Vice President - Regulatory Reporting IT

Profile Summary

We are looking for a VP to join our Regulatory Reporting IT team in London.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Carry out analysis, design, and delivery of IT solutions supporting Capital Pillar 1 prudential reporting requirements and other regulatory frameworks.
• Partner with teams such as Finance, Risk, and Regulatory Reporting to gather, document, and validate business requirements.
• Translate evolving regulatory requirements into clear business and technical specifications.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, and QA teams to deliver robust solutions.
• Estimate tasks and define RAID items to help create project plans.
• Drive end-to-end project lifecycle for regulatory reporting initiatives, from requirements gathering through testing and implementation.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Present project updates to senior management and governance committees as and when required.
• Oversee workload allocation and team delivery against project milestones.
• Perform detailed data analysis across large, complex datasets to support capital adequacy and risk-weighted asset calculations.
• Definite quality/acceptance criteria and test cases in agreement with business.
• Oversee UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and support production deployment activities.
• Assume some project management responsibility on smaller scale projects and act in a supporting role to the project manager on larger projects.

Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.
• Proven experienced in translating business requirements into detailed functional specifications, as well having the ability to prototype functionality before development (e.g., report layouts, sandbox testing etc).
• Knowledge of a wide range of trading book asset classes including interest rate derivatives, SFTs, bonds, credit derivatives and equities.
• Proven experience within the field of UK/EU Pillar 1 Prudential Regulatory Reporting including COREP Own Funds, Leverage Ratio, Large Exposures, FRTB and Bank of England Statistical reporting.
• Proven experience of working within an IT team, specifying changes for in-house/vendor regulatory reporting systems.
• Proven experience in data analysis and mapping data between systems.
• Proven experience in performing regression tests and explaining changes.
• Proven experience of full involvement in project life cycles.
• Proven experience of issue resolution through data mining and investigation.
• Good understanding of software development lifecycle with ability to contribute to the design of software solution.
• Experience of relational database design and ability to write SQL queries against Oracle & MS SQL Server.
• Knowledge of Axiom vendor system desirable but not essential.
• Appreciation of accounting concepts is desirable but not essential.
• Experience of XML, JSON and MongoDB is desirable but not essential.

What Mizuho Can Offer You

Here at Mizuho, there are fantastic progression opportunities and clear paths to promotion. We will give you ample opportunity to affect change and to help grow our business.

In addition to the great opportunity outlined above we are also currently able to offer:

• Competitive starting salary, plus discretionary bonus
• Non-contributory pension
• 27 days’ annual leave
• Core working hours*
• Hybrid working - office and home based*
• Virtual GP
• Wellbeing benefits, including Mental Health Allies and First Aiders

*For applicable roles only

At Mizuho, we embrace flexible ways of working when the role permits. We offer different working arrangements like part-time, job-sharing and hybrid (office and home) working. Our purpose-led culture and global infrastructure help us connect, collaborate, and work together in agile ways to meet all our business needs.

We are committed to supporting equality, diversity and equality, and seek to create a workplace that is fully inclusive. We welcome applications from all sections of the community that we operate in and from all ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, beliefs, gender identities and disabilities

If you require more information about our equal opportunities policy or wish to discuss any accessibility requirements or reasonable adjustments please contact the recruitment team – recruitment@mizuhoemea.com and we will be happy to help.