Investment Analyst - JJ Search

The Company: 

This role is a 12 month FTC

Our client is a highly successful and expanding 

Investment Management firm, widely recognised with an excellent reputation based in London.

The Role: 

This is a great opportunity for a candidate that has real in-depth knowledge and understanding of Fund Operations. The Investment Operations Analyst

will support the Fund Operations Manager in day-to-day trade operations activities for the firm’s fund range, as well as support the creation and ongoing administration of new sub-funds within an existing UCITS structures as required. It is essential that the right candidate has knowledge around how funds function operationally including the day-to-day reconciliation and administration of the funds is essential.

The Investment Operations Analyst will be highly experienced around the day-to-day reconciliation and administration of Funds and the Operational processes with working knowledge of hedged share classes and subsequent administration being highly desirable.

The Investment Operations Analyst will perform day to day fund administration of in-house managed funds including; daily cash subscription and withdrawal monitoring, FX administration, Cash and stock reconciliation and facilitating margin calls.

The Investment Operations Analyst will take responsibility for all corporate actions processing, including monitoring up and coming events, managing elections and dividend processing. 

The Investment Operations Analyst will take charge with all system data management such as any new instrument setup, managing all reference data, Benchmark setups, Dividend processing and Investment team queries.  

The Investment Operations Analyst is to deal with the daily reconciliations of the firm’s IBOR to external custodian, UCITS Compliance Rules Monitoring and the production and maintenance of policies, procedures and workflows relating to the creation and day to day maintenance of fund management

The Candidate

An understanding of Investment Fund operations with a working knowledge of hedged share classes desirable.

Understanding of the trade lifecycle and associated areas within investment operations.

Technically minded with the ability to create new processes from scratch, such as analysis on service profitability and reconciliation processes.

Knowledge of CASS

Excellent Microsoft product skills, especially Excel

Solid understanding of Wealth Management services and the industry as a whole