Regulatory Change Management

Mizuho•New York, NY

8d•$104,000 - $150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Regulatory Affairs Group is seeking an Assistant Vice President of Regulatory Change Management. This role is crucial in ensuring that the company remains compliant with evolving regulations and standards. The individual will lead the horizon scanning process to identify upcoming regulatory changes, analyze requirements to determine downstream implications, and communicate assessments to impacted stakeholders.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in law, Business, or a related field.
5-7 years of experience in regulatory compliance, legal and regulatory framework and rulemaking process applicable to US Financial Institutions with a focus on rule implementation and horizon scanning.
Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks and industry standards.
Strong knowledge of large financial institutions, businesses, products, and functions including banking and underwriting businesses, securities markets, legal, compliance, risk management, operations, treasury, among others.
Ability to analyze, interpret, and communicate regulatory notices and changes from relevant regulators, including U.S, federal prudential and securities regulators.
Experience in developing or maintaining a repository library for regulatory updates.
Strong familiarity with the regulatory oversight process as it related to FRB, CFTC, FINRA, NFA, SEC, and other U.S. regulators.
Established track record of developing and maintaining relationships with stakeholders throughout an organization, with the ability to establish and lead working groups and committees.
Experience in review of regulations related to Bank Holding Company (BHC)/Intermediate Holding Company (IHC) including bank regulatory capital requirements under FRB guidelines and Basel Accords, enhanced prudential standards under Dodd-Frank and Volcker Rule requirements.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Strong communication skills.
Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including high level attention to detail.
Strong project management, and critical thinking skills.
Excellent organization skills to accommodate difficult deadlines across multiple regulators and businesses.
High proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
Ability to work with Share Points and GRC tools, including proposing and executing enhancements and assessing the impact to end-users, reporting, etc.

Responsibilities

Monitor regulatory bodies, industry trends, and legislative developments and lead the horizon scanning process to identify, analyze and interpret upcoming regulatory changes that may impact the organization.
Identifies and assesses changes in regulatory requirements and communicates implications of regulatory changes and responses.
For each forthcoming regulation, conducts a line-by-line analysis, identifying requirements for each business/function, and a comprehensive identification of downstream implications (e.g., changes in taxonomies, frameworks, policies and procedures, training), and review and challenge key outputs and evidence.
Responsible for oversight of impact assessments, advisory, analysis and thought leadership to all business lines, legal entities, and other stakeholders of Mizuho U.S. Operations.
Active involvement in industry association activity (i.e. IIB, SIFMA) to identify supervisory trends and coordinate the firm’s position on regulatory matters.
Maintains and updates regulations library.
Tracks implementation progress.