Financial Reporting and Control Line Change Manager (Investment Banking) recruitment

Our client, a top tier investment bank, is looking for three strong candidates to join their change space within three newly created vacancies. They are very strong roles providing some excellent exposure across the function (as the below will illustrate). They have mixed levels of management responsibility (between 1-4 people) and are exposed to various global, regional and local projects.

Firstly, to explain the operational set up, they have:

1) Line Control (the BAU guys)

2) The Change Team (where this role sits)

3) IT Projects Team (more IT technically focussed guys)

This role sits in that middle function (2). They have two key deliverables - firstly to liaise with line control and develop requirements, business needs, user needs etc and also to locate potential efficiencies, seek out process gaps and so on. They then look to translate those to IT. Their second deliverable is then to take the changes and solutions presented by IT and to roll out these changes with the line controllers.

This role is essentially the 'intermediary' project type role - more of a business analyst. With this in mind they look for two key things, and people with an almost even split of the two:

1) Strong line control exposure - so someone who is audit trained and qualified (CPA, ACA, CA, CPA, CIMA etc) or from a BAU banking role, ideally in financial reporting or financial control but might also consider product control and regulatory reporting too. Basically, they need someone who has spent approx 50% of their time working as a line controller and someone who fully understand the function and the job.

2) Business analysis/projects exposure within the financial control or financial reporting space. The larger the project the better (i.e. global as opposed to local), and this does not really include minor or small extent change.

Our client DOES NOT want candidates who are 90% change agents OR IT orientated project managers. Similarly they DO NOT want candidates who have done 90% line roles and some minor changes. They want as much of an even mix as possible so they can work well with both line controllers and IT.