Asset Associate - Transact

Job Description

We are recruiting an exciting opportunity for a Custody Asset Transfer Associate!

The Client Accounting Department's overarching responsibility is to ensure that all client funds and assets are accurately recorded within portfolios and reconciled as frequently as possible, in compliance with CASS regulations. The Asset Transfers team are responsible for timely and accurate completion of in specie asset transfers both on and off the platform. This role is a great opportunity to deepen your understanding of how investment assets flow through the back office of a leading investment platform.

Responsibilities include

• Updating client portfolios on a timely and accurate basis, to reflect client assets reregistering on and off the platform.
• Managing and controlling our UK and overseas listed in specie asset transfers, liaising with our custodians daily and arranging Trade & Settlement for our CRESTable assets.
• Monitoring our in-specie electronic transfers using the Transfer Management Grid (Calastone), Origo and Equisoft.
• Contacting third party providers in order to chase outstanding transfers.
• Investigating queries that may arise from other departments across the business.
• Seeking to improve transfer processes across the company to improve the transfer experience for our clients

Person Specification

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a proactive approach, taking full ownership of tasks and delivering results within tight timeframes. Confidence in handling large volumes of complex data with accuracy is essential.

We offer a competitive remuneration package, including company discretionary bonus, excellent pension contributions, an attractive staff share scheme, BUPA health insurance, buying and selling of annual leave and sponsorship of relevant professional qualifications.

The role is based in our central London office, working a minimum of two days a week in the office and three days a week from home.

About Us

Transact is a leading UK investment wrap platform for financial advisers and their clients. Our culture is collaborative, inclusive and open-minded. We work hard to continually challenge the way we do things to maintain our market leading status.

As a customer-centric and client focused business, we put our clients, like Mrs Miggins, at the heart of everything we do.

Our platform enables clients and their advisers to manage their financial portfolio in one single online place, and is supported by unrivalled personal service. Our goal is to make all aspects of portfolio management as easy and efficient as possible for everyone involved, through the features we develop, our integrations with other systems, and the support we provide.

Our purpose : We enable the Miggins family and their adviser to hold their investments on a single platform across wrappers. We provide custody, tax wrapping, trading and reporting.

Our strategy : We make financial planning easier for advisers by delivering great service. Our platform helps advisers grow revenues and reduce risk and cost in their business. We will always have control of our technology, wrappers and service.

Our values : We do the right thing for customers, advisers, staff, shareholders, suppliers and the wider community.

Transact's parent company, IntegraFin Holdings plc, is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 index. Established in 2000, today we have over £65.9 billion of funds under direction on behalf of over 8,000 advisers and 241,000 investor clients (as at March 2025).

Equal Opportunities

We provide a diverse and inclusive workplace and ensure that all of our staff respect and understand individual differences. We are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.