Regulatory Reporting Analyst

About Columbia Threadneedle Investments

You'll find the promise we make to our clients is the same one we make to our employees: Your success is our priority.

Here, you'll find growth and career opportunities across all our businesses. We're intentionally built to help you succeed. Our reach is expansive with a global team of 2,000 people working together. Our expertise is diverse with more than 450 investment professionals sharing global perspectives across all major asset classes and markets. Our clients have access to a broad array of investment strategies and we have the capability to create bespoke solutions matched to clients' specific requirements.

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Job Purpose Statement

Where you'll fit in & what our team goals are....

The Regulatory Reporting team at Columbia Threadneedle is involved in a large number of projects and the purpose of this role is to provide operational support and guidance to the team to ensure BAU processes and deadlines are produced accurately and timely. The primary focus of this role will be completion of the day to day business responsibilities and operational processes for delivery of regulatory reporting. The team is responsible for the following regulations MIFID II trade and transaction reporting, EMIR and Swiss FMIA.

Role Responsibilities

How you'll spend your time....

• Production of daily reporting to agreed timescales for all Trade and Transaction based reporting across the Columbia Threadneedle Investments group of companies.
• Operate daily regulatory reporting procedures and contribute towards further automation of these processes.
• Ensure that all regulatory reporting is performed to the highest quality and in line with Regulatory Reporting Standards
• Support the operational team in completing the process for end-to-end delivery of selected areas of regulatory reporting (including content supplied by other teams to Regulatory Reporting team) within a robust and controlled framework.
• Support maintenance of Operating Model documentation, process, procedure risk and control documentation and KPI to support this.
• Assist Regulatory Reporting colleagues to research, supervise and assess the impact of business changes (e.g. corporate entity change, new instrument types, new products, new clients) and regulatory change (e.g. reading consultation papers) on selected areas of regulatory reporting.
• Plan and co-ordinate process changes working with Legal, Compliance, IT and others to implement business and regulatory changes to maintain compliance. Specify system improvements, check and maintain rule coding in systems, plan and implement User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Proactively puts forward ideas to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of tasks for which they are accountable
• Timely escalation of issues identified in the process in line with Regulatory Operations escalation process and protocols.

Key Capabilities

To be successful in this role you will have....

• Experience of MIFID II trade and transaction reporting is essential.
• Ideally knowledge of Unavista and TRAXGood interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• A self-starter - motivated and able to act on own initiative. Hardworking.
• Approachable and able to work with people at all levels in the organisation.
• A team player: able to motivate & contribute to and or lead effective teams
• Inquisitive, with good logical, analytical, and diagnostic skills.
• Pro-active, owns and resolves issues; has a strong attention to detail.
• Able to deliver to tight deadlines, whilst maintaining quality.

Desired Capabilities

If you also had this, it would be great....

• Regulatory trade and transaction reporting experience (MIFID II, and EMIR desirable)
• Good understanding of regulations
• Experience of Aladdin Trading system desirable but not crucial.
• A sound knowledge of Investment Management processes