Investment Operations Specialist

at  B K Consulting

Client

• Our client is a specialist Investment Management firm, which has a highly specialist investment approach - global equities being their area of expertise
• A true boutique of 11 staff, with this role being the 3rd member of the operations team
• This is a newly created role, which is effectively the 2iC to the Head of Investment Operations
• Highly successful and high achieving business

Day to Day Duties:

Key responsibilities for this role include:

• Unit price review
• Daily and monthly reconciliations
• Fund flows and platform flows reporting
• Data requests
• Preparation of reports
• Fund data upload to Morningstar, eVestment, Lonsec, Zenith etc
• Rebate administration
• Client service
• Spot FX trading
• Equities trading via outsource brokers
• Active ETF operations - Primary market trade instructions, ASX disclosures, Market Maker monitoring
• Trade lifecycle management - including matching and settlements monitoring
• Contributing to improving operational efficiency and reducing operational risk

Experience Required

• Ideally you have 3-5 years’ experience in a similar role within Funds Management, alternatively in an operations and or back-office role within a Custodian, Platform provider
• Ideally experience or exposure to fund accounting
• Possesses a strong ability for identifying process efficiencies and enhance operations through data skills like SQL, VBA, and Python
• Excellent communication skills and confidence in dealing with clients, internal and external stakeholders

Culture & Opportunity

• Being a lean team, you will need to have the ability to work at pace and manage multiple responsibilities in one role
• You need to be hard-working, determined and confident in your abilities
• There are opportunities ahead to go into either distribution, risk or even take on the investments operations team in time
• You can earn a strong base salary and potential bonus

• Unit price review
• Daily and monthly reconciliations
• Fund flows and platform flows reporting
• Data requests
• Preparation of reports
• Fund data upload to Morningstar, eVestment, Lonsec, Zenith etc
• Rebate administration
• Client service
• Spot FX trading
• Equities trading via outsource brokers
• Active ETF operations - Primary market trade instructions, ASX disclosures, Market Maker monitoring
• Trade lifecycle management - including matching and settlements monitoring
• Contributing to improving operational efficiency and reducing operational ris