Description
Core-Asset Consulting's clients, an international investment organisation, are looking for a Manager (Asset Servicing Support) for an initial contract of 12 months based in their Edinburgh office.
Core responsibilities:
- Responsible for reviewing, monitoring and controlling service deliverables for send and receive site functions.
- Agreeing with relevant parties' resolution and action plans to meet targets and identify improvement opportunities, resulting in improved operational productivity and better service delivery
- Pro-actively highlight exceptions to processes, such as failure to perform work eg. reconciliations and breaches
- Providing SME support for project activities which may include review of requirements, functional specifications and providing testing support including test script production
- Provide functional and advanced technical expertise for functional area of ownership
- Identify and facilitate the implementation of process improvement opportunities
- Act as a focal point facilitating the escalation of critical business issues facing operational departments
- Act as an escalation contact for internal parties
- Monitor and provide assistance in managing headcount
- Provide assistance for business development opportunities, responding to IT requests, prospects and extension of client mandates
- Systems development - assisting product and service delivery teams in defining requirements for test script update
- Providing expertise to assist with system testing requirements
- Responsible for transformation stability - new process transformation and quality improvement working with best practice and transformation
Core skills:
- First class interpersonal and communication skills
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Able to work on own initiative and as part of a team
Core requirements:
- Thorough knowledge of Investment Administration and Middle Office functions - ideally Corporate Actions
- Experience of dealing directly with external clients, brokers, fund managers and custodians
- Ideally educated to degree level
- Managerial/supervisory experience essential
- FSA Threshold competent
- Knowledge of the securities industry
- Ability to communicate effectively both in writing and verbally
- Ability to plan and organise workload to meet deadlines, taking into account relative priorities
- Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with colleagues
- Strong business sense and awareness of the key issues/risks within the Operations
Job reference: 8323
To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.
Core-Asset Consulting offers specialist recruitment services to asset management, accounting & finance, asset servicing, legal and the wider financial services sector in Scotland.