Regulatory Specialist (London Area)

• Client: world-leading investment bank
• Duration: 6 months with possible extension
• Work type: 1 day/week in the office (hybrid)
• Pay rate: up to 600 GBP per day (PAYE-Inside IR35)

The role is within the Liquidity and IRRBB Transformations team, who is responsible for steering the delivery of Investment Governance projects involving liquidity reporting improvements. The team works closely with the Change, Data, and Technology teams to drive the overall team’s strategy of improving the quality of liquidity reporting in a controlled and cost-effective manner.

The team is a subject matter expert in the PRA regulations and risk reporting and plays a key role in transforming the bank's liquidity systems and processes as part of a strategic change.

The role reports to Head, Liquidity projects and forms part of the Finance operations function with business alignment to Treasury.

The role holder is responsible for driving change and transformation across internal and external liquidity reporting processes owned by the function.

The role will be a thought leader in steering the completion of business requirements gathering and driving processes improvement agenda for the function.

The role holder needs to extensively collaborate with peers in the team, particularly Global process managers for Liquidity, IRRBB, FTP and Capital reporting. The role involves significant interaction with Change and Technology teams.

The role is based in London in the Liquidity and IRRBB Transformations team.

Key responsibilities include:

• Drive change and transformation across internal and external liquidity reporting processes and deliver reporting solutions with complete end-to-end validation performed on testing results to meet regulatory requirements.
• Regulatory reporting knowledge and interpretation on PRA, EBA and Basel, and ability to develop further understanding.
• Business requirements gathering and analysis
• Demonstrate leadership in finding and implementing process improvement and optimisation opportunities.
• Drive effective data management framework development and data analysis.
• Stakeholder management across Liquidity, Project, and Change teams.
• Work collaboratively with Change team and drive the agenda for optimisation of change delivery through review of testing strategy and approach to UAT / UVT
• Team development and training
• Monitor quality standards and future planning through formal monthly management meeting with Technology and Change covering all reporting workstreams.

Qualifications:

• Qualification in Finance, Economics, Mathematics or Technology
• 10+ years experience in Finance, Regulatory Reporting, Treasury, Market Risk or similar area
• Experience in major International and / or UK banks

Skills and Competencies:

• Quantitative, analytical, with high attention to detail.
• Good IT literacy, with a strong Data analysis skillset.
• Ability to drive change and progress.
• Ability to work with virtual teams across the globe.
• Can develop and implement solutions.
• Can interact with stakeholders from various areas and seniority levels.
• Liquidity reporting experience and Change experience gained in Banking is essential.
• Good understanding of the liquidity regulatory landscape (Basel, PRA).
• Ability to self-review, identify issues and investigate / escalate appropriately.
• Technical / IT skills (e.g., VBA, Python, Data Visualization with Tableau or similar tools).