We welcome all talented individuals who are eager to learn and develop in accounting area

Piotr Tatar, Executive Director, Head of IOC Operations, BNP Paribas Securities Services Poland*: Indeed, early this year our sister organisation, BNP Paribas Bank Polska, was awarded with this prestigious award and not for the first time. Across all BNP Paribas Group’s entities in Poland, we share the vision of what this award represents, especially during these unprecedented times in which employers are faced with extraordinary challenges.

For Securities Services, a friendly working environment, which has always been part of our DNA, has become even more important over the last two years. Employees and Employers have had to adapt to a remote / hybrid mode, which whilst granting much appreciated flexibility, has also removed opportunities to interact and build long-lasting and effective personal relations in the workplace. This is why, more than ever, we are committed to investing in and fostering a great work culture, underpinned by policies of diversity and inclusion, development, well-being and people care.

The values are what we commonly refer to as the “The BNP Paribas Way”. The BNP Paribas Group (and Securities Services by extension) aims to foster these values as the foundation of our actions in order to allow us to achieve the goals that we set forth, as well as fulfil the commitments made to all our partners, colleagues, employees and of course Clients. Transparency for us is about delivering what was agreed upon. Courage is about questioning the status “quo” in order to pursue progress and innovation and put forward the best possible solution. Empowerment is about being able to deliver the best service by each one of us, no matter our position and level in the organisation. Simplicity is about avoiding complexity and instead dealing in a straightforward and good faith manner. Finally, Cooperation, which is about fostering a work-culture to seek to always arrive to Win-Win outcomes.

In Securities Services we have 5 pillars of Diversity & Inclusion which we incorporate in our daily practices and promoted behaviours. These are International, LGBTQ+, Gender, Disability, and Professional. Gender diversity has been for many years on the watch and we have a global goal of achieving a balanced and equal representation of female employees, especially on managerial positions. Inclusion has always been a priority topic for BNP Paribas and this has been reinforced in the 2025 HR strategy. Our target is to effectively prevent, and ideally eliminate, any disrespectful situations amongst employees, ensuring non-discrimination and fully playing our role as a responsible employer. Across our organisation we have an active D&I community comprising of HR, Communication and representatives of our four local employee networks: Pride, Mixcity, All Abroad, and Parents & Carers. We organise events and educational sessions during key dates in a year such as 17th May – IDAHOT International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia or during our internal Diversity Weeks in October.

Employees at Securities Services have a wide range of training and development opportunities, which have always been one of our most appreciated benefits. The local training offer comprises of hundreds of available sessions and on average, there are 10 different training sessions per week on both soft skills and functional knowledge. Additionally, our employees can count on the Company’s support when it comes to professional qualifications such as ACCA, project management or business analysis certifications, foreign languages subsidy, postgraduate studies subsidy and even mentoring or coaching. We have a talent programme for our current and future leaders, which also provides various developmental opportunities.

Finally, our employees can count on their managers and HR’s support when it comes to creating their individual personal development plans to be aligned with our career paths and our employee’s professional goals.

Securities Services recognises the importance of encouraging the continued professional development of its employees. Studying a professional qualification is desirable to develop further knowledge and expertise for staff progression in their career at our company that is why we choose to collaborate with ACCA. As employer, we subsidise 75% of costs linked to Diploma in Accounting and Business. ACCA Qualified Professional Accountant certification we subsidise also in 75% with fully covering membership admission fee.

Additionally we cover 100% fees related to flexible online learning platform with pre-recorded lectures from expert tutors. Company covers as well costs of digital study materials including 3 months subscription.

Securities Services is rapidly growing in Poland, having now almost 1000 employees of which over 250 are professional accountants working in our Warsaw International Operations Centre. Among all the recruitment processes, we have open now our big focus is on the accounting profiles at various experience levels including corporate accounting. Regardless if candidates have ACCA certification or are willing to obtain one we keep hunting for talents!

We are also looking for people with a “start-up” mind-set, being creative, driven by change, eager to learn and passionate about innovation. Our processes continue to develop thanks to our talented staff in order to meet the demanding expectations of our clients who seek high quality and safe solutions for their business. We enhance our key operating platforms and our employees have the opportunity to participate in our transformation journey. We welcome all talented individuals who are eager to learn and develop their professional career in the accounting arena!

At Securities Services, within the International Operations Centre our actions related to digitalization are primarily focused on reinforcing operational services with two key actors, clients and our employees. Over the 5 years journey of digital transformation of our processes we have been discovering, testing, implementing and rejecting dozens of tools, applications and concepts. That brought us to the state where we have a full suit of robust technologies, which we may apply depending on the problems we are dealing with.

Other technology that is massively used in our organisation with the aim to automate standardised and non-decision driven process is RPA provided by the Blue Prism company. As of today, we have 110 robots live!

While thinking of intelligent document handling we have introduced Document Intelligence Software. This type of solutions will be mainly implemented in the departments where there is a huge amount of documents to be read, analysed and further input into the core systems.

Alteryx and Power BI are further examples of tech which we use which has become more and more present in departments which work on a daily basis with huge amount of reports and data to be compered and visualise.

Social and charitable activities are part of our BNP Paribas DNA. In recent years, despite consecutive waves of the COVID19 pandemic, Securities Services employees' commitment to volunteering increased. Last year, this translated into a few thousands hours worked, reported to BNP Paribas Group's global 1 Million Hours to Help #1MH2H programme.

We engage mostly in 2 areas: commitment in social and environmental. The Noble Box & Solidarity Box are definitely in the first group, together with spontaneously fundraising for our friends from Ukraine when the war started. But the most valuable are the projects directly designed by our employees like laptop donation to kids from Morąg orphanages or sleeping bags donation to homeless from Central Railway Station in Warsaw. Also environmental area is very important for our employees. That is why last year we had a fantastic turnout to the global project “Clean Up the World” or our own educational campaign “Fight Your Carbon Footprint”, during which we trained our people, teachers and students from Polish high-schools. Last, but not least, it is worth to mention projects like cooperation with Celestynów Animal Shelter, where our employees are active and recurrent volunteers.