Assistant Manager - Operations, Investment

What will your essential responsibilities include

• Review reference data attributes of Fixed Income Bonds (ABS, MBS, Corporate Bonds Term loans, Sovereign Bonds), Listed Equity, Private Credit and Private Equity and work with data vendor & accounting team to record accurate data points across systems.
• Analyze Investment holdings report, review key data points like Security Classifications, Ratings, Analytics, book yields etc.
• Establish good understanding of data feeds from market data providers like Bloomberg etc.
• Identify defects in data and ensure they are logged appropriately and work with relevant teams to ensure resolution.
• Support and liaise for new data requirements for internal and external reporting, including various regulatory reporting like BSCR and Solv II.
• Collaborate across various internal teams like Fixed Income, Risk, Reporting and external vendors, Custodian, other data providers.
• Execute Solv II reporting.
• Perform the monthly CRDB reporting build up process to AXA Group.
• Automate manual process and controls leveraging power query.
• Handle data related queries self-directedly and troubleshoot to provide desired solution and actively participate in new controls development.
• Perform system to system reconciliation across systems to ensure data consistency.
• Communicate effectively across the ladder when discussing the data issues and addressing the ad hoc queries received from other teams.
• Perform other duties as and when assigned by the manager and help manager achieve the desired goal for a period.
• You will report to Delivery Lead-Operations, Investments.

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelors/masters degree in finance/computer.
• Experience of relevant years in back-office operations in financial services industry.
• Working knowledge of financial markets & asset management related processes and data.
• Good understanding of data management processes including like defining Data validations rules, Data exceptions monitoring and handling.
• Ability to understand and work with data, including creating alignment among various data sources.
• Excellent communication skills required to interact with internal colleagues and external vendors to resolve queries or completing a task in hand.
• Excellent experience of MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Good knowledge about capital market and Investment instruments with the respect to global financial environment.
• Must have excellent analytical skill with technical bent of mind.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

• Prior experience in working on systems like Bloomberg would be an advantage.
• Knowledge of Power BI, proficiency in Power queries.
• Knowledge of Blackrock Aladdin or Simcorp would be added advantage.
• CFA / FRM (Level -1) preferable.
• Requires minimal supervision and able to work self-directedly to complete the given task and proactively reach out to respective team to seek solutions when required.
• Intermediate knowledge of SQL would be preferable.
• Must be detail conscious, technically motivated, creative, and user oriented.
• Ability to work with huge volume data.
• The collective player with the ability to engage with multiple teams in a large organization.
• Professional outlook towards work.