Regulatory Accountant

We are looking for a Regulatory Accountant to join our London Wealth Management Prudential Regulation team who are responsible for the prudential regulatory compliance of a UK bank and several investment firms within the Schroders Wealth Management division.

The team is responsible for maintaining a robust prudential reporting framework which incorporates COREP, FINREP. PRA, Bank of England statistical and MIFIDPRU returns. The team produce the ICAAP, ILAAP and Recovery Plans for the UK bank and support these processes for three non-UK banks. They prepare four ICARA documents for the Wealth UK regulated investment firms and provide a range of management information to many business areas and committees., You'll be based at the Schroders Campus near Horsham in West Sussex. That's home to our Service Centre accounting team who provide financial and management information services for our Schroders Wealth Management entities worldwide. Further operational teams, product reporting and operational oversight for Europe, the Middle East and Africa are based here. The role will entail visiting the Schroders Head Office building in 1 London Wall Place.

What you'll do

The successful candidate will be expected to contribute in the delivery of the team's responsibilities. The precise responsibilities will be dependent on experience but will include:

• Being the first reviewer for a broad range of prudential regulatory returns.


• Maintaining business forecasting and stress testing analysis.


• Perform the review of a Daily Regulatory Dashboard which assesses capital and liquidity of the UK bank.


• Supporting ad-hoc tasks and management information requests.
  
  Qualified or part-qualified accountant or equivalent.


• Experience of working in financial services, preferably wealth management, asset management or banking is required.


• Experience in prudential regulatory reporting preferred with a desire to expand knowledge in this area.


• Able to scrutinise data, build reports and run forecasts or models.


• Comfortable in analysing accounting ledgers and understanding account postings.


• Able to operate within a structured deadline-based environment.


• Skilled and experienced MS Office user (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook).


• Experience in using ledger accounting or core banking system software beneficial.


What you'll be like


• Enthusiasm that manifests itself in hard work and attention to detail.


• Pro-active with an inquisitive mindset and able to work independently.


• Team player, able and willing to use knowledge and abilities to support the team.


• Strong analytical skills.


• Organised, diligent and methodical.


• Interested in innovation and process enhancement - able to identify areas to improve efficiency.
  
  Cazenove Capital Management is a leading wealth manager offering portfolio management, wealth planning and specialist banking services, including liquidity management and lending services, to high-net-worth individuals, family offices, intermediaries and charities.


Cazenove Capital Management is part of the Wealth Management business of Schroders plc, which is a FTSE 100 company with £750.6bn
• under management. We manage assets on behalf of institutional and retail investors, financial institutions and high net worth clients from around the world, invested in a broad range of active strategies across equities, fixed income, multi-asset, alternatives and real estate. We employ over 6,102 talented people worldwide operating in 38 different locations across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, close to the markets in which we invest and close to our clients. Schroders has developed under stable ownership for over 200 years and long-term thinking governs our approach to investing, building client relationships and growing our business.