Senior Consultant - Risk, Regulatory Reporting

About the Role

The Specialized Consultant role is within APAC’s Professional Services unit, and is to deliver implementation of the organisation’s Finance/IAS/IFRS solutions effectively and efficiently for clients in the APAC Region.

• Facilitate Project Initiation workshops
• Identify data sourcing requirements and data requirements
• Conduct data gap analyses
• Conduct interface mapping
• Create business requirement documents/functional specification documents as required
• In consultation with relevant subject matter experts, provide advice on Banking IAS/IFRS compliance, accounting processes and interpretation
• Conduct functional training
• Identify test requirements from specifications, map test case requirements and design testing plans.
• Support System Integration Testing (issue analysis and resolution)
• Support regression testing and User Acceptance Testing (issue analysis and resolution)
• Ensure effective client engagement and management
• Adhere to the company’s project management and governance framework – specifically, monitor and track project milestones and deliverables; identify and manage issues and action items; create and maintain project status reports for project leads for incorporation into larger project status reports; proactively identify and mitigate potential project risks; and escalate issues where appropriate.

About You

Education

• Bachelor degree (or higher) in Risk management, Finance, Accounting, Banking or Economics
• Or bachelor degree (or higher) in IT, Computer Science or Engineering complemented with a strong experience in the Banking industry or Financial Servicing.

Experience and knowledge

Essential:

• Minimum 8 years’ experience in the Banking or financial services area. Minimum experience of one end-to-end implementation on ALM, FTP, Basel, Market Risk, Credit Risk, Funds transfer pricing etc. as a business consultant
• Relevant experience in IT project implementation in the Banking sector
• Fluency in English, written and oral

Highly regarded:

• Financial or Risk Management professional certification
• Experience with bank risk management & accounting processes, general ledger and bank reporting
• Experience in implementing any market leading solutions on ALM/Credit Risk/ Market Risk/Liquidity Risk/ Basel/ Transfer Pricing/ IFRS9/ Accounting/ General Ledger
• Fluency in other Asian languages (Indonesian, Malay, Thai, Mandarin/Cantonese etc.)
• Hands-on knowledge of SQL, SSIS, SSRS or any other market leading reporting tool

Personal attributes

• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Excellent client management and engagement skills
• Responsible, methodical and organised
• High level of integrity and takes accountability
• Self-learner
• Assertive, being able to make expert decisions based on personal judgement
• Ability to work independently while also being a good team player 
• Ability to work in a cross cultural environment
• Full availability to travel within the Asia Pacific area

About Wolters Kluwer

Wolters Kluwer (AEX: WKL) is a global leader in information services and solutions for professionals in the health, tax and accounting, risk and compliance, finance and legal sectors.Wolters Kluwer reported 2021 annual revenues of €4.8 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs approximately 19,800 people worldwide.

Governance, Risk & Compliance is a division of Wolters Kluwer, which provides legal and banking professionals with solutions to help ensure compliance with ever-changing regulatory and legal obligations, manage risk, increase efficiency, and produce better business outcomes. Wolters Kluwer’s Financial Service business, which is part of the company’s Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) division, is a global market leader in the provision of integrated regulatory compliance and reporting solutions. These solutions support regulated financial institutions in meeting their obligations to external regulators and their own boards of directors.

Dozens of awards on the market

• Regulatory Reporting – Banking by Chartis RiskTech100®
• Liquidity Risk by Chartis RiskTech100®
• Best Solution for Regulatory Reporting Award, 2021 by Regulation Asia
• 2021 Risk Technology Executive of the Year by CEO Monthly magazine
• Best Vendor Solution for MAS 610, APAC, 2021 by RegTech Insight
• Best Regulatory Reporting Solution, APAC, 2021 by TegTech Insights
• Regulatory Reporting Provider of the Year – Singapore, 2021 by APAC Insider
• Best Risk Firm of the Year, APAC, 2021 by APAC insider
• Best Regulatory Reporting Technology Firm of the Year, APAC, 2021 by APAC Insider

For more information about our solutions and organization, visit WoltersKluwer.com, or for our financial services solutions, visit WoltersKluwerFS.com.