Head of Regulatory Finance Change - Global Banking Group - Competitive Salary + Bonus + Full Benefits - City / London (with hybrid working)

Our client is an established global banking group with a positive working culture, being known for excellent staff retention and career development. The purpose of this role is to provide leadership and guidance to the Finance Change team, and to deliver Finance change projects. The role has responsibility over delivering Regulatory Change activities through strong knowledge and experience of UK Prudential Regulations and the EU Regulatory environment. The role will have direct management responsibility over Regulatory Change professionals, including 5 permanent resources, as well as 3 temporary headcount.

Responsibilities and Tasks:

1. Develop and maintain good working relationships with Reg Tech partners and internal stakeholder partners, ensuring high quality services levels
2. Control, manage and drive the change development schedule, prioritising activity and directing developer resource appropriately
3. Maintain and update the Reg Roadmap strategy, ensuring best in class architecture to support the execution of our Reg Reporting requirements
4. Maintain close liaison with support and development teams, working in partnership to deliver priorities
5. Manage project work load and work flexibly to prioritise the development resource as necessary
6. Communicate project progress to senior management and other relevant stakeholders through regular update meetings
7. Manage the processes for the design, development, support, testing and maintenance of business requirements to deliver projects
8. Understand and document business requirements to create development specifications, and undertake UAT and implementation testing for various new developments
9. Support BAU users across the EMEA region, as required, on new and existing functionality
10. Build a strong team by developing ongoing training and development plans for direct reports
11. Other ad hoc project tasks as required

Skills and Experience Required:

1. Experience delivering Prudential Regulation change projects - Essential
2. Preparation and analysis of regulatory and statistical reporting - Desirable
3. Working knowledge of reporting query software, spreadsheets and data mining - Essential
4. Experience in providing regulatory analysis to the Front and Middle Office - Desirable
5. Good knowledge of Finance systems, general accounting and business knowledge - Essential
6. Strong knowledge of all derivative and securities products - Desirable
7. Extensive experience of Prudential regulation across EMEA – Essential
8. Functional expert and certified business analyst in the Banking sector and across multiple countries – Desirable
9. Strong knowledge of data requirements and calculations required for Regulatory output – Essential
10. Financial Product Knowledge (IR & FX Derivatives, Securities, Equity, Loans, Deposits, Current Accounts) gained through working within the banking sector – Essential
11. Experience in producing business requirements in liaison with Regulatory Reporting teams – Essential
12. Act as consultant to the Business for all tasks related to Finance Regulatory Reporting – Desirable
13. Ability to be able to interrogate and analyse data on Oracle based platform and / or MS Access (SQL) – Desirable
14. Provide knowledge and documentation support for all aspects of the development life cycle (requirements, gap analysis, test plans, testing, issue and risk logs, user procedures and ongoing continual process improvements) – Essential
15. Needs to be as functionally knowledgeable as the software supplier business experts to be able to engage in discussions and provide meaningful analysis to them, including bug fixing / testing – Essential
16. Knowledge of upgrade procedure for management of all system testing and end to end testing of new software – Desirable
17. Manage testing phases with users in different entities/countries, including software training, user set-up and bespoke development software training – Essential
18. Leadership experience including managing and developing strong performing team - Essential
19. Oracle SQL, MS Office Suite, AI literate - Desirable
20. Very IT literate (very good level of Excel skills and basic ability to use SQL) - Essential
21. Broad knowledge and understanding of technical aspects of vendor platforms - Essential
22. Ability to manage all functional issues as they inter-relate between forms and countries - Essential