A leading Global Invesment Management Firm are looking for an Assistant Manager to join their Trade Management Services team
Key Responsibilities
High Level Team Activities:
- Work with the global TMS teams to build a framework (Such as RCSA) that evidences, on an ongoing basis, effective monitoring and management oversight of key controls which satisfies both internal and external audits
- Working with the global TMS team with designing, implementing and embedding a forward-looking risk plan in order to be proactive rather than reactive.
- Assisting in the management of risk events and errors involving TMS, ensuring they are effectively captured, investigated, and remediated in a timely manner
- Assisting with the closure of action plans associated with risk events in a timely manner
- Support the Risk and Control Self-Assessment refresh activity
- Supporting the teams in preparing various forum packs
- Represent department on initial project calls / fund launches confirming scope, requirement, timelines and impacted groups.
- Produce and maintain centralised project tracker covering all TMS related change, and providing updates to internal stakeholders
- Assist the team managers with the coordination with the various internal stakeholders, as well as the external auditors, to
ensure successful outcomes of the audit programme (i.e. no qualifications or loss of certifications).
- Assisting with the coordination of the creation of our BCPs and exit plan documentation, keeping track of renewals and re-certification.
Experience and Qualifications Required
The successful candidate will have a good day to day knowledge of the Post Trade Operations lifecycle and have a working knowledge of trade processing (E.g. one or all of the following, Derivatives, FX, Securities & Collateral). The successful candidate will have had experience on identifying logging and processing risk events, they will have a basic understanding of audit processes and be in a position to coordinate and support the wider TMS team on projects and fund launches.
Essential Skills:
Key Competencies:
Shows initiative and desire to learn tasks
Takes ownership for own workload and coordinate workload of other teams for common projects and launches
Developing Industry knowledge and awareness
Ability to explain processes and issues and articulate themselves well to larger audiences
Ability to produce and interpret MI via various mediums, including utilizing Power BI
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