Regulatory External Reporting & Assurance Manager (12 months)

ACCA Careers; City of Edinburgh; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Regulatory External Reporting & Assurance Manager to join their dynamic team. This role offers a unique opportunity to engage in the independent review of returns, ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulatory standards. You'll leverage your finance expertise to enhance reporting processes and build strong relationships across the organization. This position is perfect for those looking to develop their career in a forward-thinking environment, with a focus on stakeholder engagement and process improvement. If you're passionate about financial services and eager to make an impact, this role is for you.

Qualifications

• Post-qualification experience in financial services reporting required.
• Experience in regulatory reporting with strong technical skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accuracy and compliance of external stress testing regulatory reporting outcomes.
• Plan and coordinate information for external stress test reporting obligations.

Skills

Regulatory Reporting

Stakeholder Management

Excel

Financial Services Reporting

Problem Solving

Education

Qualified Accountant

Job description

Join us as a Regulatory External Reporting & Assurance Manager

• This is a unique opportunity to join an area which has a significant focus across the bank, joining a team responsible for the independent review of returns to ensure accuracy and regulatory compliance.
• We'll look to you to use your finance skills and knowledge for a range of financial issues, including the robust review and challenge of external document sections.
• It's an opportunity to build your career in a forward-thinking environment, putting your specialist knowledge to good use and to build strong working relationships in a collaborative, fast-paced role.
• We're offering this role for a period of 12 months.

What you'll do

This key role will see you undertaking the assurance of reporting to ensure accuracy and compliance of the external stress testing regulatory reporting outcomes. You'll ensure that regulatory outcomes are delivered in a controlled manner that complies with Finance and the bank's risk and control framework, while identifying and implementing opportunities to improve.

You'll plan and coordinate the collation and completion of information required to meet our external stress test reporting obligations, while making sure that stress testing reports are complete, valid and accurate, prior to submission to external government, financial and regulatory bodies.

You'll also be:

• Developing a proactive approach to customer engagement and stakeholder management, including both data suppliers and senior employees.
• Delivering the assurance of external stress testing regulatory returns with a strong customer focus.
• Delivering assurance outcomes to agreed timelines and plans across Planning & Performance.
• Producing documentation to show our compliance with the controls framework and internal audit requirements.
• Contributing to and implementing plans relating to change and process improvement.

The skills you'll need

To join us in this role, you'll ideally be a qualified accountant, with post-qualification experience in financial services reporting. You'll need experience in regulatory reporting and be able to demonstrate a range of technical skills. You'll also demonstrate a proven ability to plan and prioritise your deliverables and timelines, working flexibly and adapting to changes.

We'll also expect:

• Excellent stakeholder management and the ability to use and grow your existing network.
• The ability to communicate at all levels of seniority about complex issues.
• The ability to understand and identify key issues from both summary and detailed data.
• Excellent knowledge of Excel, with the ability to help drive improvements in Excel-based operational processes.
• The ability to identify and resolve issues and break down complex problems into their core components and communicate the issues concisely.
• A business-focused approach in terms of MI requirements.

Hours
35

Job Posting Closing Date:
14/02/2025

Ways of Working: Remote First