Business Unit: Finance
Salary range: £60,000 - £75,000 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
Location:  UK Remote
Contract type: Permanent

Get out of your comfort zone. Live a life more Virgin.

Our Team

A fantastic opportunity exists right now within the External Reporting team in Finance, specifically in our Credit Risk Weighted Assets (RWA) Reporting team.

Capital & RWAs is one of the Group’s most important resources, and the regulatory reporting regime is complex and constantly evolving.  We are looking for an ambitious finance professional to work within a specialised team in ensuring the Group continues to comply with its regulatory reporting obligations, delivering on time, high quality, and robustly controlled reporting and disclosures to the regulator and external market.  If you think you have what it takes? Please read on.... 

What you’ll be doing

• Working closely with the RWA Reporting Senior Manager in the delivery of a comprehensive, high-quality regulatory Credit RWA returns and disclosures.
• Ensuring our Risk Weighted Assets calculations are accurate.
• Oversight of monthly controls and governance across the RWA reporting landscape.
• Working with large and complex datasets to provide insight and support to stakeholders on RWA movements.
• Creating new internal MI to enhance reporting capabilities and responding to stakeholder requests.
• Ensuring that ongoing refinements to the regulatory rules are accurately reflected in the returns through ongoing management of the Group’s regulatory capital change agenda.
• Keeping up to date with national and international regulatory developments, to understand how these are impacting the reporting and calculations.
• Communicating and liaising with the regulator, including acting as a key contact point of contact for regulator queries.

We need you to have

• A degree in, numerical or coding-based discipline, or equivalent technical experience.
• Advanced technical knowledge of SQL and or SAS, or other coding language.
• Brilliant knowledge in regulatory reporting, in particular Credit RWA reporting.
• Experience in the production of regulatory returns.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Expertise in explaining complex and technical regulatory reporting matters in straightforward terms to the wider stakeholder community.
• Proven strong ability to build and maintain relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Previous experience in managing regulatory change.

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

• Experience of data tools such as Power BI.
• Coaching / mentoring experience.
• Understanding of IRB modelling.

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)​ plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​. 
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt. 
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness. 

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank.  As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we’re a workforce to be reckoned with, and we're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer-obsessed and work tirelessly to deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ This means we're able to do banking differently, and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference by creating memorable moments and red-hot experiences for our millions of customers. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work. 

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities.  We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.   

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion.  If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com 

It’s important to note that there may be occasions where it’s not possible to interview all candidates declaring a disability who meet the essential criteria for the job. In certain recruitment situations such as receiving a high-volume of applications, we may need to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled and non-disabled applicants. 

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.