Senior Programme Manager – Regulatory Data Remediation (COREP & FINREP) in London

£700-£750 London (Hybrid) x3 Days on-site

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.

Culture & values

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 to delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just to clients but also to fostering a positive and equitable working environment for our consultants and colleagues, rooted in our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

Role overview

We are seeking a highly credible, senior Programme Manager to lead a critical Finance Data Programme focused on remediating COREP and FINREP regulatory reporting issues. The individual will take full ownership of ensuring data integrity, accuracy, and consistency across all submissions. This is a hands-on role requiring a self-starter with gravitas, exceptional leadership, and a proven track record of delivering large-scale, complex change within financial institutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Finance Data Programme to remediate regulatory data issues, ensuring all Critical Data Elements (CDEs) originate from strategic golden source systems.
• Deliver high-quality, reconciled, and controlled COREP and FINREP reporting, aligned with regulatory expectations.
• Define, implement, and embed an operating model for data ownership, quality, and controls; challenge and change the operating model where necessary.
• Understand and document end-to-end data flows, lineage, and pipelines, ensuring accuracy from source to report.
• Manage the discovery of data derivation, identify gaps, and drive remediation of data quality issues.
• Plan and oversee detailed remediation activities, assigning accountable owners and tracking progress to outcomes.
• Actively engage with mid-to senior-level stakeholders, influencing decision-making and providing clear updates on progress and challenges.
• Provide clear direction, set priorities, and unblock issues, acting as a change agent rather than a passive overseer.
• Lead a small delivery team while remaining hands-on in data remediation activities.
• Operate under pressure, balancing competing priorities while maintaining attention to precision and quality.

Key Skills and Experience

• Extensive experience in regulatory reporting and data management, particularly COREP and FINREP.
• Hands-on delivery experience of large-scale data remediation programmes.
• Proven ability to identify and resolve data issues, ensuring alignment to golden source systems.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills; comfortable engaging across mid-to senior-level leadership.
• Self-starter with outcome-driven focus, attention to precision, and the gravitas to lead and set direction.
• Detailed planning capabilities with accountability frameworks to ensure successful delivery.
• Excellent understanding of end-to-end data flows, lineage from source to report.
• Strong communication skills; able to articulate complex issues with a clear voice.

Desirable Experience

• Previous experience leading COREP/FINREP remediation programmes.
• Familiarity with regulatory environments, BCBS239 principles, and data governance best practices.
• Experience driving operational model changes to improve data quality.
• Self-starter, driven, and outcome-focused.

Our people

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working. As your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation, building a broad base of experience for 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, make decisions, and demonstrate 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:

• Solving sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction.
• Building, developing and sustaining trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs.
• Driving, enabling and supporting 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 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.