The external reporting function handles the oversight of the financial statements and management reporting, ensuring a sound control environment; understands and applies the accounting treatments and ensures compliance with appropriate corporate and regulatory requirements; coordinates the preparation of quarterly regulatory requirements; validates balance sheet items and understands balance sheet usage and reporting.

Job Summary

As an associate on the Financial Regulatory Reporting team, you will be responsible for preparing, reviewing, and analyzing regulatory and external financial reports. You will partner with lines of business and control functions to ensure reporting accuracy, data integrity, and compliance with regulatory and SEC requirements. Your work will include data consolidation and variance analysis, coordination of quarterly results, and support of ongoing control and governance activities.

Job responsibilities

• Apply up-to-date product/industry/market knowledge in specialty areas of reporting
• Consolidate, review, and analyze quarterly financial data for accuracy and completeness. Perform quarter-over-quarter variance analytics
• Coordinate data collection and quarterly business results with various lines of business, Regulatory Controllers and SEC reporting teams
• Assist in the thorough assessment of the issues and outcomes
• Clearly communicate financial information to the lines of businesses and able to flag potential issues
• Participate in various aspects for the production, review and filing of monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports for various regulatory agencies that are used by the regulators for compiling widely-used statistics on the levels of, and changes in, domestic and international portfolio positions
• Adhere to proof & control procedures to ensure accurate reconciliation between regulatory filings, SEC filings and other published financial reports (e.g., Form 10-Q, Annual Report/Form 10-K, Call Report & FR Y-9C, Pillar III, etc)
• Adhere to various control procedures and edit checks to ensure the integrity of reported financial results
• Ensure accurate and complete data submission to the Regulators
• Interpret and define regulatory and/or SEC requirements and coordinate internal and external policies
• Establish and manage relationships with the line of business as well as with external regulatory agency constituents through ongoing partnership and dialogue

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• 3+ years in a Finance organization with exposure to accounting, financial statements, and/or regulatory reporting
• Strong skills in time management, problem solving, written and oral communication
• Team player, with ability to work effectively across diverse functions, locations and businesses
• Excellent Excel and computer skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Extremely strong organizational and time management skills

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance preferred
• Experience in Product Control, Financial Control or knowledge of SEC reporting/Reg Reporting a plus
• Project management experience/skills helpful