Job Summary

The CIB Strategic Regulatory Initiatives Team sits within the COO office for the Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) business.

The team provides CIB with capabilities to drive regulatory and risk programmes and initiatives across CIB businesses, working in an agile operating model with each segment and product area.  Due to the nature of these programmes and initiatives, the team support not only the CIB Business but more broadly collaborate and engage across other divisions in the Bank to ensure delivery of pan-bank regulatory and risk initiatives, especially where the majority of work or accountability sits within CIB.

Such regulatory and risk programmes and initiatives may include for example:

• Complex/Large-scale Regulatory Change (LSRC)
• Material Policy changes
• Internally-driven programs supporting the management of regulatory interactions and change (for example, how we engage our regulators and track resulting regulatory actions and commitments)
• Topical strategic risks
• Strategic change within CIB Conduct & Control, Resilience and Fraud

The team enables the business to proactively impact assess new programmes and initiatives, coordinate the approach and interpretation across businesses; support the delivery and partner with the business teams to implement requirements in a consistent and coordinated manner. 

The role will primarily provide senior business analysis capabilities to drive the delivery of CIB regulatory programs and initiatives and/or their corresponding workstreams, along with ability to provide project management and change management insights/capability.

The role may support active and inflight programmes, including (but not limited to) the following: 

• EU CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) – supporting the Bank in adhering to granular sustainability reporting to be disclosed in annual reports, helping to improve the quality and extend the scope of sustainability reporting in the EU
• EU AI Act – support pan-Bank implementation of the first-ever legal framework on AI, which addresses the risks of AI and establishes rules for the development, placing on the market and use of AI systems in the EU
• EU Capital Requirements Directive (CRD VI) - Article 21c – supporting provisions of the latest EU banking package that requires EU Member States to impose authorization requirements on third country banks conducting certain categories of cross-border banking activities into the EU 

Key Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate and support project/programme deliveries, including planning, analysis, solutioning, and coordination of inputs from stakeholders 
• Lead business analysis efforts to identify and understand business needs, translating them into actionable requirements
• Manage workstream deliveries across various stakeholder groups, drive regulatory team agenda and maintain governance 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze and optimize business processes as required, driving improvements in efficiency and effectiveness
• Work closely with 1LOD stakeholders to support changes
• Collaborate with 1LOD CIB business change teams to achieve common interpretation, understand business-specific impacts and identify any conflicting areas of interpretation
• Work closely with 2LOD stakeholders across Principal Risk Types to lead CIB regulatory interpretation and impact assessment of “complex, large scale regulations” applying to CIB
• Support CIB wide impact assessments of new/amended relevant Policies/Standards relevant to identify key 2LOD requirements, and ensure consistent understanding and interpretation across the businesses
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze and optimize associated business processes as required, driving improvements in efficiency and effectiveness where applicable
• Work with technical delivery teams to support requirement interpretation and implementation where required 
• Work with technology and architecture teams to ensure programme goals and deliveries are aligned with wider Bank technology strategy 
• Support project implementation and delivery activities, working alongside technical delivery teams
• Track and manage implementation and delivery risks and issues
• Prepare data and analytics to support reporting requirements
• Support change management activities to ensure changes are embedded into day-to-day operations, including through communications and training 
• Manage and issue communication strategy and plans for CCIB regulatory initiatives (across group, region and country, depending on the impact)
• Engage with cross-bank teams on deployment of training.  For instance, deliver “train the trainer” awareness on CCIB-wide requirements
• Provide post-go-live support to businesses to resolve any implementation issues and/or challenges

Skills and Experience

• Minimum 7-10 years of hands-on experience in business analysis/ project / programme management and stakeholder management in financial services
• Experience successfully managing regulatory and risk programmes and projects, in Financial Services
• Knowledge of CIB business segments and product areas
• Certifications: PMP certification or equivalent, Business Analysis certification or equivalent
• Awareness of IT best practices/IT service delivery frameworks e.g ITIL
• Hands-on experience working in an Agile environment
• Hands-on experience working on ADO or equivalent 
• Knowledge / experience with regulatory change/implementation would be an advantage
• Ability to take initiative, identify opportunities and work with minimal management oversight to drive the best outcome possible
• Hands-on individual contributor with an eye for detail and proactive, self-managed work style
• Excellent written, communication and presentation skills; able to effectively engage, influence and manage senior business stakeholders
• Experience working in a collaborative manner with global teams
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Multicultural awareness

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.