Job Description

Your work environment

Financial Markets (FM) is the Bank’s gateway to the professional markets around the world. Our primary function is to service the needs of ING’s clients with products, services and guidance. FM aims to be a significant player in our market leader and challenger markets, with an additional presence in all the major international markets and specialist expertise in selected emerging markets and products.

The Transaction Reporting Enhancement Program (‘TREP’) is a strategic program within FM. Program goal is to redefine and optimise the way that ING reports transactions for multiple regulations. The program is live with EU- and UK-MiFIR reporting); the coming years the scope in terms of asset classes and regulations (EMIR, SFTR, MMSR, SMMD, G20) will be extended.

TREP received the WB COO Award for best programme in the category ‘Risk & Resilience’ in 2025.

Your role

We are looking for a senior, strategic and delivery-focused Programme Director to lead the next phases of the TREP roadmap and shape a scalable, future-proof transaction reporting capability for Financial Markets.

As a Programme Director:

• You will hold end-to-end accountability for the strategic direction, governance and controlled execution of the programme, ensuring delivery of the agreed scope to high quality standards and within committed timelines.
• You will engage, influence and align senior stakeholders across trading, sales, Operations, IT, the FM Tribe and strategic vendor partners to secure decisions, remove obstacles and sustain executive-level sponsorship.
• You will combine deep Financial Markets expertise, regulatory judgement, product understanding and strong business leadership to translate strategic objectives into executable roadmaps and measurable outcomes.

Your key responsibilities

• Leads the TREP organisation of approximately 20 FTE, setting direction, priorities and ways of working to create a high-performing, outcome-driven delivery team.
• Chairs the TREP Steering Committee and provides senior-level reporting on progress, risks, issues, dependencies and decisions required to keep the programme on course.
• Reports hierarchically to the Head of Regulatory Reporting and acts as a senior leader within the regulatory reporting transformation agenda.
• Builds and maintains trusted executive relationships with key stakeholders, creating a shared understanding of strategic priorities, regulatory expectations, business challenges and opportunities to improve the reporting capability and product offering.
• Creates an environment of ownership, constructive challenge and open dialogue, enabling colleagues to develop expertise, collaborate effectively and take accountability for results.
• Operates with a high degree of autonomy, anticipating strategic implications, managing trade-offs and ensuring decisions are clearly framed, agreed and followed through.
• Monitors regulatory, market and competitive developments and translates relevant changes into programme priorities, roadmap adjustments and strategic recommendations.
• Ensures sustainable adoption of the target solutions by guiding stakeholders, coaching delivery teams and embedding clear ownership, controls and implementation discipline.

Your key deliverables

The TREP roadmap looks as follows:

Q3 2026

• Delivery of MiFIR reporting of FX multi-leg products
• Data mapping for Equity products

Q4 2026

• Analysis of MMSR, SMMD and Euribor products
• Data mapping of Commodity and Equity Derivative products for MiFIR
• Delivery of MiFIR reporting of Rates and Credits products
• Delivery of Data Management PCS key controls

Q1 2027

• Delivery of MiFIR reporting of Equity products
• Delivery of MiFIR reporting of Commodity and Equity Derivative products
• Data mapping of MMSR products
• Data mapping of SMMD products
• Data mapping of Euribor products

From Q2 2027 onwards, EMIR, SFTR, G20 and CFTC will be picked up.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a senior leader with the confidence and credibility to take ownership of a complex, high-impact regulatory transformation programme. You combine strategic judgement with hands-on delivery discipline, bring fresh ideas to life in a fast-changing environment and create the conditions for others to be successful. You are naturally collaborative, commercially aware and comfortable challenging the status quo to deliver durable solutions for ING and its clients.

We hire senior professionals for their judgement, leadership and potential to shape the future of the organisation. Our expectation is that you stay curious, keep learning, take accountability for complex decisions and help build a stronger, more scalable Financial Markets regulatory reporting capability.

As TREP Programme Director you will also need:

• Completed a bachelor’s degree; a master’s degree or equivalent senior professional experience is preferred.
• 10+ years of senior experience in Financial Markets and/or Treasury, ideally in roles combining business leadership, regulatory change and technology-enabled transformation.
• Strong content expertise in Regulatory Transaction Reporting, with the ability to translate regulatory obligations into strategic delivery priorities and robust operating solutions.
• Proven senior people leadership, stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the ability to align executive stakeholders and lead multi-disciplinary teams through ambiguity.
• Experience in risk management, control frameworks and audit or regulatory remediation is a strong advantage.
• Experience leading Agile delivery at scale, including dependency management across business, operations, IT and vendor partners, is a plus.

Rewards and benefits
We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. Find out more about our employment conditions.

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• A competitive salary aligned with your skills and experience

• 25-28 vacation days depending on your contract

• Pension scheme

• 13th month salary and 8% holiday allowance

• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary

• Flexible working hours and hybrid working options

• A mobility card: choose your mode of transport for commuting each day, with free public transport on weekends.

• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

• An informal working environment with a diverse group of innovative colleagues

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