Fresh Openings at JTC Group

ROLE OVERVIEW

PURPOSE OF JOB

• To collate, calculate, process, investigate and check fund information including being a B signatory in order to produce and sign off the Accounts / Net Asset Valuations (NAV) of the specific Funds/Entities which JTC administers within defined deadlines and within regulatory requirements.
• To produce financial statements and other financial related information for client entities accurately and on a timely basis, in accordance with the most relevant accounting standards and client driven requirements.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• Prepare, monitor and capture cash movements (cash management), investment trades and update transactions in InvestOne / Investran to ensure an accurate and timely delivery of the Accounts / NAV.
• Prepare and perform weekly / monthly cash and stock reconciliations including proper investigation of all outstanding issues to ensure a timely resolution of any reconciling differences and no valuation errors occur.
• Monitor asset pricing and pricing sources for corporate actions to ensure securities are updated and valued correctly on InvestOne / Investran and no asset pricing errors occur within the Accounts / NAV.
• Perform and check expense and accrual calculations to ensure that they are reflected correctly in the Accounts / NAV.
• Prepare and produce an accurate NAV to ensure Checkers or Supervisor discover no errors on work reviewed resulting in the timely delivery of the Accounts / NAV.
• Proactively investigate queries with dealers; brokers; custodians; auditors and clients to ensure a timely resolution of all queries. Where applicable to communicate and escalate potential issues in a prompt and effective manner.
• Understand and implement company policies and procedures; client service level agreements and internal controls to ensure compliance thereof and no Custodian and external audit findings occur because of them not being applied.
• Prepare and send out all valuation e-mails to a pre-defined distribution list to ensure all parties have been timely informed of the valuation.
• To produce financial statements for portfolio of clients in accordance with the applicable financial standards, and to ensure that the accounts are produced in accordance with the regulatory deadlines and the deadlines agreed with the client.
• To project manage the client audit process internally according to an agreed timetable to ensure all parties are delivering as agreed and the manager or supervisor is informed of any obstacles and/or delays.
• Attend pre and post audit meetings to ensure audit planning, comments and recommendations as well as any post audit adjustments to be made to valuations are discussed.
• Prepare and complete all monthly/quarterly KPI spreadsheets and/or statutory returns to ensure specific funds regulatory requirements are fulfilled.
• Accurately update and maintain the relevant sections in the delivery matrix to ensure all parties are aware of what has been completed and Oversight can promptly review the NAV where required.
• Prepare and complete all sundry administrative tasks, including (but not limited to) accurate / timely time recording and filing of Accounts / NAV within Viewpoint.
• Coach and supervise other Fund Accountants in the same team to ensure all procedures are adhered to and feedback can be provided to the Manager for yearly reviews.
• Prepare accurate payment instructions and provide to checker for authorisation in a timely manner.
• Check and authorise payments (as a B Signatory) to ensure the correct amounts are instructed.
• Check and approve valuations (as a B Signatory) to ensure all information and calculations have been correctly collated.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

• A relevant tertiary qualification preferably including Accounting; Finance; Investments.
• Good accounting and investment product knowledge.
• Minimum of 2 to 5 years investment fund administration or related experience.
• Excellent numeracy skills.
• Strong attention to detail.

