Vendor Oversight Associate

Role: Vendor Oversight Associate

Working Hours: 8.30am - 6.30pm

Start date: ASAP

Duration: 6 months (inside IR35/Umbrella company) - Likely Extension

Location: Central London, 5 days per week onsite

The Role – Vendor Oversight Associate

The role entails working in the Transfer Agency Vendor Oversight area of the ESS team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the following functions.

• Oversight and supervision of investor trade and transfer requests, cash/trade reconciliation and settlement, processed by the external TA vendor.
  
• Interactive investor flow notification with the liquidity funds’ portfolio management teams
  
• Co-ordination and execution of fund dividends and TA bank account related processes, such as bank charges, interest claims, unsettled trades, class fee reconciliation and foreign exchanges.
  
• Oversight activity will be spread across our Dublin, Luxembourg, Cayman and externally managed fund ranges.
  
• Automation and integration of trading, settlement, reporting and service solutions to investors, in conjunction with the Platform Support team
  
• Ongoing review and maintenance of internal policies and procedures with a view to increasing automation, scalability, and outsourcing of tasks to external vendors with appropriate controls and cost efficiencies
  
• Co-ordination of new fund and share class launches and set-up on internal and external systems and platforms, working closely with Platform Services, product development and the funds group teams
  
• Provision of management/board reporting, vendor KPI reporting and information for ad-hoc management requests.
  

The candidate will be required to work with senior members of the division and cover both day to day and project related tasks relevant to the activities mentioned in the summary above.

Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree with good academic record or equivalent gained through relevant work experience.
  
• High level of accuracy and the ability to maintain this standard whilst under pressure from reporting deadlines.
  
• Excellent communication, organisation, and multi-tasking skills with ability to set own priorities.
  
• Highly motivated and team focused but able to work independently to solve problems Exposure to project-based work, especially with thinking through and delivering policy and process improvements.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of transfer agency function/workings.
  
• Knowledge of mutual fund transfer agent operations, processing, and compliance standards.
  
• Knowledge of multi-currency domestic/cross border payments.
  
• Experience in the banking/asset management industry.