Senior Regulatory Accountant

Overview

Senior Regulatory Reporting Analyst. The job holder will work within a team of eleven (the Group Regulatory Reporting team) and will be responsible for ensuring accurate and timely submission of COREP (Common Reporting) data to the Prudential Regulatory Authority.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the preparation, validation, and submission of COREP and other regulatory reports to ensure accuracy, completeness, and timely delivery in accordance with regulatory requirements.
• Maintain oversight of reporting timetables and proactively manage risks to delivery.
• Conduct and review data analysis, reconciliations, and data quality checks, ensuring robust internal controls and resolving any issues identified.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance reporting processes, templates, and the overall control framework in response to regulatory changes and best practice.
• Manage internal reviews related to regulatory reporting, ensuring findings are addressed and processes are improved where necessary.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including Finance, Treasury, Risk, and IT teams, to ensure high-quality data collection and reporting.
• Contribute to and lead projects relating to regulatory reporting, process improvements, system enhancements, and data quality, ensuring successful delivery alongside business-as-usual activities.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior team members, supporting their professional development and ensuring high standards across the function.

The Knowledge, Experience And Qualifications You Need

• Strong and in-depth knowledge of regulatory reporting requirements, with significant hands-on experience in COREP and related prudential returns.
• Extensive practical experience in the preparation, review, and oversight of regulatory submissions within financial services.
• Advanced analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage and review large, complex data sets.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel; strong competence with data management and reporting tools such as Power BI and SQL.
• Demonstrated experience in developing, maintaining, and enhancing regulatory reporting processes, controls, and documentation.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with experience collaborating with and influencing a wide range of stakeholders, including senior management.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, make sound decisions under pressure, and meet strict deadlines.

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.

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

The Group Regulatory Reporting team is split into two main sub-teams. First, the Group Prudential Reporting team is responsible for submitting to the PRA and FCA all prudential regulatory returns for the consolidated Group (e.g. under CRR) and the solo UK regulated asset management firms (e.g. under IFPR) and an insurance firm (under Solvency II). The team is also responsible for production of all related management information used by senior management to manage the Group’s regulatory position, including capital and liquidity forecasts under base case and stress tests.

Second, the Group Prudential Risk Assessment team is responsible for production of a number of ‘Pillar 2’ documents, including the Group ICAAP and Recovery Plan and several ICARAs for solo UK regulated asset management firms.