Regulatory Relations VP Fixed Term Contract End Date: February 2027

Overview

Purpose of the role: To provide strategic advice and guidance on all aspects of regulatory engagement, while managing and coordinating the bank’s interactions with regulators, ensuring open and constructive regulatory relationships.

Responsibilities

• Central co‑ordination point for all regulatory requests, reviews, examinations, responses, and notifications, collaborating with relevant Accountable Executives to ensure timely and high‑quality delivery.
• Advising and briefing internal stakeholders for regulatory engagement, recording all regulatory engagement, and forwarding actions arising to relevant internal stakeholders.
• Provision of insightful and timely MI on regulatory engagement and priorities to internal stakeholders.
• Identification of emerging themes and issues and escalation to the appropriate stakeholders for resolution.
• Role model of Firm ambitions of consistently excellent in all regulatory engagement.
• Information sharing across regions to optimise the global regulatory profile.
• Monitoring and evaluation of regulatory relationships, ensuring timely advice, escalation and execution where remedial action is required.
• Contribute to or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and raise breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes.
• Lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, aligning strategic and tactical priorities, balancing short and long‑term goals, and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviours: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, and Develop others.
• As an individual contributor, act as a subject‑matter expert, guide technical direction, and lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross‑functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment in support of the control and governance agenda, demonstrating comprehensive understanding of organisational functions.
• Collaborate with other areas of work to keep pace with business activity and strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• Adopt and include outcomes of extensive research in problem‑solving processes.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to achieve key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills.
• Report on regulatory engagement, issues, and commitments using client relationship management technology.
• Act as a trusted adviser to business and functions on regulatory and supervisory developments, execute regulator exam management, and coordinate logistics, attendees, presentation content, meeting preparations, and follow‑ups.
• Coordinate and draft internal communications and briefs for regulator meetings, attend meetings, draft meeting notes, and ensure completion of any follow‑up actions.
• Assist in the production of MI and other internal reporting, provide consistent best practices, identify areas for process improvement, and take ownership of assigned tasks from start to finish.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in regulatory relations gained either in a financial institution and/or a European regulatory authority, or exposure to regulatory implementation or interpretation.
• Interest in and awareness of regulation, politics, and finance.
• Qualified to degree level or professionally qualified in a relevant discipline.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills with the ability to multi‑task, respond quickly to requests, and work at a high pace while maintaining accuracy.
• Experience working in a blue‑chip financial services organisation.
• Fluent in English and in the relevant local language for the region of work, ensuring clear and effective communication with stakeholders.

Employment Conditions

• Fixed term contract, due to end in February2027.
• Location: Paris office.
• Minimum salary: €75,000 per annum (full‑time equivalent base salary).
• Incentive award available.
• Eligible for competitive country‑specific benefits.