Middle Office Senior Manager

Job Description

The Middle Office Senior Manager/VP position supports the US Systematic Wealth middle office team and separately managed accounts. The role involves establishing accounting processes and procedures and ensuring effective post-trade reporting.

Tasks

The main tasks include:

• Supporting daily operations and processes for funds and separately managed accounts
• Communication with fund administrators to reconcile fund net asset values and monitor all other activities of fund administrators
• Preparing estimates of net asset values based on internal systems and ensuring the integrity of internal data that affects investment performance reporting
• Establishment of accounting procedures to support the funds' financial reporting obligations
• Ensuring the quality and effectiveness of pricing and valuation as well as controls by identifying and mitigating pricing risks and communicating/documenting improvements to procedures
• Ensuring that relevant information is included in the valuation of the funds and that the valuations correspond to fair value
• Monitoring of:
  • investment accounting
  • Compliance with controls, middle office staff and service fees, as well as other fee structures within the scope
  • Responsibility for relationships with service providers, including fund administration, credit administration, custodian banks, audit/regulation, and other service providers
  • Performing periodic reconciliations, exception items, and control checks
  • Actively monitoring and identifying trends and potential issues with operational controls to improve the control environment and increase efficiencies
  • Implementation of proactive and reactive measures to improve processes and maintain policy and procedure manuals

Requirements

The requirements include:

• 5+ years of experience in investment operations
• Strong knowledge of the daily cycle of investment funds and managed accounts
• Knowledge of hedge funds, investment managers, or derivative products is highly preferred.
• Previous experience in investment administration or fund office
• Excellent Microsoft skills (PowerPoint, Excel, and Word)
• Strong business communication skills, strong business knowledge, and ability to coordinate multiple tasks
• Ability to set priorities and coordinate multiple tasks
• Ability to communicate effectively with multiple senior stakeholders

We offer

We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes the following:

• Competitive salaries
• Generous vacation time
• Life and long-term disability insurance
• group health insurance
• Improved parental leave and long-term vacation time
• Depending on