Data Research Officer, Trustee & Depositary Services

Job description

The Business

This stimulating role offers the opportunity to develop your career in the UK's leading provider of trustee and depositary services. Join us as a Data Research Officer, and you'll have the opportunity to interact directly with clients while playing an important part in our ongoing regulatory compliance.

Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) is our wholesale banking business, serving large corporate clients, financial institutions, governments and their agencies. We meet clients' needs by helping them raise, protect, and move money – activities which support all the economies where we operate, particularly in the UK.

Trustee & Depositary Services (TDS) is the market-leading independent trustee and depositary to the UK collective investment scheme (CIS) industry. We have provided trustee or depositary services for nearly 80 years, and serve approximately 42% of the UK CIS market.

What you'll do

The Risk & Compliance team in TDS provides a full, high quality compliance monitoring service to all clients, overseeing scheme assets to make sure that they comply with all the relevant regulations and restrictions. We also have a client facing dimension, promptly responding to queries and providing regulatory guidance.

As a Data Research Officer you'll play an important part in the team's success, researching the suitability of potential eligible assets in accordance with FCA COLL rules, and provide full regulatory reports to clients. You'll also undertake extensive research of underlying security holdings, collating information from varying data sources, and will carry out periodic reviews of static data in relation to investment scheme information and securities data.

Your success will hinge on a detailed understanding of the relevant FCA regulations, so you'll need to keep fully updated on any regulatory changes, and to understand their impact on our alert systems and subsequent investigations.

You'll succeed in this role by:

· Making sure that our automated Compliance Alert and MIG systems are accurately updated and maintained
· Ensuring scheme holdings are eligible in accordance with FCA COLL rules
· Posting derivative trade and FX deals, and downloading prices on a daily basis
· Responding promptly to client queries and providing regulatory guidance where appropriate

What you'll bring

You'll need a sound working knowledge of securities and markets, and an understanding of the FCA regulatory framework as it relates to collective investment schemes. You'll also need experience of using the the MIG21 compliance system, and the ability to interpret and write compliance rules within MIG21 is desirable, and may prove an advantage.

We'll expect strong attention to detail and technical proficiency with MS Office applications, particularly PowerPoint and Excel. Operating efficiently is important to our team, so you should be able to demonstrate how you've spotted and acted on opportunities to make improvements.

Your interpersonal skills will also be important, as you'll need to collaborate fully with your colleagues, be able to clearly and effectively articulate risks and ideas, and manage interactions with clients.

How we'll reward you

In return, we offer a competitive salary plus 15% cash and benefit funding programme that can be tailored to suit your individual needs. In addition, we provide a wide selection of exclusive lifestyle offers, development and learning programmes, services and support designed to help you manage and balance your work/life priorities. For more information on our benefits, please visit our website .

At RBS, we want everyone to feel welcome. That's why we want you to know that we'll work with you to make the application process as smooth as possible. So please just let us know if you need any adjustments or support – we'll do whatever we can to help.

If we offer you a job, we'll discuss with you how we can help set you up for success, including by making adjustments to your working environment if required.

If you're a new joiner to the bank, please note that we carry out a credit check as part of our referencing process.

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At RBS, we are focused on becoming the UK's number one bank for trust, customer service and advocacy by 2020. We are simplifying our business, concentrating on the areas where we can lead the market, and placing our customers at the heart of everything we do.

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