Finance Specialist

Finance Specialist

Posted 2 days ago by Robert Walters

£33 Per hour
Inside
Undetermined
Glasgow

Summary: The Finance Regulatory Specialist role involves managing technology spend within the Finance Projects team, focusing on regulatory capital and reporting initiatives. The position requires collaboration with various project squads to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and effective governance of data feeds. The role also supports external regulator exam preparations and the implementation of BCBS239 principles. This is a temporary contract position with a leading global financial services firm.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Partner with Project squads to identify new feed and feed change requirements across multiple product classes for governance.
  • Creation and maintenance of Regulatory Reporting feed data records, detailing feed metadata and associated controls.
  • Production of Feed governance approval materials for approval meetings.
  • Ensure approved feed metadata flow through appropriate systems (e.g. Metacentre, Collibra).
  • Support external regulator exam preparation.
  • Support fleet implementation of BCBS239 principles (focusing on governance and data lineage).
  • Partner with controller teams and IT to ensure relevant data controls and flows are captured and documented.
  • Develop collaborative relationships working across different departments and regions.
  • Take part in Squad/Fleet Agile ceremonies providing updates and reporting for stakeholders and Senior Management.
  • Issue Management managing, monitoring, and reporting on Finance data issues.

Key Skills:

  • 3 – 6 years’ experience of Regulatory Reporting projects such as Finrep/CoRep preferred.
  • Understanding and experience of good governance, preferably data governance.
  • Knowledge of Investment Banking business and related products.
  • Knowledge of traditional Project Management approaches.
  • Knowledge and application of BCBS239 principles.
  • Agile experience within a squad/Fleet.
  • Experience with metadata management tooling (e.g.: Metacentre, Collibra) beneficial but not necessary.
  • Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage tight deadlines while balancing multiple priorities.
  • Strong analytical, organisational and documentation skills.
  • Experienced in implementing change effectively to improve existing processes.
  • Excellent communication skills (both oral and written).
  • Highly numerate with attention to detail and accuracy.
  • Experience of Microsoft Office and project management tools such as Excel, Project, and Vision.
  • Experience of investigating, summarizing, and presenting results in a meaningful format to clients and Senior Management.
  • Confident and adaptable.
  • Solid analytical skills.
  • Team worker and well organized.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Salary (Rate): £33.03

City: Glasgow

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: Finance