FR 2052a Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst

SGA is searching for a FR 2052a Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst for a contract role with a premier Financial Services client in lower Manhattan, NYC. This is a hybrid schedule requiring onsite presence 3 days per week.

About the role

The successful candidate will drive visible, regulatory-facing deliverables; work at the intersection of liquidity reporting, data governance, and operational resilience; and partner closely with Finance, Treasury, Technology, and Risk to improve data quality and control discipline.

Responsibilities

• Run the FR 2052a production process, including maintaining source-to-report mappings, reviewing key calculations, and documenting and validating material assumptions to support accurate and timely regulatory reporting.
• Write Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) for Technology, clearly documenting business requirements and reporting needs to support FR 2052a production and related technology processes.
• Ensure appropriate version control and maintain audit-ready evidence for FR 2052a reporting processes, documentation, and related deliverables.
• Partner with data owners, SMEs, and Technology teams to generate accurate and timely reporting and ensure reporting processes are appropriately mapped to governance and controls, including controls inventories, control descriptions, testing artifacts, and issue management.
• Work with Technology, Treasury, Finance, Risk, and Data Management teams to investigate data issues, identify and address underlying problems, and implement sustainable solutions to support accurate and reliable FR 2052a reporting.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Treasury, Liquidity Risk Management, Regulatory Reporting, or Finance within a banking environment.
• Direct hands-on experience producing and managing the FR2052a Complex Institution Liquidity Monitoring Report, preferably in a daily T+2 reporting environment.
• Strong understanding of FR2052a instructions, reporting schedules, data sourcing, regulatory interpretations, and governance requirements.
• 5+ years of recent experience executing end-to-end report production, including data validation, reconciliations, exception management, issue resolution, and regulatory submission support.
• Experience documenting business requirements and process improvements through Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), functional specifications, process flows, and data mapping documentation.
• Demonstrated experience leading and executing User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including test script development, defect management, and validation of regulatory reporting enhancements.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including complex formulas, data analysis, reconciliations, pivot tables, and large dataset manipulation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting other regulatory liquidity reports (LCR, NSFR, FR Y-15, 6G FR2052a, Resolution Planning, Reg YY reporting).
• Ability to analyze and assess new products, business initiatives, and transactions to determine appropriate FR2052a reporting treatment and data requirements.
• Strong knowledge of banking products and balance sheet activities, including deposits, loans, secured funding, derivatives, prime brokerage, securities financing transactions, and capital markets products.
• Familiarity with SQL, data warehouses, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, and reporting automation initiatives.
• Experience supporting regulatory examinations, internal audits, or remediation programs.
• Hands-on, execution-oriented mindset with a willingness to roll up sleeves and resolve issues independently.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to producing accurate, audit-ready deliverables.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to challenge assumptions, investigate discrepancies, and drive issues to resolution.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills across business and technology teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple deliverables simultaneously.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced regulatory reporting environment with tight deadlines and changing priorities.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Information Systems, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Preferred: CPA, CFA, FRM, PMP, CBAP, or data governance/control certifications (e.g., CDMP) or equivalent practical experience.