J.P. Morgan'sInvestment Information Services (IIS) is a suite of products that includes performance, risk and compliance reporting along with an overarching data strategy to provide a best-in-class, fully integrated suite of data and analytics services. This includes Compliance Reporting to ensure adherence to regulation and Performance Reporting to track investment performance.
Performance and Risk Analytics (PRA) supports the bank’s institutional asset owner and asset manager clients with technologies that provide insights into the result of their investment decisions throughout the investment lifecycle. This is achieved through various analytical tools and reports including performance measurement, attribution and contribution analysis, risk analysis and other value-added services such as portfolio optimization and manager analysis.
As a Fund Servicing Analyst for IIS, you will be exposed to a wide gamut of financial products, including Equities, Fixed Income securities and Complex Assets. You will be responsible for interpreting guidelines, building investment rules, investigating potential violations. You will also be responsible for conducting preliminary performance analyses of investment portfolios including basic attribution analysis, exposures, and rates of return against objectives. In the course of your work, you will bepartnering with the investment manager and/or the client to assess their needs and provide solutions.
Job responsibilities
- Interpret guidelines & investment mandates to build logic-based rules for compliance monitoring.
- Understand client requirements on prospectus / rule changes and implement them on the platform.
- Analyze investment exceptions which includes analysis of portfolio holdings, composition, historical transactions & data to verify compliance.
- Close exceptions on the compliance platform through communication with the client/fund manager for true exceptions and upstream teams for data / coding gaps.
- Conduct preliminary performance analyses of investment portfolios including basic attribution analysis, exposures, and rates of return against objectives.
- Assist in the onboarding of new clients and participate in service reviews, due diligence meetings, and RFI/P presentations as needed.
- Prepare & deliver manual regulatory and client reports.Maintain accurate and timely reporting for clients, ensuring data integrity and resolving basic workflow exceptions.
- Monitor and ensure all Client Mailbox queries are resolved with a sense of urgency and rule coding requests are being routed to be worked upon per timelines.
- Participate in client calls for projects undertaken.
- Participate in new client onboarding process by providing functional expertise.
- Keep clients abreast on any tactical changes.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics or related field with minimum 3 years’work experience in financial services industry, Mutual fund, Stock broking or related industry.
- Proficiency in relevant software applications and systems used for post-trade compliance monitoring and reporting
- Exhibit knowledge of asset management industry including operation of mutual and pension funds.
- Have a good understanding of complex instruments, fixed income and equity products.
- Analytical skills to create logic-based investment rules.
- High standard of accuracy and strong attention to detail
- Good organization skills – ability to prioritize workloads and adhere to stringent timelines.
- Good communication & interpersonal skills to build relationship with internal and external stakeholders.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience in post-trade compliance roles within investment banks or asset management firms.
- Working knowledge in guideline coding on compliance systems e.g., Charles River, Sentinel, Aladdin
- Fair knowledge of global regulatory requirements impacting post-trade activities e.g., UCITS, IRS, 1940 Act, Money market regs, etc.
- Certification course in CRD, SOX, 1940 Act, European regulations preferred.
- Working knowledge in FactSet tool