Compliance Advisory SME
£500 per day - Inside
Location - London/Hybrid
emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm specializing in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector. We foster a culture of openness, integrity, and collaboration, aiming to deliver optimal services for our clients and create a positive and equitable working environment.
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 in delivering the optimal service for our clients.
Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.
We are seeking a highly experienced compliance professional to join our Compliance Advisory team with a primary focus on Equity Position Reporting. This role plays a critical part in ensuring the firm meets its regulatory obligations under UK, EU, and US reporting regimes, including but not limited to the Transparency Directive, Short Selling Regulation (SSR), and SEC 13f-1/13f-2. The successful candidate will act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), providing proactive advisory support, oversight, and challenge on regulatory reporting matters and participating in key remediation initiatives.
The role:
Serve as the SME for equity position and short selling reporting across multiple jurisdictions (UK, EU, US/CAN).
Provide advisory support and challenge to the business and project teams on regulatory interpretation and implementation.
Manage and support the end-to-end regulatory reporting processes for:
Equity Positions (Transparency Directive, 13f-1, 13f-2)
Short Selling (SSR)
US/CAN Trade Reporting (CFTC, SEC, CSA)
Partner with the front office, operations, and technology to ensure regulatory requirements are understood and embedded in processes.
Drive and support remediation and change projects relating to historical and ongoing reporting obligations.
Liaise with internal and external stakeholders, including regulators, to address queries and ensure timely and accurate reporting.
Assist in the drafting and review of policies and procedures related to regulatory reporting and control frameworks.
Support broader Compliance Advisory functions including US Swap Dealer requirements and reporting oversight as needed.
Key Skills and Experience:
Proven experience in a compliance advisory or regulatory reporting role within a global financial institution.
Strong expertise in equity position reporting, short selling regulations, and associated reporting regimes (13f-1/13f-2, SSR, Transparency Directive).
In-depth understanding of global regulatory frameworks including CFTC, SEC, and CSA obligations.
Demonstrated experience managing complex regulatory projects and delivering to tight deadlines.
Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to engage and influence senior leadership.
Experience drafting and implementing regulatory policies, procedures, and control enhancements.
Ability to operate independently and work collaboratively across Compliance, Legal, Operations, and Technology.
Our people
In the role of a (Senior Consultant/Managing Consultant/SME Consultant), you will be a pillar in the engagement effort for assignments, all the way from business process consulting and problem definition to solution design, development and deployment. You will be pivotal to problem definition and discovery of the overall solution and guide teams on project processes and deliverables.
You will anchor business pursuit initiatives, client training and in-house capability building. You will have the opportunity to shape value-adding consulting solutions that enable our clients to meet the changing needs of the global landscape.
The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation.
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, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise
· Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.
Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:
· Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction
· Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs
· Drive, enable and support 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
As an employee of emagine, you will experience a close-knit culture in which people stand side by side and where there is an emphasis on building close relationships.
We offer:
· A commitment to an accelerated career pathway, development, learning and networking
· Excellent compensation package
· Hybrid Working
· Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
· Professional growth within a diverse and global environment
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 that are 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”
