Regulatory Business Analyst

G MASS Consulting; New Jersey; On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Initial 3-month contract

Potential extension

Internalisation with end client

Job summary

G MASS Consulting is supporting a specialist regulatory consulting provider delivering a major EMIR and MiFID II engagement for a global financial services client in Norway. We are seeking a Regulatory Business Analyst to join the on-site delivery team.

This hands-on, client-facing role is embedded within a specialist regulatory team and requires regulatory expertise, strong business analysis capability and the ability to operate autonomously in a complex capital markets environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as senior Regulatory Business Analyst or Regulatory Reporting Consultant in capital markets.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of EMIR and MiFID II reporting.
• Experience across asset classes including OTC derivatives, ETDs, and cash products.

Responsibilities

• Deliver regulatory business analysis and consulting across EMIR and MiFID II obligations.
• Conduct detailed gap analysis of reporting processes versus regulatory requirements to identify data, control and process deficiencies.
• Translate regulatory requirements into clear business requirements, functional specifications and remediation recommendations.
• Support data analysis activities, including data extraction, transformation, validation and assessment of reporting completeness and accuracy.
• Provide advisory input on regulatory reporting governance, data quality frameworks and control design.
• Define and document business use cases and test scenarios to validate reporting outcomes.
• Collaborate with QA and development teams during testing to ensure regulatory and business requirements are met.
• Review client policies, procedures and control frameworks against regulatory standards and best practices.
• Act as a trusted regulatory SME on-site, engaging with stakeholders across Operations, Compliance, Technology and Risk.
• Support overall programme delivery, including issue resolution, governance and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Regulatory analysis

EMIR/MiFID II

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Test design & validation

On-site consulting

Job description

G MASS is supporting a specialist regulatory consulting provider delivering a major EMIR and MiFID II engagement for a global financial services client in Norway. We are seeking a Regulatory Business Analyst to join the on-site delivery team.

This is a hands-on, client-facing consulting role, embedded within a specialist regulatory team and working directly with the end client. The role requires regulatory expertise, strong business analysis capability and the ability to operate autonomously in a complex capital markets environment.

This individual will ideally be based within easy travel distance to Bergen for potential office time.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver regulatory business analysis and consulting across EMIR and MiFID II obligations.
• Conduct detailed gap analysis of current reporting processes versus regulatory requirements, identifying data, control and process deficiencies.
• Translate regulatory requirements into clear business requirements, functional specifications and remediation recommendations.
• Support data analysis activities, including extraction, transformation, validation and assessment of reporting completeness and accuracy.
• Provide advisory input on regulatory reporting governance, data quality frameworks and control design.
• Define and document business use cases and test scenarios to validate EMIR and MiFID II reporting outcomes.
• Work closely with QA and development teams during testing to ensure solutions meet regulatory and business requirements.
• Review client policies, procedures and control frameworks against regulatory standards and industry best practice.
• Act as a trusted regulatory SME on-site, engaging with stakeholders across Operations, Compliance, Technology and Risk.
• Support overall programme delivery, including issue resolution, governance and continuous improvement initiatives

Requirements

• Proven experience in a senior Regulatory Business Analyst or Regulatory Reporting Consultant role within capital markets.
• Strong, hands-on knowledge of EMIR (including Refit) and MiFID II regulatory reporting.
• Experience across relevant asset classes, including OTC derivatives, ETDs and applicable cash products.
• Demonstrated expertise in regulatory gap analysis, requirements definition and advisory-led remediation.
• Strong data analysis capability, including working with large datasets and assessing data quality and lineage.
• Experience defining test scenarios and supporting regulatory reporting testing and validation.
• Solid understanding of regulatory reporting operating models, governance and control frameworks.
• Confident, client-facing communicator, comfortable operating autonomously in an on-site consulting environment.
• High attention to detail, strong ownership mindset and a pragmatic consulting approach

Benefits

• Initial 3-month contract, with strong possibility of further extension and/or permanent internalisation with the end client.