Your role
Do you thrive when navigating complex environments? Are you always up for the next challenge? Do you enjoy managing and developing people?
We're looking for someone like that to join our management team in the Regulatory Transaction Reporting (RTR) function. The RTR function supports the core regulatory reporting obligations in the region, namely ASIC, MAS, HKMA and JFSA conducting Quality Assurance on RTR across the whole APAC region. The role will provide varied challenges due to the nature and complexity of the reporting obligations, involves managing a small sized team and engagement with a large array of other functions & stakeholders within the region and globally.
The main activities and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
• Effectively leading the Quality Assurance team and processes conducted on core regulatory reporting obligations in the region, namely ASIC, MAS, HKMA and JFSA.
• Work with report owners and other stakeholders to ensure all critical reports are compliant by performing Completeness, Accuracy, Timeliness (CAT) testing of reporting; direct control and other various form of testing across all in scope reports ensuring aligns to prescribed standards.
• Work with the central Quality Assurance team, based in Poland, to ensure that all appropriate Quality Assurance controls are performed to detect issues in reporting and associated controls. Ensure all identified issues are investigated and effectively managed.
• Prepare and present QA material for the various Transaction Reporting Governance forums, including two monthly Operating Committees.
• Understand the risks associated with transaction reporting. Be vigilant to those risks, manage them and challenge/escalate effectively.
• Coordinating and managing changes impacting APAC Quality Assurance team including significant changes such as the upcoming APAC Regulatory Rewrites. This will require co-ordination and working with the various QA teams in Poland and Singapore and also automation teams supporting QA controls.
• Review existing processes for improvements, control enhancements and automation opportunities.
• Represent the APAC RTR QA function to support the APAC RTR Governance and QA lead.
Your team
You will be joining the Regulatory Transaction Reporting (RTR) team within the APAC Investment Banking Operations division based in Singapore. The team supports the APAC region in ensuring TR regulation within the region is understood and adhered to. The Singapore RTR function’s remit is to ensure that we meet all APAC transaction reporting obligations, implement proper governance, supervision, and change management across all APAC locations where there are transactional reporting obligations and ensuring quality assurance on post reporting and procedural controls.
Your expertise
• Knowledge of Transaction Reporting regulations in the APAC region preferred.
• Strong risk management skillset along with attention to detail.
• Good people management experience required.
• Mature attitude to responsibility and confidence working as a team or under own initiative.
• Good relationship management, comfortable challenging those around you and influencing skills across a wide spectrum of partner teams.
• Proficient Microsoft Excel skills and good to have knowledge/comfortable with working managing automation projects involving Alteryx and SQL.
• Analytical mind set to manage and resolve issues.
• Good relationship management and influencing skills to work with a wide spectrum of working partners and at the same time be able to challenge them effectively and collaboratively.
You are:
• Able to take ownership of the design and operating effectiveness of key controls and processes.
• On top of industry and market driven initiatives to understand risks and impacts.
• A good partner, collaborating across functions to deliver strategic projects and change.
• Quick learner, with a mature attitude to responsibility and confident working as a team lead, member and under own initiative.
• Possess can-do attitude to manage stakeholder expectation.
• Delivery focus and general ability to pick up information quickly and turn around deliverables under pressure.
• Ability to pick up information quickly and turn around deliverables under pressure.
• Strong presentation skills, with an ability to summarize technical information concisely for consumption by a varied audience.
