Senior Transaction and Trade Reporting Analyst

Job Title: Senior Transaction and Trade Reporting Analyst

Division: Market Oversight

Department: Market Oversight, Data & Intelligence

Vacancies: 2 available posts, 1 permanent role and 1 12-month FTC to be delegated at Hiring Manager discretion

• Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £53,800 to £71,600 and London from £59,200 to £78,800 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

• This role is graded as: Senior Associate - Regulatory

• Your recruitment contact is Riley via [email protected]. Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via social media or email will not be accepted.

About the FCA and team 

We regulate financial services firms in the UK, to keep financial markets fair, thriving and effective. By joining us, you’ll play a key part in protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK finance services.  

The Market Oversight Directorate oversees conduct in UK primary and secondary markets through the listing, prospectus, and market abuse regimes, aiming to promote trusted, orderly, and efficient markets via its four departments: Listing, Primary Market Oversight, Secondary Market Oversight, and Market Oversight Data & Intelligence.

Sitting within the Market Oversight Directorate, the Market Oversight Data and Intelligence (MODI) Department, formed in 2024, drives data-led regulation by delivering specialist services, intelligence, and casework across UK markets, supporting innovation, insight, and effective oversight through advanced analytical and technical capabilities.

Role responsibilities

• Engaging with industry across a range of supervisory initiatives, including data quality remediation activities and thematic work

• Casework related to Errors and Omissions in UK MiFID / EMIR / SFTR reporting

• Responding to industry queries on the reporting regimes we are responsible for

• Targeted supervisory work targeting firms or areas of specific strategic interest

• Coordination with internal and external stakeholders of these datasets

• Some involvement in supporting the development of regulatory reporting policy and bringing supervisory insight to help guide policy formation

Skills required

Minimum:

• Demonstrable experience engaging with a range of internal and external stakeholders

• Proven experience in a role involving supervision and wholesale markets data

• Prior experience with the following: UK MiFID transaction reporting, UK EMIR trade reporting and UK SFTR transaction reporting

Essential:

• Clear written and oral communication skills, with ability to explain complex, technical matters clearly and succinctly to a range of audiences

• Effective interpersonal skills with capacity to work collaboratively and engage a range of stakeholders

• Sound judgement, with an ability to make clear and timely decisions and recommendations based on input from data and intelligence

• Experience with casework and using case management systems 

• Experience leading complex workstreams from planning through to execution

• Capability to work with regulatory data, including the ability to build queries in SQL to support regulatory investigations

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Hybrid model where employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month (expectation of 50% for senior leaders). Changing from September to a minimum of 50% in the office each month (expectation of 60% for Directors and Executive Directors)

• Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary

• Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance

• 35 hours of paid volunteering annually

• A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle

For a full list of our benefits, and our recruitment process as a whole visit our benefits page.

Our values & culture

Our colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one that’s free from discrimination and bias, celebrates difference, and supports colleagues to deliver at their best. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.

If you require any adjustments due to a disability or condition, your recruiter is here to help - reach out for tailored support.

We welcome diverse working styles and aim to find flexible solutions that suit both the role and individual needs, including options like part-time and job sharing where applicable.
 

Disability Confident: our hiring approach
We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.
 

Useful information and timeline

• Advert Closing: 3rd May at 11:59pm

• CV Review/Shortlist: 5th May

• Case Study/Interviews: w/c 11th May

• Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.