Assistant Manager - Operations, Investment

Assistant Manager-

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

AXA XL Investments manages the approx. Euro 38 billion of investment portfolio. XL Investment has three strategic locations for its operations. New York, Bermuda and India. Investment Operations is responsible for maintaining a high degree of data integrity, multiple system maintenance, and high-end reporting delivery along with other operational tasks for AXA XL Investment Management. Multiple vendors responsible for Data warehouse, custodian information, accounting agent and others are key sources of information. Consumers of this data include Fixed Income, alternative Assets, Investment reporting, Investment Compliance, and Risk management teams.

The Investment Reporting and Compliance is a part of Global Investment Operations Group; it is a dedicated group of professionals who ensure that all AXA XL Reporting requirements are met with respective to the cyclical and ad hoc requirements. Reporting currently provides Reporting solutions (Internal and External) to/for the AXA XL investment portfolio.

The team currently supports both the front and the back-office counterpart in Bermuda and New York (US). The team is responsible for maintaining a high degree of data integrity, multiple system maintenance, high-end reporting delivery along with other operational tasks for AXA XL Investment Management Ltd. Multiple vendors and teams both within AXX XL and outside are responsible for providing Data and others are key sources of information.

Compliance team works closely with Fixed Income Team, Portfolio Managers and Market Risk Team by working on compliance exceptions and ensuring remedial action/approval. Key users are CEO, CIO, Risk and Finance Committee and Legal Entity Boards. Team has essential skill set and experience in the field of investment and risk management.

What youll be DOING

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Produce, analyze, and present Investment and Performance Reports for Internal Teams (Investment and Risk) and external partied (like Regulators and Portfolio Managers).
• Derive investment classifications based on other related information and conduct report testing.
• Create Board report for AXA XL entities which includes Positions reporting viz-a-viz benchmark & compliance limits, Performance, Market and Credit Risk.
• Produce Fixed Income, alternatives and Derivatives reports based on the production calendar.
• Troubleshoot complex excel based reports and re-engineer reports when required. Transition dashboards in MS Excel to QlikView or Power-BI as per the business requirements.
• Provide support to the Investment operations team by being an effective back up and perform tasks subject to the requirements.
• Risk Reporting includes Risk framework like classification-based Risk Appetite, Credit ratings, Sensitivity analysis.
• Perform monthly and Quarterly compliance checks for Fixed Income mainly Corporate, Government & Supranational and ESG inclined Bonds.
• Monthly/quarterly monitoring and compliance exceptions reporting to authorized parties. Liaising on portfolio managers for trade preapproval request.
• Regulatory and Legal compliance monitoring. Scenario based compliance testing and Collateral Asset monitoring.
• Perform other duties as and when assigned by the manager and help manager achieve the desired goal for a period.
• Liaise with other internal and external teams/vendors/auditors to understand, creating a solution and fulfill the requirements.

What you will BRING

Were looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelors/masters degree in finance/economics or Degree Diploma in Computer with the fair amount of experience in automation and report reengineering.
• CFA / FRM any level or completed would be preferable.
• Deep knowledge about Fixed Income, Alternatives and Derivatives instruments with the respect to reporting.
• Robust experience of MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Hands on experience of Power BI (reporting tool) or other BI tools will be preferable. Skills are required for trouble shooting queries and report building for internal and external users.
• Ability to switch priorities and flexibility to work with reporting and Compliance is required.
• Ability to troubleshoot a complex query and deliver the desired solution.
• Relevant years of working experience with Investment Reporting, Portfolio Management Reporting, and asset Management support or from any financial services company.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent communication skills required to interact with internal colleagues and external vendors to resolve queries or completing a task in hand like creating new reporting schema, implementing reporting changes, transitioning/migrating reporting from onshore team.
• Must be detail conscious, technically motivated, creative, and user oriented.
• Ability to work with huge volume data.
• Must have effective analytical skills to quickly understand, absorb, and implement business intelligence tools in day-to-day work.
• Ability and Skills to efficient time/task management skills.
• Ability to work resiliently and responsibly in flexible environment without compromising the deliverables.