Regulatory Reporting Controller

About the job

• Regulatory reporting is the regulator mean to undertake market surveillance. It allows the regulators to identify situations of potential market abuse, insider dealing, price misdirection, systemic risk. Failure to report entirely or accurately can significantly limit the regulators ability to execute his market watch role resulting in severe consequences for the bank or employees. We must ensure accuracy, consistency and completeness of information sent to regulator to reflect the correct firm market activity
• The team is charge of monitoring and control transactions reporting to regulators worldwide on behalf of all group entities

Your Main Activities Are

• Ensuring the accuracy, timeliness and exhaustiveness of the trade reporting by performing a close monitoring (in-house and external systems) of transactions reported
• Tackle for all jurisdictions operational rejections; analyse them and resubmit them when required
• Answer or prepare the answer to regulators queries
• Perform in depth analysis of issues to identify root cause (IT feed issue, incorrect populated field, incorrect reporting logic applied, among others) and escalate it to relevant teams (external or internal)
• Follow-up on fixes and their release, and provide update and MIS to management
• Keep track of all open issues and follow up with IT until fix release
• Keep procedures up to date
• Fill control plan on daily basis
• Maintain effective working relationships with other locations (London, Paris and HK Regulatory Reporting teams) and teams (IT, project manager, Front Office, among others)

Profile and Skills to Success

• Financial academic background
• Fluent in English
• Strong Excel Skills and ability to work with heavy data files
• Excellent analytical skills
• Strong communications skills and ability to communicate to different stakeholders
• Ability to prioritize workloads and multi task
• Proactivity

To proceed in our recruitment process is mandatory to have working permission to Portugal (visa or residence permission)