Key Responsibilities
- Run and monitor daily BAU reporting for an assigned obligation under SFTR, EMIR or MiFID II/MiFIR.
- Investigate and resolve exceptions, rejections, breaks, and pairing and matching issues with trade repositories and ARMs.
- Track aged exceptions and escalate items that fall outside agreed tolerances.
- Produce daily, weekly and monthly MI on reporting completeness, accuracy and timeliness.
- Perform reconciliations between internal systems, vendors and trade repositories, and investigate the differences.
- Carry out root-cause analysis on recurring issues and work with Operations and Technology to fix them.
- Raise, document and track Jira tickets through to resolution.
- Support regulatory change by helping with requirements, writing test cases, running UAT and checking results after go-live.
- Maintain procedures, reportability logic notes and field-mapping documentation.
- Help prepare responses to queries from Compliance, counterparties, trade repositories and service providers.
- Keep up to date with regulatory updates and flag potential impacts to senior team members.
- Suggest process and control improvements based on BAU trends.
Hands-on experience with at least one European reporting regime: SFTR, EMIR (including EMIR Refit) or MiFID II/MiFIR transaction reporting.
Experience in a regulatory reporting or regulatory operations team at a hedge fund, investment bank, asset manager, broker or similar capital markets firm.
A good working knowledge of reportability rules, key reporting fields, lifecycle events, reconciliations and exception management.
An understanding of the relevant financial products and trade lifecycles.
Experience working with trade repositories or ARMs such as DTCC, Unavista, REGIS-TR or TRAX.
Familiarity with key identifiers and standards such as UTI, UPI, LEI and ISIN. Awareness of ISO 20022 XML is a plus.
Strong Excel skills. SQL experience is highly desirable.
Exposure to Jira, testing or UAT on regulatory change projects.
A methodical approach with strong attention to detail.
Clear communication and the confidence to work with Operations, Technology and Compliance.