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EMIR & SFTR Regulatory Reporting Oversight Specialist

Contract: 6-Month Initial Contract
Location: Hybrid / UK
Day Rate: Competitive


The Role

We are seeking an experienced EMIR & SFTR Regulatory Reporting Oversight Specialist to join a leading financial services organisation on an initial 6-month contract. This role will provide subject matter expertise to strengthen the firm’s Compliance oversight framework across EMIR and SFTR regulatory reporting, with a particular focus on delegated reporting arrangements, reporting quality, governance, controls, regulatory change, and remediation activities.
This is an excellent opportunity for a regulatory reporting professional who can combine deep technical knowledge with strong stakeholder management skills to drive improvements across reporting governance, controls, assurance, and oversight.


Key Responsibilities

*Review and enhance the EMIR and SFTR delegated reporting oversight framework.
*Strengthen governance, controls, monitoring, assurance activities and management information.
*Provide effective challenge to third-party reporting providers and delegated reporting arrangements.
*Assess reporting quality through reconciliations, exception management, pairing and matching analysis, completeness checks, and remediation oversight.
*Investigate reporting breaches and control weaknesses, perform root cause analysis, and drive corrective actions through to resolution.
*Support regulatory change initiatives, operating model improvements, and control enhancement programmes.
*Utilise trade repository data to perform reconciliations, identify issues, and improve reporting accuracy.
*Develop and document sustainable oversight processes and controls.
*Deliver knowledge transfer and best practices to permanent teams.
*Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through automation, reporting enhancements, and management information improvements.


Required Experience

*Deep knowledge of EMIR and SFTR regulatory reporting requirements, including delegated reporting models and oversight obligations.
*Proven experience within Compliance, Regulatory Reporting Oversight, Risk, Assurance, or Control functions.
*Strong understanding of OTC and exchange-traded derivatives and associated reporting obligations across the full trade lifecycle.
*Experience overseeing delegated reporting arrangements and challenging third-party reporting providers.
*Knowledge of securities financing transactions and associated reporting requirements.
*Experience analysing trade repository data to support oversight, reconciliations, and exception management.
*Strong understanding of reporting quality metrics, including completeness, accuracy, timeliness, pairing and matching.
*Practical knowledge of collateral and valuation reporting requirements.
*Experience identifying reporting breaches, conducting root cause analysis, and managing remediation programmes.
*Experience delivering regulatory change, process improvement, and control enhancement initiatives.
*Familiarity with industry platforms and tools such as DTCC GTR, UnaVista, Kaizen, Novatus, or similar.
*Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.


Desirable Experience

*Hands-on exposure to day-to-day EMIR and/or SFTR regulatory reporting operations.
*Experience with Microsoft Copilot, Power BI, Power Automate, or similar automation and AI tools.
*Development of reporting dashboards, management information, and oversight frameworks.
*Exposure to Best Execution, Trade Surveillance, Market Surveillance, or Fair Allocation monitoring activities.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Vertage Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.