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- IMC preferred or willingness to complete.
What you'll be like- Motivated, committed and enthusiastic personality
- Problem solver, proactive and with good sense of urgency
- Not afraid to use the phone when needed
- Previous investment operations experience required
- Strong technical and mathematical skills
- Excellent communication skills with a collaborative and methodical approach
- Highly organised with excellent attention to detail
- A good team player
- Able to work collaboratively across teams
- Able to prioritise, work on own initiative and under pressure
- Proactive on continuous improvement, quality and delivery
- Excellent PC skills, particularly Excel.
We recognise potential, whoever you are
Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought facilitated by an inclusive culture will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer: you are welcome here regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background or any other protected characteristics.
Investment Services Implementation Analyst - London (Greater), United Kingdom - Schroders
Description
Who we're looking forWe are looking for an analyst to join the Investment Services Implementation team, which sits within the Global Operations group.
The Implementation Analyst role is vital to the Investment process, helping implement Fund Manager decisions, managing cash and providing Investment desk support.
The analyst should be organised and hard working and interested in getting exposure to a wide variety of roles the team takes on.
About Schroders
We are a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.
We have around 5,000 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.
The base
We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We're close to our clients, in the heart of the UK's financial centre. And we have everything we need to work flexibly.
The team
The Investment Services Implementation Team sits within Global Operations. The team mainly supports the Multi-Asset range of funds, which invests in a wide range of asset classes - Unit trusts, Fixed Income, Equities and Derivatives- but also supports Portfolio Solutions, QEP, Equities, Multi Manager and Execution Only/Support portfolios to different extents.
What you'll do
The Implementation Analyst will be expected to be involved in the following:
Producing and managing cash projections ensuring that funds are available to settle trades and cash payments
Managing local margin accounts
Raising Margin FX's with different clearers
Raising trade related FX spots in a timely manner
Regular sweeping of local balances back to base currency
Efficient rolling of Futures, Currency Forwards and Total Return Swaps
Monitoring Execution Only and non standard orders raised by the Client team
Raising trades for Execution Support portfolios
Booking Private Equity capital calls/drawdowns/ad hoc trades
Investing cash into the Schroders GBP Liquidity Fund on a daily basis
Investing cash into T-bills for a specific set of portfolios
Monitoring inter portfolio accounting cash sweeps
Preparing daily, weekly and monthly reporting
Dealing with Ad-hoc queries/potential new tasks.
The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need
Experience within Operations/Middle Office/Front Office Support within the Investment Management industry
Knowledge of Aladdin - PFC, PFM and Dashboard.
The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help