AVP, Regulatory Reporting – Project Specialist

Experience

Reporting change and implementation

• Support regulatory reporting system implementation, enhancement, automation, migration, or transformation initiatives in a banking environment.
• Interpret regulatory instructions and help convert them into business requirements, functional specifications, data mappings, validation checks, controls, and test cases.
• Support requirements gathering, workshop documentation, UAT preparation and execution, defect logging and retesting, sign-off, production verification, and post-implementation support.
• Analyze reconciliations, variances, parallel-run comparisons, root causes, issues, and potential solutions across banking data sets.

Qualifications and regulatory knowledge

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Banking, Economics, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related discipline.
• Professional qualifications or certifications in accounting, risk, regulatory reporting, business analysis, project delivery, or data management are an added advantage.
• Good working knowledge of UAE banking regulatory reporting, including CBUAE Banking Return Forms, explanatory guidelines, validation expectations, and implementation considerations.
• Understand banking products, financial statements, chart of accounts, product systems, customer and counterparty data, and their connection to local regulatory reporting outputs.

Controls, tools, and collaboration

• Working knowledge of data quality, reconciliations, controls, audit evidence, change governance, and production readiness for regulatory reporting.
• Use Excel, reporting tools, data extracts, dashboards, workflow outputs, and system-generated reports to validate results.
• Prepare and maintain requirements notes, mapping documents, UAT evidence, issue logs, decision records, control evidence, and management updates.
• Coordinate with technology teams, system vendors, data owners, reporting users, and change teams; follow up on issues, dependencies, and actions.
• Show attention to detail, ownership, timeline management, and sound judgment in escalating material issues, interpretation matters, readiness gaps, and reporting risks.