Cash and Collateral Operations Analyst (Senior)

Job Description

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group. Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:

• interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.

• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.

• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

About the Department

Our Operations team are committed to delivering a truly global, scalable and efficient operating platform at the heart of establishing and maintaining equilibrium in the firm, powering the investment management process and global distribution. They also play a core role in facilitating the product development process, fostering innovation and working with a range of trusted global third-party providers to ensure world class service provision.

About The Role

Public Market Operations plays a key role in powering the investment management process. Our aim is to provide our stakeholders with value-add investment performance insights, exceptional value from our platform/data vendors and an enabling innovation partner. All underpinned by a service culture and a focus on our clients.

In this position you will report to the Cash and Collateral Senior Manager within Public Market Operations, and will be responsible for performing Cash, FX and Collateral Operations related activity in a variety of forms. You will be expected to learn BAU activity initially, whilst also getting involved in a wide variety of complex queries and projects as your knowledge develops.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing Trade Support services for FX and Money Market instruments (Deposits/CDs/CPs/Liquidity Sweep/Repo), working closely with the FX and Money Market Investment teams.

• Being the first point of contact within Operations for Fund Managers and Client Relationship Managers who have queries on Cash related items, and representing the team on service review meetings with these colleagues. This extends to understanding the challenges of these stakeholders and identifying where our team can assist.

• Overseeing Margin processes and Collateral Management.

• Identifying and implementing process improvements, utilising the available technology tools.

• Management of supplier service in relation to Cash and Collateral activities with an outsourced Middle Office and Custodian.

• Management of broker relationships through service review meetings.

• Oversight of the investigation and resolution of complex issues across multiple systems, data flows and user groups.

• Working with Custodians to ensure FX Standing Instruction setups are in place and accurately recorded on Aberdeen systems.

• Investigation of overdrafts including root cause, devising ways to prevent reoccurrence.

• Assisting with presenting on team activities, successes and issues to senior management.

About The Candidate

• This position will be suitable for an experienced Senior/Technical analyst, with a wealth of experience in Investment Operations

• Cash, Trade Support and/or Collateral knowledge.

• Experience of creating and nurturing long-term relationships, particularly with Fund Managers, Traders and Client Relationship teams. This includes orchestrating complex query resolution where input is required from multiple teams.

• Track record of both delivery of small scale local change, as well as participating as a department SME in strategic firmwide projects.

• The ability to work in a diverse and demanding environment managing conflicting priorities with calm and ease – delivering a seamless stakeholder service.

• The ability and tenacity to drive change through to completion and a naturally curious and inquisitive mind-set.

• Strong knowledge of the asset management industry and of overseeing an outsourced operating model.

• IOC or IMC qualifications desired.

Our benefits

There\’s more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefitshere.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we dohere.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.

At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone. If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist. #J-18808-Ljbffr