FNZ (Europe) DAC is a member company of the FNZ Group. The FNZ Group ambition in Ireland and in Europe is to continue our growth by continuing to offer excellent service to our existing clients, by acquiring new clients and by extending the range of services on offer.

FNZ is a global platform provider in the wealth management sector, partnering with over 650 of the world’s leading financial institutions and over 8,000 wealth management firms. With over 5,000 employees in 24 countries, FNZ’s mission is to open-up wealth, empowering all people to create wealth through personal investment, aligned with things they care about the most, on their own terms.

FNZ combines technology, infrastructure and investment operations in a single state-of-the-art platform that frees its institutional customers to create hyper-personalized and innovative products and services, that are seamlessly aligned with the needs of their clients. To date, FNZ has enabled over 20 million people, from all wealth segments, to invest in an effective, simple and transparent way, making wealth management accessible to everyone.

The Role:

The Regulatory Accountant will be part of the EU Finance team and will play a key role in all monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting processes as well as being the lead on ensuring all of the company’s financial regulatory reporting obligations are managed in an accurate and timely manner.

As part of the EU Finance team, the role will have a strong business facing presence, with ongoing interaction required with colleagues in the Group Finance, European Prudential Finance, EU Risk & Compliance and other operational teams.

As well as their key role as regulatory finance lead within the team, the role will also involve significant involvement in the day to day financial operations of the company including a variety of month end responsibilities, participation in the annual statutory audit and involvement in various tax, treasury commercial finance and project related tasks.

Some of the key tasks for which the Regulatory Accountant will be responsible for include:

Monitor key internal capital and liquidity metrics and develop appropriate forecasting metrics to ensure ongoing compliance

Preparation and management of external regulatory reporting to regulators.

Liaise with internal and external advisors to assess Finance impact of new regulations on capital, liquidity and reporting.

Provide support to ad-hoc projects.

Provide advice on regulatory (Capital and Liquidity) impacts on new deals/new products.

Liaise with colleagues in Group Treasury to ensure cash flow forecasting captures all regulatory and internal liquidity requirements.

Finance lead on annual ICAAP process.

Conduct reviews on the key financial risks.

The role will offer a wide range of developmental opportunities for the right candidate across all areas of Finance, within a dynamic local and global network of finance professionals in FNZ.

The Person:

The ideal candidate will have an excellent academic record, the ability to work in a fast-moving-environment and the interpersonal skill required to interact regularly as a point of contact with both internal and external stakeholders. They will also:

Be a qualified accountant with a number of years’ experience working within a technical finance environment

Have excellent numerical and technical ability, with an ability to interrogate large amounts of data to present coherent outputs, using financial systems and MS Excel and PowerPoint.

Have experience working within the finance function of a regulated entity with requirements to prepare and file statutory and regulatory returns.

Have an excellent attention to detail and an ability and willingness to expand their knowledge through research and investigation.

Demonstrate experience in managing deliverables for multiple stakeholders both internally and externally.

Have the ability, confidence and desire to challenge and re-engineer practices and processes as required.

Be highly motivated with an ability to work on own initiative and demonstrate flexibility

Have a proven track record in working to tight timelines in a team environment.

The Competencies:

Drive for results

Problem solving and decision making

Technical proficiency

Planning and organising

Communication and Influencing

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back. 

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution. 

We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).

Together with our customers, we help over 20 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.