Senior Trading & Execution Specialist

at  Mercer

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT:

This is an exciting opportunity for a senior candidate 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 $400bn of client assets now under management globally, c.$180bn 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.
Services are provided across a range of areas through traditional and alternative asset classes reflecting Mercer’s best investment ideas. Mercer’s Portfolio Management Team in turn selects third party managers, from Mercers list of “A” rated managers in each asset class thus combining Mercer’s in-house portfolio management expertise with the depth and breadth of Mercer Investment’s global investment manager research.
Mercer’s fund range was launched in Europe in September 2006 and currently consists of c.130 Irish domiciled funds across 5 legal structures. In addition to the ability to provide bespoke solutions to large sophisticated 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 Investment Implementation 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.
This is a highly visible senior role requiring collaboration with a broad set of stakeholders internally and externally, including investment and commercial teams, Legal, Compliance, Portfolio Managers, strategy and operational teams.
Reporting to the Head of Trading & Execution, the successful candidate will form part of the senior team leaders within a specialist team and primarily focused on the daily rebalancing of Mercer’s Client Portfolio’s and Mercer’s Fund range. There is also a strong requirement for a candidate that is technology solution and data management focused with prior experience of being involved in data/technology solutions. The role will involve identifying technology solutions and engaging technology teams and external providers on a regular basis to ensure the continued enhancement of the trading model and ensure all operational processes are efficient with minimal associated risk.
The role will be multi-faceted and fluid, requiring an individual that is agile and can adapt to change quickly and easily. The successful candidate will be able to use their own initiative to navigate the impact of new regulation and requirements to drive solutions development for the business, as well as manage routine defined BAU tasks for the team.

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