Regulatory and EFS Reporting Manager - Banking and Financial Services

About the team

This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing team in a newly created role as a Manager, Regulatory Reporting within our Banking and Financial Services division. In this role, you will have the opportunity to make a difference, challenge the status quo and support Business stakeholders uplift processes and maintain a robust regulatory reporting control environment.

As a Regulatory Reporting SME, you'll bring knowledge of, and a genuine interest in regulatory reporting, and be a highly motivated and organised individual with strong interpersonal skills. You will be able to demonstrate success in prior roles within financial institutions or a Big 4 institution, demonstrate your knowledge of regulatory reporting and EFS and be looking for opportunities to take the next step in your career and expand your skillset.

You will play a significant role in supporting our team to enhance data management and analytics capability across the APRA reporting function and meet increasing regulatory and business-driven needs.

Be part of our journey

As we focus our efforts on transforming and uplifting our regulatory reporting capability within BFS, we want to build reliable, accurate and sustainable regulatory reporting supported by robust technology and best practice.

We want regulatory reporting to be more than just a recurring month end process, but one which supports strategic and business initiatives and is an enabler for strong business outcomes. The new team has a strong growth mindset seeking to build a centre of excellence across multiple regulators and work with product to understand reg reporting implications and develop product features accordingly and/or provide advice to business on how to change products and develop strategic solutions to meet regulatory requirements.

What impact will you have?

In this diverse role you will be challenged daily whilst being part of a team that supports flexible working arrangements to suit your needs outside of work. Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the review of balance sheet and statistical deliverables for external stakeholders including APRA, RBA and ABS
• As a Manager within the team, you will also have the opportunity to collaborate, engage with and nurture working relationships with senior level stakeholders across the group and will have regular and frequent communication with the offshore finance team.
• You will be responsible for ensuring successful transitions of new regulatory returns to business-as-usual processes and your role will involve identifying and implementing opportunities for automation, process improvement and efficiencies.
• You will rely on your existing knowledge of controls and management of risks associated with APRA reporting and EFS in this role to enhance current processes. You will regularly engage and consult with internal stakeholders including data teams, business units, IT and risk management teams.
• Partnering and building strong relationships with a variety of senior level stakeholders across the Banking Financial Services and the wider Macquarie group including Group teams, Product, Data, Technology and risk management teams
• Embedding processes to transition new change requests/projects to business-as-usual activities
• Identifying and implementing opportunities for automation, process improvement and efficiencies, through Product teams engagement and working with new technologies and platforms
• Initiate and drive continuous improvement in the Reporting processes
• Keeps up-to-date with new and evolving reporting requirements, regulatory standard changes and the banking industry changes as a whole

What skills will you use?

Your technical skills and qualifications will include:

• CA qualified and 5+ years' post-qualification experience in the financial services industry within Banking and Lending space
• Previous experience and knowledge of regulatory reporting is desirable
• Knowledge and a passion for data, reporting and analytics in a control environment
• Strong relationship building, communication and stakeholder management skills will also be paramount to your success in this role.

Finally, you will:

• be curious, always asking, What's new, and How can we do this better
• be generous with your knowledge, time, and feedback
• be bold, seeing challenges as opportunities that can be overcome as a team
• have tertiary qualifications in Accounting or Finance
• have exceptional communication skills
• have the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

About Banking and Financial Services

Banking and Financial Services is Macquarie's retail banking and financial services business, providing a diverse range of personal banking, wealth management, business banking and vehicle finance products and services to retail clients, advisers, brokers and business clients.

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

The diversity of our people is one of our greatest strengths. An inclusive and equitable environment enables us to deliver innovative and sustainable outcomes for our people, clients, shareholders and communities. From day one, you'll be encouraged to be yourself and supported to perform at your best. If our purpose of 'empowering people to innovate and invest for a better future' is as inspiring to you as it is to us, please apply. With the right technology, support and resources, our people can work in a range of flexible ways.

We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion. We encourage candidates to speak with a member of our recruitment team if you require adjustments to our recruitment process to support you, and the type of working arrangements that would help you thrive.

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