Senior Management Analyst - PSD

Job Title: Guideline Management – Senior Analyst

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: London
 

We are currently looking to recruit a Guideline Management Senior Analyst to join our team on a permanent basis in London.

The main purpose of the role is to interpret, input and monitor rules and guidelines for investment mandates and will act as a subject matter expert to the key business stakeholders surrounding Investment Restrictions, Regulations and Guidelines for IMA's and fund documentation as well as provide key consultancy to business stakeholders for utilising rule coding to solve operational needs.

Description

• Analyse and translate new and modified client mandates or portfolio prospectuses into effective automated compliance monitoring protocols for both pre and post-trade activities.
• Support daily investment monitoring investigating issues, resolving discrepancies, escalating concerns, and creating comprehensive reports for internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Configure and encode sophisticated investment parameters, regulatory requirements, and guidelines into the compliance system with precision and efficiency.
• Provide mentorship and training to junior team members on system functionality, coding techniques, testing methodologies, and navigation of essential tools, while establishing standardized best practices.
• Perform systematic reviews of current mandates to verify alignment with updated documentation, industry standards, and relevant regulatory requirements.
• Develop and implement technological enhancements using business intelligence tools, workflow automation, AI capabilities, and SQL database queries to improve efficiency and convert manual monitoring processes into automated solutions.
• Cultivate and maintain strategic relationships with key stakeholders across departments including Portfolio Management, Risk & Control, Product Development, Client Services, and external partners such as Trustees and Depositaries.

Requirements

• Established experiences within Investment Management.
• A high level of proficiency in the use of Blackrock Aladdin's Compliance Workbench as well as direct experiences in Pre & Post-Trade Monitoring ideally within Aladdin.
• Demonstrable knowledge of the regulatory framework across multiple jurisdictions but not limited to UCITS, AIFMD and Money Market Funds.
• Experiences in other Order & Portfolio Management Systems such as thinkFolio, Charles River, Bloomberg AIM, Eze or Enfusion beneficial.
• Post Trade analysis of active and passive breaches, including holding Fund Managers to account for investment decisions generating breaches.
• Able to clearly communicate with client teams.
• Experience of engaging with custodians, trustees, software & data vendors, technologists and third parties to explain complex processes, procedures and products.
• Experience of working on large projects with hard timelines for delivery.