Regulatory & Financial Reporting Manager

Join us as a Regulatory and Financial Reporting Manager in our Private Bank and Wealth Management team in Geneva.

The purpose of the Regulatory and Financial Reporting role within the Geneva platform’s Financial Control function is to ensure that all Finance owned Swiss Capital and statistical returns are accurately completed and submitted to the Swiss regulator and Swiss national bank (FINMA and SNB) within strict deadlines.

In addition, the role holder is responsible for the preparation of the annual report for Barclays Bank (Suisse) SA and is the primary contact during the audit period liaising extensively with the external auditors. Additionally the role holder will support Group Financial reporting under IFRS.

The role holder will have four primary areas of accountability:

• Regulatory and Statistical reporting
  • The role holder is responsible for all Capital and statistical reporting, reporting directly to the Financial Controller.
  • The role holder must understand the Swiss regulatory reporting environment, promptly interpreting and implementing changes as they arise, in the context of a changing environment as well as evaluating the impact of any new products or processes on the Banks Capital reporting. This will require coordinating with the relevant functions / parties to implement changes to: the core banking system, the dedicated Legal reporting software and tools, as well as the control framework around them, including documentation of requirements, analysis and advice to Technology development staff and user testing of changes.
  • The role holder is expected to liaise directly with the SNB to resolve queries that may periodically arise.
• Preparation of the annual financial statements
  • The role holder is fully responsible of the preparation of the annual financial statements for Barclays Bank (Suisse) SA in compliance with the relevant Swiss Ordinance and Circular. The production consists of producing the balance sheet, profit and loss, disclosures and commentaries.
  • The role holder will be a primary contact for the external auditors and will have an essential role in the coordination between auditors, finance team and other business areas engaged in producing the annual report and supporting the audit.
  • The role holder will manage auditor queries, liaise with marketing for the production of the Annual Report and liaise with senior management for approvals.
• Capital Management
  • The role holder will prepare the monthly Capital forecast together with commentaries explaining actual numbers and variance to forecast.
  • The forecast and commentaries form part of the monthly Treasury committee pack and the role holder will present them to the committee addressing any queries raised.
  • The role holder will complete and present a variety of additional analysis addressing current Capital related topics at the request of the Treasury committee.
  • The role holder will also act as secretary for the Treasury committee, co-ordinating meetings, preparing and circulating minutes, ensuring the meeting is properly constituted etc.
  • The role holder will prepare the annual Capital stress testing and Capital Plan, in collaboration with other Finance colleagues and business areas, for inclusion in the Bank’s annual capital plan for submission to the Board of Directors.
• Swiss Finance projects
  • The role holder will work closely working with IT managers and developers in order to find the best solutions for Financial and Regulatory Reporting projects and will assist with other finance team projects.

• The successful candidate will ideally have at least 5 years’ experience in a Swiss banking environment in a Finance/Regulatory reporting role
• In depth knowledge of standard banking products and Swiss accounting rules
• Fluency in English and French

• Previous experience using Avaloq and FIRE
• The successful candidate will have a university qualification in Finance / Accounting
• Proven experience managing clients

This role is based in Geneva.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and…