We are recruiting for a permanent Business Analyst / Project Manager role at VP level within the Regulatory Change / Transformation team for our client, a reputable and highly successful global corporate and investment banking group based in the City/London. The purpose of this role is to manage the delivery of changes into the regulatory reporting area, through analysing supervisory rules to articulate business requirements for build and implementation. The role has coverage across all Regulatory Change activities, using strong knowledge and experience of UK Prudential Regulations and the EU Regulatory environment to deliver success. A key part of the role is to act as Deputy to EMEA Head of Regulatory Change, representing the team across a number of Group forums and support strategic decision making.

Responsibilities, Coverage, Remit:

1. Implementing new reporting requirements for statistical and regulatory reporting, as well as managing the correction of defects in relations with Regulatory systems and the implementation of system upgrades.
2. Act as Deputy to the EMEA Head of Regulatory Reporting, providing necessary support across team activities and representing the Finance Regulatory Change team on various governance forums
3. Resolve operational reporting issues by delivering constant process improvements, mainly by automating the production of returns and removing manual adjustments.
4. Communicate project progress with relevant stakeholders through regular update meetings.
5. Manage the processes for the design, development, support, testing and maintenance of business requirements to deliver projects.
6. Understand and document business requirements to create development specifications, and undertake UAT and implementation testing for various new developments.
7. Carry out other ad hoc project tasks as required.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience Useful and Desirable:

1. Part or Fully Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CA, CPA)
2. Project Management qualification
3. Working knowledge of reporting query software, spreadsheets and data mining
4. Functional expert and certified business analyst in the Banking sector and across multiple countries
5. Understanding of one of the major aspects of regulatory rules and reporting (liquidity, capital, large exposures, statistical reporting, FINREP)
6. Product knowledge gained through working in the banking sector
7. Knowledge of WKFS (FRSGlobal) products across multiple countries
8. Experience in producing business requirements in liaison with Regulatory Reporting teams
9. Act as consultant to the business for all tasks related to Finance Regulatory Reporting
10. Ability to be able to interrogate and analyse data on Oracle based platform and / or MS Access (SQL)
11. 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)
12. 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
13. Knowledge of upgrade procedure for management of all system testing and end to end testing of new software
14. Must have technical knowledge to be able to work closely with and manage 4-man development team regarding business requirements against understanding of software
15. Manage testing phases with users in all countries, including software training, user set-up and bespoke development software training
16. Preparation and analysis of regulatory and statistical reporting.
17. Experience in providing regulatory analysis to the Front and Middle office.
18. Good knowledge of Finance systems, general accounting and business knowledge.
19. Knowledge of WKFS (FRSGlobal) products and interfacing requirements.