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ROLE OVERVIEW 

PURPOSE OF JOB

• To make a significant contribution to the team, both by internally assisting with the management of the CoSec team and by taking responsibility and autonomy for service delivery to Guernsey funds (some of which are listed) and Corporate structures. Responsible for all aspects of Company Secretarial from governance through to attendance at board meetings, preparing and filing related documentation, producing / reviewing governance sections for financial statements, regulatory compliance, statutory returns and regular corporate governance reporting to Boards. To contribute to the raising of JTC’s Corporate Governance profile and the sharing of knowledge and learning with the wider JTC CoSec community.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• Responsible for high quality Secretarial service delivery to our Guernsey clients in accordance with the constitution documents, service level agreements, fund documentation and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Be the primary point of contact for a portfolio of clients.
• Provide leadership to direct line reports, as appropriate.
• Assist in providing training to more junior members of the team, to ensure delivery to agreed scope and timescales.
• Assist in the checking of other team members work as required.
• Understand the relevant legislation and ensuring that all activities undertaken meet legislative requirements.
• Draft/Review of board papers, ensure board packs are assembled and distributed to client boards.
• Attend and minute board meetings, travelling to client locations as required.
• Draft/Review other company materials including D&O Insurance proposal forms, announcements and statutory filings, as appropriate.
• Use of the GFSC, Guernsey Registry and Stock exchange portals.
• Draft governance sections of annual and semi-annual reports (as applicable) in conjunction with fund accountants and advisors.
• Provide review and comment on corporate documentation as required by client and in conjunction with other advisors.
• Keep clients’ records up to date and ensure all statutory registers are maintained.
• Receive, monitor and keep up to date with constitutional, regulatory and listing requirements as applicable to individual clients.
• Take responsibility for various other aspects of our service offering, including developing client relationships, keeping up to date with best practice and helping disseminate the same to the wider team, undertaking some office administration including billing and project work, and supporting business development, as appropriate.
• Deal with correspondence, the collating of relevant information and writing of reports, ensuring decisions made or action points agreed are communicated to the relevant parties and completed within timescales set and agreed.
• Provide contribution to meeting discussions, as and when required.
• Monitoring changes in legislation and the regulatory environment, facilitating training for the team as required.
• Liaising with external regulators and advisers, such as lawyers and auditors and any other third parties as required.
• To facilitate a seamless transition of new client business into Corporate Secretariat department in a co-operative manner, ensuring that the client’s needs are clearly understood and can be satisfactorily met.
• To continuously improve personal skills through self-development and maintain personal development records.
• Provide any other duties as defined or deemed necessary by our clients or by management.
• Assist with the production/enhancement, where necessary, of relevant policies and procedures.
• Remain aware of the obligations for the reporting of unusual transactions.
• Adhere to Risk & Compliance procedures in relation to regulatory requirements and AML legislation.
• Adhere to CPD requirements in accordance with qualification level and in-house procedures.
• Adhere to JTC core values and expected behaviours.
• Ensure the team complies with JTC internal policies and procedures.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Proven management and leadership experience.
• Strong Company Secretarial background.
• Knowledge of the relevant laws of the regimes as applicable to the jurisdiction of the clients.
• Knowledge of the relevant jurisdictions’ rules and regulations.
• Understanding of the various Stock Exchanges’ listing rules.
• Understanding of the importance of controls and the fiduciary responsibility of directors.
• Competence in written and verbal communication with high level of accuracy.

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ROLE OVERVIEW

PURPOSE OF JOB

• This role will meet the business needs to comply with onboarding obligations on matters involving digital assets and web3 protocols (including to meet requirements of VASP licence applications) and support the forensic and investigations team with blockchain tracing by operating relevant digital asset tracing software, to complete screening checks and asset tracing exercises.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• Digital asset investigations including blockchain tracing analysis and sanctions screening.
• Blockchain review, analytics, analysis and assisting with preparation of reports.
• Set up systems for digital asset investigations including software licensing and outsourcing.
• Operate relevant software.
• Meet demanding deadlines.
• Assistance with onboarding clients, compliance and enhanced due diligence checks, eDiscovery, corporate intelligence and/or general fraud and misappropriation investigations or other tasks as appropriate to experience.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Demonstrable knowledge of Web3 ecosystem with proven experience with crypto and digital assets.
• Certified Cryptocurrency investigator or equivalent qualification.
• Another relevant qualification eg. CFA, CFE, ACEDs, ACAMs, and/or bachelor’s degree or higher and/or web3/digital asset programming experience.
• 3-5 years’ relevant PQE.
• Experience using relevant tracing software such as Elliptic or Chainalysis reactor, ideally with experience using software for tracing (related to fraud/misappropriation).
• Ideally with knowledge in solidity language and smart contracts on ETH, SOL, and other blockchains.
• Solid written, IT systems and numeric skills.

