Client onboarding operations/Fund Events involves Reconciliations, Processing, Validating Transactions, Resolving Inquiries, Accounting Transitions, Process Automation & Efficiencies and Serving.
Job responsibilities:
- Onboarding including tax, accounting transitions and accounting data. Analyze the tax impact of all transitions including new client onboarding and restructures
- Understand training needs/solutions and implement them to maintain team skill sets and mobility. Coaching and developing staff including formal priorities setting, performance reviews
- Upload and process all components of transitions as per the client’s instruction and project plan into accounting systems
- Liaising with other internal teams for the timely resolution of all queries relating to transition processing. Incremental transitions and restructures of existing clients records.
- Reconcile all positions on boarded to original source information ensuring all positions have been on boarded correctly, including both accounting and tax records to incumbent custodian
- Establish policies, procedures, and guidelines which comply with internal and external controls to continuously strengthen the controls environment
- Partnering with upstream and downstream teams to ensure that the Onboarding controls agenda is clearly understood to facilitate its delivery
- Documenting the existence and effectiveness and periodically reviewing the Client Specifics and Standard Operating Procedures
- Ensure operations gaps are discussed in the Hub governance and that issues are logged, remediated and closed. Supporting Internal and External Audit in the execution of operational risk control reviews
- Develop and implement efficient and standardized workflows within the team as well as various points of hand offs.
- Amendable to work on projects and understands Middle Office/FA end to end, can interact directly with end clients and onshore partners. Should be able handle ambiguity and flexible with work hours as projects come from all 3 regions of the globe.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Graduate / Post graduate with bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics
- Knowledge of Middle Office operations, Mutual and Pension Funds, Fund Accounting, GAAP accounting, GAV Recon, and Account Reconciliation
- Knowledge of Fund Accounting components including the Securities industry, dividends, principal and interest, corporate actions, and trading activity
- Leadership background and team management experience
- Ability to lead team and work across regions
- Ability to work in a deadline driven environment
- Ability to influence and engage key stakeholders
- Problem solver and solution oriented
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Client focused and control oriented
- Proficient use of MS office
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Minimum of 14 years’ experience in Financial Sector industry