Prudential Senior Manager - London

Hello, we’re Starling. We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way. We’re a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We’re a bank, but better: fairer, easier to use and designed to demystify money for everyone. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester offices.

We’re looking for an experienced and driven Prudential Senior Manager to join our dedicated Prudential Team within Finance. This critical role is central to ensuring our compliance with prudential regulations, specifically focusing on the design, implementation, and maintenance of our Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP), Recovery Plan, and Resolvability Assessment Framework (RAF) capabilities. Reporting directly to the Head of Prudential, you'll be an integral part of a friendly, motivated, and hardworking team.

Responsibilities

In this high-impact role, you will leverage and expand your experience and professional skills across the following areas:

• Lead and support the end-to-end execution of the bank’s ICAAP, Recovery Planning, and Resolvability activities, ensuring adherence to regulatory expectations and best practice.
• Drive the design and analysis of stress scenarios in close collaboration with the Strategy and FP&A teams, including the calibration of appropriately severe economic scenarios to assess the resilience of our business model.
• Play a leading role in testing and demonstrating our Recovery and Resolution capabilities, encompassing Playbook development, design and coordination of testing activities, and fire drills.
• Effective project management of key regulatory processes, including developing detailed project plans and timetables, leading working group discussions, and ensuring timely, high-quality delivery.
• Represent the bank at prudential industry forums and working groups, actively contributing to discussions on regulatory change and proactively preparing the bank for upcoming changes to the prudential framework.
• Build and maintain strong collaborative relationships across Finance, Treasury, Risk, and wider business stakeholders, ensuring efficient communication, understanding, and implementation of prudential requirements.
• Provide critical support to other business areas, including Strategy, to evaluate the prudential impact of strategic decisions and to inform robust capital management.
• Prepare high-quality management decks and present at various Executive and Board Committees, including ALCO, ERC, and BRC.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience in prudential regulation, ideally gained within a UK regulator and/or leading consulting firms.
• Deep technical understanding of capital and RRP (Recovery and Resolution Planning) regulations for UK financial institutions.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, including proven experience with stress testing methodologies and Pillar 2 capital analysis.
• Proven project management and organisational skills, with a track record of successfully delivering complex regulatory projects.
• Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to present complex concepts with gravitas and clarity to diverse audiences.
• A proactive and autonomous mindset, comfortable working within a dynamic, flat team structure and a fast-paced fintech environment.
• A relevant professional qualification such as ACA or CFA is preferred.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
• An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
• Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
• 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
• Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
• Life insurance at 4x your salary
• Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
• Generous family-friendly policies
• Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
• Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work and Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships

About Us

You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren’t sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway.

We’re on a mission to radically reshape banking – and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we’re proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems.

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