Operations-London-Associate-Risk Governance

OPERATIONS

Operations division is a dynamic, multi-faceted organization that partners with all parts of the firm to provide banking, securities, and asset management services to clients around the world. In addition, Operations provides essential risk management and controls to preserve and enhance the firm's assets and its reputation. For every new product launched and every trade executed, it is Operations that develops and manages the processes and controls that enable business flow.

YOUR IMPACT

We are looking for a professional individual who is passionate about applying their strong risk management mindset and data analytic skills in a fast paced environment, and further develop their understanding of a growing sector of the financial markets at the heart of regulatory reform. With the continued high rate of change in the regulatory reporting space, Reporting intelligence professionals have the platform to significantly impact their environment and the wider business.

• Build comprehensive controls and reconciliations using Business Intelligence (BI) tools and designing efficient control points to close control gaps
• Be part of a team setting standards for regulatory reporting requirements implementation within the Firm and ensuring that these standards are met
• Perform ad-hoc in-depth review on rule interpretation, business requirement and control requirements on key reporting obligations
• Advise on regulatory risk and requirements to facilitate commercial activity,
• Analysis of internal client and external regulatory inquiries related to trade, transaction, position data,
• Enhance the reporting process by documenting requirements to address regulatory reports for remediation and production discrepancies
• Perform verification, validations and testing of the data
• Actively participating in the development of the strategic control framework for Regulatory Operations
• Work collaboratively across multiple business lines and stakeholder groups in strategic initiatives across the global Regulatory Operations department
• Develop strong working relationships with Core Operations, Regulatory Reporting, Engineering, Change Management, Legal, & Compliance as well as revenue divisions i.e. Global Banking and Markets (GBM) and Asset and Wealth Management (AWM)

• Bachelor's degree with at least 3-5 years of experience in a global firm with Risk and Control / Audit / Compliance / Project Management background
• Strong analytical skills with an ability to understand complex workflows paired with meticulous attention to detail
• Must have strong communication skills to clearly articulate issues and ideas and provide timely escalation
• Ability to steer a conversation among different stakeholders and form views that incorporate feedbacks and continue pushing for deliverables
• Good interpersonal skills to build strong relationship with key stakeholders within and outside of Operations,
• Good influencing skills to work with the Operations team in challenging the status quo and continuously enhancing the control environment required
• Self-motivated and proactive team player, who takes ownership and accountability of projects, has strong organizational skills as well as the ability to effectively manage competing priorities within deadlines,
• Flexible and able to work well under pressure in a team environment

• Direct experience of regulatory reporting obligations such as:
• MiFID II Transaction reporting
• MiFID II Trade Reporting
• RTS 23 - Instrument reference data reporting
• SFTR
• EMIR
• CFTC
• SEC SBS
• JFSA
• HKMA
• ASIC
• MAS
• Experience in assessing or enhancing business processes and workflows.
• Working knowledge of financial markets, regulatory landscape and associated processes
• Working knowledge of financial products, e.g. equities, fixed income products, exchange traded derivatives, OTC derivatives,
• Working knowledge of project management and business analysis

• Working experience of operating on large data sets using business intelligence tools such as:
• SQL
• Alteryx
• Python
• Working knowledge of data visualization tools such as Tableau