ROLE
– Ensure completeness, accuracy and timely preparation of the monthly and daily reports submitted to multiple Regulators across the APAC region.
– Establish controls for monitoring regulatory reports such as reconciliations, validation checks and variance analysis.
– Serve as a subject matter expert and central point of contact for regulatory advice and interact with Business, Legal and Compliance as needed to provide responses to regulatory inquiries.
– Mitigate, manage, escalate, track, and ensure resolution on issues that pose operational regulatory risk to the firm.
– Develop and maintain effective partnerships with all stakeholders on regulatory related issues.
– Implement changes to reporting process based on new or changing regulations in conjunction with Business, Operations, Technology, Compliance and Legal.
– Responsible front to back testing of business and regulatory change, ensuring results are documented and presented for sign off by the supervisor.
– Automation and Change Management for on-boarding of new reports into the Regulatory Operations Group.
– Assist the team during regulatory inquiries and examinations, delivering accurate information and analysis to aid regulatory reviews.

REQUIREMENTS
– 6+ years of financial industry work experience in Operations, Middle Office, or Projects with an in depth understanding of financial products.
– Operations Regulatory reporting experience will be considered favorably.
– Strong technical problem-solving skills and an ability to identify conflicts, discrepancies and other issue.
– Strong work ethic and highly motivated individual with outstanding record of professional achievement.
– Attention to detail, proactive in identifying, escalating and resolving potential issues.
– Strong control and Compliance focus.
– Material experience with operational risk disciplines; processes, risks, and controls.
– Strong leadership, interpersonal skills and project management skills.
– Demonstrated ability to thrive in meeting Regulatory and Compliance requirements would have an added advantage.
– Understanding of trade lifecycle would be a plus.
– Good verbal and written communication skills in English and in Chinese would be an advantage.
– Utilizing Digitalization Tools to automatize processes and create controls for data quality and flow; Excel to create macros to analyze large amount of data across reports.
– Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience.