EMIR & SFTR Regulatory Reporting Oversight Specialist

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.