse backgrounds bring fresh perspectives—transferable skills are welcome!
• Sharp analytical thinking: You dive deep into complex issues, ask insightful questions, and connect the dots to assess strengths and risks.
• Clear, structured communication: You simplify complexity—whether in reports, presentations, or discussions—with precision and neutrality. Fluency in English is essential; French/Dutch proficiency is a plus.
• Proactive rigor: You take ownership, sweat the details, and deliver high-quality results with consistency.
• Technical ease:
• Data tools (proficient): Extracting, analyzing, and interpreting data.
• Microsoft Word/Excel (proficient): Crafting clear, professional documents and analyses.
  

Bring your expertise—we value curiosity, precision, and a drive for continuous improvement.

What We Have To Offer

• OUR IMPACT
  
  

As a company, we implement concrete and sustainable solutions to reduce our environmental footprint, such as saving paper and resources, recycling our waste, encouraging the use of green transport, buildings that are designed and managed to limit our impact, etc.

• YOUR CAREER PERSPECTIVES
  
  

The departments that make up BNP Paribas Fortis cover a wide range of activities. You will therefore have many opportunities for ‘horizontal’ and ‘vertical’ career development.

• OUR OFFER
  
  

You’ll enjoy a permanent contract with an attractive salary package. You'll be working at our Brussels headquarters. We support your work-life balance by offering a mixture of in-person and remote work, among other things.

OUR ENGAGEMENT

At BNP Paribas Fortis, we want to attract and retain all talent, whatever their gender, age, background or sexual orientation, and irrespective of whether they are living with a disability, as all persons have their own experiences and their own identity. All of our full-time vacancies are also open to candidates wishing to work on an 80% or 90% full-time equivalent basis.

If the function is categorized as a banking services provider function (cf. Law of 22 April 2019 establishing an oath and a disciplinary regime for the banking sector), you will also need to provide us with a 'certificate of absence of professional ban' from the FSMA confirming that you are not professionally disqualified.

TEMPTED BY THE CHALLENGE?

A first selection is made based on your CV and motivation letter. Are we convinced that you are the right candidate? Then we will contact you.

Good luck!

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