Assistant Manager Pricing

With the return to a stable growth pattern in global markets and a considerable increase to their underlying Funds under Management, our client, a leading global financial Services administrator, is now seeking to develop further on their leadership capabilities and are keen to attract an experienced and highly motivated Assistant Manager within their Pricing Department to assist in driving their business forward and championing their service level agreements.

Some of the major responsibilities outlined in this particular position, but not limited to, are as follows:

• Ensure the provision of accurate and timely services to all internal and external parties. Monitor daily processes providing appropriate levels of supervisory oversight.
• Manage the sign-off of daily control reports, manual data processing and set-up requests. Oversee task allocation and workflow to ensure agreed deadlines are met.
• On-going review of the theoretical and technical nature of all asset types, appropriate valuation treatment, standing data requirements and pricing conventions.
• Ensure each team member understands and follows the relevant processes, controls, procedures and systems operating within the team.
• Manage daily checking, review and sign-off of foreign exchange rates, manual input, price exception validation, mark to market pricing and stale price review for various CPU slots.
• Ensure data exceptions are fully researched, files contain all necessary back up and details are reported via email to Valuations teams and/or Clients where appropriate.
• Monitor Manual Price and Stale Price logs ensuring staff update details as per agreed guidelines and procedures. Ensure items are followed regularly and kept to a minimum.
• Monitor MIS logs ensuring statistics are updated daily confirming volumes, timeliness and accuracy details for each slot. Review and report trends to direct report.
• Manage team workflow ensuring work is allocated and scheduled according to deadline priorities and that primary and secondary cover is in place for specific tasks.
• Regular review of current workload and future projected volumes within the team. Highlight any resource constraints and new staffing requirements to direct report.
• Manage the maintenance of detailed technical information files for all types of securities, expenses and fund types set up on InvestOne.
• Oversee the processing, review and sign-off of funds and assets set up on InvestOne, GFDS and other related systems.
• Manage the controlled use of OLE upload for bulk data input ensuring checklists are completed, templates populated and data reviewed before sending to InvestOne.
• Ensure daily Compliance Master reports are checked, data exceptions are followed up and closed and underlying data on InvestOne is corrected.

This is an excellent opportunity for the right candidate to take a considered step within their career development as this will be a highly visible position with succession planning becoming a key element within the business.

You will tertiary qualified with at least 4 years Pricing Experience and at least 12 Months Supervisory experience.

For further information please contact Matt Fitzpatrick at Marks Sattin inDublinon 0879919813.

We regret that due to the high volume of applications we are only able to contact suitable candidates.