Operations & Outsourcing Manager Accountancy & Finance Dublin 2
Lex Consultancy
- Southside Dublin
- Permanent
- Full-time
The Operations team is responsible for a broad range of activities, some of which are outlined below. The role will encompass a regulatory reporting element, including responsibility for the day-to-day oversight of the company's EMIR reconciliation programme.
Main Responsibilities:
- Daily Operations: Coordinating and overseeing the day-to-day activity of outsourcing Middle Office, Administration, Investment Team, settlement, ensuring the business day of the Management Company runs smoothly.
- Daily Oversight: of EMIR reconciliation programme.
- Daily Operations: Timely escalation and resolution of all potential and actual issues.
- Daily Operations: Facilitate the solution of settlement fails.
- Daily Operations: Reviewing reconciliations between counterparties, custodians and administrators, coordinating investigations among different outsourced service providers.
- Daily Middle Office: Dealing with Global Transfer Agent. and Local Transfer Agent. in projecting cash flows due to subscriptions/redemptions.
- Daily Middle Office: Liaise with investment managers and counterparties to ensure pre-trade, and trade matching issues are resolved on a timely manner.
- System Review: Ensure that Front Office system is up to date in terms of limits definitions, product set up and definitions.
- SLA Review: Design Process Management Flow with both Custodian and Administrator of Luxembourg and Irish Umbrella Fund.
- Oversight and Supervision of Service Providers: Including initial and ongoing due diligence, service review meetings review of monthly/quarterly/ ad-hoc and board reporting.
- Collaborating and overseeing the work of more junior team members and providing guidance as necessary.
- Management of Fund Services: Review the computation of the Ongoing Charges of the Fund Administrators, providing periodic Budget, Budget updates and reviewing the actual numbers with expectations, explaining main variations.
- Management of Distribution Requirements: In relation to Reporting of UCITS products, ability to manage the requirements and the expectations of the Distributors, regarding EMT, EPT, Look through insurance approach, PRIIPS.
- Ensure SLA/SLDs are periodically reviewed and kept up to date.
- Assist the Administrator(s) and Head of Operations in performing life cycle events on the sub-funds promoted by the Company (dividend distributions, maturities, etc, Company liquidations, mergers, etc).
- NAV check Operations: Perform periodic checks on NAV, validating derivative price and level 2 and level 3 prices.
- BOD Reporting: Prepare and distribute periodic reports to Investment Committee and the Board of Directors.
- Projects: Representing the operations team in various projects.
- Third level qualification in Accountancy, Finance or a Business discipline.
- Relevant 5+ years' experience in a Middle Office/ Operations/ Back Office function preferably within the capacity of Asset Management/Investment Management (preferable) or UCITS Management Company Experience.
- Exposure to regulatory reporting (EMIR, SFTR, etc.) and familiarity with reporting requirements
- Strong knowledge of UCITS, and other relevant financial products, instruments and markets.
- Essential skills: strong planning, problem solving, project management, stakeholder management
- Ability to work on own initiative and to meet deadlines.
- Comfortable dealing with ambiguity.
- Well organized with strong time management skills.
- Be enthusiastic and eager to learn, self-starter.
- Enrolment in professional programs is a plus, as is evidence of continuous self-development.
- Fluency in English.