Fund Manager Assistant

What you can expect from us:
We are committed to creating an environment where you can be exceptional at all you do. To help us deliver this, we promise to:

- Challenge Your Limits by creating a stimulating working environment and providing opportunities for you to be involved in meaningful and challenging work
- Support Your Aspirations with a commitment to learning and development that helps you achieve and build your experience with people who want you to succeed
- Value Your Input whereby leaders and managers will involve you in key decisions, listen to your thoughts and recognise the important contribution you make
- Balance Your Life through a work life partnership that focuses on making this an inclusive, diverse and friendly place to work and offers the flexibility and support that enables everyone to be at their best

**The Role**:
**Key Work Level Accountabilities: Experienced Colleague**
- Accountable for providing a quality service or product to customers and stakeholders, using skills/experience built through significant practical experience or training
- For team leaders, accountable for ensuring the team the role supports is delivering a quality service or product
- Works within established frameworks and procedures, with the freedom to interpret them to solve a range of problems
- Delivers outputs that are clearly defined, using discretion over how to achieve them
- Makes suggestions for improvements to the work of the team, based on previous experience and knowledge of similar situations

**Key Responsibilities for this role**:

- Fund Manager Support Responsibilities:_
- Understand the rules and regulations in regards to Asian investment portfolios and ensure the funds remain compliant.
- Assist the Fund Management team with portfolio monitoring and risk.
- Responsible for monitoring cash balances on the portfolios and provide fund managers with notification and support when managing cash flows.
- Assist the Fund Management Team with the order generation process ensuring trading activity is compliant and appropriate for the portfolio.
- Maintain desk procedures, how-to guides and risk registers, ensuring the processes and controls are captured and adhered to by those involved in the investment process.
- Ad hoc support for Fund Managers.
- General Responsibilities:_
- Raise, test and sign off small changes to systems, working closely with system development and front office system support teams.
- Participate in projects on operational readiness for new fund launches and transition of fund management activities.
- Provide input to report production for other departments (e.g. Investment Reporting at month end).
- Provide cover on Fund Manager Assistant support to Asian Fixed Income team primarily and to Asian Equities team when required.
- Understand the operational challenges faced within Front Office and work with management to improve key controls.
- Close liaison with Compliance and Risk, particularly around validation breach management and new instruments.
- Work with management to improve processes, ensuring risks are understood and controls are appropriately applied.
- Liaise, resolve issues and represent the investment teams with other departments, including Information Systems and Investment Operations.

**Key Knowledge, Skills & Experience**:

- Required:_
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal, and able to liaise effectively with personnel at all levels.
- A understanding of Fixed Income investment products and the asset management industry.
- Knowledge of asset classes (Fixed Income, Equities, FX and Derivatives)
- Bright, enthusiastic and proactive. Due to the nature of the role, a self-starter is essential.
- Numerate, logical and analytical approach, with a mathematical discipline at A-level/degree beneficial.
- P.C. literate and able to work effectively under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Desired:_
- Experience in an operational environment and an understanding of risk and control within the asset management industry.
- Experience of maintaining procedural documentation.
- Experience of managing complicated processes with a focus on risk reduction, standardisation and automation.
- Experience in relevant related role.
- Previous knowledge / use of Aladdin.

We live by four behaviours at M&G and we ask all our employees to:

- Inspire Others - Support and encourage each other, creating an environment where everyone can contribute and succeed
- Embrace Change - Be open to change, willing to be challenged and able to adapt quickly and imaginatively to new ideas
- Deliver Results - Focus on outcomes, set high standards and deliver with energy and determination
- Keep it Simple - Cut through complexity and bureaucracy, be clear and decisive and never overcomplicate things