Investment Reporting Administrator

Lancashire  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Our major financial services client are currently looking for an Investment Reporting Administrator (Monthly Valuations) to work at their Manchester office.

*6 Month Contract Initially*

Department - Institutional Accounting Manchester

Department/Team Overview

Institutional Accounting provides portfolio accounting and reporting as a value added service to clients of the BNYM core custody business. The service provides the delivery, to agreed deadlines, of an audited market valuation for a portfolio or group of portfolios, together with supporting transaction details.

This team's primary focus is to work in partnership with our clients, providing a complete and independent investment reporting package.

We service a range of clients which include Corporate Pension Funds, Government Pension Funds, Central Banks, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Insurance Companies, and Investment Managers.

These clients invest in the full range of financial instruments that include Equities, Bonds, Forward and Spot FX, Derivatives and Money Market instruments amongst others.

Reports to (to whom the person directly reports)

Investment Reporting Team Leader

Overall responsibility (overview of the role)

The role of an Investment Reporting Specialist is to audit a range of investment portfolios, primarily on a monthly basis. This entails the validation of positions, prices, income and transactions between the records of BNY Mellon and Investment Managers of the Bank's clients.

An Investment Reporting Specialist will be part of a team that works in partnership with our clients, providing a complete and independent investment reporting package. This includes period-end, regulatory, and financial reporting.

Key areas of responsibility (Bullet points of specific responsibilities)

  • Provide frequent and consistent communication with team members, ensuring that any potential internal or external service level breaches are escalated. This should include communications relating to the following areas: internal/external client(s), team and individual deadlines.
  • Assist to maintain a high level of morale within the team and department by displaying a positive, productive and professional work ethic.
  • Open strong communication links with other operational areas and key service providers to establish standardisation in working practices whenever possible.
  • Identify and develop improved working practices to increase efficiency and mitigate risk with a key focus on root cause analysis to reduce operational queries
  • All mandatory training to be completed by the stipulated deadline.
  • Timely (all internal and external deadlines met within control) and accurate completion of investment portfolios.
  • Ensure that Client expectations are fully managed and either met or exceeded in relation to resolution of queries.
  • Ensure business practices and controls are understood for all clients including those that deviate from the standard service offering.
  • Develop own knowledge, to include the operational procedures within the department and those of our internal stakeholders.
  • Develop financial products knowledge in order to ensure the team and departmental procedures reflect current market developments and client requirements.

Skills and experience (necessary and desired skills and experience required)

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Results focused
  • Well organised in order to meet tight deadlines and client expectations
  • Strive for excellence with a conscientious approach
  • Effective team worker
  • Good attention to detail
  • Flexible and adaptable
  • Demonstrate a strong client service ethic
  • Intermediate or above knowledge of Excel
  • Working conditions and other information (working hours, full time, permanent etc.)
  • 9am - 5pm
  • Monday - Friday
  • Overtime often required around key deliverable deadlines
Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 months
From
Pontoon
Published at
05.07.2017
Project ID:
1374512
Contract type
Freelance
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