CRD Coding Assistant Manager
A unique and exciting new opportunity at a leading independent global asset management firm.It manages a broad spectrum of asset classes, including equities, fixed income, property and private equity .Headquartered in London, it is one of Europe’s largest investment managers
The CRD team is responsible for maintaining the CRD guideline monitoring system, fostering and developing effective guideline controls and providing assistance to the Compliance, Institutional and Product teams to ensure effective monitoring across a wide range of client and instrument types
Overview of the Role
The Assistant Manager, CRD will be part of the CRD Operations team
The main purpose of the role is to create and maintain guidelines within the CRD guideline monitoring system for pre- and post-trade guideline monitoring across a wide range of client and instrument types
Main Duties and Responsibilities· Creation, maintenance and testing of investment guidelines on Charles River guideline monitoring system· To liaise actively with the wider business to ensure identification and capture of new or amended client or regulatory requirements on a timely and complete basis.· To construct and test new or revised constraint rules and syntax, to ensure their implementation correctly delivers an improved control environment with minimal delay.· To obtain confirmation from Fund Management, Client Services or Product and Compliance teams to rule amendments, new client mandates and data upgrades, ensuring all such rule changes are interpreted correctly and any limitations understood.· To test data within the CRD system and reconcile constraints to fund documentation on a periodic basis to ensure completeness or identify and report on gaps.· To provide coding support to the Compliance Team in its daily monitoring function. · Provide advice and guidance to the Compliance department on restriction function and alert investigations.· To develop relationships with stakeholders in the investment management business to verify data accuracy and constraint interpretation, specifically: fund managers, centralised dealing, product development/management, compliance and operations/IT.· To prepare and maintain documentation on constraints and ensure these are reviewed periodically.· Assist in ad-hoc or project tasks for system and data enhancements/upgrades
Qualifications Required
Previous experience of working in asset management essential
Knowledge of Charles River or a similar guideline monitoring tool in a coding or monitoring role
Good knowledge of regulatory environments (UCITS, COLL, SICAV, NURS etc). · Experience of derivatives monitoring would be an advantage·
Please contact Fergus Hooley
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