AVP - HBUK ( HINV) Reporting Operations

In this role, you will:

Principal Accountabilities and Responsibilities (e.g., for Business, Customers and Stakeholders; internal control environment, etc.)

• Provide end-to-end support in process ownership for preparation and assurance of all BAU reporting requirements (internal and external).
• Extend strategic support to the sign off process by providing analysis, insights and commentaries that summarize the procedures carried out and controls exercised to review & challenge the outputs produced.
• The delivery of reporting requirements to the PRA covering financial and regulatory returns, ensuring accuracy, and timeliness; including ‘Ad Hoc’ regulator requests.
• Maintain strong collaborative working relationship across Group / HBUK Functions. Also, working closely with various stakeholders like Finance Change delivery, Business and Accounting and Regulatory Policy to understand, plan and deliver change initiatives including new reporting requirements.
• Promote broader strategic initiatives across HBUK reporting including accountability, error & issue management, manual adjustments, variance analysis. quality assurance etc.
• Collaboratively working with various stakeholders for remediating the data quality issues, system issues, performing UAT’s on timely basis. Also, working towards automating/smoothening the reporting activities.
• Promote a culture of continuous innovation, challenge the business on approach and apply knowledge of relevant latest developments.
• Provide support in reconciliation between various systems/ templates/ cross functions.
• Adopt new ways of working such as Agile, particularly in respect of change activities, and encourage the adoption of new technology within the reporting teams.
• Responsible for ensuring delivery of Regulatory MI for internal consumption within the Group/Bank and across the Global Businesses.

To be successful you will:

• Qualified accountant (CA/CMA/ACCA or equivalent) or MBA Finance from a reputed institute with 6-10 yrs. or M.com or equivalent degree with 8-12 yrs. experience in Regulatory/Financial Reporting/ Analysis.
• Experienced Finance Professional with a proven track record of delivering Regulatory Reporting or Financial Reporting obligations within a large-scale financial services entity.
• Strong technical understanding of requirements underpinning regulatory and/or financial reporting in areas like capital, liquidity, FINREP, BOE, RWAs, Leverage, etc.
• Understanding of financial products and how they impact reporting requirement, and more generically the banking business, balance sheet and P&L.
• Strong ability to anticipate, identify and mitigate risks and apply appropriate controls over reporting processes.
• Experience in playing a key role in delivering a complex change project in the Financial and Regulatory reporting space and / or track record of delivering continuous process improvements through technology and non-technology solutions.
• Self-motivated, confident, creative and capable of working effectively autonomously as well as part of a team.
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment with strong management, decision-making, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills including the ability to listen to and influence stakeholders at all levels, and to build consensus among a wide range of internal and external customers with conflicting priorities.
• Understanding of control frameworks and how to implement effective controls in practice. continuous efforts required ensuing adherence to controls framework and document the limitations, controls weakness in more timely and effective manner.