As a Controls Team Associate you will support the Regulatory Controllers adherence to Firmwide standards and policies. The team is dedicated to adding value and improving efficiency, quality, and controls.
Job Responsibilities
- Work with the Regulatory Controllers to review issues and errors ensuring that the documentation and escalation decisions adhere to both the internal UK Reg and the Firmwide issues and errors frameworks.
- Create Control packs for Monthly/Quarterly Control meetings with the EMEA Controller and other senior regulatory leads (including translation of controls information into actionable data for Senior Management).
- Chair a bi-weekly Production Governance Forum where key topics for production reporting systems are discussed and impactful new and recurring issues are tracked for remediation and then subsequently escalated to the relevant forums.
- Validate gaps in the Control processes and working with teams to agree remediation plans.
- Ensure compliance with Firmwide External Financial Reporting Control Standards and control initiatives (e.g., Risk Acceptance and Issues and Errors reporting).
- Ensure completeness of the suite of in-scope reports for the Regulatory Controllers, this will include oversight of the monthly reconciliation of reporting requirements to expected submissions via the third-party regulators web portals and regular review of legal entity permissions driving reporting requirements.
- Develop a network and acting as a contact within the Regulatory Controllers for other areas of Finance and the Business such as Policy, Projects / Change and the Central Controls team.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Relevant Finance experience ideally in a Control function.
- Ability to critically review and challenge Control processes.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Flexibility to work under pressure to meet changing work requirements and strict deadlines.
- Ability to communicate effectively with a variety of Stakeholders.
- Strong interpersonal and team working skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office – Excel, Access, Outlook, Word and PowerPoint.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Familiarity with the Firmwide CORE (Control and Operational Risk Evaluation) process.
- Experience in Tableau and Alteryx.
- Accounting Qualification.