Finance department lacks professional values and mid to top manangement are too autocratic - Anonymous employee BNP Paribas Employee Review

1.0
May 10, 2013
Anonymous employee
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Pros

the front office seem to be on the ball, but the back office functions, especially Finance are such a beaurocratic function

Cons

Finance lacks professional values, no career development; Finance management needs a complete overhaul to move into 21st century. They should be periodically tested and required to keep up to date with industry practices. Haven't learned anything valuable in more than two years of working in Finance. A shame, the business deserves more...

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Cons

I rarely leave reviews, but future job seekers deserve fair warning. From day one, it was clear that micromanagement was a core operating principle here; not a quirk, but a feature. Managers routinely hovered over routine tasks, demanded pointless status updates multiple times a day, constantly changed directives, took credit for my work, and treated experienced professionals like they couldn't be trusted to send an email unsupervised. Any sense of autonomy was purely cosmetic. The culture was equally poisonous. Gossip wasn't background noise; it was practically a department function. Colleagues regularly spoke poorly of one another behind closed doors, cliques formed and hardened fast, and if you weren't part of the right group, you felt it. Unkind doesn't begin to cover it. Basic professionalism and common decency were in short supply. Management set the tone for all of it. Leaders who should have modeled integrity instead participated in the drama, played favorites openly, and addressed conflict with either complete avoidance or outright retaliation. HR was not a resource — it was a shield for bad behavior at the top. I left for my own sanity. The turnover rate here should tell you everything. Life is too short and your career too important to spend either in an environment like this one.

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