Michael Page - Finance Regulatory Project Manager

About Our Client

A large international bank based in London.

Job Description

• The role includes managing the projects assigned to the individual (coordination of stakeholders, report to management, manage risks and issues and timetable), ensure that all regulatory projects have the appropriate governance, transparency and oversight and that the rationale, progress and decision making is robustly documented and evidenced to withstand regulatory scrutiny.
• The role will also cover taking the direct responsibility of certain workstreams, document business requirements for IT teams and be involved in the testing of these developments.
• Changes can be related to regulatory changes, strategic business decisions or process improvements (driven by external or internal requirements).
• The role is mostly around system changes but will also require liaising with businesses to define and implement changes in the operating model.
• Lead projects to implement Regulatory systems used across EMEA (London, Frankfurt, Milan, Paris, Brussels, Madrid, and Amsterdam). This includes implementing new reporting requirement for statistical and regulatory reporting as well as managing the correction of defects in relations with Reg systems and the implementation of system upgrades.
• Within projects responsibilities will vary and can include roles such as project manager, business analyst, Derv and UAT tester, producing necessary project documents, project administration, data analysis, review of regulatory rules
• Resolve operational reporting issues by delivering constant process improvements, mainly by automating the production of returns and removing manual adjustments.

The Successful Applicant

• Functional expert and certified business analyst in Banking sector and across multiple countries (system currently supports UK, France, Belgium, Dubai, Italy, German, Spain, Ireland and Netherlands).
• Understanding of one of the major aspects of regulatory rules and reporting (liquidity, capital, large exposures, statistical reporting, FINREP)
• Investment and Corporate Banking Product Knowledge gained through working in the banking sector
• Knowledge of WKFS (FRSGlobal) and Suade Labs products across multiple countries within Financial Services
• Experience in producing business requirements in liaison with Regulatory reporting teams.
• Act as consultant to the Business for all tasks related to Finance Regulatory Reporting
• Ability to be able to interrogate and analyse data on Oracle based platform and / or MsAccess (SQL)
• Provide Knowledge and Documentation support for all aspects of the development life cycle (requirements, gap analysis, test plans, testing, issue and risk logs, user procedures and ongoing continual process improvements).
• Needs to be as functionally knowledgeable as the software supplier business experts to be able to engage in discussions and provide meaningful analysis to them, including bug fixing / testing.
• Knowledge of upgrade procedure for management of all system testing and end to end testing of new software.
• Must have technical knowledge to be able to work closely with and manage 4- person development team regarding business requirements against understanding of software.
• Manage testing phases with users in all countries, including software training, user set-up and bespoke development software training.
• Ideally Part or fully qualified accountant
• Project Management qualification preferred
• Working knowledge of reporting query software, spreadsheets and data mining

• Preparation and analysis of regulatory and statistical reporting.
• Experience in providing regulatory analysis to Front and middle office
• Good knowledge of Finance Systems, General accounting and business knowledge.
• Knowledge of WKFS (FRSGlobal) products, Suade Labs and interfacing requirements.
• Knowledge of banking products
• Oracle SQL, MS Office Suite
• Very IT literate (very good level of Excel skills and ability to use SQL)
• IT background with broad knowledge of technical aspects of system
• Ability to manage all functional issues as they inter-relate between forms and countries

What's on Offer

This is a VP level role with a salary of c. £100 - 120K