Senior Associate - Fund Accounting Support Services

We are part of Link Group, a leading global provider of financial administration solutions. As one of Europe’s leading asset servicing platforms, Link Asset Services interacts with almost 6m investors, administering and safeguarding £600bn of assets across 10 highly regulated markets.

Ownership of the daily processing tasks within the fund accounting support team relating to Pricing, Corporate Actions & Income, Trades and maintenance of systems used within the department.

Client

• Client Relationship: Point-of-contact for multiple clients (internal and external) at a daily operational level
• Liaising with Fund Accounting teams, Custodians and Service Providers daily where issues arise with regards to the day-to-day running of corporate actions /income/pricing oversight and processing and to facilitate fund trade and portfolio reconciliations.

Operational

• Oversight of pricing on funds’ portfolios and completion of pricing for new securities
• Oversight of Corporate Action and Income processed daily on investment funds
• Process trades sent by the Investment Manager to the Fund Accounting System via our Trade Capture system, Fund Recs Velocity Trade Capture
• Oversight and maintenance of the exception management system (EMS) rules within InvestOne Enterprise
• Implement efficiencies across the team and wider department to reduce manual processes
• To ensure deadlines are met, by effective planning and scheduling

Compliance

• To comply with appropriate internal controls within area of responsibility
• Ensuring that operational checklists are followed
• Prepare and maintain the procedures within the team

Ad hoc

• To complete special projects and to perform other duties as required
• Take an active role in the testing and implementation of new tasks as the team grows in size and complexity
• Complete testing of new features on our InvestOne Enterprise and Fund Recs systems
• Training of fund accounting team members during secondment periods in FASS
• Setup and maintenance of Funds on the InvestOne Enterprise system and on Fund Recs, our automated reconciliations system

Required

• Strong MS Office skills – in particular Excel and Word
• Knowledge of Visual Basic programming
• Accounting / Business Degree
• 1 year minimum Fund Accounting experience
• FIS InvestOne (formerly SunGard) experience
• Knowledge of EMS (exception management system) module on Invest One
• Experience pricing securities to the market using vendor backup
• Analytical thinking: problem solving and reasoning skills

Desirable

• Familiarity with Bloomberg terminal
• Multitasking skills
• Organisational skills

Focus on work life balance

Dress for your day policy

Quarterly team nights out

8am - 4.30pm working hours

Modern office in city centre location