Job Opportunities at Apex Group

• The Transfer Agency Department provides Fund Administration service to numerous Fund management companies covering the full range of shareholder servicing functions including Transaction processing, Reporting, AML and Registration and Payments. The department is responsible for Client and investor document management, processing and quality checking of transactions and updating the registers of clients in response to investor instructions.
• This role is to perform BAU activities in the TA department in order to ensure that not only Client Service Level Agreements are consistently met and/or exceeded but also to ensure that regulatory requirements are effectively met. Candidates should be flexible enough to work in 24*7 environment

Key duties and responsibilities

• Individual/You should be able to review AML/KYC documents for all entity types. i.e Corporates, foundation/ Charities, institutional Investors, designated bodies etc.
• Individual/You should be well versed with any or all AML guidance for Cayman, Delaware, Australia, Ireland, Bermuda etc.
• Individual/You should have working knowledge of any or all of screening tools viz. WorldCheck, Pythagoras, Lexus-Nexus etc.
• Individual/You should be well versed with Microsoft applications. Expert excel and presentation skills is an added advantage.
• Individual/You should have working knowledge of FATCA/CRS reporting. He/She should be able to review US tax forms i.e W9, W8-BEN, W8-IMY, Witholding statements etc.
• Individual/You should have good written and verbal communication skills.
• Individual/You should be able to keep records in good order and perform regular remediation activities as per the risk rating of investors.
• Individual/You should be able to work separately and also collectively in a group as the situation demands.
• Individual/You should be able to create the required reports in time, without any reminders.
• Positive attitude and team spirit is a must.
• Prior experience in Transfer agency functions will be an added advantage.

Qualification and Experience

• Flexible enough to work in any shifts as per business needs
• Prior Transfer Agency processing experience is require
• Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce is desired
• 2-8 years of relevant experience

Skills Required

• Strong analytical skills
• Responsible for meeting all client deliverables
• Ability to navigate proficiently in a windows environment
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft excel & word
• Ability to write messages in a clear and concise manner
• Ability to read, write & speak English proficiently
• Strong research, resolution and communication skill
• Interpersonal skills - Relationship builder, respectful and resolves problems
• Communication skills - Presentation skills, listening skills, oral & written communication skills
• Self-management - Adaptability and resilience, learning behaviour, integrity and ethics and relationship build
• Motivational skills - Performance standards, achieving results and persistent.
• Innovative thinking - Creative thinking decision making, input seeking ,logical thinking and solution finding
• Attention to detail and ability to work on multiple tasks
• Flexible enough to work in any shifts as per business needs
• Prior Transfer Agency processing experience is require
• Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce is desired
• 2-8 years of relevant experience

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• As a Data Engineer, you will be a driving force towards data engineering excellence.
• Working with other data engineers, analysts, and the architecture function, you’ll be involved in the building out of a modern data platform using a number of cutting-edge technologies, and in a multi cloud environment,
• You’ll get the opportunity to spread your knowledge and skills across multiple areas, with involvement in a range of different functional areas.
• As the business grows, we want our staff to grow with us, so there’ll be plenty of opportunity to learn and upskill in areas such as data pipelines, data integrations, data preparation, data models, analytical and reporting marts.
• Also, whilst work is often following business requirements and design concepts​, you’ll play a huge part in the continuous development and maturing of design patterns and automation process for others to follow​.

Accountabilities and main responsibilities
In this role, you will be delivering solutions and patterns through Agile methodologies as part of a squad. You’ll be collaborating with customers, partners and peers, and will help to identify data requirements. We’d also rely on you to:

• Help break down large problems into smaller iterative steps
• Contribute to defining the prioritization of your squad’s backlog
• Build out the modern data platform (data pipelines, data integrations, data preparation, data models, analytical and reporting marts) based on business requirements using agreed design patterns
• Help determine the most appropriate tool, method and design pattern in order to satisfy the requirement
• Proactively suggest improvements where they see issues
• Learn how to prepare our data in order to surface it for use within APIs
• Learn how to Document, support, manage and maintain the modern data platform built within your squad
• Learn how to provide guidance and training to downstream consumers of data on how best to use the data in our platform
• Learn how to support and build new data APIs
• Contribute to evangelising and educating within Sanne about the better use and value of data
• Comply with all Sanne policies
• Any other duties in the scope of the role that the company requires.

