Job Description

About The Role

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FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Senior Business analyst to work for our client within the finance sector. This is initially a 12 month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in London.

The Regulatory Business Analyst will support our client's regulatory change initiatives across its EMEA businesses, focusing on MiFID II and emerging regulatory developments that impact financial products, trading, and client interactions. The role requires strong analytical skills, regulatory expertise, and the ability to translate complex regulations into actionable business and technology solutions.

Responsibilities:

Lead business analysis for regulatory change programmes, with a focus on MiFID II/MiFID III, EMIR Refit, and other evolving EU/UK regulations. Analyse, interpret, and communicate the impact of new regulations on business processes, product offerings, and operational models. Collaborate with stakeholders across Compliance, Front Office, Legal, Risk, Operations, and Technology to ensure consistent and compliant implementation. Develop and maintain detailed business requirements, process maps, and user stories aligned with regulatory obligations. Act as subject matter expert (SME) on MiFID II topics such as transaction reporting, best execution, product governance, client categorisation, and inducements. Provide insight into future product development, including digital assets, ESG-linked products, and innovative financing structures, assessing their regulatory implications. Conduct gap analyses and support the design of control frameworks to ensure ongoing regulatory compliance. Partner with technology teams to design and test system enhancements and ensure accurate data capture for reporting. Prepare and deliver presentations, impact assessments, and management reports for senior stakeholders. Contribute to regulatory horizon scanning and proactively identify business impacts of upcoming rule changes.

About You

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Minimum 7 years' experience as a Business Analyst within an investment bank or financial institution. Proven delivery experience in regulatory change initiatives, ideally covering MiFID II, EMIR, SFTR, or similar frameworks. Strong understanding of financial markets and products (equities, fixed income, derivatives, structured products). In-depth knowledge of MiFID II/MiFID III obligations and how they apply across the front-to-back trade lifecycle. Familiarity with trade and transaction reporting systems and related data architectures. Demonstrated ability to translate regulatory text into practical business and system requirements. Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and documentation skills. Experience working in both Agile and Waterfall delivery environments. Highly analytical with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset. Strong Excel, Visio, and Jira/Confluence skills desirable.

About Us

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We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 2,500 Employees. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.

Why join us

Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field Annual leave and work-place pension

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