Investment Implementation Services Supervisor
Job Summary
Company:
MercerDescription:
We will count on you to:
- Supervise day-to-day operations to ensure the team meets and exceeds company standards for performance and productivity
- Lead day to day liaison with Middle Office outsource provider
- Oversight of daily order management/trade execution and all aspects of daily trading including trade communication and reconciliation
- Oversee daily monitoring analysis and oversight of outsource providers recording of client custodian cash positions to ensure that they are captured for:
- trading
- liability calculations and
- cash requirements
- Sign-off on daily cash and trade packages
- Act as the first point of contact for resolving team or client-related issues ensuring timely and satisfactory resolutions
- Analyze reconciliations of client custodian holdings to third party vendor systems
- Coordination and oversight of client monthly holding reconciliations
- Collaborate with other departments to ensure cross-functional alignment and smooth operations
- Review sub-advisor and custodian invoices for payment
- Special projects
- Provide support to Manager of Trade Operations Team as needed
What you need to have:
- Undergraduate degree in relevant finance economics or related discipline
- 5 years experience in Mutual Fund/Portfolio Manager business with focus on institutional client account support
- Outstanding technical analytical and problem solving skills; Microsoft Office competence with a strong emphasis in Excel including Macro proficiency
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work with minimal supervision
- Excellent interpersonal and project management skills with a strong attention to detail
- Strong verbal and written stakeholder communication skills
- Proven leadership and people development experience
- Works effectively in the face of ambiguity by independently researching problems and proposing innovative solutions effective influencing and negotiation skills
What makes you stand out:
- Previous cash management experience
- Charles River Investment Solutions experience
- Trade management experience (securities and funds)
- Quality assurance / User acceptance testing experience
- You enjoy working with small dedicated teams
- You see the big picture and are hands on with day to day functions
- You have a great sense of urgency regarding meeting and anticipating client needs
- You manage your time effectively and independently
- You take ownership of your work and escalate issues quickly when applicable
- You are adaptable to changing client needs
- You are patient during times of transition and see the long term gains of change
- You are flexible regarding working hours in order to meet service levels when required
- You are dedicated to a high level of accuracy for yourself and expect the same from your team
- You strive to improve processes and find more efficient ways to serve clients
Required Experience:
Manager