Associate / Senior Associate / Assistant Manager /Manager - IRP

Job Description

Roles and ResponsibilitiesPosition PurposeInvestment Reporting and Performance (IRP) team is a department of Company providing investment performances and reporting services to Asset Managers and Institutional clients. Services provided by IRP include state of the art performances and risks calculations delivered on line or through wide range of reports (accounting packs, Fact sheets, Investment reviews) or data feeds.Services include, but not limited to, the following:1. Investment Performance Measurement and Reporting2. Portfolio Structure analysis / investment reporting3. Performance Attribution analysis4. Ex-ante Risk Solutions5. Solvency II reporting6. Asset & Liability Investment Analytics (ALIA)7. Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG)Experience required - 1to 10 yearsIRP RISE Project (Reporting Innovation System Enhancement)Every product has to go through changes during its life cycle to be technologically and operationally relevant to the clients as well as meeting or exceeding industry standards. RISE project was conceived to standardize some of our core offerings while allowing our resources to be innovative in new value-added solutionsResponsibilitiesIRP RISE Project team is a team of experts from across all IRP end to end streams starting from Acquisition, Calculation and Reporting (Static and Dynamic) and with a mix of Operations, Business Analyst and Implementation experts.

• The core activity lies in understanding the client requirements and transitioning the clients from legacy IRP platform to RISE platform successfully. The challenges could range from gaps in data availability in legacy platform, calculation methodology gaps, and logistical issues among others.

• The role is diverse, demands the expertise of client reporting and investment performance functions.

• The individual will be responsible for both the migration and validation of various reports such as Accounting Reports, Investment Reports, Performance Reports, Risk Reports, and Attribution etc.

• The role majorly requires timely and prompt coordination and communication with various stakeholders in Chennai and Paris.

Main Responsibilities:

• Client Migration in IRP-RISE can range from setting up funds and benchmarks, loading the client data, setting up client funds, setting up calculations, designing Reporting templates into existing systems in coordination with other team members
• BA activity can involve writing requirements for solution changes, scripts or demo documents, user guides for operations, support manuals among others
• Calculation Validation can mean comparison between the legacy and RISE calculations and analysis of any gaps noticed based on the migrated clients. Also communicating with the management on the gaps and supporting on the resolution of the same.
• Propose and advise about the feasibility and suitability of possible solution to optimize Performance reporting
• Conduct Meetings with multiple locations to understand the need and report the progress on the agreed services.
• Understand all areas of IRP, and IRP systems, and where appropriate develop specialist expertise to manage the Support, Change Requests, Projects and Client Onboarding
• Recruitment, Training, People Management, Resource Planning, Addressing the Interpersonal issues, Team building etc.,
• Understand all areas of IRP and IRP applications, develop cross-functional expertise to own the support issues and define a quick solution for issues and productivity improvements
• Ability to analyse the issues, identify the root cause, summarize the analysis and present it to the Management.
• Demonstrate strong managerial, analytical and problem solving skills
• Work with performance analysts to propose improvements to current production processes

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

• Knowledge and experience of Investment Performance Calculation and/or Portfolio Accounting methodologies
• Experience and /or aspiration to work in a Project role in a demanding environment
• Working experience or a passion for Business Analysis, Platform Migration and Client On boarding
• IRP Legacy applications (for internal candidates) and/or Bisam B-One is an added advantage
• Practical knowledge of SQL
• Strong understanding of financial markets, investment management and asset management
• Understanding on performance measurement, performance attribution analysis, and calculation methods.
• Understanding of Bloomberg, Reuters
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Basic Excel and VBA skills

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