Front Office Operations, Senior Associate, Active Investing Equity, APAC

As one of the world’s leading independent global investment firms, Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world. If you're looking for challenging work, intelligent colleagues, and exposure across a global footprint, come explore your potential at Invesco.

Our people are at the very core of our success. Invesco employees get more out of life through our comprehensive compensation and benefit offerings including: 

• Generous annual leave plus flexible paid time off

• Hybrid work schedule 

• Learning and development programs

• Health & wellbeing benefits 

• Parental Leave benefits 

• Employee stock purchase plan (if applicable in your region)

Who we are:

With over $2.2 trillion of assets under management, Invesco is one of the world’s leading global investment management firms, headquartered in Atlanta, GA. Spreading across 26 countries and with over 8400 dedicated employees, we are driven by trust and care. As one of the world’s leading asset managers, we are solely dedicated to delivering an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. If you're looking for challenging work, thoughtful colleagues, and a global employer with social values, explore your potential at Invesco.

Your Team

We are looking out for FOO Senior Associate to work as part of Front Office Operations (FOO). Front Office Operations is a global team supporting Global Fund Managers for business operations and are directly engaged with the portfolio management process.  The FOO Senior Associate will work in building efficient front office processes and procedures as well as help support Fund Managers in resolving issues related to their Investments process so Fund Managers can focus on alpha generation.

 FOO Team is built on below major investment practices:

• Platform Management -System and process integrity, continuous improvements and automation efforts.
• Active Investing-Fixed Income, Fundamental Equity, Real Assets and Unit Investment trust capabilities.
• Index Investing, Solutions and SMAs -Index investing, Solutions and SMAs capabilities.
• Client & Product Lifecycle -Onboarding and product changes, with the objective of standardizing these processes.

Responsibilities of the role:

• Support trade implementation, rebalancing, and cash/liquidity monitoring for Active portfolios.

• Perform daily position, exposure, and restriction monitoring, identifying and escalating risks.

• Partner with Trading to support execution workflows and liquidity considerations.

• Manage exception handling, creating process documentation, and escalation in coordination with Compliance and Risk.

• Assist with new strategy launches and mandate changes, ensuring implementation readiness.

• Identify recurring issues and contribute to control enhancements and process improvements.

• Cash / FX / hedging monitoring

• Stock settlement reconciliation

• Position limits monitoring – i.e. 5/40, single-stock limit, market and sector limits

• IPO process

• Regulatory monitoring such as cash% or risk assets etc. for MPF products

Requirement for the Role:

• A minimum of 8 years’ relevant experience in Investment banking/management

• Experience supporting active portfolio operations or trading support.

• Understanding of liquidity, market impact, and asset‑class‑specific risks.

• Knowledge of Investment Business, Buy-side Processes, Trade Life Cycle and Investment Products

• Experience in the front or middle office applications is preferred {Charles River OMS (CRD), CRIMS, Bloomberg, Aladdin

Skills / Other Personal Attributes Required:

• Strong judgment, attention to detail, and comfort operating under pressure.

• Clear communicator with PMs, Traders, and Operations partners.

• Responsible & Accountable for the work allocated end to end, self-managed & proactive.

• Process Documentation- Draft, Document, Maintain, review in detail for smooth performance of activity.

• Self-starter, shows strong self-initiative to meet deliverables and overcome issues.

• Must also demonstrate flexibility, enthusiasm and a willingness to learn while ensuring that all deadlines are met.

• Positive thinking, create energy & the ability to cooperate in a team environment is critical.

• Positive thinking, create energy & the ability to cooperate in a team environment is critical.

• SFC Type 9 - Asset Management

• Fluency in written and spoken English and Chinese.

At Invesco, our workplace model supports our culture and meets the needs of our clients while providing flexibility our employees value. As a full-time employee, compliance with the workplace policy means working with your direct manager to create a schedule where you will work in your designated office at least four days a week, with one day working outside an Invesco office.