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

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