Regulatory Reporting Data Analyst

We are seeking a Casablanca-based Regulatory Data Analyst to join our Regulatory Technology and Control group.

This is a key role for Bernstein that involves working with high-volume trading data to improve the accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of the firm’s regulatory reporting and trade recordkeeping. We are looking for a data analyst who is passionate about data quality and eager to learn more about financial services and Bernstein’s Equity broker dealer business.

The Regulatory Data Analyst is responsible for designing and operating controls to ensure the accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of Bernstein’s regulatory reporting obligations, including MiFID II Transaction Reporting, MiFID II OTC Post-Trade Transparency, and Trade Surveillance.

The Regulatory Data Analyst will work closely with Equity trading and trade support to understand trading scenarios and validate that Bernstein’s regulatory reporting reflects the firm’s Equity trading activity. The successful candidate will promote innovative data analysis techniques and will gain knowledge in cash and electronic trading scenarios, trading technology, data analysis, control design, and regulatory compliance.

The role involves significant exposure to senior management given the critical importance of regulatory reporting to the business, and the successful candidate may be asked to present status updates, including top risks and issues, at the firm’s monthly Data Governance Committees.

• The key job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

o Gain subject matter expertise in global Trade and Transaction Reporting requirements as well as Trade Surveillance regulatory obligations; o Understand how these regulatory reporting requirements apply to Bernstein’s broker dealer business; o Design and implement controls and reconciliations to ensure the accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of Bernstein’s regulatory reporting and trade surveillance; o Work closely with Equity trading and trade support to understand Equity trading scenarios and how these are represented in the data models of Bernstein’s trading systems; o Investigate and repair regulatory reporting and trade surveillance data quality issues; o Analyse and document regulatory reporting data flows from front-office trading systems to regulators; o Proactively identify regulatory reporting issues by analysing data in innovative ways, e.g. by using Python data analytics or PowerBI; o Maintain and prioritize a backlog of work for the regulatory reporting team; o Present status updates, risks, and issues at the firm’s Data Governance committee; o Work with regulatory technology resources to clarify requirements and review software increments.

• The role provides the following opportunities for learning and professional growth:
  • Gain in-depth financial services knowledge, including Equity trading scenarios.
  • Learn the data model and business processes of a major brokerage firm.
  • Gain experience in PySpark data analysis and Azure cloud-based technologies such as Azure Synapse, Spark, Delta Lake, and PowerBI.
  • Become an expert in in MiFID II trade and transaction reporting.