Job Purpose:
- We seek a high calibre individual with strong analytical capability and excellent people management skills to manage a team of Equity Portfolio Administrators
- The team provides outsourced investment operations service provision to one of the industry’s largest institutional asset managers
Your Responsibilities:
- Responsible for ensuring that the team provides accurate and timely operational investment support to clients on a daily basis. Extensive liaison with the business in order to facilitate operational client service delivery
- Responsible for monitoring and oversight of daily processes and controls. Hands on approach and willingness to step in and ccomplete daily processes where coverage is required
- Ensure the ongoing implementation of standard global operating processes and procedures
- Support a culture of effective challenge to ensure efficiency of daily operational processes, recommend and implement identified appropriate changes and deliver continuous improvement
- Assign daily responsibilities clearly to the team members, manage and motivate the team. Complete tasks assigned in a timely manner managing expectations where appropriate
- Maintain effective working relationships and communications with the team members and ensure they are developed and supported
- This entails associated people management activities including goal setting, conducting performance reviews, talent development and recruitment
- Maintain the highest standards of conduct and integrity within the business and ensure compliance with industry practice, company policies, statute and regulatory requirements in all matters
- Manage operational risk within your team, regularly review and identify further opportunities for risk mitigation. Ensure all functional procedures are kept up to date
- Develop and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders including other business lines and corporate functions
- Attendance at internal and external meetings as required
- Work on ad hoc projects including system transformation as required
Skills and Qualifications:
- Robust experience within Investment Operations
- Degree qualified (or equivalent) with a financial or analytical discipline preferred
- Product Experience Desirable: Developed and Emerging Market Government Bonds, Convertibles and Corporates, FX spot and forwards, Exchange Traded Futures and Options, Repurchase Agreement. ETFs
- Proactive and determined. Willing to assume responsibility and take ownership of tasks assigned
- Ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities to meet internal and external deadlines
- Experience of managing a team, and managing through change
- Analytically minded with strong problem solving skills
- Experience and solid understanding of portfolio performance measurement
- Ability to build strong relationships with both internal and external clients
- Exposure to Bloomberg, Barclays POINT and Bloomberg PORT an advantage
- Strong MS Windows applications, specifically Excel.
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