Job Description

The team provides local support for varied financial service business lines.
To be part of a team which prepares and reviews financial and regulatory returns for EMEA entities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the preparation of daily, weekly, monthly & quarterly regulatory reporting required by UK financial regulators. These tasks primarily focus on UK external liquidity reporting (FSA047 and FSA048) internal liquidity reporting. Part of the team responsible for preparation of COREP and liquidity reporting.
• Assist with tasks within daily, monthly and quarterly regulatory reporting required by US regulators.
• Ensure all FCA and US regulatory liquidity reporting remains compliant with the relevant requirements and guidelines.
• Provide expertise interpreting regulations and reporting guidance applicable to a Dealer-Broker, and challenging existing practice.
• Lead the review processes, including deep-dive reviews for the above Regulatory Reporting deliverables to identify and implement improvements to the control environment.
• Lead the review processes for the above Regulatory Reporting deliverables to identify and implement improvements to systems capabilities.
• Re-engineer any legacy manual processes and document new processes to be compliant with corporate end user computer tools (EUCT) standards.
• Standardise documentation for the local regulatory reporting and manage the periodic updates and reviews of those documents.
• Support the planning, testing and implementation of projects and initiatives, which affect the Regulatory Reporting and wider Finance team, including testing for the implementation of FRS reporting software.
• Assess and recommend approaches for issues.
• Provide leave of absence cover for the production of other deliverables within the department as appropriate in order to satisfy internal control framework requirements.
• In addition to these functions, employees are required to carry out such other duties as may reasonably be required.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Qualified accountant. Experience of a UK Dealer Broker is highly preferable. Experience compiling FCA and European regulatory returns, particularly UK liquidity returns. Excellent Excel skills and comfortable manipulating large quantities of data. Self-motivated with the ability to work independently within a team structure. Strong academic background and degree educated. Honesty and integrity in all aspects of their work. Strong communicator. Intuitive; fast learner with good problem solving skills. Good time management and organisational skills.