Principal Consultant (Senior Manager) - Trade & Transaction Reporting

Principal Consultant (Senior Manager) - Trade & Transaction Reporting 

Location: Glasgow / Edinburgh (Hybrid) | Practice Area: Finance, Risk, Regulatory & Financial Crime | Type: Permanent

Shape the future of global regulatory reporting transformation

The Role
Capco is seeking a Principal Consultant to support and deliver Trade & Transaction Reporting initiatives within the FRRF practice. This role is suited to someone with strong regulatory knowledge and hands-on experience contributing to complex, multi-jurisdictional reporting programmes. You’ll work with global financial institutions to deliver regulatory change, enhance reporting controls, and support sustained compliance across regimes such as EMIR, MiFIR, SFTR, and CFTC.

What You’ll Do

• Support end-to-end regulatory reporting transformation programmes across global regimes
• Contribute to implementation, remediation, and control optimisation aligned to EMIR Refit, MiFIR, SFTR, HKMA, MAS, and CFTC
• Analyse and improve data flows, reconciliations, and reporting architectures
• Provide input on platform implementation and regtech tools to enhance regulatory performance
• Assist in operating model improvements and efficiency initiatives across post-trade functions

What We’re Looking For

• Experience in transaction reporting delivery across one or more regulatory regimes
• Knowledge of products including OTC derivatives, equities, and fixed income
• Understanding of reporting controls, reconciliations, and data quality governance
• Broad capital markets knowledge across FO, MO, Risk, Treasury, and Compliance
• Experience contributing to regulatory change programmes in a consulting or client-facing environment

Bonus Points For

• Familiarity with platforms such as DTCC, UnaVista, Regnology, or SteelEye
• Understanding of data lineage, schema design, and reporting traceability
• Exposure to emerging technology such as regtech or real-time reporting tools
• Awareness of industry consultations or transaction reporting policy developments
• Experience supporting business development or mentoring junior team me