Regulatory Reporting Operations Senior Professional

Job Description:

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Job Description:
This job is responsible for defining, providing and overseeing analytical processes for highly complex regulatory reporting for one or more operations product teams. Key responsibilities include managing complex projects and workstreams involving systems enhancements, process improvements, products and services. Job expectations include serving as a subject matter expert to other teammates and handling highly complex issues that require management and coordination across multiple stakeholders.

The Regulatory Reporting Operational Senior Professional responsible for position monitoring, preparation and delivery of non-financial regulatory disclosures under the relevant regulatory reporting laws across multiple regimes including (substantial shareholdings, takeovers, short positions, beneficial ownership notices and industry limits) for the Global Markets and Wealth Management business divisions. They are responsible for the analysis and resolution of highly complex operations problems and initiatives requiring exceptional handling and/or coordination of multiple operational and/or product specialists to resolve. They will be required to contribute to various projects and/or the introduction of new initiatives, systems, products/services, and processes and coordinate necessary expertise across multiple operations functions and/or products.

Responsibilities:

• Delivers highly complex regulatory reports to regulatory agencies in line with expectations on completeness, accuracy, quality, and timeliness
• Defines and executes control practices, including compliance with all regulatory and policy requirements, including data quality standards
• Ensures that key risks, performance indicators, and desktop procedures are fully documented, in line with enterprise standards, reviewed on a regular basis and challenged and escalated where necessary
• Responds to inquiries from regulatory agencies and internal control partners (e.g., Audit and Compliance), and provides reporting, as needed
• Establishes credible, collaborative and influential relationships with key senior stakeholders, including FLU and Front Office partners
• Identifies, tracks, and remediates errors, breaches, data issues and control enhancements that impact the respective reports
• Coordinates the partnership with upstream process owners and data providers to improve data quality of regulatory reports, and with Non Financial Regulatory Reporting Interpretation and Technology teams to review and maintain data dictionaries for completeness of business requirements and ensure completeness of all operational and reporting requirements

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Data Quality Management
• Innovative Thinking
• Problem Solving
• Reporting
• Attention to Detail
• Critical Thinking
• Planning
• Risk Management
• Data Mining

Required Skills:

Bachelor’s Degree with minimum 3 years of experience; Professional qualifications (e.g., CA, CFA, CPA) preferred
• Experience in regulatory reporting including position reporting, substantial shareholding disclosures, disclosure of interest)
• Strong knowledge of financial markets, banking industry, equities and derivative products.
• High level understanding of global markets and wealth management business divisions.
• Strong technical and data analytical skills (i.e., Excel, and other similar applications) with experience in analyzing, managing and reporting from large sets of structured data (e.g., books and records data).Advanced Word, PowerPoint skills and Analytical tools (Tableau and Micro Strategy) is a plus
• Detail oriented
• Able to produce accurate work output and reports under tight deadlines
• Communicates effectively in both oral and written formats and tailors message appropriately to audience
• Demonstrated intellectual curiosity and operational excellence experience
• Able to think critically to quickly analyze and resolve issues
• Influences and delivers results through collaborative relationship with key partners and stakeholders
• Ability to work independently and under pressure, prioritize work and deliver against regulatory deadlines and a dynamic environment
• Able to demonstrate a high level of integrity with a mature approach to work
• Discrete when handling confidential information

Desired Skills:

• Experience interacting with regulatory agencies and /or reg exams.
• Exposure to position/transaction processes/life cycle (other than Equity Aggregation)
• Experience in technology implementation projects including involvement in building new or enhancing existing systems to meet complex reporting requirements