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Job description / Role
The APM supports the Portfolio Management team in the management of the portfolios and support/development of the Firms structured product proposition. The role is responsible for the maintenance of the portfolios, investing new clients and top ups, ensuring the availability of cash distributions, ensuring all clients are adhering to the portfolio strategy, rolling and maintaining FX and market hedges and a range of other ad hoc processes.
The role reports into the COO and CEO. The successful candidate will have relevant experience within investment management, and ideally a working knowledge of fixed income products. Successful candidates must possess strong working knowledge of Excel. Given the great deal of exposure to clients within this role, successful candidates must be a confident, communicative, capable of multi-tasking and presenting in a clear and concise manner.
Duties include:
- Maintaining portfolios in the internal Portfolio Management System, investing new clients and top ups
- Managing cash flows on daily priced funds
- Cash management - monitoring cash flows, asset allocations and cash overdrafts
- Monitoring portfolios, Rebalancing on asset allocation changes and bringing outliers into line with strategy
- Calculating and managing FX forwards and also executing pooled fund trades
- Research services and all related promotion and marketing support as reasonably required by the Firm
- Internal Training support, to employees, associates, consultants, and potentially externally to clients as required in the provision of its services to such clients
- Assisting in fund related queries liaising with key internal stakeholders
- Providing order execution information to Fund Managers
- Liaising with various departments to resolve queries and ensure the smooth running and efficient management of portfolios
Ad Hoc:
- assisting with data set-up and data maintenance within Portfolio management systems
- Involved in new portfolio take on and launch
- Ad hoc analysis for performance and transaction reporting
- Wherever possible review processes, improve efficiency and reduce operational risk
Requirements
- Strong numerical and analytical skills
- Team Player
- Open with good communication skills
- Pro-active individual who can take the initiative
- Problem solving skills
- High calibre, committed individual
- Good attention to detail and ability to work accurately
- Organisational skills with an ability to prioritise and work to tight deadlines
- Ability to work under pressure
- Good Excel skills a necessity with Bloomberg skills an advantage
- Experience working for an asset management company, with good knowledge of how the different departments in an asset management company operate
- Good understanding of the mechanics and dynamics of the markets and of dealing
- Familiarity with different type of investments such as Structured Products
- Knowledge of Derivative operations an advantage
- Experience in order calculation and model implementation
About the Company
A leading investment company in the UAE.