The Role
- Effectively engage with multiple trading supervisors on a daily basis to secure sign off with explanation of all Fixed Income trades that were either amended or cancelled during our trading day. This position will affect Middle Office as much as Front Office (ex: position tracking, keeping and reporting). Initially the position covers six Fixed Income Trading (credit & rates) desks, but once our new processes are in place, we expect to then cover additional asset classes.
- Effectively engage senior business, legal, and compliance stakeholders throughout the project life cycle with the goal of assuring that project and organizational objectives are being met.
- Provide project management guidance, oversight and support during the project.
- Act as a liaison and coordinate within the US line of businesses (LOB), Business Risk Control Managers as well Business Line Legal and Compliance to develop and implement appropriate process, policies, programs, and controls for area of responsibility.
- The diversity of bank’s business, its geographic spread and the constant changes internally and externally, means that the jobholder is required to manage and advise take lead on a diverse range of matters.
- The role requires an understanding of the structure of the bank and its culture and the ability to handle increasingly complex global regulatory compliance and business issues.
- Ensure that the Americas book of work has proper representation in all Global work streams and other Global efforts.
- The incumbent must largely work autonomously, but seek line management input on unusual situations, highly complex issues, and matters that may pose significant issues to the project management team, Project/Portfolio organization and its dependent stakeholders.
- Role provides process guidance and project management oversight at a LOB level in the field of regulatory and operational risk management and oversight.
Customers / Stakeholders
- Partner with LOB senior managers, attorneys, compliance officers and business management in the mitigation and control of operational and regulatory risk through identification and assessment of regulatory/operational risk and internal control.
- Face-off with businesses to improve program awareness and compliance. Hold regular meetings with project stakeholders and provide guidance and quality assurance with regard to work stream risk identification and mitigation.
- Liaises with the relevant control functions in relation to matters including the provision of technical support and guidance.
Major Challenges
- Adapting to and leading change in a still-developing project governance and operational model, in a rapidly changing regulatory and operational risk environment.
- Strong ability to prioritize workloads in terms of compliance and operational risks and commercial considerations.
- Maintaining knowledge of Bank Group operations and policies. Developing expertise in the regulatory compliance and operational risk discipline and remaining current on industry trends and regulatory expectations.
- Thinking independently and provide advice that strikes an appropriate balance between mitigation of compliance risk on the one hand and business agility on the other.
- Ability to understand the interrelationships between a range of complex issues and the impact of those issues from a legal, regulatory and risk perspective
- Ability to adapt communication style and content to appropriately address management level of the audience.
- Balance and manage interdependency between the various work streams ensuring prioritization is considerate of those interdependencies.
Qualifications
- A minimum of five to ten years of Banking and Securities Brokerage experience in Operational Risk /Enterprise Risk Management or Regulatory Risk Mitigation roles, or equivalent LOB functions with a strong knowledge of broker dealer middle and back office operations.
- Good knowledge of project management discipline would a plus but not essential.
- Familiarity with global regulatory environment e.g., Dodd Frank, the Volcker Rule, EMIR.
- Prior experience working with offshore technology development teams and coordinating testing and overall implementation.
- Strong problem-solving, lateral thinking, analytical, communications, interpersonal, planning presentation, time management, persuasion and decision-making skills
- Adaptability, commitment and motivation to meet tight schedules and stay abreast of significant issues in a regularly changing environment
- Proactive and independent.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite