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The role is responsible for ensuring the accurate maintenance of portfolio records, oversight of cash and position reconciliation, asset servicing activities, portfolio-related controls, and the resolution of complex operational issues. The position works closely with portfolio managers, fund accounting, custodians, brokers, technology teams, and external service providers to support efficient portfolio management.

• Perform end-to-end trade lifecycle activities, including trade matching, confirmation, settlement and cash flow processing within a follow-the-sun operating model, ensuring seamless cross-regional handovers.
• Collaborate with investment teams, brokers, custodians, service providers and regional operations teams to investigate and resolve trade discrepancies, unmatched trades and settlement failures.
• Provide effective oversight of cash, position and market value reconciliations, corporate actions, income events, fees, subscriptions, redemptions and other portfolio-level activities, ensuring exceptions are investigated and resolved promptly.
• Validate, and publish start-of-day cash positions and liquidity balances to the Investment Desk, ensuring timely identification, escalation, and resolution of funding exceptions to support informed investment and trading decisions.
• Monitor portfolio cash balances and overdraft positions, investigate funding exceptions, coordinate remediation with internal and external stakeholders, and ensure timely reporting, escalation, and resolution of breaches in accordance with established risk and governance frameworks.
• Support and coordinate fund launches, product implementations, portfolio transitions, client onboarding activities, and mandate changes.
• Identify and implement process improvements, automation opportunities and control enhancements to improve operational efficiency, scalability and risk management.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies and applicable regulatory requirements, and support audits, reviews and control-testing activities as required.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date operational procedures, process documentation, and knowledge materials.
• Escalate material operational issues, risks and incidents to management in a timely manner, coordinate impact assessments and drive remediation through to closure.
• Support business change initiatives, system implementations and testing activities, ensuring operational requirements, risks and controls are appropriately considered.
• Your role may require you to interact with other JHI offices, employees and third parties based in different time zones, outside of core business hours.
• Carry out other duties as assigned.

What to expect when you join our firm

• Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations
• Paid volunteer time to step away from your desk and into the community
• Support to grow through professional development courses, tuition/qualification reimbursement and more
• Maternal/paternal leave benefits
• Complimentary subscription to Headspace – the mindfulness app
• Corporate membership to ClassPass and other health and well-being benefits
• All employee events including networking opportunities and social activities

Must have skills

• Substantial experience in investment operations, trade operations, middle-office operations or a comparable asset management environment.
• Knowledge of financial instruments across multiple asset classes, including equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, derivatives and money market instruments.
• Strong experience across the end-to-end trade lifecycle, including trade capture, matching, affirmation, confirmation, settlement, cash flows and exception management within a global or follow-the-sun operating environment.
• Demonstrated ability to review positions, cash, transactions and reference data, investigate complex trade, settlement and reconciliation exceptions, perform root-cause analysis and validate outcomes.
• Solid understanding of global financial markets, settlement practices, market deadlines and the roles of brokers, custodians, central counterparties and other market infrastructure providers.
• Experience supporting portfolio transitions, fund launches, client onboarding, product launches, and mandate change activities.
• Strong analytical and data-management skills, including strong Microsoft Excel capability and experience using investment management, order management, portfolio accounting or trade-processing platforms.
• Strong understanding of operational risk, control frameworks, escalation protocols, audit requirements and the evidence required to demonstrate effective oversight.
• Proven ability to manage relationships with investment teams, internal business functions, clients, brokers, custodians, vendors and external service providers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to act as a subject matter expert, challenge constructively, escalate material issues and drive outcomes collaboratively.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in a relevant field.

Nice to have skills

• Experience with Aladdin or similar investment management platform.
• Knowledge of ETD clearing, margining, and collateral management.
• Understanding of portfolio accounting, IBOR/PBOR reconciliation, and investment data management.
• Knowledge of regulatory reporting requirements and post-trade market obligations.

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