Trade & Transaction Reporting Analyst

We're partnering with a leading global hedge fund to support its European trade and transaction reporting function.

The firm has mature reporting processes and infrastructure in place. It is looking for a hands-on analyst to support the daily accuracy, completeness and timeliness of reporting under at least one major European regime: SFTR, EMIR or MiFID II/MiFIR transaction reporting.

You will work closely with the obligation owner and senior subject-matter experts. You will manage BAU exceptions, investigate data issues and support regulatory change. The role suits someone with solid operational reporting experience who wants to build towards a business analysis or subject-matter expert role.

The role is based full-time in the firm's London office.

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.

Requirements

- 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.
- London-based and prepared to work five days a week in the office.

Benefits

Length: initial 12-month contract

Salary: £60k - £65k