Robert Christie

As a regulatory business analyst with over 14 years of experience in financial markets, I specialize in regulatory reporting across global jurisdictions, including MiFIR, EU/UK EMIR Refit, and G20 trade reporting frameworks. At LSEG, I collaborate with compliance, legal, support teams, regulators, and trade repositories to align reporting requirements, translating complex regulatory mandates into actionable requirements for agile development teams. My contributions include facilitating refinement sessions, producing user stories, and enhancing testing coverage to ensure regulatory builds meet business needs. 

Previously at LSEG ForexClear, I enabled delivery of commercial, risk and regulatory initiatives for FX clearing products by defining features, coordinating stakeholder priorities, and supporting project approvals. 

My focus on operational efficiency and compliance underscores a commitment to bridging regulatory demands with practical, scalable solutions that empower teams and stakeholders globally.

LSEG Regulatory Reporting: Senior Business Analyst                                      November 2023 – May 2025

• Led technical and regulatory analysis across EMIR, MiFID II, and multi-jurisdictional reporting regimes, translating complex compliance requirements into detailed data and process specifications for global reporting systems.
• Delivered end-to-end data lineage mapping across trade, position, and counterparty datasets, documenting field-level transformations from source systems to regulatory submission formats.
• Defined and validated data mapping frameworks for ISO 20022 and FpML schema migrations, ensuring alignment with changing regulatory standards and internal reporting taxonomies.
• Partnered with engineering and QA teams to design and test API integrations between internal repositories and external regulatory endpoints, verifying schema accuracy and message integrity.
• Collaborated with compliance and data governance teams to implement lineage traceability controls, strengthening audit transparency and regulatory defensibility.
• Developed SQL-based validation and reconciliation scripts to ensure accuracy across ingestion, enrichment, and reporting layers, significantly reducing data exception rates.
• Monitored and assessed regulatory announcements and schema updates, defining requirements for EMIR REFIT and MiFID II enhancements.
• Represented LSEG in EMIR working groups, driving alignment on data standards and contributing to industry-wide coordination of reporting practices.
• Delivered measurable agile process improvements by standardising JIRA ticket structures, retrospectives, and sprint ceremonies, accelerating delivery pace and reducing time-to-market.

LSEG ForexClear: Technical Business Analyst                                                       July 2019 – November 2023

• Delivered business and technical analysis for Forex clearing products (NDFs, FX Options, FX Forwards), supporting commercial, risk, resilience, and regulatory change programmes within Agile delivery teams.
• Defined and documented detailed business and functional requirements across regulatory reporting changes (CFTC Part 39.19, 43 and 45, EMIR/UK EMIR) and new FX clearing solutions.
• Partnered with Salesforce engineers to design and execute data mapping and migration strategies, transitioning manual Excel-based onboarding into an automated Salesforce workflow, enabling customer self-onboarding and improving data quality and operational efficiency.
• Developed Salesforce data model mappings and collaborated with developers to integrate APIs (REST/XML) between onboarding, legal entity management, and internal reporting systems, ensuring data consistency and real-time updates across platforms.
• Produced comprehensive data lineage documentation tracing end-to-end data flow from client onboarding through trade reporting, ensuring full transparency and regulatory audit readiness.
• Supported Murex, Tableau, and Java development teams across multiple Scrum environments, providing detailed business analysis and data specifications for system enhancements.
• Managed ForexClear FpML message standards and schemas across the FX derivatives lifecycle, ensuring regulatory alignment and accuracy of client implementations.
• Utilised SQL, XML, and Excel for data validation, reconciliation, and issue investigation, contributing to exception reduction and operational process optimisation.
• Developed and presented operating model documentation outlining target-state processes, controls, and departmental responsibilities to senior stakeholders.
• Delivered tactical and strategic regulatory change initiatives, preparing Risk Committee approval papers and managing project delivery under tight MVP and compliance-driven timelines.

Barclays Large Holdings: Technical Business Analyst (AVP)                            October 2017 – July 2019

• Supported end-to-end design and implementation of large holdings, short sale, and UK Takeover Panel reporting processes, ensuring compliance with equity regulatory obligations across global jurisdictions.
• Directed data lineage and transformation analysis across multiple trade, reference, and position data sources, enhancing transparency and audit traceability from trade capture to regulatory submission.
• Collaborated with technology teams to integrate APIs and data feeds across front-to-back systems, improving the accuracy and timeliness of regulatory disclosures.
• Designed and documented data mapping models to standardise SQL logic across disparate source systems, reducing manual reconciliation and increasing data consistency across 20M+ trade and position records.
• Partnered with compliance and business stakeholders to validate reporting thresholds and control frameworks, achieving significant exception reduction (from over 500K to less than 50K).
• Developed an end-to-end reporting platform enabling operational staff to monitor full data lineage — from ingestion to report generation — and identify exceptions in real time.

Nov 2006 – Dec 2009: Open University: BSC Honours in Economics and Mathematical Sciences

Sept 2000–June 2004: University Of Nottingham: BEng Honours in Electronics and Mathematics with Engineering