ASSET SERVICING ANALYST recruitment
The Company has brought together established teams into a new centre of excellence - the Asset Administration Business Centre (AABC) - to support the delivery of asset administration across Company group businesses.
The Company are looking for a number of articulate individuals with detailed investments knowledge and experience, with a strong attention to detail, to act as AABC Subject Matter Experts. The successful candidate will effectively manage clients' assets and money by carrying out oversight, control and process type functions for investment core services in a platform environment. This will minimise the financial impact of errors, regulatory failure and avoid damage to the Company’s reputation.
Core Responsibilities:
- Work with the Head of AABC Operational Development, Service Delivery Managers and colleagues to identify process and service enhancements, or potential risks, to ensure the client service provided is of the highest standard and remains fully compliant.
- Represent the team, department, and AABC division in a professional, collaborative, and commercially aware manner, developing good working relations with all internal and external parties.
- Investigate complex outstanding items / business issues, and rectify anomalies to ensure high-level of customer service and accurate transactions.
- Produce MI reporting to management highlighting trends/analysis/errors and providing fit for purpose commentary.
- Complete the full range of administrative tasks in respect of our customers, referring where necessary to Team Manager for guidance.
- Support business processing where required.
- Maintain a detailed knowledge of platform operation processes and systems.
- End to end understanding of their tasks and how they relate/impact to all processes within AABC Operations.
- Undertake quality assurance of work of peers to ensure errors are minimised and the customer receives best quality service/data/information.
- Recommend changes to procedures and participate in their implementation, ensuring that they are scalable, repeatable and efficient.
- Support the on going development of the AABC 2012 Business Plan.
Core Skills:
- Strong analytical skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Strong problem identification and solving skills.
- A proven track record of delivering excellent customer service in a customer facing or office environment.
- Strong communication skills both verbal and written, with an ability to articulate issues clearly and logically.
- A high level of accuracy.
- Numerical skills.
Core Requirements:
- With a proven track record of delivering excellent customer service, strong technical investment knowledge and an ability to creatively solve problems.
- Strong Mutual funds, Bonds and/or SIPP administration experience.
- Good level of knowledge of the product life cycles and the associated operational duties / processes.
- Good level of oversight and processing knowledge in Dealing, Corporate Actions, Income, Client Money, Asset Cash reconciliation, Tax, Data, Systems, Pricing and Transfers, as conducted within AABC.
- Strong technical investment process knowledge.
- Strong experience / skills in oversight controls.
- Detailed data collection input.
- Experience of operating within a Custodian, Investment Operations experience of mutual funds and equities.
- Brokerage firm experience.
- Experience of dealing with external Fund Managers.
- Experience of dealing with data vendors.
- Knowledge of FSA rule books CASS, COBS, SYSC and COLL.
- Knowledge of HMRC rule books.
- Desirable:
- WRAP, Fundzone Retail platform knowledge.
- IMC qualified/or working towards.
- IAQ qualified/or working towards.
- Knowledge of Bravura, Rufus/GTA platforms.
- Knowledge of data vendors e.g. Bloomberg, Telekurs.
- Experience of process mapping.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel.
- Risks, Controls and Audit experience.
Core-Asset Consulting offer specialist recruitment services to the Investment Banking, Financial Services, Secretarial Support, and Human Resources markets across Scotland.
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