EMEA Prudential Regulatory Reporting Director (Market Risk)

Global Investment Bank is currently hiring for a Regulatory Reporting Director to lead their Market Risk BAU team in London. This is a newly created role following a strategic expansion of the team and is a ideal opportunity for an experienced prudential regulatory reporting professional with strong market risk knowledge seeking their next leadership role.

Responsibilities:

• Team management of the Market Risk Regulatory Reporting team in London, Dublin and Paris (10 FTE's)
• Lead the Capital Reporting process (both internally and externally), in particular the preparation of Market Risk
• Oversight of the EU and UK capital calculations and reporting of 3 prudentially regulated entities. The team carries out all of the standardised and internal model RWA calculations and reporting across UK, France and Ireland
• Capital calculations/analysis - Review daily/weekly RWA calculations to be incorporated in the capital adequacy status sent out to senior managers to support management of UK and EU entities
• External Regulatory Reporting and Disclosures - Oversee the quarterly returns including manual adjustments, reconciliations, period on period variance analysis for UK and EU entities, presenting these results to management
• System development (BAU) - Initiation of technology change to support changing rules, and our continuing process to improve efficiency and controls. Review of business requirements, help with data sourcing and carry out UAT and post deployment testing
• System development (Strategic) - As a user help to define data/ calculation/reporting requirements for an in-flight infrastructure project including analysis tools
• Working closely with Front Office, market risk, model developers and other groups on capital management and RWA efficiencies
• Key point of contact for requests from external regulators and partnering and internal stakeholders such as Risk, Internal Audit and Compliance
• Issue management - leading the team in identifying and remediating process and other issues impacting the Capital Reporting process
• Continuously assess and enhance regulatory reporting processes, improving the quality of our regulatory submissions and identifying new approaches to improve efficiencies
• Key involvement in ad hoc projects which are expected to include a diverse range of projects including implementation of new regulatory reporting requirements (FRTB) and strategic regulatory reporting infrastructure

Requirements:

• Currently leading a prudential regulatory reporting team in a large investment bank - Essential
• Strong knowledge of prudential reporting across Market Risk - Essential
• Extensive managerial and leadership experience - Essential
• Proven knowledge of RWA Calculations and FRTB regulations.
• Strong experience in CoRep and Pillar 3 disclosures
• Experience of being involved in a FRTB implementation project - Preferred
• Knowledge of Axiom - Preferred
• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) - Preferred
• High level of ownership, proven analytical skills, and attention to detail
• Keen interest in and aptitude for developing an understanding of the regulatory and rules

This is a very high profile role across the bank and will involve regular interaction with key stakeholders across the bank so it is essential that you have strong interpersonal skills. The position offers realistic career progression opportunities with multiple internal mobility options available. The bank also offers a hybrid working environment with 3 days in the office.

Eames Consulting is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.