Transitions Administrator

Location – Hybrid / London (WFH 2-3 days a week)
Salary – £30 – £40K
Benefits – Excellent Pension, Private Medical Insurance, Bonus, Income Protection, and Partner Assistance Programme.

The Client:
Curo are partnering with an Investment Management business who are guided above all by the responsibility they have towards clients and their assets. They take a holistic approach to asset allocation, and recognise that environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are becoming an increasingly important metric when considering long-term risk and return. The founders’ aim is to achieve steady returns over the long term, always with an eye on risk, using up-to-the-minute technology. They want everyone to have access to the sort of service and expertise that institutional investors would expect. They have grown immensely over recent years, and have maintained their friendly team.

The Candidate:
This role would suit an enthusiastic and conscientious individual with good knowledge of tax wrapper structures including ISA, SIPP, and Offshore Bond. The successful candidate will have strong knowledge of the asset transfer process, including unit trust, CREST, foreign, certificated and cash movements. Electronic reregistration and Altus knowledge would be advantageous, as would Knowledge of Pershing NEXUS system.

The Role:
The purpose of this role is to provide administrative support to the Transitions team, to ensure timely transition of client assets. You will have the responsibility of processing new transfer instructions and chasing cases with counterparties to ensure transfers complete in a timely manner. You will work with the Transitions team to track and report on assets in transfer and ensure adherence to Service Level Agreements, liaising with colleagues and third parties to follow up and update on progress.

Duties:

• Check and process transfer requests received from the relationship management teams, liaising with third parties regarding settlement and inputting instructions into Pershing NEXUS system.
• Communicate with counterparties, fund managers and custodians to manage the smooth and timely transition of client assets to and from the company.
• Efficient tracking and reporting of assets in transfer using the Asset Tracker system, providing clear and relevant updates to enable the client (internal and external) to monitor progress of the transfer.
• Management of Transitions mailbox, post and telephone queries.
• Process transfers through our electronic reregistration system – Altus.
• Monitor reports and systems to check for receipt of funds and assets, process cheques for the custodian to apply to the accounts.
• Receiving transfer cheques, cross-checking information, updating the system and passing to cash management team for processing
• Process payments to clients and third parties in relation to transfers out of the business.
• Ensure adherence to internal and client operational procedures and controls.
• Management of Transitions mailbox, post and telephone queries.
• Maintain relationships with third-party administrators, Fund Managers and custodian.
• Attend and represent the business at industry forums.

Requirements:

• Ideally studying towards the IOC certificate or already qualified.
• Knowledge of tax wrapper structures including ISA, SIPP, Offshore Bond
• Knowledge of Pershing NEXUS system is an advantage
• Strong knowledge of asset transfer process including unit trust, CREST, foreign, certificated and cash movements
• Knowledge of Electronic reregistration and Altus is an advantage.
• Accuracy, thoroughness and attention to detail.
• Organisation and prioritisation skills to manage own workload to meet deadlines.
• Good communication skills (oral and written) in order to deal with queries received via telephone, email and face-to-face, and to ensure responses and updates are both clear and relevant.
• Ownership and initiative.

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Job Reference: RL6632