Description
OTC On-boarding Specialist
London
12 months initially
Pontoon has received 4 excellent opportunities to join one of our blue chip, Investment Management clients based in London as an OTC On-boarding Specialist, to provide a comprehensive internal customer-focused service in support of the organisations growth and goals, maintaining quality targets and standards while building exceptional collaborative working relationship with sell side counter-parties.
Principal Accountabilities/Performance Objectives:
- Proactively manage the OTC and Repo Broker documentation pipeline
- Maintain accurate and current data base of ISDA and GMRA documentation
- Interpret and provide guidance in operational terminology in relation to CSA/GMRA terms to relevant operation teams.
- Identify and highlight nonstandard CSA/GMRA terms which will impact the operating model.
- Build and maintain collaborative relationship with Legal Negotiation team.
- Ensure function continues to support the service provisions and workflow organised appropriately.
- Participate in other aspects of the OTC/Broker Operational On-Boarding process when required.
- Identify processes and service enhancements, or potential risks, to ensure the client service provided is of the highest standard and remains fully compliant.
- Undertake quality assurance of work to ensure errors are minimised.
- Represent the team, department in a professional, collaborative, and commercially aware manner, developing good working relationships with all internal and external parties.
- Ensure the system infrastructure is robust, trusted and supports the longer term department strategies and enables efficient operational service delivery in compliance with all internal and regulatory requirements.
- Maintain detailed knowledge of Industry and ISDA changes that will impact the Operating model.
- Continuous review of procedures, policies, systems and issues. Recommend changes to procedures and implement, ensuring that they are scalable, repeatable and efficient..
- Continuous review and improvement of the Risk framework within the function.
- Work collaboratively with peers to share best practise and create awareness of issues throughout the department.
- Ensure superlative service levels are maintained to both internal and external parties.
- Produce insightful and meaningful MI reporting to management highlighting trends, analysis, errors.
- Responsible for sharing market information to relevant internal departments. Identify issues/changes which impact teams across Investment Operations
- Robust management and implementation of projects/initiatives relevant to function.
- Challenge established methods, explore and promote new ideas or ways of working with the buy in and enthusiasm from team.
- Ensure relevant numbers of ISDA/GMRA's across all required brokers are available to trade for the relevant Fund/account by the deadline stated.
- Ensure all relevant systems are set up accurately and timely fashion to ensure business can execute the required investment strategy without impacting other teams and functions.
- Participate in the on-going relationship with brokers fostering a collaborative approach to improve service levels.
The Requirements:
- Strong technical investment process knowledge/experience relevant to role.
- Proven experience of managing a similar function.
- Strong experience/skills in oversight and implementation of controls.
- Constantly challenge established methods and to look at promoting new ideas with the buy in and enthusiasm from your team.
- Proven track record of dealing with and influencing upwards to more senior managers.
- Collaborative and personalised approach to service commitment, delivery and continuous improvement.
- Confident liaising across, Front Office, Investment Operations and Legal environments.
- Evidence of effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Flexible, adaptable and able to multi-task in a fast paced and changeable environment.
- Ability to grasp issues, find creative and innovative solutions to problems.
- Ability to successfully debate and subsequently influence internally & externally
- Strong communication skills both verbally and written, with an ability to articulate issues clearly and logically.
- Strong analytical and written skills.
- Developed presentation skills.
Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.
Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.
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