Senior Manager/Manager - Financial Regulatory Reporting

Job Description

This job is responsible for assisting in providing risk oversight and advice to the Line of Business (LOB) on risk management issues. Key responsibilities include monitoring and adhering to risk management policies, limits, standards, controls, metrics and thresholds within the defined corporate standards, assisting in conducting execution of risk framework activities including independent monitoring and testing of controls and risk management processes for the LOB.

Primary responsibility for this role is to execute the Quality Assurance (QA) function for GRR. The teammate in this role will work closely with the QA Team Lead and regulatory reporting Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to validate the completeness and accuracy of GRR's high risk reports.

The role will have responsibility for reviewing GRR's end to end processes to ensure that: the data inputs into the related reporting are complete and accurate; GRR's processes, including regulatory aggregation and reporting logic, are being performed as intended and produce expected outcomes; and GRR's controls are being executed correctly and working effectively.

The QA team will rotate through GRR's submissions and will be expected to identify, define, and implement Operational Excellence opportunities. In addition, the role will require reviewing, leveraging, and supporting updates to: Business Requirement Documents, Data Dictionary documentation and Desktop Top Procedures.

Responsibilities

- Assists in establishing and overseeing the risk management governance structure for the Line of Business (LOB)

- Assists in conducting execution of risk framework activities including monitoring and testing of controls and risk management processes for the LOB

- Ensures adherence to the policies and procedures established by the company

Requirements

Education: Chartered Accountant or post-graduate degree in business

Experience Range: 10+ years of which at least 7 years in relevant roles i.e. Regulatory reporting production, validation and review, legal entity controller, product controller

Foundational Skills

- Strong background in financial regulatory reporting requirements / technical requirements in the US, the UK and Europe.

- Understanding of financial statements and banking products

- Prior data experience (i.e., analytics, data profiling) preferred

Expected competencies for success in this role include:

- Communication - ability to communicate very effectively, including strong written, verbal and summarization skills

- Partnering - ability to partner collaboratively and constructively, within the GRR team, across the GFC group and more broadly across other departments

- Controls mindset with ability to perform root cause analysis and design adequate solutions

- Prior analytical skills (Alteryx, advanced Excel, SQL preferred)

- Ability to work independently

- Committed to continuous improvement of processes to maximize effectiveness and improve efficiency

- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, and good with numbers

Desired skills

- Experience of reading and writing SQL queries (TOAD, Tableau)

- Experience in working with large datasets

Work Timings: 11:30 am to 8:30 pm