Analyst, Financial & Regulatory Reporting

The Group Capital Regulatory Reporting (GCRR) is responsible for the production, control and delivery of the Group's key prudential supervisory reporting and disclosure for Capital, Large Exposures and Leverage, including: COREP (Own Funds, LE, Leverage) and Pillar 3. The team is based in London and supported by teams in India, Poland and Singapore. The team also plays a key support and liaison role for country reg teams, global functions (such as Risk, Compliance and Treasury), Investor Relations and is a key contact for the Bank of England. The team also acts as a centre of subject matter expertise in solvency regulations for the business, change functions and Financial Planning and Analytics, advising senior management and supporting external stakeholders.
GCRR team has responsibility for reporting/disclosure requirements including COREP own funds, leverage, large exposures and Pillar 3. This is delivered by a team of ~10 in the UK and ~90 located in Global Business Service centres, mainly in Chennai and Bangalore. The team works closely with the Group Financial Reporting team and are key stakeholders in the quarterly disclosure process. The GCRR team designs and operates the control framework, identifies and raises change requests for Finance Change to action and perform user acceptance testing. The team works closely with many functions and global locations including Risk, Compliance, IT, Treasury, Financial Planning & Analytics, Investor Relations and country regulatory reporting/balance sheet management teams. They also handle regulatory liaison where necessary, including ad hoc internal and external requests.
This role of Analyst - Group Capital Regulatory Reporting reports to the Regulatory Reporting Manager covering various aspects of BAU capital reporting team covering the Credit Risk, Counterparty Risk, CVA, Securitisation, Large Exposure parts of the COREP returns and associated disclosures.
Strategy

• Work with the Regulatory Reporting Manager to report to the PRA/EBA financial and risk information for Common Reporting (COREP)). COREP templates are required to be reported to the PRA every quarter within 30 working days and ECR every month within tight deadlines.
• Responsible to work on relevant tables for external market regulatory reporting (Results Announcement, Pillar 3 Disclosures etc), ad hoc regulatory submissions and the provision of internal advice and guidance on regulatory reporting.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of regulatory projects by working towards closer integration with other global and group regulatory reporting teams to deliver a best in class and sustainable regulatory reporting utility for the future.

Business

• Understanding of the Group's businesses and products and how they impact regulatory capital metrics, reporting and associated controls.
• Expertise in relation to the regulatory capital calculations (particularly capital supply, credit risk including counterparty credit risk (standardised and models), standardised operational risk RWA, securitisation including current and future rules and regulations and how they apply to SCB.
• Expertise in systems and processes used to generate regulatory capital metrics.
• Interpretation and guidance to business units on PRA and EBA rules under Basel IV/CRD V, CRR II and Taxonomies.

Processes

• Timely submission of GCRR processes covering COREP own funds, large exposures, Pillar 2 and associated reporting and disclosure.
• Development and maintenance of controls and the control environment
• Extensive use of Excel, SQL and MS Access for data extraction and analysis.
• Review key variances, trends and commentaries for Large exposures and Credit Risk RWAs.
• Maintain a list of system/process/data issues and contribute to Capital Data Quality Forum
• Take the lead on Moody's Risk Authority and Axiom User Acceptance Testing & Signoffs for system updates and new software releases.
• Assist with ad-hoc queries relating to capital and regulatory reporting
• Contribute to the bank's responses on Discussion and Consultation papers and Technical Standards on regulatory developments and changes from the Basel Committee, PRA and others.
• Design or amend and implement suitable controls across the suite of regulatory capital metrics reported by Financial Regulatory Reporting.

Our Ideal candidates

• Qualified Accountant with extensive experience in regulatory reporting, particularly COREP reporting of RWAs Large Exposures and other regulatory returns.
• Regulatory policy and regulatory capital project experience in major UK banks (SCB peers) and any experience of PRA/FCA enforcement and S166 audit desirable.

Role Specific Competencies

• External Reporting
• Risk &Controls (Drive functional change across regulatory capital reporting policy and processes)
• Regulatory & Compliance (Basel, UK and EU Regulatory Rules, including Credit Risk RWAs & large exposures)
• Ability to manipulate and analyse large volumes of data in Excel & SQL
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills at all levels

About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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