DirecciónJob Purpose
In an international context, the IG Manager acts as a key contributor in the adherence of AXA IM to all its regulatory, client or internal Investment Guidelines with identification of guidelines, implementation of controls in automated solutions, permanent and independent controls, logging and escalation of breaches for remediation, support of the front office in the prevention of breaches and reports on these activities.
Highly involved in the investment process you will interact with most of departments in the company. You will be involved in most of evolutions and challenges who impacting the company and the asset management industry (financial and technologic innovation, digitalisation, regulatory changes, responsible investment…). That is an opportunity to join a dynamic and qualitative team in an international financial company who is helping clients and customers to make the right decisions to achieve their financial goals of tomorrow.
Key Accountabilities In a dynamic and competitive environment, you main accountabilities will be:
- Identify and interpret all Investment Guidelines in regulations, prospectus, contracts and internal risk policies. Assess suitability and feasibility of Investment Guidelines monitoring. Escalate the risk of non monitorable guidelines. Create or update control card summarizing all the Investment Guidelines. Maintain completeness and reliability of the central guidelines repository.
- Contribute to the coding in the different automated monitoring systems. Control the implementation. Specify for development in relationship with Referentials (DALI) and Technology teams or develop new solutions to monitor new Investment Guidelines or to adapt to new instrument types.
- Contribute to the pre-trade controls, the prevention of breaches being under the responsibility of the front office.
- Conduct permanent (daily) and independent controls of Investment Guidelines. Ensure full coverage and reliability of this monitoring. Keep evidences of the controls. Analyse alerts raised in post-trade by the different systems and/or by third parties.
- Issue a breach notification to the fund manager for remediation in the best interests of the client and escalate the breach if not remediated in time. Track to resolution and potentially request for tolerance. Log the breach in a central database, qualified as active or passive, with the analysis and the all evidences. Maintain the repository completeness and quality.
- Produce breach / KPI reports to some clients, some auditors and local or global governance bodies.
- Ensure collaboration with all teams involved in AXA IM Investment Guidelines process, like the offshoring of activities to AXA BS in India, to Operations, Risk and Compliance teams.
- Contribute to initiatives to adapt to environment evolution (eg regulatory, organisational, technical) or that reduce operational risks or improve operational efficiencies.
- Ensure knowledge maintenance and business continuity.
Your Profile
Role Requirements
Education/Qualifications
- Graduate degree
Experience
- Experience in a similar function or within an asset manager would be a plus
Knowledge and Skills
- Fluent in English and in local langage
- Financial instruments, management strategy and portfolio valuation
- Awareness of related information systems and agility in using multiple tools.
Competencies
- Analytical. Rigorous. Synthetical.
- Autonomous and collaborative.
- Able to work with time constraints. Organised and Efficient.
- Excellent written and oral communication, ability to interact with people from different levels within the organisation.
- Challenging and ability to be firm.
