Senior Business Analyst

As a Business Analyst (BA) specializing in Regulatory Trade and Transaction Reporting, your role will involve working with global banks or financial institutions to ensure compliance with evolving trade reporting regulations. You will be responsible for gathering requirements, defining reporting processes, and liaising with stakeholders. Your expertise in regulatory regimes such as EMIR, MiFID II, CFTC, SFTR, ASIC, MAS, and HKMA will be crucial in this role. **Key Responsibilities:** - Act as the primary liaison between business users, compliance, operations, and technology teams. - Gather, analyze, and document business requirements related to trade/transaction reporting obligations. - Translate regulatory requirements into clear functional and technical specifications. - Support the design, implementation, and testing of reporting solutions. - Ensure data completeness, accuracy, and timely submission of reports to regulators. - Monitor changes in global regulatory regimes and assess their impact on existing reporting processes. - Conduct gap analysis for new regulatory mandates and support remediation activities. - Assist in UAT planning, execution, and defect management for reporting platforms. - Produce detailed business requirement documents (BRDs), functional specifications (FSDs), and workflow diagrams. **Qualifications Required:** - 8-10 years of Business Analyst experience in banking/financial services with strong domain knowledge in Capital Markets, Trade Lifecycle, and Regulatory Reporting. - Hands-on experience with regulatory regimes such as EMIR, MiFID II, CFTC, SFTR, ASIC, MAS, HKMA. - Proven ability to perform data analysis using SQL/Excel to validate reporting requirements. - Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with cross-border teams. - Strong documentation skills (BRDs, FSDs, process flows, test scenarios). - Knowledge of control frameworks and exception management processes in reporting. - Experience in Agile/Scrum methodology. - Understanding of reporting data models and data governance principles. As an ideal candidate for this role, you should hold a Bachelors/Masters degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field. Professional certifications such as CFA, FRM, ICA, Regulatory Compliance are considered a plus. Familiarity with trade booking systems and knowledge of data sourcing, transformation, and validation logic would be advantageous in performing your duties effectively.,