Regulatory Solutions Manager
| Posting date: | 31 March 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 April 2024 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, EH12 1HQ |
| Company: | NatWest Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | R-00229140 |
Summary
Join us as a Regulatory Solutions Manager
- If you love extracting data, writing code or formulas and applying it to real world reporting, then this is the role for you
- Take on a challenge within a new finance team, in which you’ll manage the analysis of complex bank, franchise or function data to identify reporting issues and opportunities
- You'll hone your data analysis expertise and gain valuable experience in a dynamic area of our business while also utilising your regulatory, risk and finance knowledge
What you'll do
As a Regulatory Solutions Manager, you’ll support high quality assurance reviews of the prudential regulatory reporting being led by other team members. You’ll provide independent and objective assurance for the Group on the accuracy and completeness of regulatory reporting outcomes and calculations. You’ll also build and manage collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders across Finance and Technology.
Day-to-day, you'll be:
- Supporting the regulatory assurance reviews within the team by extracting data from core systems and building models for reperformance of regulatory calculations
- Mapping out current regulatory rules and internal interpretations and translating these into code or workflows using appropriate tooling
- Developing algorithms to support regulatory reporting assurance team activity, driving and influencing improvements both within the team and for stakeholders
- Leading and undertaking key aspects of assurance reviews, making sure that work is delivered on time and is fit for purpose, as well as providing reliable evidence to support issues and opinions
The skills you'll need
We’re looking for someone with excellent working knowledge of data analytics and tooling in a finance environment. You’ll have a risk or regulatory background and knowledge of associated reporting. We’ll also expect you to develop an in depth knowledge of regulatory rules and reporting and the ability to build this in appropriate assurance tooling, which you will become a subject matter expert in.
A professional accounting qualification would be beneficial but is not essential as would be knowledge of Python, Alteryx, Amazon S3 or Tableau, and a strong personal drive and willingness to learn these would be an advantage.
In addition, you'll need:
- Technical knowledge of regulatory reporting, prudential regulations and the associated reporting outcomes, especially COREP
- The ability to analyse and interpret complex information, provide appropriate challenge and make sound judgements and recommendations in a collaborative manner
- Knowledge of SQL, SAS and Microsoft Excel
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Critical thinking skills, enabling you to cut through complexity, and make sound decisions