Our client is a global financial institution with regulatory operations spanning over 20 countries, providing essential support to key business lines including Markets, Services, and Wealth Management. The team provides an array of services to enable client lifecycle transactions from relationship establishment, to supporting the data demands surrounding instruments, to delivering non-financial reporting to regulators.
Responsibilities
- Support the Change Management Lead in the direct management of multiple regulatory reporting projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and regulatory requirements.
- Work closely with business functions (e.g., Operations, Middle Office, Front Office, Technology, Compliance, Legal and Finance) to execute necessary process and technology change.
- Support the governance of programmes/projects including facilitation of working groups, ensuring effective decision-making and alignment on priorities.
- Identify key project risks, whether stated or not, and escalate accordingly, mitigating potential delays and cost overruns.
- Ensure delivery from workstreams/projects meets requirements and is of the appropriate quality, on time and within budget, in line with the programme plan and governance - minimising regulatory penalties and reputational damage.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 8 years' financial services experience, with a focus on global markets trading and investment banking operations.
- Demonstrated knowledge of capital markets products, including cash securities, exchange-traded derivatives, and OTC derivative products.
- Demonstrated knowledge of one or more non-financial regulatory reporting regulations; EMIR, SFTR, MiFID II/MiFIR, etc.
- Demonstrated experience in the successful implementation of projects, operational process change and improvement.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams including business management, middle office, compliance, legal and technology.
- Experience collecting, defining, and documenting business and technology requirements, test plans and other project management artefacts.
- Experience consulting with project stakeholders, including facilitating compromises and resolving conflicting requirements. Strong consulting and stakeholder management skills and the ability to build and foster internal relationships.
- Knowledge and technical understanding of securities processing, including product, process and system knowledge.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, including Visio and Project.
