Senior Vice President - Regulatory Reporting & Change Management

Opportunity:

The role holder will be directly responsible for the following:

- Management of a complete and consistent traceability data model framework for in scope regulatory returns including system changes and enhancements, thereby, ensure data integrity across the return.

- Govern delivery through KPI's and other design standards as agreed in the framework through established or new governance forums.

- Engage with business and IT stakeholders to embed traceability principles and control standards as part of the BAU reporting processes and systems.

- Engage with IT delivery teams and external vendors in selecting the 'best fit' data traceability and reporting system/engine thereby offering drilldown and other advanced capabilities.

- Develop a BAU assurance model on data traceability and controls to monitor changes to the processes and framework once established including reporting and senior management update dashboards.

- Initial design for Cat 2 and Cat 3 reports

- KPI and dashboard monitoring for known issues, MSIIs, AIIs, manage regional metrics across IRR Programme

- Design and deliver Traceability across the PRA and non-PRA workstreams, to include tooling/ IT delivery, embedding into BAU and sustainable maintenance

- Develop the regulatory reporting communications strategy and engagement plan, including intranet and Townhall agenda ownership

- Develop and implement the regulatory reporting training strategy, engaging the design and execution leads where required

- Oversee the development of the training plan and manage relationships with third party providers and HR learning

- Strategy formation and delivery execution

- Influence the programme strategy and facilitate decisions in alignment with that strategy.

- Support the Finance Executive Sponsor and front the change through Finance and broader stakeholder groups.

- Manage the definition/understanding of requirements and programme assurance

- Drive design and implementation, ensuring a robust, sustainable regulatory reporting framework

- Manage KPI and other diagnostic reporting

- Trusted change partner with oversight & coordination responsibilities across indirectly managed implementation activity

- Senior stakeholder management

- Ensure appropriate communication across Finance and wider internal governance reporting.

- Drive appropriate engagement across Finance and dependent delivery programmes within Finance.

- Promote cross-functional collaboration and ensure Cross-Finance and cross-functional issues are addressed.

- Drive stakeholder buy-in and with resolving issues and managing resistance, as required

Experience & Qualification required:

- Significant prior experience in successfully implementing or sponsoring regulatory change within a Finance or Risk context

- Significant accounting and/or regulatory experience essential, particularly in a reporting context, and across all aspects of regulatory reporting.

- Outstanding relationship management, collaboration and influencing skills

- Ability to influence and drive strong Finance and cross-functional teamwork

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and oral.

- Strong cross-functional knowledge and experience.

- Exceptional drive, motivation and commitment and focus on operational excellence

- Very strong knowledge of the external environment - regulatory, political, competitors, etc.

- Understanding of the Finance operating model at Group, Business and Country levels