Asset Servicing - AVP

West End
10 months ago
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Asset Servicing - AVP working for an international Investment Manager who specialise in the Loans and Consumer Credit sphere. The office is based in London's West End, but the wider organisation has teams situated in the US and multiple European locations.

Client Details

Well known global Asset Manager who has offices in the US and Europe. They specialise in the Mortgage and Consumer Credit fund sphere. They employee circa 2000 people globally and are looking to add to their London based Asset Servicing Team in a Fund Ops capacity.

Description

This individual will play a key leadership role overseeing asset servicing and post-closing operational workflows for the European portfolio of whole loans and structured credit products. In this high-impact role, you will focus on enhancing and streamlining operational processes to improve efficiency and accuracy while maintaining synchronisation across reporting, reconciliation, and system updates. You'll collaborate with deal operations and broader finance teams based in Europe and USA ensuring accuracy of high data quality in order to optimise asset servicing and reporting processes. Strong communication skills are essential, as the individual will collaborate closely with business leaders, investment managers, transaction managers, lenders, servicers, and trustees. The successful candidate will be responsible for building new workflows, optimising existing processes, and leading a team to support evolving business needs.

Lead and oversee the end-to-end asset servicing operational workflows for portfolio of whole loans (Residential, Consumer, Commercial), including asset-based financing, securitizations and structured credit products.
Manage and oversee daily reconciliation processes with document custodians, third party servicers, trustee cash accounts and lender waterfalls.
Serve as a key resource in the deal onboarding process to oversee deal treasury workflows, ensure portfolio management systems are correctly set up with connectivity and reconciliation parameters to support asset servicing workflows.
Serve as a champion and key subject matter expert on all post-closing operational workflows related to servicing and financing transactions, driving key decisions and providing expertise to all internal teams.

Lead initiatives and work directly with investment managers and servicing oversight to produce and streamline loan level data and reporting including playing an active role in the valuation process while reviewing and reconciling the monthly NAV and P&L.

Partner with Technology, Finance and Deal Operations teams to enhance reporting capabilities and optimise data management.

Build and maintain strong relationships with third party servicers, trustees and lenders.

Lead initiatives to enhance and automate deal operations using tools such as Excel, Power BI, Arcesium, and Alteryx to improve process efficiency and support scalability.

Perform data quality checks across systems to ensure accuracy and synchronisation of key data points throughout all processes.

Proactively drive process improvements and creatively seek ways to uncover additional efficiencies.Profile

Asset Servicing - AVP

SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITIES

Previously have held a similar Asset Servicing role, specifically within Mortgages / Consumer Credit or similar
Demonstrate sound judgement and decision-making skills, taking ownership for outcomes and delivering strong results.
Strong tech forward mind-set, proficiency in Excel, Alteryx, Power BI, SQL, Python or other management reporting tools is a strong plus.
Strong conceptual understanding of financial products and investment vehicles for whole loan investments.
Experience with residential, consumer and commercial whole loan investment workflows is a strong plus.
Strong financial acumen and analytical skills.
Strong attention to detail to ensure the accuracy of transaction level data sets.
Comfortable working with large data sets; experience analysing and reconciling deal level data.
Ability to interpret and apply analysis to complex documents and transactions.
Strong relationship management skills with the ability to interact effectively with fund managers, servicers, trustees, and senior management.
Excellent organisational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and oversee recurring processes in a fast-paced environment.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and departments, and effectively present to senior management.
Demonstrated ability to proactively drive process improvements and creatively seek ways to uncover additional efficiencies.

Education and Experience

An undergraduate degree in accounting, finance, or related field is required; an advanced degree or relevant certification is a plus.
Experience in operations, fund accounting, or finance, preferably within the mortgage or asset management industries.Job Offer

Asset Servicing - AVP, Fund Administration role

Industry: Financial Services, specifically Asset Management

Based: London, West End

Salary: £75-100k base plus bonus

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