Senior Associate

Operations is responsible for supporting the various trading, investment and reporting activities of the firm. The core mission of the Operations group is to establish scalable investment workflows, ensure a controlled operating environment and deliver high-quality client service to both internal and external business relationships. In addition to supporting primary investment related activities, the groups assist in design and implementation of firm-wide projects, operational due diligence, counterparty management and client-related activities.

Middle Office is an Operations team that sits between front and back office teams. The team consists of four groups - Asset Servicing, Portfolio Management Operations, Trading Operations and Treasury Operations.

Asset Servicing department is responsible for supporting the maintenance of the firm's security trading, index constituent and research universes. The team primarily focuses on security master data governance and modelling, benchmark constituents and weights, handling of corporate action events and elections, security valuation and ad hoc Proxy voting.

Portfolio Management Operations serve as a logistical liaison between the PIs and OPS. The team handles all the operational logistics associated with managing funds (i.e. financial reporting, NAV reconciliation, processing corporate actions, updating and maintaining PL databases, etc.).

Trading Operations oversees the full breadth of firm wide trade settlements by leveraging scalable, straight through processes in order to ensure a seamless transition of a trade through its complete lifecycle from trade matching and reconciliation, to allocation and delivery and finally, funding and settlement.

Treasury Operations’ core responsibility is to maintain our cash balances by performing daily cash reconciliations, effectively managing collateral balances and facilitating the wire approval process.

General Responsibilities:

· Responsible for reviewing and maintaining the quality of output by Associates and Specialists

· Take charge of the development of direct reports. Monitor metrics, productivity, and morale of each team member with reference to KPI, OKR, the team and organization’s goals.

· Ensure Associates and Specialists understand new and updated processes

· Manages utilization and resource planning of the team

· Serve as back up in case the team is short-staffed

· E nsure process issues and escalations are addressed in a timely and decisive manner.

· Develop a strong understanding of the firm’s businesses, services, procedures, and processes to identify opportunities for improvements

· Lead process reviews and regularly collaborate with the Manager and onshore counterparts on process efficiency initiatives

- Ensure completeness of process documentation.

Core Duties and Responsibilities (Portfolio Management Office):

Corporate Actions

· Process and validate corporate actions that flows through our holdings and make sure changes are within expectations.

· Researches and analyzes trade events to participate for a premium to the firm and;

· Processes corporate action related-items to manage firm holdings through trades booking.

Fund Accounting

· Review Front Office vs Back Office Net Asset Value reconciliation and validate comments made related to differences over agreed thresholds

· Determine the source of such breaks and ensure the break will be resolved at a given timeframe.

PnL Reporting

· Analyze Profit and Loss swings that are triggered by huge market movements and validate movements using systems like Bloomberg and Markit.

· Real-time validation and reporting of instantaneous returns of fund NAV through P/L movements, and making sure changes are in-line with external sources.

· Analysis of movements from market swings through micro- and macro-level perspective.

· Validation of generated P/L returns (PL$ and PL%) through client reports at a given period.

· Manage Foreign Currency Exposure in cash and to produce trading instructions to be sent to brokers for execution

### Requirements
Qualification:

- ​ The candidate should have a basic understanding of
the Capital Markets and general fund accounting principles.
Excellent database knowledge preferred in Excel, SQL, or VBA.
- Possess strong
communication and client service skills
- Can work with minimal supervision and deliver high quality output
- With multi-tasking skills
and ability to prioritize tasks effectively
- Must be proactive,
motivated, detail-oriented, a team player and knows how to work with Service
Level Agreements (SLA) and metrics.
- Must be fit to rotate multiple shifts as scheduled by supervisor.
- Comfortable working in rapidly changing, team-based
work environment

Education
and Experience

1. Candidate
must possess at least a Bachelor's/College Degree in Financial Management,
Economics, Accounting or other related business course.

2. At least
2-year experience from a multinational company or an investment
management-related work would be an advantage.