We're Hiring: Data Analyst — Regulatory Reporting!
We are seeking a detail-oriented and analytical Data Analyst to join our team in Singapore. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in regulatory reporting, data analysis, and compliance. You will play a key role in ensuring accurate reporting and adherence to regulatory requirements while providing insights that drive strategic decisions.
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Work Mode: Work from Office
Role: Data Analyst — Regulatory Reporting
Key Responsibilities
- Gather, analyse, and document data requirements for regulatory reporting, with a particular focus on MAS 610 and related regulatory submissions.
- Define and maintain source-to-target data mappings between upstream banking systems, finance data sources, regulatory reporting data models, and reporting templates.
- Work alongside the IT-led regulatory reporting platform implementation to ensure data requirements are complete, accurate, traceable, and aligned with reporting logic.
- Analyse regulatory reporting data dictionaries, data models, taxonomy, and reporting attributes and translate regulatory requirements into detailed data specifications.
- Perform hands-on data validation and reconciliation to confirm the completeness and accuracy of data flowing into the regulatory reporting solution.
- Define data quality rules, validation controls, exception criteria, and testing scenarios for regulatory reporting data.
- Execute data quality testing, investigate exceptions, identify root causes, and coordinate remediation with relevant business and technology teams.
- Support the mapping and documentation of Finance and Regulatory Reporting processes, including manual adjustments, journals, reconciliations, and reporting controls.
- Perform reconciliations of regulatory reporting outputs and underlying data back to the General Ledger and other Finance systems.
- Identify gaps between current-state data and target regulatory reporting requirements and recommend appropriate remediation or transformation rules.
- Support system integration testing, user acceptance testing, parallel runs, and implementation activities related to regulatory reporting data.
- Work closely with Regulatory Reporting, Finance, Data, Risk, and Technology stakeholders to resolve data issues and ensure reporting requirements are understood consistently.
- Produce clear documentation covering data lineage, mapping logic, validation rules, reconciliations, data quality controls, and issue resolution.
- Where appropriate, develop dashboards or visualisations to communicate data quality, reconciliation results, exceptions, and reporting trends.
Required Experience
- 5+ years of experience working with regulatory reporting data within banking or financial services, preferably in an APAC regulatory environment.
- Demonstrable hands-on experience with MAS 610 regulatory reporting, including data mapping, validation, reconciliation, and reporting requirements.
- Strong experience translating regulatory reporting requirements into detailed data requirements and source-to-target mappings.
- Experience working alongside or supporting a regulatory reporting platform such as:
- Regnology
- Agile Reporter
- Axiom / AxiomSL
- Strong understanding of regulatory reporting data dictionaries, data lineage, reporting attributes, and data models.
- Hands-on experience defining and testing data quality rules and controls.
- Strong SQL skills, with the ability to query, analyse, reconcile, and validate large and complex datasets.
- Experience with Finance processes relevant to regulatory reporting, including:
- General Ledger reconciliation
- Manual adjustments and journals
- Data aggregation and transformation
- Reporting controls and exception management
- Experience supporting regulatory reporting testing activities, including SIT, UAT, parallel runs, and data validation.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with Power BI or similar data visualisation tools for building data quality, reconciliation, or management reporting dashboards.
- Broader knowledge of Singapore and APAC banking regulatory reporting requirements.
- Experience working on regulatory reporting transformation or platform implementation programmes.
- Understanding of banking products, Finance data architecture, and upstream source systems.
- Familiarity with data governance, metadata management, data lineage, and data quality frameworks.
Key Competencies
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high level of attention to detail.
- Ability to work directly with complex datasets and investigate discrepancies through to root cause.
- Strong documentation skills and the ability to translate regulatory and business requirements into clear data specifications.
- Effective stakeholder management across Finance, Regulatory Reporting, Data, and Technology teams.
- Ability to operate effectively in a transformation environment with multiple dependencies and competing priorities.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex data issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Ready to make an impact? Apply now and let's grow together!