Our client, a respected boutique Asset Manager, is seeking a an experienced Operations Manager to lead their Investment Operations team. The role focuses on leading a small, experienced team in supporting all investment operations activities, including trade settlement, corporate actions, regulatory reporting (MIFIR, EMIR, SFTR, and Post Trade), and maintaining static data.

Role & Responsibilities

• Manage the team activities and performance to ensure delivery of service levels in line with SLAs, client and regulatory requirements, and ensure no business disruption.
• Ensure the team is appropriately skilled and high performing, promote continual development and the values and behaviours of the firm’s culture.
• Foster a culture of financial awareness, optimise resource allocation and drive cost saving initiatives where possible without compromising quality or strategy goals.
• Lead projects aiming to enhance the department and wider firm processes, including for example to leverage technology and build a data-centric infrastructure.
• Collate, report and present management information related to the team’s activities accurately and on time.
• Ensure all trade related tasks are performed accurately and on time, including trade matching, settlement, managing trade exceptions and fail trades, counterparties’ standard settlement instructions (SSI) maintenance.
• Ensure operations tasks related to derivatives (exchange-traded and OTC) trading, including instructions, margins and reconciliations are completed accurately and on time.
• Ensure elective and mandatory corporate actions are processed both internally and with custodians.
• Ensure custodian static data including SSIs is always up to date.
• Ensure daily reconciliations with counterparties including custodians and clearers are completed accurately and in a timely manner.
• Ensure breaks are identified, reported and followed up all the way through resolution.
• Ensure accuracy of the static data maintained by the team within key systems including SimCorp Dimension.

Background & Experience

• Minimum 7 years of demonstrated investment operations experience including all aspects of trade matching, settlement, corporate actions and reconciliations.
• Experience supporting operations for equities and fixed income products.
• Experience with derivatives is not required but would be beneficial.
• Understanding of market infrastructure (brokers, custodians), interacting with market players and stakeholders, maintaining relationships with them.
• Regulatory reporting experience (e.g. MIFIR, EMIR, SFTR obligations).
• Experience maintaining and validating investment data in various systems.
• Experience with trade matching systems such Omgeo CTM & ALERT.
• Experience with swift payments and messages (including generation).
• Regulatory reporting systems such as UnaVista, DTCC or Trax.
• Experience using order management systems such as Dimension, Charles River, Aladdin would be a distinct advantage.
• Experience of reconciliations systems such as Corona.

Please note that due to the high volume of applicants responding to our adverts we are regrettably not able to feedback on all applications; only successful candidates will be contacted.