Vacancy Name: Senior Associate - NAV Oversight (CG)
Location(s): Employment Type: Permanent
Department: Client Operations
Description: Carne is looking for a Senior Associate to join the NAV Oversight Team. The successful candidate will be exposed to many aspects of the Management Company and its funds and will also play an important role in ensuring the oversight and governance framework is implemented and maintained.
What is your role and your responsibilities? Responsible for the day-to-day oversight for a portfolio of funds, likely to include hedge funds, equity long-only, fixed income and other investment strategies.Perform 2nd level of control on NAV deliverables produced by the fund accountants to analyze and justify NAV impacts and exceptions.As part of oversight and control responsibilities, monitor and review the fund accounting activities to ensure timely and accurate NAV calculation and reporting.Monitor prices of the underlying assets, corporate action activities, NAV publications, funds' movements, expenses, and other NAV components.Handle the oversight and review of the day-to-day operations of the funds by working with various parties, including portfolio managers and fund administrators.Monitor and strive for improvement on quality of service delivered by the service providers, analyze KPI, report incidents, work with operational risk team to eliminate process weaknesses.Provide operational support on special events occurring during the life cycle of the funds, such as the implementation of new sub-funds or share classes, liquidations, mergers or transfers.Work with various internal parties to facilitate fund expense payment cycles, review fund budgets and TERs.Support the audit process and help coordinate the audits in line with regulatory requirements.Engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously while contributing to team effort at all times.Adhere to all relevant policies and procedures.Seek internal process improvements by collaborating with other team.What are the minimum Requirements you need for the role? University degree in business/finance/accounting or similar.Previous experience in an asset/investment management firm or similar relevant experience desirable.Qualification or part qualification in ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA, CAIA or working towards would be advantageous.Proficient with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.What Competencies do you require? Adaptability: Modifies his or her approach to achieve a goal. Is open to change and new information; rapidly adapts to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles.Attention to detail: Ensures information is complete and accurate; follows up with others to ensure that agreements and commitments have been fulfilled.Client Relationship Management: Builds effective relationships with clients in order to increase sales, improve customer service, and increase profitability.Communication & Presentation: Ability to communicate effectively, listen sensitively, adapt communication to audience and foster effective communication with others; Ability to present engagingly, using data and storytelling, responding to audience input and feedback.Knowledge of Technology: As dictated by clients being worked on: Curator, Microsoft Packages, Appropriate Apps: Productivity App, Sage, Zoho.Planning & Organisation: Able to stay focused on different tasks and uses time and resources effectively and efficiently to deliver the required outcome.Problem Solving & Solution Focus: Spots problems before they come to a head and identifies the root cause; Makes well-informed, effective, and timely decisions, even when data are limited; perceives the impact and implications of decisions.Stakeholder Management: Ability to identify who key stakeholders (e.g. risk, onboarding, financial reporting, delegates etc) are with a view to organising, monitoring and improving your relationships with them by analysing needs and expectations and planning and implementing various tasks to engage.Team Player: Contributes fully to the team effort and plays an integral part in the smooth running of the team without necessarily taking the lead. Has the interests of the team at heart, works for the good of the team.Technical Knowledge: As dictated by clients being worked on: IRL: UCITS. AIFM; LUX: UCITS, AIFM, UCI; All associated underlying assets as per clients portfolio; Relevant Legislation i.e. EMIR, SFDR.Who is Carne? Carne Group has established itself in the funds industry with $2tn in AUM supported by 700+ staff and four regulated management companies. Together with a large team of industry specialists, Carne serves more than 650+ traditional and alternative asset management clients from key fund jurisdictions and financial hubs including Ireland, Luxembourg, Zurich, Lisbon, London, New York, Cayman and Channel Islands.
Excellence and innovation are central to Carne's work and we are committed to attracting and retaining the best talent to deliver an unrivalled service to our clients. Whilst working with Carne, you will be provided with opportunities to develop your skills and experience by working in a dynamic, innovative, and multicultural environment where exciting careers are built.
We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the asset management industry. Not sure if you meet all the requirements? Let us decide! Research shows that members of other under-represented groups tend not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when in fact, they do! At Carne we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.
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