Karumba Consulting (London) — Regulatory Fund Senior Business Analyst
Led digitisation and automation of UK AIFM Annex IV regulatory reporting by translating ESMA templates and guidance into business rules and system requirements. Built centralized data dictionaries and functional specifications to automate Annex IV population and validate schema updates and error handling for ARM connectivity. Redesigned reporting workflows and introduced automated validation/threshold checks to improve submission accuracy and timeliness. • Created central data dictionary covering fund structure, investor jurisdiction, leverage, and liquidity buckets. • Produced functional specifications to automate Annex IV population from fund accounting and investor systems, ensuring firm-wide alignment with ARM connectivity. • Implemented validation rules and threshold checks to reduce manual data corrections and improve quarterly filing timeliness. • Worked with compliance and audit to restate historical reports where required under ESMA error-correction and re-reporting timeframes.