Senior Specialist, Office of Regulatory Relations

Team Description:
Risk and Compliance oversees risk services across all BNY Mellon businesses. Risk management ensures new business risks are reviewed and approved, while Compliance maintains processes compliant with applicable laws, regulations, policies and ethics.

The Office of Regulatory Relations is responsible for developing and coordinating the company-wide strategy and approach to major regulatory supervisory matters. The function centrally manages BNY Mellon’s relationships and interactions with supervisory regulators, partnering with all business and functions across the company.

Primary Responsibilities
In this newly created role, supports the company’s regulatory strategy by driving continuous improvement of regulatory remediation responses and outcomes. Coordinates the end-to-end oversight process for remediation efforts from plan development through closure of the regulatory finding, ensuring the adoption of best practices/standards and the appropriate use of governance. Serves as lead for coordinating, tracking, and reporting on EU remediation activities. Provides guidance and insight on complex issues. Determines where measurement gaps exist and devises new metrics or reports to fill those gaps. Navigates the entire firm in order to effectively complete tasks. Develops consultative partnerships with internal teams and leaders to understand their remediation progress and outcomes. Models and champions firm’s values such as diversity, teamwork, client focus, integrity, and excellence.

This role will support regulatory remediation activities in Europe, including:

• Managing internal end-to-end process for centralized, independent oversight of regulatory remediation
• Driving the development of effective remediation plans, providing consultation and guidance on best practices to business/functional leaders
• Implementing enhanced framework across the company in response to new regulatory findings
• Tracking progress of remediation efforts at all phases and escalating issues
• Analyzing regulatory findings to identify and anticipate trends
• Producing regular and ad hoc reports for senior leadership

• Experience in the securities or financial services industry is preferred
• Previous experience with regulatory remediation and/or enterprise-wide framework implementation preferred
• Strategic and analytical mindset, executive presence, and grace under pressure
• Proven ability to manage multiple deliverables simultaneously and within tight deadlines.

• Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent combination of work experience required

• 10-12 years of total work experience

BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Individuals With Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

Our ambition is to build the best global team – one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve – and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums.