What Is The Opportunity

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced professional with the capability, appetite and leadership skills to operate effectively across all levels within the Group.

The successful candidate will lead the Balance Sheet Return Liquidity Reporting team, a highly engaged and professional team of six colleagues. This senior management position, reporting directly to the Group Liquidity Reporting Lead.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead one of our core reporting teams.

This is an 18 month contract opportunity

In the role you will

• Lead, develop, and motivate the Balance Sheet Return Liquidity Reporting team (the Team) to ensure the efficient delivery of high quality liquidity regulatory returns and related management information, in accordance with required standards and SLAs.
• Develop detailed Liquidity Reporting technical understanding of liquidity cashflow / balance sheet returns and solid understanding of all reporting processes to ensure consistency of reporting across returns;
• Appropriately manage resources, ensuring the Team is sufficiently resourced and skilled to meet reporting requirements in a very dynamic and challenging regulatory reporting environment.
• Ensure the effective implementation of goals and objectives across the Team, with regular feedback, and identification of training and development needs
• Manage risks across liquidity reporting processes including maintaining an effective control framework, ensuring deliverables have appropriate controls, governance, documentation and adhere to relevant Group policies and standards, including ensuring:
• Audit ready documentation (Basis of Prep, procedures, issue log, escalation policy, process maps etc.);
• Processes operate to audit and 'Internal Financial Control (SOx-level)' programme standards;
• III. Regular review and identification of operational risks, via RRCO's RCSAs process, implementing control enhancements where necessary;
• Proactive and timely escalation of reporting issues/errors/events and associated remediation;
• Maintain register of data adjustments and escalation to data owners via the Group Data Authority Office.
• Maintain robust Business Continuity processes for liquidity reporting, agreed with relevant stakeholders, including documentation of BCP desktop procedures
• Embed a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence within Liquidity Reporting processes.
  
  
  

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Have at least 3-5 years Regulatory Reporting/Treasury experience, ideally within a Banking environment
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (particularly Excel) with a good working knowledge of VBA highly desirable;
• Proven track record of leading, developing and motivating successful teams, with the ability to delegate responsibilities and hold team members accountable.
• You are brilliant when working with and managing the requirements of multiple stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience of delivery to tight reporting timelines;
• Ability to thrive in a challenging and dynamic environment.
• Ability to challenge constructively current processes and norms and provide objective insight and solutions to problems;
• Deep experience and knowledge of regulatory reporting standards (Basel III/CRD I) and processes, global financial markets and banking products would be beneficial
  
  
  

Essential Qualifications

Qualified accountant with 5 years PQE in a senior position within the financial services industry

More About The Team

The Regulatory Reporting, Controls and Operations (RRCO) team sits within the Group Performance Reporting (GPR) function within Group Finance. RRCO is responsible for the delivery of a wide range of supervisory and statistical regulatory reports, for multiple licensed entities, to multiple regulators in a controlled, timely and efficient manner. We are accountable for the delivery of non-routine regulatory requests and the development of new regulatory reporting requirements.

RRCO is a professional, proactive and dynamic team with significant engagement with colleagues in all key functions such as business partners, finance, risk and treasury to ensure the accuracy of returns.

This is a hybrid role and can be done anywhere in the Republic of Ireland with the primary office location as Dublin. Travel will be required for in-person collaboration -exact frequency to be agreed with manager.

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Why work with us?

The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 25 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports.

Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!

Flexible working matching promise

We know how important flexible working arrangements are to our colleagues, and we promise to try to match your current flexible working arrangement in this new role (all existing working arrangements considered!)

Key Competencies

• Accountable - Leader
• Customer Focused - Leader
• One Group, one team - Leader
• Champion Transformation - Leader
• Amplify Capability - Leader
  
  
  

Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.

Bank of Ireland Group is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace which values and benefits from the diversity of our workforce. We offer reasonable accommodation at every stage of the application and interview process. If you require assistance, please contact recruitdirect@boi.com.