Regulatory reporting Accountant (Director Level, Reporting to Head of Reg)

Responsibilities:

• Production of regulatory data for the UK regulators and the European Banking Authority (EBA) including reporting of a regulatory nature to senior management internally
• Completion of analytical review explaining key movements.
• Development of robust improvements and controls
• Assisting the Regulatory Projects and Reporting Manager in project work and other ad-hoc analysis and testing. The projects will include ensuring compliance to regulatory rules and changes and enhancing existing processes and reporting.
• Liaison with IT to raise development and support requests, specify, develop and test solutions.  On-going support and improvement of processes implemented.
• Participating in user acceptance testing for software developments and software upgrades to assist in the production of the returns and the calculation of key regulatory data.
• Special/ad-hoc regulatory requests - completion of the returns, creation of procedures and hand over of these returns to the rest of the team as instructed by the Regulatory Projects and Reporting Manager.
• Maintenance of procedures relating to regulatory reporting and documentation of interpretations, assumptions and compliance with regard to regulatory rules and guidance.
• Act as 1st line of defence within the Finance department
• To develop own professional expertise through on the job training, formal training and the review of the EU legal instruments, EBA and UK regulators guidance and other publicly available information.