Associate - Regulatory Reporting Strategy and Innovation

Associate, FRRA Strategy & Innovations

The Firmwide Regulatory Reporting & Analysis (FRRA) team resides within Corporate Finance. The group is responsible for the execution and delivery against the Firm’s regulatory reporting requirements to its U.S. regulators. The team has end-to-end responsibility for US regulatory reporting and capital stress testing, including the design, implementation, and oversight of the execution, analysis, control, and governance frameworks. Its mandate includes determining the appropriate investment in people, processes, and technology to improve the accuracy, completeness and consistency of the Firm’s US regulatory reporting and capital stress testing submissions, as well as the implementation of new requirements and guidelines as they are published.

Job Summary

As an Associate in the FRRA Innovation Strategy team, you will be responsible to partner with users, architecture and technology teams delivering within an agile framework responsible for managing the prioritized backlog to ensure the team is always maximizing delivery value against the firm’s & FRRA goals. 

Job responsibilities

• Work with lines of business & key stakeholders to understand their products, how data is captured, and how to strategically source data into a cloud based big data architecture.
• Assist leadership in defining and executing project deliverables, including business requirements, testing, operating model assessments, and implementation.
• Assist in analysis to identify solutions, influencing stakeholders to support recommendations.
• Manage the end-to-end SDLC lifecycle from requirements gathering to grooming to development to testing and deployment.
• Identify project risks and issues, escalating issues and roadblocks to managers and stakeholders as needed.
• Monitor the implementation post go-live and remediate resulting issues.
• Provide project updates on various forums, tailoring messages based on seniority of audience.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

• At least 3+years of related professional experience as a Program Manager and/or Business Analyst
• At least 3 + years of experience in the financial services industry, with knowledge and experience of traditional credit and trading products, as well as regulatory reporting (e.g. FR Y-9C, FFIEC 031, FFIEC 009)
• Bachelor’s degree 
• Knowledge of data & business intelligence concepts including ETL, data modeling, report automation, and/or dashboarding
• Strong skills interacting with data including using SQL to query.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to draw conclusions from large volume and complex data, define solutions with a control mindset, and effectively communicate them to project stakeholders.
• Strong team-orientation, partnership, and communication skills.
• Proficiency in MS Excel and MS PowerPoint.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

• Experience with Agile delivery, JIRA and Confluence 
• PMP certification