Portfolio Compliance Monitoring Senior Analyst

Key Responsibilities-

• To support the Global Investment Compliance colleagues in review and evaluation of Investment Restrictions and recommend and implement such investment restrictions for compliance testing.
• Liaison with the broader Investment Compliance colleagues globally to ensure that investment restrictions coded on the compliance system are correctly interpreted; this may require discussions with Client Services, Relationship Directors, Legal and Product teams.
• Identify, track, resolve and report compliance breaches in-line with internal policy and regulatory requirements.
• To assist with ongoing review of relevant processes and procedures to ensure best practice by bringing efficiency and streaming manual controls.
• Preparing compliance reports, certifications and responding to compliance questionnaires.
• Ensuring detail documentation of end to end procedures, maintenance of procedures repository including change notification in various systems.
• Develop effective working relationships with other functional areas for timely receipt of information required for the completion of tasks
• Provide a high quality timely service to customers
• Assist in a range of FIL-wide projects or tasks

About you

The ideal candidate will:

• Criticalthinking, analytical skills, and sound judgement are required given the responsibilities for problem solving in operational and project work
• Experience in compliance, trade/portfolio compliance monitoring (preferred) and/or operations functions, ideally within asset management industry
• 3-5 years' experience in working in the investment management industry (preferably buy side) and of investment products
• Good understanding of portfolio monitoring processes (preferred), including the interpretation of client investment management agreements
• Good IT skills including Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Excel and Outlook; Bloomberg, basic Macro and knowledge of Charles River systems (or similar compliance monitoring tools) would be an advantage.
• Good instrument knowledge of equities, fixed income and derivatives
• Business-level verbal and written English communication / presentation skills
• Positive team player as well as the ability to work on their own initiative
• Investigative and questioning nature
• Strong self-motivation, organisation, prioritisation, time management, used to adapting to unforeseen changes
• Excellent inter-personal skills
• Ability to learn quickly and make decisions that are reasonable and logical