Regulatory Reporting Enablement Business Analyst Senior AVP

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking an EMEA Growth Regulatory Reporting Enablement Business Analyst to join the International Controller Change team, reporting to the International Change Lead. The role will operate outside individual delivery scrums and provide flexible analytical and implementation support across the EMEA growth agenda. 

Although positioned within Change, the role will work in support of the International Regulatory Reporting Lead, the EMEA Capital Reporting Lead and the EMEA Financial Reporting Lead. It will also partner closely with Regulatory Reporting BAU teams and delivery scrums within the International Controller Change team, helping to connect regulatory reporting priorities, technical analysis, change delivery, business readiness and operational adoption. 

The role will be deployed flexibly according to business and delivery priorities. Activities may include supporting the interpretation of regulatory policies and reporting requirements, assessing the impact of new products and business growth, translating agreed technical positions into requirements, supporting delivery scrums, performing & presenting UAT results to BAU, assisting BAU teams with regression testing, documentation, training, implementation readiness and post-implementation support. 

The role will provide adaptable capacity to the BAU team to support execution of the International Controller change portfolio, moving between technical analysis, delivery support and BAU enablement as priorities evolve. 

In this role, you will:

• Operate as a flexible Change resource across EMEA growth priorities, adjusting focus between technical analysis, delivery support and BAU enablement according to business need and priorities agreed with the International Change Lead. 

• Support the International Regulatory Reporting Lead with the analysis of regulatory policies, reporting instructions and technical requirements, escalating complex interpretations and conclusions for review and agreement. 

• Work in support of the International Regulatory Reporting Lead, EMEA Capital Reporting Lead and EMEA Financial Reporting Lead to understand reporting priorities, business impacts and operational requirements arising from the EMEA growth agenda. 

• Assess the impact of new products, booking models, legal entity changes and business growth across regulatory reports, data, calculations, systems, controls, processes and operating models. 

• Translate agreed technical positions and business needs into clear requirements, user stories, business rules, data mappings, calculation logic, process flows and acceptance criteria. 

• Support delivery scrums with regulatory analysis, requirements clarification, testing, defect investigation, documentation and implementation activities, without being permanently assigned to an individual scrum. 

• Partner closely with Regulatory Reporting BAU teams to understand operational impacts and provide hands-on support for regression testing, BAU testing, evidence preparation, issue resolution and business acceptance. 

• Coordinate operational readiness activities, including updates to procedures, controls and supporting documentation, stakeholder communications, training, handover and post-implementation support. 

• Maintain clear, traceable and audit-ready documentation covering requirements, decisions, testing, controls, implementation readiness and BAU adoption. 

• Identify opportunities to strengthen regulatory reporting processes and controls, improve data quality, increase automation and ensure growth-related changes are sustainable within BAU operations. 

Required Qualifications:

• Established experience in Finance, Accounting, Business Analyst, regulatory reporting, finance change experience within a controlled delivery environment. 

• Strong knowledge of Capital, Financial, Statistical, Liquidity or Prudential reporting (COREP/ FINREP/ Anacredit), with the ability to understand how products, accounting events, regulatory rules, calculations and controls flow into reporting outputs. 

• Strong product knowledge on core banking and trading book products 

• Experience interpreting regulatory policies, reporting instructions or complex business requirements and converting them into clear analysis and executable change requirements. 

• Experience supporting regulatory or finance change through requirements, design, testing, implementation, operational readiness and post-production support. 

• Strong understanding of regulatory reporting risks, data quality, reconciliations, controls, evidence standards and the needs of BAU reporting teams. 

• Hands-on testing experience, including preparation and execution of test cases, regression testing, defect investigation, evidence collation and support for business acceptance. 

• Ability to document current-state and target-state processes, data flows, rules, calculations, report impacts, ownership hand-offs and controls to an audit-ready standard. 

• Ability to operate effectively across Change, technical subject-matter experts, BAU reporting teams and delivery scrums, adapting priorities and activities as business needs evolve. 

• Experience working across multiple stakeholders, jurisdictions and delivery workstreams while maintaining structure, clarity and traceability. 

• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills, with high attention to detail and the ability to present concise conclusions and escalate technical matters appropriately. 

• Ability to work autonomously within agreed parameters, constructively challenge assumptions, manage competing demands and build trusted relationships across business and technology teams. 

Desired Qualifications:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), or equivalent professional experience in regulatory reporting, finance change or banking delivery. 
• Experience with AxiomSL ControllerView, Jira, Confluence, regulatory reporting data warehouses or comparable regulatory reporting and change-delivery tools. 
• Experience with SQL, Alteryx, Power BI, Power Apps or other digital and data-analysis tooling. 
• Experience supporting new product implementation, platform migration, data remediation, control automation or regulatory reporting transformation programmes. 

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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