Regulatory Reporting Specialist (12 Months)

Date: 1 Sept 2026

Company: DWR Cymru Cyfyngedig Welsh Water Plc

City: Cardiff

Address:

Cardiff, Wales, GB, CF3 0LT

Job Requisition Number	9110
Work Type	Temporary (12 Months Contract)
Job Function	Finance
Salary Range	£52,793.00 - £58,000.00 per annum
Base Closing Date	South East Hub (Cardiff / Newport) Hybrid 23:59 on 09 September 2026

Be at the heart of delivering and reporting on some of Welsh Water’s largest investment programmes. With around £2.5 billion of investment being delivered across our water and wastewater assets, this role offers a unique opportunity to gain insight into how major schemes are planned, delivered and assured. You'll work with colleagues across Asset Management, Operations, Finance and Capital Delivery, building valuable relationships and developing a broad understanding of the business. It's a fantastic opportunity to expand your experience, enhance your professional network and play a key role in demonstrating our performance and delivery to customers and regulators.

Overview of role

The Regulatory Reporting Specialist is responsible for ensuring the accurate, timely and compliant reporting of regulatory data submissions. The role acts as a subject matter expert for Performance Commitments, Outcome Delivery Incentives, Price Control Deliverables and Environmental Performance Reporting. The role provides guidance, assurance and technical support across the business. The post holder plays a critical role in annual and quarterly reporting cycles, regulatory submissions, and ongoing assurance activities.

What You'll Do

Key responsibilities of the role:

1. Manage all aspects of regulatory reporting, including submissions, methodology statements, risk matrices, and benchmarking.
2. Maintain expert knowledge of Performance Commitments, Outcome Delivery Incentives, Price Control Deliverables, Environmental Performance Assessment Measures, and Annual Performance Report Requirements
3. Produce detailed due diligence reports, identifying risks, weaknesses, and recommendations, and monitor implementation of improvement actions.
4. Provide coaching, challenge and support to data owners to strengthen regulatory reports, audit trails and governance across all regulatory data sets.
5. Coach and mentor data owners to maintain accurate methodology statements.
6. Provide regulatory reporting support to the business, giving advice on interpretation of requirements and regulatory expectations as required.
7. Lead due diligence reviews of key non-financial data.
8. Maintain strong relationships with external Assurance/Audit teams.

About You

The following are essential requirements for the recruitment of the role:

Experience

Experience working with regulatory reporting requirements, performance reporting or audit processes in a regulated environment.
Proven experience collating, validating and presenting complex datasets to internal and external stakeholders.
Experience producing or quality‑assuring formal reports, statements or submissions for regulatory bodies.
Experience guiding, coaching or supporting data owners to strengthen data quality and reporting processes.

Knowledge & Skills

Strong understanding of regulatory reporting requirements (e.g., Annual Performance Report, Performance Commitments, ODIs, Environmental Performance, Price Control obligations).
Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interrogate, interpret and reconcile complex data from multiple systems.
Strong written communication skills, able to produce clear methodology statements, assurance documentation and performance reports.
High level of attention to detail with strong data quality, audit, and assurance awareness.
Ability to build effective relationships across all levels of the organisation and with external assurance providers.
Strong planning and organisational skills, able to work to strict deadlines during peak reporting periods.
Ability to influence and coach colleagues on reporting standards, data ownership and good practice.

Good to know

If you would like further information on this role, please contact Samuel.Van-Arnold@dwrcymru.com

Please note, we may close this role sooner if required. We may also extend the original closing date depending on interest.

Due to the nature of the industry, we require satisfactory references, post offer medical clearance, and a criminal records Basic Disclosure check on all new employees joining the business. For some roles there may be additional checks and security clearance required, and this offer is subject all checks being satisfied. You will receive further information on how to complete these checks via email once you have accepted this offer.

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 34 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:

Variable pay schemes (your salary will always stay the same, but depending on the performance of the company you could receive a yearly bonus)
Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
Enhanced family friendly policies
Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
Reduction on gym memberships and high street shopping
Cycle to work scheme
Car-leasing scheme
Health CashBack scheme
An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family

Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment.

Who we are

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.

To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision. This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them. The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.

We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work.

To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve.

In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.

Dŵr Cymru Cyf, a limited company registered in Wales No. 2366777. Registered office: Linea, Fortran Road, St. Mellons, Cardiff CF3 0LT