Specialist | Institutional Client Operations | Client Data & Reporting at Allan Gray Proprietary Limited

Job Summary

• The role requires the candidate to actively manage the control environment and ensure robustness of controls in institutional client operations in order to comply with all regulations pertaining to AML, RMCP, FATCA, and OECD. The role will require reporting on AML statuses and other key operational metrics to always provide management with a view of key metrics. The role also aims to identify training gap in regulatory matters within institutional client operations and ensure processes and corresponding process notes remain up to date.

Job Responsibilities

•  Understand and stay abreast of all legislation impacting the institutional business
•  Collaborating with compliance and ensuring all new legislation, as well as changes to existing legislation and regulations, are understood and implemented successfully across all operational teams and regions
•  Ensuring the control environment is up to date and sufficiently mitigates risks of non-compliance. This requires a review of all controls and ensuring there is clear ownership for each which
•  Collaborating with the D365 point person in client operations on AML related items
•  Reporting on various statuses of compliance such as AML, suspicious transacting reporting, last verified date, FATCA, productivity measures, client service metrics, etc to management
•  Identify and support the training needs of institutional operations teams within agreed timescale
•  Assists in mitigation of compliance risk
•  Manage various financial crime monitoring lists in alignment with financial crime standards and procedures
•  Maintain daily, weekly and monthly statistics for reporting purposes

Experience and Qualifications

•  Relevant business degree (finance, management or law)
•  2 + years relevant AML experience
•  Sound understanding of asset management industry and in particular client operations
•  Knowledge of legislation, regulations and legal principles applicable to the financial services sector
•  Experience in facilitating training and coordinating projects will be beneficial

Competencies

•  Ability to identify key issues that require resolution and prioritisation based on importance and urgency
•  Ability to accept responsibility for all tasks done
•  Attention to detail
•  Strong analytical and problem solving skills
•  Very disciplined and methodical working style
•  Ability to plan and organise
•  Good communication and coordination skills
•  Conscientiousness
•  Self-motivated
•  Good time management skills, ability to manage heavy workload and multiple tasks