Assistant Manager - Report & Accounts Development

Assistant Manager - Report & Accounts Development

PURPOSE OF YOUR ROLE

In this role the jobholder will work with a team of UK fund accountants to design and build automation into their processes for producing UK fund report & accounts. This must be done within an over-riding objective of ensuring as much commonality of process as possible between report & account production in the UK and Luxembourg fund accounting teams.

YOUR KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

- Analysis and documentation of the business processes to produce annual and semi-annual fund report and accounts to enable process improvement and re-engineering
- Identify and deliver successful automation to increase productivity and efficiency of the process by developing database and spreadsheet solutions.
- Design and develop the solutions in a consistent manner with the framework for tactical solution development as managed by the UK Process Improvement team.
- Produce user documentation and support documentation for the delivered solution.
- Train users to use del ivered solution(s).
- Train the team that will provide on-going support for the del ivered solution(s)

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

- The candidate will have a proven track record in del ivering automated solutions to support complex business processes. A knowledge of accounting and/or investment management is an advantage.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

- Development experience using Excel, Access, SQL and VB.NET.
- Process mapping and process re-engineering.
- Business requirements analysis.
- Technology development using configuration management.
- Assessing the relative benefits of competing ideas.
- Listening, questioning, and challenging skills.
- Ability to write clear and concise documentation.
- The ability to identify and automate inefficient processes.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to think through complex issues and sees things to resolution.

DESIRABLE SKILLS

- Accounting knowledge.
- Investment Management knowledge.
- Invest One knowledge.

KEY COMPETENCIES FOR THE ROLE

- Problem Analysis
- Ability to communicate with business people.

CUSTOMER SERVICE ETHOS

- ISFA has a strong Customer Service Ethos & is committed to providing best-in-class operational services to our internal meet regularly with and question its management; and then speak to its competitors, suppliers, customers and anyone else who might give them information that helps to assess whether the investment is a good one. Every investment in every portfolio is selected on its merit and ability to contribute to a better return.

The same can be said of its employees, who are encouraged to take intelligent risk in order to make small improvements that cumulatively improve the business. Fidelity is independent, not a subsidiary of a big bank or other institution, and is privately owned. This means that it can take long-term investment decisions rather than chase the next quarterly results as a listed company might. Fidelity believes its independence is a considerable advantage that benefits its customers.

As well as investment management, Fidelity distributes the funds of other managers through its FundsNetworkTM platform, administers pension schemes, and has interests in various other enterprises in Europe and Asia. For further information please visit our website.

WHY WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO JOIN INVESTMENT ADMINISTRATION?

The operational backbone of Fidelity International - Servicing the needs of our customers, such as Trading and Portfolio Management, and maintaining close relationships with external Auditors and Custodians on a daily basis. Always acting in the best interest of our investors, and in so doing, create wealth for our investors and opportunities and rewards for our employees

The Team - Around 200 people strong spread across various teams in the UK, Luxembourg and Hong Kong. This combination means there is an exciting array of skills and nationalities across all levels, making everyday work interesting and rewarding.

The Challenges - Responsible for processing corporate actions, pricing securities, settling trades, publishing holdings and maintaining static data for all Fidelity International funds; alongside fund accounting and reconciliation of all pooled funds in the UK and Luxembourg. We process 180 corporate actions a month, as well as pricing 10,500 securities and settling 3,500 trades a day. In addition, the department calculates the Net Asset Values for funds worth in excess of $200 billion every day; all of this creates a fast paced and ever changing environment.

The Spirit - A busy, friendly and supportive working environment is the foundation of all success and growth. This is exactly what you will find within IA. Sound values are woven into the very fabric of our organisation, hence the long term customer trust, success and stability of the company.

The Opportunities - We can offer plenty of opportunity and career growth within each of our departments. For example we introduced a concept called iAcademy, unique to FIL, where you work with colleagues across all departments within IA in cross-functional training and knowledge transfer.