Deputy Head of Regulatory Change (Finance)

Description:

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DO YOU HAVE? Prudential Regulatory knowledge include Liquidity, Leverage, Credit Risk, Market Risk, Large Exposures across EMEA

The main thing I would like the person to take over is the project management of Unity from a Reg reporting perspective. That includes:

Running the weekly working groups
Producing a written update to management twice a week
Attending daily UAT/testing calls
Supporting BAU team to progress their testing and updating the documentation.
Coordinating the work around operational readiness
Getting involved in the details of the system issues to lift blockers.Deputy Head of Regulatory Change

London, Hybrid setting of 3 days a week in the office, 2 days WFH

12-month initial contract (Scope to extend)

£720 a day via Umbrella, inside IR35

My client is one of the largest financial institutions headquartered in Japan, with an established presence across all consumer and corporate banking businesses. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, they offer a diverse range of financial services, including commercial banking, leasing, securities, credit card, consumer finance and other services.

Job Role:

The purpose of the job is to deputise for the Head of Regulatory Change, to provide leadership and guidance to the Regulatory Change team and to support all Regulatory Change activities through strong knowledge and experience of UK Prudential Regulation and the EU Regulatory environment.

This role is to act as a deputy to the team head in delivering that change and in managing and guiding the team, providing drive and leadership as necessary. The role requires extensive knowledge of prudential regulation as well as project management and business analysis experience in delivering complex change projects and managing teams.

Assignments:

Develop and maintain good working relationships with Reg Tech partners, ensuring high quality services levels.
Control, manage and drive the change development schedule, prioritising activity and directing developer resource appropriately.
Maintain close liaison with ITSD support and development teams.
Manage project workload and work flexibly to prioritise the development resource as necessary.
Communicate project progress with relevant stakeholders through regular update meetings.
Manage the processes for the design, development, support, testing and maintenance of business requirements to deliver projects.
Understand and document business requirements to create development specifications and undertake UAT and implementation testing for various new developments.
Support BAU users across the EMEA region, as required, on new and existing functionality.
Build a strong team by developing ongoing training and development plans for direct reports.
Other Ad hoc project tasks as required.
In addition to the normal responsibilities over the department in the EMEA offices, the role holder is responsible for overseeing day to day provision of services to the London Branch based on the Agreement for the Provision of Services between London Branch and BI. The role and the team it manage is also designated "dual hat" responsibility to perform equivalent services to NCM Finance teams in EMEA as directed by EMEA F&C leadership.

Skills and Experience:

Extensive experience of Prudential regulation across EMEA
Functional expert and certified business analyst in Banking sector and across multiple countries.
Strong knowledge of data requirements and calculations required for Regulatory output.
Financial Product Knowledge (IR & FX Derivatives, Securities, Equity, Loans, Deposits, Current Accounts) gained through working in the banking sector.
Experience in producing business requirements in liaison with Regulatory reporting teams.
Ability to be able to interrogate and analyse data on Oracle based platform and / or MsAccess (SQL)
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
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 all derivative products.

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