TMS - Change, Risk & Governance Assistant Manager

Job Description

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:

• Working knowledge of the post trade operational processes preferably across multiple asset classes
• An understanding and previous exposure to Identifying Tracking and logging of risk events
• An understanding or previous exposure to fund audit & controls Audit reviews
• A good communicator able to support the TMS CRG managers to distribute and monitor the ongoing fund launches and projects for TMS
• Ability to recognise and solve emerging problems, escalating as required.
• Ability to manipulate and interpret data e.g. strong Microsoft Excel skills, and a strong preference with a candidate with Power BI knowledge however training will be provided. SQL knowledge is beneficial however not essential
• A good awareness of Investment Management Operations and the connection to asset servicing and NAV production.
• Awareness of the evolving regulatory landscape.

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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