Job Description

We're looking for a Counterparty Onboarding Administrator to join our team. You'll be supporting company’s trading and investment activities by ensuring all required brokers and custodians, across all relevant instruments, are set up ready to support the trading and investment activity of each fund/account, focusing predominantly on onboarding processes.

What you'll be doing?

• Setting up custodian and broker information on principal systems, and setting up relevant security and cash accounts at multiple custodians.
• Coordinating the completion of relevant documentation with custodians to open custody accounts in emerging & frontier markets.
• Proactively supporting the documentation pipeline, ensuring all required brokers are available to trade for the relevant Fund/account by the deadline stated.
• Maintaining an accurate and current database of documentation.
• Participating in other aspects of the Onboarding process as required.
• Participate in the ongoing relationship with brokers and external counterparties, fostering a collaborative approach to improve service levels, and also building and maintaining a collaborative relationship with company's legal team.
• Maintaining Standard Settlement Instructions (SSIs), and producing management information when required, ensuring the integrity of data within systems maintained by the team.
• Adhering to current procedures, controls and checklists whilst also continually proactively identifying improvements to the control and risk environment relating to the Counterparty Onboarding function; recommending and implementing procedural and process changes.

Benefits

Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, at least 25 days’ holiday (with potential to rise to 26 days), private medical insurance, performance related bonuses, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products. Your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Robust technical investment knowledge/experience relevant to role, with experience of ISDA and GMRA documentation
• Proven experience of challenging historic working practices, suggesting process improvements with the support and buy-in from your team, understanding issues and find creative and innovative solutions to problems.
• Proven experience of dealing with custodians and other counterparties.
• A collaborative and personalized approach to service commitment, delivery and continuous improvement.
• Self-assured networking across Front Office and Investment Operations environments with evidence of building effective working relationships with stakeholders.
• A proven track record of being flexible, adaptable and able to multi-task in a fast paced and changeable environment working accurately under pressure.
• Robust communication skills, both verbally and written, with an ability to successfully articulate issues clearly and logically.
• Proficient in the use of spreadsheets; lookup and reference formulas, with strong analytical and written skills.