Assistant Manager, Investment Operations

Job Description

The Data Integrity Team is a part of Global Investment Operations Group, It is a dedicated group of professionals who make sure that all AXA XL cash & positions data are accurate for critical processes including investment management, analytics, compliance, and regulatory reporting. Cash & Position types include, but are not limited to, equities, fixed income, OTC derivative positions (swaps, swaptions, FXs, and), and collateral. The roles and responsibilities will include actively executing data validation controls and related reconciliations by ensuring the Investment book of record is reconciled with the custodian and manager. The position will be responsible for carrying out other controls including some specific to cash, position reconciliations, and exception management processes ensuring that AXA XL Portfolio data is in line with custodians, counterparties, and other prime record holders every day. The team member will liaise with data vendors, and other internal investment functions like Fixed Income, Risk and Strategy team, Investment Accounting, and Treasury to resolve data-related issues. Your primary upward interaction will be with a direct supervisor or team lead and other Investment Functions across various geographical locations. In this role, you need to analyze and solve moderately complex problems. DISCOVER your opportunity What will your essential responsibilities include
• Review reference data attributes of Fixed Income Bonds (ABS, MBS, Corporate Bonds Term loans, Sovereign Bonds), Listed Equity, Private Credit, and Private Equity and work with data vendor & accounting team to record accurate data points across systems.
• Analyze Investment holdings reports, and review key data points like Security Classifications, Ratings, Analytics, book yields, etc.
• Understand Data models, data flow, and end-to-end solutions and processes
• Establish a good understanding of data feeds from market data providers like Bloomberg etc.
• Identify defects in data and make sure they have been logged appropriately and work with relevant teams to make sure the resolution.
• Support and liaise for new data requirements for internal and external reporting, including various regulatory reportings like BSCR and Solv II.
• Maintain Price and NAV Summary for Hedge Fund book based on fund administrator statements.
• Collaborate across various internal teams like Fixed Income, Risk, Reporting, and external vendors, Custodians, and other data providers.
• Perform the monthly CRDB reporting build-up process to AXA Group.
• Leverage tools like Power BI to automate manual processes and controls.
• Perform reconciliation of Custody vendor & Asset manager invoices.
• Handle data-related queries self-directly and troubleshoot to provide the desired answers and actively take part in new controls development.
• Perform system-to-system reconciliation across systems to make sure data consistency.
• Communicate effectively across the ladder when discussing the data issues and addressing the ad-hoc queries received from other teams.
• Perform other duties as and when assigned by the manager and help the manager achieve the desired goal for a period.
You will report to Delivery Leader, Data Integrity Group (India)A division of Global Investment Operations , * SHARE your talent We re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills: Required Skills and Abilities:
• Bachelor s/Master s degree in Finance/Computer.
• Experience of 4-6 yrs in back-office operations in the financial services industry
• Excellent communication skills required to interact with internal colleagues and external vendors to resolve queries or complete a task at hand.
• Outstanding experience with MS Excel, Word, and Powerpoint.
• Good knowledge of the capital market and Investment instruments with the respect to the global financial environment.
Desired Skills and Abilities:
• Must have robust analytical skills with a technical bent of mind.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Prior experience in working on systems like Bloomberg would be an advantage.
• Knowledge of any BI tool is an advantage, preferably Power BI.
• CFA / FRM (Level -1) preferable (not mandatory).
• Work self-supportedly to complete the given task and proactively reach out to the respective team to seek answers when required.
• Any work experience in VBA/SQL (basic or advanced) would be preferable.
FIND your future AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals, and even some inspirational individuals we don t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.How By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business property, casualty, professional, financial lines, and specialty.With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.Learn more at axaxl.com Inclusion & Diversity AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic. At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success. That s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance, and retain the most diverse workforce possible, and create an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and can reach their highest potential. It s about helping one another and our business to move forward and succeed.
• Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability, and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
• Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits
• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
• Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter

Keyskills :
back officepower bimarket datadata feeds