Business Analyst– Trade & Transaction Reporting (T&TR)

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector. We power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst / Technical Project Analyst to join an ongoing Trade & Transaction Reporting (T&TR) programme. The role combines core business analysis, regulatory reporting expertise, and project management responsibilities.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including Operations, Technology, Compliance, and vendors, to deliver regulatory reporting solutions and ensure accurate trade flows, data enrichment, and reporting compliance across multiple jurisdictions. This is a hands-on, high-impact role within a collaborative delivery team, responsible for ensuring initiatives are well-defined, governed, and aligned with regulatory requirements and global programme objectives.

The role:

• Lead end-to-end business analysis and project management activities across transaction reporting and regulatory change initiatives.
• Review, analyze, and validate JIRA tasks and workflows related to repo and derivative trade flows, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.
• Define and document business requirements, functional specifications, and target operating models aligned with programme objectives.
• Conduct impact assessments of new or changing regulatory requirements (e.g., SFTR, EMIR, MiFID II, MAS, CFTC).
• Collaborate with Technology, Compliance, and Operations teams to shape functional and technical solutions that meet both business and regulatory needs.
• Track trade transformations through systems and middleware, ensuring accurate mapping, enrichment, and reporting.
• Investigate and resolve trade flow exceptions, identifying root causes and proposing solutions.
• Query databases and analyze trade data to support reporting, compliance, and operational requirements.
• Develop and maintain project plans, track progress, and manage dependencies, risks, and issues.
• Support governance, steering committee reporting, and programme-level updates.
• Facilitate workshops, requirement walkthroughs, and stakeholder sign-offs.
• Manage RAID logs, change requests, and ensure alignment with organisational change management standards.
• Support UAT planning, execution, test validation, and defect triage.
• Promote best practices in documentation, governance, and delivery, contributing to continuous improvement within the programme.

Key Skills and Experience

To succeed in this role you will need:

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst or Project Analyst within regulatory reporting, transaction reporting, or capital markets operations.
• Strong understanding of regulatory reporting frameworks and change delivery (e.g., SFTR, EMIR, MiFID II, MAS, CFTC).
• Experience with trade flows, trade mapping, trade enrichment, and transaction reporting systems.
• Demonstrable experience in requirements elicitation, process mapping, solution design, and functional specification development.
• Experience tracking trade transformations through multiple systems, middleware, and reporting platforms.
• Familiarity with operations, regulatory compliance, and control frameworks.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to query databases and interpret complex trade data.
• Solid understanding of project delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid) and governance frameworks.
• Experience managing RAID items, status reporting, and project documentation.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at multiple levels.
• Experience supporting testing, implementation, and post-go-live review activities.
• Professional certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, AgilePM, or BA certifications (BCS / IIBA) are advantageous.

Our people

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

We pride ourselves on:

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.
• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.
• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model.
• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development.
• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise.
• Providing a transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and building lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction.
• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs.
• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation.

Interested? At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds. If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately, our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential.

emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin.