Luxembourg
Operational risk aware, Senior Matter Expert in people, project management, client relationship, reference data management (Pricing and Corporate Actions) and fund administration.
Monitoring the risks at entity level.
*Follow up of the project governance and project steering committee. *Project plan, training approach/materials and procedures controls, Prince 2 oriented. *Close Interaction with operations/technology, vendor management, oversight, support teams and responsible for client communication. *Model office follow up and implication in the Go no go decision of the project. *Responsible for the Governance and collection of KPIs/KRIs with the receiving site to ensure that all activities are performed accordingly to the SLAs. *Risk management at operational and project levels. * Aware of the regulatory ecosystem in the Investment Management world.
* Responsible of the EMEA Pricing for COE Luxembourg-Dublin-Edinburgh regions. * Daily management of 20+ team members and virtual team 15 team members. * Daily interaction with fund accounting and Business Implementation teams. * Understanding of NAV calculation process/balance sheet for standard and complex FA. * Responsible for the migration of pricing activities to India. * Understanding of OTC products and sound of knowledge of PE and Real Estate funds. * Follow up of the legal requirements, UCITS IV/V, AIFMD, Fatca, EMIR, Basel, SOC, procedures, monitoring of various operational risks. * Involved in key bank projects, new systems implementations. * Client visits and department presentations. * Issuance of KPIs/KRIs and capacity planning. * BRC coordinator for the Reference Data Management department. * LEAN oriented, daily huddles, root cause problem solving, … * Vendor Management: Bloomberg, Telekurs, IDS, Pricing direct, Markit, Reuters, S&P. * Operational risk management and Oversight of offshored activities.
* Presentation of Gain Golden Copy platform for the reference data management. * Account management of existing clients. * Organisation of events in Luxembourg and Geneva. * Involvement in the GAIN product evolution. * Participation in RFI/RFPs. * Preparation of offers and contract negotiation.
* Improvement and maintenance of custody platform. * Projects linked to new products development. * Queries linked to operations needs. * Analyse, elaboration of projects and the testing plans. * Testing follow up. * Coordination of the project globally. * Follow up of the project until the launch in production.
- Responsible for ensuring Certification, Exchange process and Domestic Market: * Global custody management and corporate events preparation. * Monitoring of Exchange process, Certification process and TEFRA rules. * Working closely with Cash, Corporate, Tax and Payment departments. * Control of key processes and key transactions (COL, RTS, SAP, Import). * Settlement follow-up on US, German and French markets. * Training of new joiners.
- Responsible for supporting the operational/customer services departments by working closely to solve cash enquiries: * Answering written clients’ queries related to their cash instructions mainly by SWIFT, phone or via customer support. * Monitoring of Cash deadline, Cash Correspondent Banks deadlines. * Monitoring of SWIFTS.
In our London Office (For one year): - Responsible for being the link between Luxembourg and London New Issues teams by: * Global custody management and corporate events preparation. * Working to reduce backlog/business risk on New Issues London team. * Working with London Paying Agents on creation, acceptation and amendments of common codes. * Working on the implementation and follow up of the European Pre-Issuance Messaging System project (EPIM). * Various analyses on high impact incidents and ad hoc projects requested by management. * Playing a significant part in the redesign and implementation of procedures. * Training of new joiners and permanent staff.