Fund Operations Assistant

**Fund Operations Assistant**

People are living longer than ever before, and we’re excited by the opportunities this brings. As a purpose-led business, we’re focused on supporting our customers as they navigate through new stages of their lives and all the moments that matter. We’rehere for everyone who wants to make the most of their time on the planet and leave it a little better than they found it - however grand or humble their ambitions. Working at Aegon, you’ll play an important part in helping achieve this. We have three behaviorsthat are central to how we operate as a team and a business: we step up, we tune in and we’re a force for good.

**The Team**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Fund Operations Assistant to join our Fund Data and Projects team. Reporting to our Senior Fund Operations Analyst, the Fund Operations Assistant will play a vital role in supporting the performance reporting processes,including fund factsheets.

**The Role**

Supporting and providing periodic collation of fund data for scheduled quarterly and annual review process will be a vital part of the role and the Fund Operations Assistant will assist with adherence to the investment control framework and operational capabilities.

**Key responsibilities**

Support the successful operational control & delivery of investment data across relevant distribution platforms, specifically;
- Support insured fund factsheet production, operational reporting and other ad hoc tasks
- Work with external 3rd party data providers to ensure insured fund data is accurate and up to date
- Multi location support for fund launches, changes and closures across both the insured and platform fund range, including client specific blended funds, ensuring client expectations are met and our Investment Data Repository is accurate and up to date
- Fund change data compilation and validation - used for ad hoc client fund and externally managed fund changes typically implemented each month
- Maintenance of internal fund databases used to produce fund literature and factsheets, and to provide fund reference and fee data for use by multiple cross business teams
- Completion of periodic and annual data review tasks - asset mix data, growth rates data for blended funds, additional expenses
- Support the production of scheduled reporting (such as QIRs and workplace presentations) and ad hoc reporting to agreed timescales and standards.
- Support for strategic partner funds including annual review of fund AMC buffers, ad hoc and quarterly changes programme for a range of blended funds
- Support the standard monthly/quarterly performance reporting process and ensure accessibility across our fund range, including ESG components.
- Ensure internal data is sent to 3rd party vendors in a timely and efficient manner

**Skills & Experience**
- Effective organisational skills
- Flexible and pro active
- Team player
- Effective communication skills
- Facilitation
- Influencing skills

**Knowledge**
- Excel Skills
- Experience of working in a fast-paced fund implementation/transition role within Investment, Platform or Life & Pensions
- Broad range of experience in the Platform or Life & Pensions Businesses
- Change management
- Knowledge of FE Analytics & FinXL desirable
- Experience of fund reporting, particularly within the ESG space

**Qualifications**

Understanding and qualification related to the investment industry

**How we look after you**

Outside of a competitive salary, working with us comes with a range of benefits that you can access from day one, including:

- Non-contributary pension between 8-12% dependant on age
- Life assurance cover
- Private medical cover and health assessments
- Access to Peppy - a digital health app for employees of all genders with a range of support covering areas such as general health, menopause, fertility, baby etc
- Critical Illness cover
- A suite of enhanced parental leave policies to support you in the moments that matter
- Holiday trading
- Private GP appointments with Doctor at Hand
- Cycle2Work scheme
- 2 paid days per year for charitable volunteering
- Employee wellbeing is key to our culture. We offer a range of online classes to support this, including yoga and meditation

We champion a collaborative, supportive working environment where you’ll have the opportunity to develop yourself and your career in a way that works for you. Our reward programmes encourage peer-to-peer recognition, and we offer a discretionary annual bonusdependent on company and individual performance.

**Flexible working**

We’re transitioning to our new normal and we’re welcoming everyone back to working in new, collaborative, and exciting ways. We’ve adopted a hybrid environment of remote and office working, so it’s important that you live within a commutable distance toour offices.

We know that people have busy lives and commitments outside of work, so we offer flexible work arrangements where possible to support our employees.