MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Middle office and Operations responsibilities for Segregated Portfolios, UCITS and NURS funds including the following:
  • Reconciling trade activity and cash management
  • Reconcile trade activity and cash movements against custodial records on a daily basis.
  • Maintaining appropriate balances to meet liabilities
  • Record keeping on inflows and outflows making the PM aware of activity in real time
  • Reviewing the daily cash flow reports from administrators, updating internal records and reporting movements to the PM
  • Pre and Post Trade compliance with respective regulatory obligations and investment objectives
  • Reviewing trade instructions against pre trade compliance checks and client mandates
  • Checking trade instructions and placing orders on client accounts across multiple custodians
  • Pre trade check of client holdings and cash against custodial records and PM's instruction.
  • Liaising with colleagues in the wider group on investor related queries
  • Working closely with key members of the wider group in relation to client needs and queries.
  • Maintenance of client portfolio records including daily P&L/performance records
  • Reconciling internal records against custodian and administrator files
  • Produce client portfolio models required for PM to plan trade activity. Providing the PM with up to date, accurate portfolio records reconciled against the custodian.
  • Maintenance of business critical records including the trade blotter and new business budget
  • Updating the new business budget as per daily inflows/outflows. This data is used by Fees as well as New Business when calculating quarterly billing. Updating the trade blotter and providing the document to Compliance on a daily basis
  • Regulatory obligations including trade reporting to regulator and TCF obligations
  • Creating the required report for uploading to the FCA regarding Transactions that must be reported on a daily basis
  • Liaise with custodians to resolve issues on client accounts as they arise
  • Build solid working relationships with all custodians and internal teams
  • Place trades, reconciling unmatched trades and maintenance of client portfolios
  • Instruct trades to custodians, resolve all trade issues and reflect trade activity in client portfolios.
  • Liaise with PM's, Prime Brokers and other Offices regarding dealing and settlement queries
  • To build a solid working relationship with key areas to ensure all trade and settlement queries are resolved as soon as possible
  • Monitor Corporate Actions and Dividend entitlements and ensure the process is followed correctly.
  • To instruct on Corporate Actions as per the client mandate and in a timely manner

requirements

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Undergraduate degree (preferably Financial/Engineering)
  • Relevant investment qualifications/part qualifications (e.g. CFA) would be advantageous
  • Proven experience working with numbers as there is no room for error
  • Experience within asset management industry across a range of Operational functions would be advantageous
  • Fully competent in Microsoft Office Suite with excellent level of excel
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Knowledge of Order Management Systems would be helpful
  • Excellent interpersonal skills as it is a small team

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

  • Trustworthy, diligent with a high level of integrity
  • Methodical and meticulous - high attention to detail
  • Ability to remain calm under pressure
  • Assertive/able to get one's views across
  • Interest in investment markets and equity investment