About Waystone
Waystone is a leading asset-servicing solutions provider of institutional governance, administration, risk and compliance services to financial institutions. With over 25 years’ experience and a comprehensive range of specialist services to its name, Waystone helps our clients structure, operate and grow through our expertise, innovation and digitisation, backed by the operational scale to support global expansion.
Summary of the role: The Senior Associate – Regulatory Reporting COE will support the client through specific regulatory reporting activities. This will be completed by working closely with the Director, Managers and work in a supportive role within the Global COE team (supporting the broader Waystone operations). The client base will range from Management Companies to standalone clients.
The role will predominantly center around regulatory filings for both Management Company and external clients in addition to market data but will involve other duties outside of these regulatory filing periods. Assisting or leading out on integration projects due to the recent acquisitions.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Preprocess holdings data through internal systems, enriching security master attributes and ensuring sign off on E-Risk results.
- Assist in the completion and review of regulatory filings such as AnnexIV, FormPF, CPO, but not limited for a portfolio of clients on a periodic basis.
- Participate in regular service reviews with internal Waystone entities leveraging the CoE for regulatory reporting activities.
- Work with Associate Director or Manager to ensure KPI’s and MI packs are produced accurately and in a timely fashion for both internal Waystone entities and senior management.
- Participate in supporting clients servicing through reporting. This must be done in a timely and accurate fashion, escalating issues as they arise.
- Follow and enhance existing procedures, to solve routine problems.
- Be proficient in problem solving, striving to use own initiative to take ownership of the task.
- Assist the manager in the supervision and management of staff members of regulatory filings and overall responsibility for the timely completion of such filings.
- Work co-operatively with other groups in different locations and time zones, especially the teams in Cayman and Luxembourg
- Provide adequate documentation and backup of all operational processes.
- Participating in on job training for new hires.
- Be driven, inquisitive and be able to self-manage.
- Keep abreast of regulatory changes and help oversee and implement within the business where required.
- Assisting the manager or Associate Director with ad-hoc client queries.
- Aspire to be the proficient in the various risk and regulatory reporting requirements, such as AIFMD and become proficient in excel & the funds industry, especially with respect to regulations.
- Other projects and duties as assigned.
REQUIREMENTS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential
functions.
Education:
A minimum of a 3rd level Degree in Finance, Business or similar field is required. A Master’s Degree in a Finance or mathematical field or a related professional qualification would be desirable but is not a requirement.
Experience:
- The successful candidate will ideally have worked for at least 4-5 years in a risk, regulatory, fund accounting related role or similar in financial services preferably within the funds industry.
- Knowledge of or previous exposure to some regulatory filings, including but not limited to, AIFMD, UCITS, CPO-PQR, Form PF, Solvency II is preferable but not a requirement.
- Previous management or supervisor experience would be preferable.
- It would be beneficial if the applicant has previous exposure through work or education to a number of risk measurements including Value at Risk, Stress Testing, Liquidity Analysis, Greeks and Back Testing in addition to some knowledge of a range of financial instruments including derivatives.
- The role involves detailed use of Excel and is a quantitative role so an aptitude and comfort working with numbers and spreadsheets are preferred.
- Any experience of using Bloomberg would be beneficial as it is used on a regular basis.