Technical Specialist - Glasgow, United Kingdom - Evelyn Partners

Evelyn Partners

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Glasgow, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Company Description

Evelyn Partners is the UK's leading integrated wealth management and professional services group, with over 186 years of experience in helping generations of people and businesses to thrive.

We offer an extensive range of financial and professional services to individuals, family trusts, professional intermediaries, charities and businesses.

We provide an award-winning service for our clients by employing the best people.

Join us on our mission to place the power of good advice into more hands because we believe that everyone deserves access to good advice, regardless of where they're at in their financial journey.

An exceptional track record of growth and innovation is driven by our core values of: _Personal, _offering advice based on a true understanding of what matters to our clients; _Partnership_, working with our clients in a joined-up, collaborative way; and _Performance_, demonstrating a breadth and depth of advice expertise to deliver first-class results.

Read more about us and available career opportunities here: Wealth, accountancy and business advisory services | Evelyn Partners and Careers | Evelyn Partners

Job Description Job purpose**Evelyn Partners Fund Solutions Ltd (EPFL) provides Authorised Fund Manager (AFM / ACD) and Fund Administration services to Authorised Funds domiciled in the UK. Fund Administration services are inclusive of Fund Pricing & Valuations, Financial Reporting & Taxation, Transfer Agency and Technical Fund Accounting & Transitions.

This role is within Pricing & Valuations reporting to Manager.

This role has responsibility for ensuring all aspects of Fund Net Asset Value (NAV) production are co-ordinated and completed in a timely and accurate manner as required within service level agreements and regulatory requirements.

The Pricing & Valuations Team further have responsibility for validation of fund trial balance data to ensure smooth transition to Financial Reporting for production of financial statements.

Key Responsibilities

To take ownership of daily team deliverables ensuring all are completed to a high standard and produced within agreed deadlines

These are inclusive of:

Data capture (trades, income entitlements, corporate events, asset pricing)
Reconciliations (stock, cash)
NAV calculation, validation and dissemination
Fees and controls (trial balance reviews)
Ensure that personal and team KPIs are met, assist in collation of MI highlighting any issues to management.
Log, maintain and respond to written client enquiries in a timely manner, ensuring all client and external documents are relevant and up to date.
Contribute to the review of team tasks, identifying improvements with a view to enhancing client service. Participate in, and contribute to, any adhoc projectrelated work where necessary.
Adopt a highquality culture to minimise errors and ensuring high quality service levels are delivered. Ensuring all work is with a high level of accuracy, including data input, document checking and payments, escalating to manager or relevant department where necessary.
Direct responsibility for the documentation of team procedures, periodically reviewing and updating them
Assist with training of new recruits to the team, acting as a positive role model
Provide support to manager and act as their delegate when called upon.

Qualifications Key Skills and Experience**- Detailed knowledge of NAV production and general fund accounting principles

Working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages and in particular Excel skills
Strong Interpersonal skills are essential, with the ability to communicate well both written and verbally to senior audiences.
Ability to work well in a team but concurrently comfortable to work individually.
Ability to solve problems quickly.
High levels of accuracy and attention to detail.
Ability to organise workloads effectively and meet tight deadlines.
Responding to queries from both internal and external parties in a timely manner and providing a high level of customer service both internally and externally.
Flexible approach to team priorities.

Professional Qualifications and Education

Relevant professional qualifications e.g. CISI Investment Operations Certificate desirable but not essential.

Additional Information As a colleague here at Evelyn Partners, you will have access to benefits that include**:

Competitive salary
Private medical insurance
Life assurance
Pension contribution
Hybrid working model (role dependant)
Generous holiday package
Option to purchase additional holiday
Shared parental leave

We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients.

At Evelyn Partners we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we're delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation.

It is our commitment to provide a wo