Investment Operations Specialist

6 days ago


Beckenham, Greater London, United Kingdom Foresters Financial Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Investment Operations Specialist to join our Financial Operations team at Foresters Financial. This is an exciting opportunity for a professional to play a critical role in enhancing our unit pricing, investment accounting, and operational capability and control environment.

Key Responsibilities
  • Operational Excellence: Independently operate daily investment operations processes, including appropriations, treasury, trade placement, unit pricing, and fund valuation.
  • Senior Leadership: Review inputs into the ledger, sign off reconciliations, and enhance the control environment through organic process design.
  • Process Improvement: Deliver a significant process improvement and change portfolio, including a system upgrade, and enhance controls and operational processes.
  • Accounting and Reporting: Assume responsibility for all investment accounting and reporting tasks, acting as a subject matter expert for unit-linked funds and retail investment products.
  • Project Management: Lead internal projects, such as deep dives into asset liability matching reconciliations, shareholder and policyholder dual accounting, and reviewing rebate arrangements.
  • Business Insights: Deliver actionable management insights and best practice recommendations, exploring automation, APIs, SFTP integrations, and system onboarding.
  • Stakeholder Support: Support key stakeholders in understanding and interpreting financial results, management information, and contributing to regulatory reporting outputs.
Requirements
  • Experience: Significant experience in investment accounting and reporting, familiarity with unit-linked funds and retail investment products.
  • Systems Knowledge: Experience working in a unit pricing environment, hands-on systems experience with an Investment System (e.g., InvestPro, pControl, HiPortfolio).
  • Reconciliation Expertise: Strong reconciliation experience, including control account reconciliations, trade and settlement reconciliations, variance analysis, and root cause analysis.
  • Control Frameworks: Good understanding and appreciation of financial and operational controls, experience designing, implementing, and operating controls.
Desirable Skills
  • Process Improvement: Passionate about process improvement and utilizing technology and tools to automate and improve processes.
  • Industry Knowledge: Good understanding of the key participants in the trade and pricing lifecycle for unit-linked funds.
  • Post-Trade Environment: Good working knowledge of the post-trade operating environment, including corporate actions, asset servicing, cash settlement reconciliations, and fund accounting and reporting.
  • Management Information: Experience preparing management information for governance and oversight forums.
  • Industry Standards: Familiarity with the ABI's Guide to Best Practice for Unit Linked Funds.


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