Qualifications and skills
Technical Skills:

• Data Warehousing and Data Modelling
• Data Lakes (AWS Lake Formation, Azure Data Lake)
• Cloud Data Warehouses (AWS Redshift, Azure Synapse, Snowflake)
• ETL/ELT/Pipeline tools (AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, FiveTran, Stitch)
• Data Message Bus/Pub Sub systems (AWS SNS & SQS Azure ASQ, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Data Programming languages (SQL, Python, Scala, Java)
• Cloud Workflow Service (AWS Step Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Camuda)
• Interactive Query Services (AWS Athena, Azure DL Analytics)
• Event and schedule management (AWS Lambda Functions, Azure Functions)
• Traditional Microsoft BI Stack (SQLServer, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS)
• Reporting and visualisation tools (Power BI, QuickSight, Mode)
• NoSQL & Graph DBs (AWS Neptune, Azure Cosmos, Neo4j) NoSQL & Graph DBs (AWS Neptune, Azure Cosmos, Neo4j) (Desirable)
• API Management (Desirable)

Core Skills:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Critical Thinking and research capabilities
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to plan, and manage your own work loads
• Work well on own initiative as well as part of a bigger team
• Working knowledge of Agile Software Development Lifecycles

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Job Specification

Project Management and Communication

• Responsible for managing projects from initiation to closure (scoping, requirements definition, resource and financial planning, quality management, etc.).
• Managing and governing delivery across varied business and technology change programs.
• Monitor the progress of project components to ensure the overall goals, schedules, budget, and benefits will be achieved.
• Ensure that projects are organized and executed in a consistent manner.
• Ensuring efficient communication with all relevant business and IT stakeholders.
• Leading project meetings and providing updates to different management groups.
• Working closely with the PMO team to ensure that the project documentation is consistent with the existing standards and internal processes and procedures.
• Directing work/projects, controlling cost/schedule elements, management of resources, communications management, reporting, and change management.
• Develop robust project risk management plans to ensure timely delivery, testing and commissioning of all projects with no impact to business continuity.

Project Controls and Reporting

• Initiating, planning, executing, and closing all project deliverables as committed.
• Establish, maintain and explain the program methodology, procedures, and policies, consistently within the Enterprise PMO rules and guidelines.
• Drive project planning and control from an operational point of view (activity, milestones and resource planning), with a special focus on core activities and global plan consolidation.
• Apply relevant project standards to build project management frameworks for all assigned projects.
• Identifying and assessing all risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies and the appropriate mitigating actions throughout the project life cycle.
• Creating and maintaining all required project documentation (PID, project plan, RAID log, etc.).
• Produce reports and analyses in support of the RAID management.
• Responsible for financial planning and controls related to assigned projects.
• Developing project estimates and plans to manage the end-to end project execution
• Ensuring project closure including completion of lessons learned and required documentation
• Promoting and monitoring compliance activities with audit and information policies
• Ensure Stage Gates are in place
• Ensure all Project Level dependencies are mapped and managed and achieved

Project Vendor Management

• Lead the teams in developing Requests for Proposals (RFP) for external services.
• Support the vendor selection and management process (scope, plan, and milestone definition, operational issues, deliverable & milestone approval, quality control, etc.).
• Manage vendor administration (SOW activation, PCRs authorization, invoice approval).
• Managing external vendors to ensure on time and to budget delivery.

Skills Required

• Bachelor's degree required; Advance degree in IT related field or MBA preferred.
• 5+ Years Project Management experience in a large multi-unit global organization required. 
• Project Management Accreditation (APMP, PMI, Prince 2 or equivalent) -preferred.
• Project management skills in complex IS and business environments, including ability to coordinate multiple teams in various locations and time zones. 
• Deep project management experience managing local and global implementations. 
• Experience working on projects in the financial services industry would be an advantage.
• Must possess extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of Project Management methodologies and tools. 
• Passion for leading teams and implementing change. 
• Demonstrated leadership skills.  Strong negotiation and team-building skills with the ability to create consensus around decisions and mitigate conflicts among different teams.
• High communication skills required at all levels. Must be able to interact with senior leadership.  Excellent command of verbal and written communication (English).  Effective presentation style for all levels of stakeholders.
• Strong problem solving, decision making, issue analysis and resolution skills. 
• Highly organized.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities with internal clients.
• Ability to work well in a fast paced multicultural global work environment. 
• Demonstrated ability to work with multiple stakeholders and manage competing priorities with internal clients.
• Ability to gather and address both business and technical requirements. Must be highly motivated.
• Proficient in MS Office products including MS Project.