Finance Regulatory Reporting Associate

Job Level: Associate

Job Function: Reporting & Analytics

Location:

Jersey City, NJ, US, 07311

Employment Type: Full Time

Requisition ID: 4155

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network. The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $83,000.00 and $125,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.

Role Description

Responsible to assist in the implementation of an effective financial reconciliation report across multiple reporting entities. The role will interact with various business areas, Identifying the variances for each asset class, documenting the root cause analysis, and performing corrective adjustments to ensure the data is fit for purpose for regulatory reporting. The role will also support the Regulatory Control Governance team by leading and supporting corrective action planning and developing strategies as exceptions are analyzed.

Role Objectives: Delivery

Monitor, identify variances for reportable asset classes to management or other relevant stakeholders on a periodic / daily basis.
Strong Analytical skills to perform root cause analysis and document the rational for the identified variance.
Perform tactical adjustments to remediate the data gap and ensure the data is fit for consumption by the regulatory reporting team.
Diligently work with Ad tech team and upstream data owners to ensure the identified gaps are tracked and remediated before the next reporting cycle.

Qualifications and Skills

Min 3-5 years knowledge and experience in regulatory reporting and/or financial industry control environment through monitoring exception management, issue tracking, or incident maintenance.
Work in an initiative-taking, collaborative, simplistic manner, building relationships through solid, timely communication and useful information.
Financial product knowledge and/or understanding of middle office and trade life-cycle process and reporting is a plus.
Must have strong documentation skills like working on Business requirement documents, PPM’s, preparing user manuals.
Good stakeholder management skills, ability to prioritize multiple competing priorities.
Strong organizational skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Experience working with reg reporting tool Like Axiom.
Experience working with Analytical data / reporting tool such as Business object, OBIEE, Alteryx, SPECTAR.
Knowledge in SQL and experience in querying data base is a plus.

Additional Requirements

SMBC’s employees participate in a Hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home, as well as, from an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location. Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process. Hybrid work may not be permitted for certain roles, including, for example, certain FINRA-registered roles for which in-office attendance for the entire workweek is required.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. SMBC provides reasonable accommodations for employees and applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please let us know at accommodations@smbcgroup.com.