WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT:

This is an exciting opportunity to join one of Mercer’s largest and most rapidly-growing business areas – Investment Solutions. Mercer’s Investment Solutions (IS) business provides sophisticated implementation and investment services to clients. The business has grown rapidly over recent years with $500bn of client assets now under management globally, c.$190bn of which is invested on behalf of International investors. Our Investor base is institutional and typically clients are DB/DC Pension Schemes but the business is expanding into new segments including Insurance & Wealth Management.
Mercer’s fund range was launched in Europe in September 2006 and currently consists of c.140 Irish-domiciled funds across 5 legal structures. In addition to the ability to provide bespoke solutions to large clients, these funds provide building blocks to support Mercer’s wider range of investment and risk management solutions targeting the institutional marketplace. Mercer IS business has seen significant growth over the last few years and believes that demand for its investment solutions will continue to grow over the coming years.
The Operations Unit is responsible for the on-boarding of new clients into the funds, launching of new funds, client and fund rebalancing, management of underlying investment manager changes, NAV and valuation oversight, regulatory & tax oversight, management of third party service providers, operational infrastructure changes, development and maintenance of relationships with both internal and external clients and adherence to strict risk controls.
The Product Implementation Team sits within the Operations Unit and is responsible for the project management of new fund launches, onboarding, manager changes, and other fund restructure events. This involves the coordination of multiple stakeholders, both internal and external, including Portfolio Management, Legal & Compliance, Operations, Sales, Finance, Technology, Administrator and Depositary, and Investment Managers. The team is also responsible for undertaking and implementing business-wide initiatives and efficiency projects.
Candidates will ideally have good experience in project management and a knowledge about Irish Funds including UCITS and AIFs, and an understanding of the regulatory regime. Reporting to the Fund Change Manager, the role will be dynamic and diverse, requiring an individual with exceptionally strong project management, organisational, collaboration and communication skills.
The role will be dynamic and diverse, requiring an individual that has a background across Funds/Asset Management with exceptionally strong people and project management, organisational, collaboration and communication skills.

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