Investment Operations Manager
A rare opportunity exists for an accomplished Retail Funds Operations Manager to join an entrepreneurial investment management firm with a difference and at a time of exponential growth and evolution.
As Operations Manager you will work in a stand-alone, high profiled role responsible for all operational processes, performance reporting and general control and oversight of the funds managed by the group.
Your technical knowledge will include:
- Operations Managers will come from a hands-on operations capacity from either an asset manager focused on retail funds or from a retail platform also from a solid operations background.
- Prior experience of managing and liaising with Brokers Platforms
- A detailed knowledge of UCITS funds, structures and regulatory frameworks
- Your investment knowledge will cover front to back trade flows and controls (to include security custody corporate actions)
- Understanding of subscription and redemption cycles to include information flow, impact on NAV, commission arrangements
- Your retail fund product knowledge will include insurance related investments, mirror funds, broker discretionary holdings
- An excellent understanding of custody structures and how banks and insurance platforms hold client investments
- Delivery of change initiatives and process engineering across operations working and working with third party administrators to deliver process improvements
- Prior exposure to dealing to include corporate actions, attribution, service level agreements, commission and TOBs
- Compliance knowledge and aptitude to own and resolve compliance issues
- Prior experience of preparing and updating KIIDs
- Tracking un-matched deals ensuring the correct commissions are paid to intermediaries.
Candidates will demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills coupled with proven leadership skills to lead a small team, work effectively across the business and to manage external vendors and prime broker relationships.
The successful incumbent may come from a retail fund platform provider as an Operations Manager with a detailed technical knowledge of retail funds particularly UCITS or may come from a fund management firm specialising in retail funds.
This is a high profiled role requiring candidates to be educated to degree level coming from a retail funds background.
This is truly an exceptional opportunity which will suit an Operations Manager looking to make a significant impact and directly help mould a business and its proposition in the market place.
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