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ROLE OVERVIEW

PURPOSE OF JOB

• The team needs support for its 24/7 investigation and litigation support service that relies on a team who understand the detailed issues on the case and can check facts. These services are essential to support appointment takers to make informed decisions and to respond to requests in contentious including as a matter of urgency and to scale up the team if needed.  These services are essential to take on matters involving large and/or urgent discovery, investigation and litigation support projects.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• eDiscovery including database administration, setting up work tasks, tracking workflows and setting up searches.
• Document review, analysis and assisting with preparation of reports on factual issues.
• File organization and uploads/entries on document management system.
• Assisting with project management of investigations, eDiscovery and litigation support including maintaining task schedules, reviewing correspondence to ensure received by necessary assigns, following up on deadlines, diary management.
• Meeting demanding deadlines.
• Assistance with onboarding clients and enhanced due diligence checks.
• Invoicing and other administrative tasks as required from time to time.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Lawyer or suitable legal qualification.
• 1-3 years’ PQE.
• Previous relevant experience and knowledge ideal including on document review, fraud cases and legal privilege.
• Penchant for learning.
• Solid written, IT systems and numeric skills.
• Proactive and hardworking.

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ROLE OVERVIEW

PURPOSE OF JOB

• The team needs support for its 24/7 investigation and litigation support service that relies on a team who understand the detailed issues on the case and can check facts.  These services are essential to support appointment takers to make informed decisions and to respond to requests in contentious including as a matter of urgency and to scale up the team if needed. These services are essential to take on matters involving large and/or urgent discovery, investigation and litigation support projects.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

•  eDiscovery including setting up work tasks, tracking workflows and setting up searches.
• Assistance with investigation and eDiscovery strategy primarily on contentious cross border matters (often involving issues of fraud and misappropriation of funds).
• Project management of investigations, eDiscovery and litigation support including overall responsibility for document review tasks, factual analysis and reporting.
• Supervision of junior team members and document review team.
• Assistance hiring temporary review resource and scaling up team as required to meet project needs.
• Meeting demanding deadlines.
• Assistance with onboarding clients, and enhanced due diligence on KYC.
• Invoicing, budgets and other administrative tasks as required from time to time.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Lawyer or suitable legal qualification.
• 5+ years’ PQE of relevant experience.
• Commercial Litigation, investigations and/or document review experience including on matters involving fraud and tracing issues.
• Technical knowledge of financial fraud, investigation procedures and legal disclosures (eg privilege).
• Experience using document management systems and eDiscovery systems in a legal setting.
• Solid written and numeric skills including understanding of financial statements.
• Proactive and hardworking, willing to go the extra step to ensure tasks are done to the requisite level.

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ROLE OVERVIEW

PURPOSE OF JOB

• To collate, calculate, process, investigate and check fund information in order to produce the Net Asset Values for the specific Funds which JTC administers within defined deadlines and regulatory requirements.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Prepare, monitor and capture cash movements (cash management), investment trades and update transactions on the accounting system to ensure an accurate and timely delivery of the NAV.
• Prepare and perform weekly/daily cash and stock reconciliations including proper investigation of all outstanding issues to ensure a timely resolution of any reconciling differences and no NAV errors occur.
• Monitor daily/monthly asset pricing and pricing sources for corporate actions to ensure securities are updated and valued correctly on the accounting system and no asset pricing errors occur in the valuation.
• Perform and check weekly/daily expense and accrual calculations to ensure that they are reflected correctly in the Net Asset value calculation.
• Prepare and produce an accurate NAV to ensure Reviewers discover no errors on work reviewed resulting in the timely delivery of the NAV’s.
• Proactively investigate queries with dealers; brokers; custodians; auditors and clients to ensure a timely resolution of all queries. Where applicable to communicate and escalate potential issues in a prompt and effective manner.
• Understand and implement company policies and procedures; client service level agreements and internal controls to ensure compliance thereof and no Custodian or external audit findings occur as a result of them not being applied.
• Monitor and perform weekly/monthly compliance checks to ensure all scheme particulars are adhered to and no concern is raised in Compliance’s reviews and reports.
• Prepare and send out all valuation e-mails to a pre-defined distribution list to ensure all parties have been timely informed of the NAV.
• Prepare and complete all quarterly statutory returns to ensure specific funds regulatory requirements are fulfilled.
• Accurately update and maintain the relevant sections in the delivery matrix to ensure all parties are aware of what has been completed and Oversight can promptly review the NAV where required.
• Monitor client mailboxes on a daily basis be resolving queries where possible or escalating where required.
• Assist supervisors during audits by providing supporting documents, reconciliations and reports to auditors where required.
• Maintain investor registers and ensure only authorized changes are made and that these are done in a timely manner.
• Subject to client approvals, respond to any investor queries that may arise.
• Prepare drawdown and distribution notices where requested from the General Partner.
• Prepare capital account statements.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Excellent numeracy skills.
• High level of accuracy and excellent attention to detail.
• Works well under pressure.
• Strong problem-solving abilities.
• A relevant tertiary qualification including Accounting; Finance; Investments.
• Completed 3-year SAICA/SAIPA articles.
• Relevant experience in a similar role in financial services.

