Description
Our client, a large financial/investment institution, is currently looking to hire a Investment Guidelines Analyst, to join their team in London initially on a 6 month contract to start in January 2015.
Role Description:
The applicant will have the mission to perform Investment Guidelines activities to ensure the onboarding of portfolios (approximately 100) adopting the client end to end process:
- IG engineering: based on the legal documentations (prospectus and IMAs), identify the list of investment guidelines, worded in the clients standard and stored in CCS (internal tool). Request for a cross-check on the interpretation or cross-check of others. Get the fund manager approval on the interpretation. Identify the regulation, the required market data. Identify gaps with clients monitoring capabilities.
- Request for coding of the different Investment Guidelines: specifications for Data teams and Technology in case of gaps, test the results and compare them to the current Rosenberg controls. Identify rationales for discrepancies and propose solutions to be specified and implemented. Get the validation on the non-regression test.
- Participate in the validation of valued positions quality received from Northern Trust (derivatives, short sell).
- Participate in the interpretation of new regulation, if needed.
- Identify, store the internal investment guidelines. Request for coding in clients tools if possible.
Requirements:
Interpretation of guidelines; How to implement in a system in order to do controls; Legal document to translate to code systems with; Gap analysis (between systems and regulations).
Our requirements are for a modest/humble individual who is self-assured.
Profile & experience
Experience (6 years minimum) in Asset management - Investment Guidelines, Compliance, Risk monitoring or Compliance
Experience
Senior, min 6 years of experience in Investment Guidelines
Functional skills
- Asset management: investment guidelines, mainly equity assets.
- Compliance, Risk Management and Legal
- Market data
Mandatory technical skills
- Capacity to use new tools
Desirable technical skills
- Sentinel
Personal skills
- Team Spirit
- Analytical skills
- Communication
- Leadership and autonomy
Applicants should submit their CV at the first instance or call .