Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst - Senior AVP
Wells Fargo · London, United Kingdom · 13d ago
About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Business Analyst to join the International Regulatory Reporting Delivery Scrum Team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to support the delivery of strategic regulatory reporting initiatives across EMEA, APAC, and Canada, partnering with stakeholders across Finance, Regulatory Reporting, Data, Risk, and Technology to deliver solutions that meet evolving regulatory requirements.
In this role, you will leverage your expertise in regulatory reporting, data analysis, and change delivery to translate complex Capital, Liquidity, Financial, Statistical, and Prudential reporting requirements into scalable, sustainable, and well-controlled solutions. You will work across the full change lifecycle, from regulatory interpretation and impact assessment through design, testing, implementation, and business adoption, helping to strengthen regulatory reporting capabilities and improve data quality, governance, and operational efficiency.
The role provides broad exposure to regulatory change, business growth initiatives, platform modernisation, data transformation, automation, and control enhancement programs. You will have the opportunity to work on high-profile initiatives that are critical to the firm's regulatory obligations while collaborating with teams across multiple jurisdictions. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly analytical and collaborative professional looking to make a meaningful impact within a global organization and contribute to the continued evolution of Wells Fargo's regulatory reporting landscape.
In this role, you will:
Analyse regulatory requirements, reporting instructions, and business needs to define clear reporting and system solutions that support regulatory compliance.
Partner with Regulatory Reporting, Technology, Data, Risk, Treasury, Finance, and Front Office stakeholders to gather requirements, assess impacts, and drive delivery of change initiatives.
Translate business requirements into epics, features, user stories, business rules, data mappings, calculation logic, process flows, and acceptance criteria.
Assess the impact of change across products, legal entities, source systems, data lineage, reporting rules, controls, and operating processes.
Support Agile delivery activities including backlog refinement, sprint planning, prioritization, dependency management, and risk identification.
Define data sourcing, reconciliation, validation, control, and data quality requirements to support accurate and sustainable regulatory reporting.
Develop testing strategies and support system, regression, and user acceptance testing to ensure solutions meet functional and regulatory requirements.
Coordinate implementation readiness activities, including stakeholder communications, business procedures, training, operational handover, and post-production support.
Maintain clear and audit-ready documentation to support governance, regulatory expectations, and change management standards.
Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance reporting processes, strengthen controls, reduce manual activities, and improve delivery practices.
Required Qualifications:
Significant Business Analyst experience in regulatory reporting, finance change, banking change or a comparable controlled delivery environment.
Demonstrable hands-on experience with AxiomSL ControllerView, including regulatory reporting modules, rulesets, reporting instructions, data requirements and delivery through the change lifecycle.
Strong knowledge of Capital, Leverage, Liquidity Reporting, with the ability to understand how products, accounting events, regulatory rules, calculations and controls flow into reporting outputs. Deep knowledge of Irish and wider EMEA regulatory reporting (CRR3, IFR, IFPR) and Liquidity reporting.
Experience interpreting complex regulatory guidance and converting it into executable business and technology requirements.
Strong understanding of regulatory reporting risks, data quality, reconciliations, mitigating controls, evidence standards and operational readiness.
Experience with Jira, Confluence, regulatory reporting data warehouses
Proven Agile Scrum delivery experience, including epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog refinement, sprint ceremonies, testing support, defect management and business sign-off.
Ability to document current-state and target-state processes, data flows, rules, calculations, report impacts, ownership handoffs and controls to an audit-ready standard.
Experience working across multiple stakeholders, jurisdictions, time zones and delivery workstreams while maintaining structure, clarity and traceability.
Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills, with high attention to detail and the confidence to present concise conclusions to senior stakeholders.
Ability to work autonomously, make sound decisions, constructively challenge assumptions 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.
Strong knowledge of Financial and Statistical Reporting, with the ability to understand how products, accounting events, regulatory rules, calculations and controls flow into reporting outputs e.g. AnaCredit, CBI statistical reporting, FINREP with broader exposure to APAC or Canadian requirements.
Experience with SQL, Alteryx, Power BI, Power Aps or other digital tooling.
Prior exposure to Product Owner responsibilities, including backlog prioritisation, roadmap support, stakeholder decision-making and business acceptance.
Experience delivering regulatory implementations, platform migrations, data remediation, control automation or regulatory reporting transformation programmes.
Posting End Date:
1 Oct 2026*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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