Senior Fund Administrator – Reconciliations

The role is within the Investment Operations area of the Investment Financial Services Department, which provides professional Investment Services to multiple clients with Assets under management of approx. £35bn.

Reporting into the Regulatory Reconciliations Supervisor, the role will not have any direct reports but is responsible for performing reconciliations in accordance with a controls and regulatory focused environment. These reconciliations relate to cash and custody accounts holding firm and customer assets (some CASS knowledge or exposure would be advantageous). Given the regulatory and controls focus within the team, strong attention to detail, and communication skills for liaising with a range of stakeholders are critical for success in the role.

In addition to reconciliation duties, the role will have responsibility for local administration of the Blackline system, including account grouping, user creation, troubleshooting, and general system maintenance. The successful candidate will ensure that Blackline processes are configured, maintained, and optimised to support accurate, efficient, and compliant reconciliations across the business.

The role will suit candidates that enjoy adaptability, flexibility and professionalism and the ability to work collaboratively to deliver change.

Key Accountabilities

Undertaking daily, weekly and monthly bank and control account reconciliations
Ensuring reconciliation outputs are recorded in-line with regulatory and oversight requirements
Acting as local Blackline system administrator, including account grouping, user creation, permissions management and general system maintenance
Assisting in the delivery of change projects within the team and the wider department

Success in the job will be evidenced by contributions to day-to-day operational performance and KPI’s (e.g. Accurate and timely provision of Asset Servicing data to Investment systems and SII data repository, minimal business errors / Losses etc.) as well as contributions to Continuous Process Improvement.

Desired Knowledge / Experience / Skills

Experience of working with the Blackline systems, SAP, CLOAS, Galahad, Multifonds, Horizon, GBST Composer would be an advantage.
Significant expertise in the processing of income received from Collective Investments would be desirable.
Experience of managing and controlling complex processes to meet deadlines, in a sometimes high pressure environment.
Experience of contributing to and working on change projects, both large and small, whilst concurrently delivering excellent business as usual services.
Demonstrably high level of accuracy and attention to detail is a must.
Broad working knowledge of the Canada Life operations in relation to banking.
An understanding of basic accounting principles with strong numeric and system skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Team player.
Proactive and logical approach to continuous improvement initiatives, problem solving & managing issues.
Ability to learn and understand processes with a view to identifying issues and minimising impacts to the team and the wider department.
Ability to work collaboratively and adjust to fluctuating work volumes.

Essential Qualifications

5 GCSE’s A-C including Maths and English (or equivalent).

Ideal Qualifications

Additional CISI Investment/Operations related qualifications/exam passes or equivalent e.g. IMC
Part qualified to CIMA certificate or ACCA Fundamentals level.