Job Responsibilities

The Financial Reporting Analyst will conduct on-going quality assurance reviews of regulatory reporting as part of the Quality Assurance Team. The incumbent will:
- Review the end to end processes used to report U.S. Regulatory Reporting disclosures (FR Y-9C, Call Report, FR Y-14, etc.) to assess the integrity and soundness
- Partner closely with Corporate & Regulatory Reporting, Regional Finance, and Product Control, and will collaborate with FRO Process Leads in Tampa, Costa Rica, Manila and Mumbai.
- Be expected to participate on simultaneous reviews, identify issues and exceptions, develop remediation plans and communicate effectively to senior stakeholders.

The reviews will include:
- Data tracing: reconciling externally reported balances to source documents
- Data profiling: analyzing referential/indicative data elements for data standard anomalies
- Compliance validation: comparing regulatory instructions with internal processes and procedures to ensure compliance.
- Production Reviews: timely validation of reporting including variance analysis

Job Responsibilities:
- Liaise with Operations and Product Control to obtain source system data necessary for the review and analyze data for inconsistencies
- Interface with product and country controllers to obtain customer source data, review contracts and determine if critical data elements were accurately reported; making note of any exceptions.
- Communicate to relevant business contact exceptions and follow through to ensure remediation actions are performed.
- Produce and update and KPIs, metrics, and other presentations
- Provide input on training programs
- Participate in Internal Audit (IA) reviews.
- Facilitate ad hoc and special requests

Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
- Audit experience preferred
- 5+ years of Finance, Accounting or Product Control experience, preferably at large financial institution
- Working knowledge of banking products and services, especially loans, deposits, investment securities and derivatives
- Understanding of current accounting principles, policies and financial institution regulatory reporting, particularly FRY-9C, Call Report, FR Y-14
- Solid analytical skills, combined with an ability to deliver analyses in a concise and logical manner
- Experience in working in operations unit requiring coordination across multiple regions and business segments preferred
- Must have strong communication skills (oral and written) to liaise with multiple groups and clearly articulate findings
- Must be assertive and have strong follow up skills
- Strong Microsoft Office, General Ledger Platforms, Product Processors, and Data Warehouses experience
- Must be a proactive and goal-oriented strategic thinker, with ability to identify creative solutions.
- Ability to multi-task under strict deadlines demonstrating independent leadership skills.
- Possess strong team building, planning and project management skills driven by process improvement.
- Strong understanding and appreciation of internal control environment, reporting, and metrics is required