Business Analyst

Insight Global are looking to hire a Business Analyst for one of our leading banking clients. This role will be involved within the Asset Management Operations line of business. The AM Ops team sits within Investment operations which has primary responsibility for all aspects of portfolio migrations for acquisitions of "in-house" pension funds.

This role will be tasked with supporting the build out of regulatory reporting developments, the ideal candidate will have EMIR, SFTR and major shareholder reporting.

This role involves working on the highest value project at the firm with extensive exposure to internal and external senior stakeholders, is fully onsite, 5x per week based in central London. This position is a 6-Month contract with extensions.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the execution of non-financial regulatory reporting obligations (e.g. MIFID, EMIR etc..),
• Reviewing business and functional specifications to determine potential impact to existing regulatory obligations
• Analysis of front to back system infrastructure to understand data flows, booking models, and logic required to capture data;
• Play instrumental role in implementation of large-scale initiatives across the Global team;
• Work with the relevant stakeholders in Operations, Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and the Business to support various reporting functions
• Training and developing colleagues to understand complex workflows and processes;
• Proposing and driving forward new initiatives to enhance the objectives of the Regulatory reporting team

Must-Haves:

• Bachelor’s degree with minimum 6+ years’ experience in financial services
• Strong understanding of non-financial regulatory reporting, regulatory obligations & regulatory change.
• Experience reviewing business and functional specifications and mapping them directly to the ask and co-ordinating the process with senior internal stakeholders.
• Strong ability to read regulatory text.
• Experience reporting on a trade implementation, holding a strong understanding of the full trade lifecycle, working to produce regulatory specified templates.
• Sound understanding of Risk – financial, operational, reputational
• 2 years' experience producing EMIR & MIFID reports focusing on trade, transaction, collateral and valuation reports.
• Practical knowledge about financial products, e.g. equities, fixed income, exchange traded derivatives, OTC derivatives.

Plusses:

• Basic understanding of financial markets regulatory landscape,
• Knowledge about financial markets and associated processes,
• Knowledge about project management and business analysis,
• Shows interest in data analysis, process automation and BI tools