Insight Investment is looking for a Guideline Management Analyst to join the Guideline Management team in Boston. In this role, you will be responsible for reviewing active investment guidelines following their execution and take responsibility for the coding of pre/post-trade investment restrictions into both thinkFolio and Charles River. You will also be responsible for the post-trade monitoring across U.S. clients and will be required to support the fund management team in resolving any incidents. You will assist in Guideline related projects, suggest enhancements to existing processes and work closely with the Guideline Monitoring Manager in the build out of the offshore team in Pune.
Role Responsibilities
- Build a detailed knowledge of Charles River (CRD), understanding the various risk limits and the coding capabilities
- Ensure all new mandates/amendments are coded into systems within the agreed timeframes with a high level of accuracy
- Work closely with the Fund Managers and Client Directors to ensure that coding has been accurately interpreted and signed off within the appropriate timeframe
- Ensure client guideline queries from across the business are answered in a timely and accurate manner
- Complete post trade monitoring of incidents generated by the compliance systems, ensuring incidents are proactively escalated and recorded in the relevant systems
- Complete monthly and quarterly compliance attestations within the required deadlines
- Support the fund managers with ad-hoc queries related to pre-trade warnings generated by the compliance systems
- Continuously engage with IT to evolve systems and assisting in Guideline related projects.
- Assist the Guideline Monitoring Manager in the build out of the offshore Team in Pune
- