Regulatory Controller in London

We’re seeking an experienced, detail-focused Regulatory Controller to join our Wealth Management Finance team. You will enjoy working with complex regulatory data and turning it into clear, well-evidenced reporting and insight. You’ll bring a strong understanding of UK prudential requirements and a commitment to accuracy, robust controls and transparent audit trails. You’re comfortable collaborating across Finance, Risk, Compliance and Treasury, and you’re confident explaining movements, challenging inputs where needed and communicating outcomes clearly to senior stakeholders.

About Schroders: We’re a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future. We have around 6,000 people on six continents. And we’ve been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn’t change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.

The base: We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We’re close to our clients, in the heart of the UK’s financial centre and we have everything we need to work flexibly.

The team: You will join the Wealth Management Finance team, which acts as a commercially minded, insight-led partner to the Wealth Management business. The role sits within the Prudential Regulation team and works closely with Risk, Compliance, Treasury and Group Finance.

What you'll do: The role focuses on preparing core regulatory reporting and prudential analysis for the Wealth Management business. High-quality Pillar 1 regulatory returns for the PRA, FCA and BoE, together with well-evidenced contributions to Pillar 2 capital, liquidity and stress testing, are central to maintaining the firm’s regulatory credibility.

• Prepare regulatory returns across PRA, FCA and BoE reporting regimes, ensuring accuracy, completeness and timely delivery.
• Conduct analysis, reconciliations and data quality checks supporting regulatory submissions, robust internal controls and clear audit trails.
• Prepare analytical commentary explaining movements, variances and key drivers within regulatory returns.
• Support the preparation of Pillar 2 prudential documents (ICARA, ICAAP, ILAAP and Recovery Plan), including quantitative and analytical components.
• Prepare and present calculations and outputs, including stress testing, reverse stress testing and wind-down analysis, and document key assumptions, results and sensitivities.
• Liaise with subject matter experts to understand, explain and challenge model inputs and outputs used within Pillar 2 assessments.
• Prepare capital and liquidity analysis to support ongoing monitoring and governance, including forecasts, early warning indicators, and related Board and senior committee materials.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need:

• Sound working knowledge of UK prudential regulation, including PRA and/or FCA requirements across Pillar 1 and/or Pillar 2 capital and liquidity frameworks.
• Practical experience preparing regulatory returns within a regulated financial services environment, including capital, liquidity and related prudential and/or statistical reporting.
• Strong analytical capability, with experience performing calculations, reconciliations, and data validation.
• Ability to work with complex financial data, maintaining clear audit trails and high-quality documentation.
• Proficiency in Excel, with experience in financial modelling, scenario analysis, reconciliations and manipulation of large datasets.
• Exposure to maintaining detailed regulatory procedures and policy documentation, including control descriptions, regulatory references and structured evidencing.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that’ll help:

• Experience contributing to Pillar 2 prudential documents, including ICAAP, ICARA and/or Recovery Plan.
• Familiarity with stress testing methodologies, scenario design or model governance, including interaction with subject matter experts outside of Finance.
• Professional accounting or finance qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent practical experience in a regulatory or prudential reporting role.
• Ability to work with Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Treasury stakeholders to source inputs, explain regulatory outputs, and challenge data or assumptions where required.

We recognise potential, whoever you are. Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought, facilitated by an inclusive culture, will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer. You are welcome here, regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, or any other protected characteristic.