Senior Manager, Investment Operations

Key Responsibilities

Investment Operations

• Approve investment portfolio reconciliations among custodian, fund manager and Bloomberg to ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Manage day-to-day trade settlement, pre & post trade support, activities for Group Entities and Hong Kong.
• Provide trade support to the investment front office in Group Entities and Hong Kong.
• Supervise the cash and currency operations for Group Entity and Hong Kong investment teams ensuring timely execution of required funding activities.
• Work with counterparties to establish ISDA and CSA agreements in support of the derivative program.
• Manage bank and custodian KYC requests, regulatory and audit requests as required.
• Review and approve alternative asset transaction entry

Bloomberg Subject Matter Expert

• Responsible for external asset manager trade feeds into Bloomberg AIM and working with Asset Managers & Bloomberg to establish new feeds when necessary.
• Responsible for trade feeds from Bloomberg AIM to Clearwater and establishing new feeds as required.
• Seek Group Operations approval for required Bloomberg setups.
• Provide group-wide Bloomberg support.
• Optimize the use of various Bloomberg modules and are integrated with Funnelweb, Investment Data Repository and Clearwater.

Data Management

• Establish and manage a group-wide ISDA & CSA repository and ensure group-wide governance processes and adhered to.
• Ensure standards for Bloomberg setups are adhered to and managed appropriately (i.e. portfolios, securities, transactions, etc).

Key Performance Indicators

• Number of trade processing errors
• No unexplained or approved overdraft charges
• Achieve 90% automation of Bloomberg AIM and Clearwater trade feeds

External & Internal Contacts

• Internal
  • Group Investment Operations Team
  • Local offices’ Investment Operations team
  • Group Investments
  • ICOE Investment Operations
• External
  • Asset Managers
  • Bloomberg
  • Custodians
  • Brokers
  • Collateral manager

Decision Making

• In conjunction with the Head of the ICOE make staffing related decisions for direct reports
• Approve cash and currency transactions.
• Approve alternative asset transaction entry.

Qualification & Requirements

Qualification/Experience

• University degree in Accounting/Business/Finance or related fields.
• 10+ years of experience working in middle office operations, collateral support, trading processing.

Knowledge & Technical Skills

• Business Knowledge
  • Solid knowledge of financial products
  • Working level knowledge of collateral management, ISDA and CSA documentation is required Knowledge of Private Equity and Alternative Credit products is an asset
• Technical Skills
  • Advanced knowledge of Bloomberg AIM is required
  • Investment Accounting Systems (PAM, FAM, Portia, Clearwater, etc) is an asset
  • Microsoft Office
• Management Skills
  • Experience in leading small teams in an Investment Operations environment is preferred.
  • Clarity in communication and being an active listener.
  • Provide constructive feedback and build a high performing team.
  • Being empathic with a desire to help others.

Competencies

• Able to work independently or as part of a team.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Good command of both spoken and written English
• Understanding interdependencies and interconnections of systems; seeing the big picture rather than the parts.
• Being flexible and adaptable for change.
• Learning from mistakes and desire to improve.

Benefits

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