Middle Office Regulatory Reporting Specialist, RS&AM COO

Job Type: Permanent

Location: This role could be based in either our Edinburgh, Birmingham or Telford offices with time spent working in the office and  will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.

Salary & Benefits: circa £65,000 FTE (subject to experience) + pro-rated bonus, excellent pension scheme, private medical insurance, 38 days holiday, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more!

We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as a
Regulatory Reporting Specialist to join our Middle Office team within the Retirement Solutions and Asset Management (RS&AM) function.

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re Phoenix Group, we’re a long‑term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market‑leading brands, Standard Life, Sun Life, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

Middle Office is a key support function for the Retirement Solutions & Asset Management (RS&AM) Front Office. It has wide ranging accountability ensuring operational control of investment activities, supporting the Group and RS&AM governance framework, and delivery of investment reporting.

The role will focus on ensuring that RS&AM are meeting their regulatory responsibility to reporting derivatives and securities financing trades under the EMIR and SFTR guidelines. The role will focus on ensuring trades directly or externally placed will have oversight on a day‑to‑day basis, providing key operational input and guidance. A key focus will be on ensuring delegated reporting is accurate and timely submissions are made completing the relevant reconciliations/accuracy and pairing and matching reviews to confirm this.

The role will require continued build out and development of processes, as well as requiring technical understanding of relevant asset types and fields.

This role will be a core operational SME role regarding EMIR and SFTR reporting, and it will be expected that they help develop the wider regulatory reporting middle office to a proficient level in understanding. They will provide active participation on process improvement and operating model enhancements to achieve industry leading systems and controls across asset and fund classes. In the same SME capacity, participate in functional integration of legacy Phoenix risk carriers across procedures and platforms.

Additionally, the role holder may be asked to help support other areas across the derivatives middle office in confirmation and post trade activities.

• Regulatory Reporting Oversight – Focus on EMIR and SFTR ensuring all in scope trades, valuations and collateral are reported in a timely and accurate manner.
• Perform any necessary reconciliations and escape issues and breaches to resolution with internal Phoenix parties as well as 3rd parties.
• Provide guidance and analysis on technical aspects of reporting requirements (as defined in Validation and asset specific guidance).
• Analysis of technical fields to be able to extract and identify reporting errors in Trade Repository reports.
• Production of MI – Design and implement clear and concise MI to give the business confidence in demonstrating Phoenix are regulatory compliant.
• Key contact for DTCC and vendors related to regulatory reporting.
• Oversight of our external fund manager regulatory reporting processes.
• Regulatory Reporting Oversight – Ensuring that reg reporting operational activities are completed and resolving any outstanding issues.
• Regulatory Reporting Asset Data – Ensuring that trades are correctly captured in internal systems.
• Live Cycle management – Performing middle office control on regulatory reportable asset trading.
• Onboarding new systems – Working with our third‑party providers to onboard new system capability and set up…