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ROLE OVERVIEW

PURPOSE OF JOB

• To collate, calculate, process, investigate and check fund information including being a B signatory in order to produce and sign off the Accounts / Net Asset Valuations (NAV) of the specific Funds/Entities which JTC administers within defined deadlines and within regulatory requirements.
• To produce financial statements and other financial related information for client entities accurately and on a timely basis, in accordance with the most relevant accounting standards and client driven requirements.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• Prepare, monitor and capture cash movements (cash management), investment trades and update transactions in InvestOne / Investran to ensure an accurate and timely delivery of the Accounts / NAV.
• Prepare and perform weekly / monthly cash and stock reconciliations including proper investigation of all outstanding issues to ensure a timely resolution of any reconciling differences and no valuation errors occur.
• Monitor asset pricing and pricing sources for corporate actions to ensure securities are updated and valued correctly on InvestOne / Investran and no asset pricing errors occur within the Accounts / NAV.
• Perform and check expense and accrual calculations to ensure that they are reflected correctly in the Accounts / NAV.
• Prepare and produce an accurate NAV to ensure Checkers or Supervisor discover no errors on work reviewed resulting in the timely delivery of the Accounts / NAV.
• Proactively investigate queries with dealers; brokers; custodians; auditors and clients to ensure a timely resolution of all queries. Where applicable to communicate and escalate potential issues in a prompt and effective manner.
• Understand and implement company policies and procedures; client service level agreements and internal controls to ensure compliance thereof and no Custodian and external audit findings occur as a result of them not being applied.
• Prepare and send out all valuation e-mails to a pre-defined distribution list to ensure all parties have been timely informed of the valuation.
• To produce financial statements for portfolio of clients in accordance with the applicable financial standards, and to ensure that the accounts are produced in accordance with the regulatory deadlines and the deadlines agreed with the client.
• To project manage the client audit process internally according to an agreed timetable to ensure all parties are delivering as agreed and the manager or supervisor is inform of any obstacles and/or delays.
• Attend pre and post audit meetings to ensure audit planning, comments and recommendations as well as any post audit adjustments to be made to valuations are discussed.
• Prepare and complete all monthly/quarterly KPI spreadsheets and/or statutory returns to ensure specific funds regulatory requirements are fulfilled.
• Accurately update and maintain the relevant sections in the delivery matrix to ensure all parties are aware of what has been completed and Oversight can promptly review the NAV where required.
• Prepare and complete all sundry administrative tasks, including (but not limited to) accurate / timely time recording and filing of Accounts / NAV within Viewpoint.
• Coach and supervise other Fund Accountants in the same team to ensure all procedures are adhered to and feedback can be provided to the Manager for yearly reviews.
• Prepare accurate payment instructions and provide to checker for authorisation in a timely manner.
• Check and authorise payments (as a B Signatory) to ensure the correct amounts are instructed.
• Check and approve valuations (as a B Signatory) to ensure all information and calculations have been correctly collated.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Excellent numeracy skills.
• Attention to detail.
• A relevant tertiary qualification preferably including Accounting; Finance; Investments.
• Good accounting and investment product knowledge.
• Minimum of 2 to 5 years investment fund administration or related experience.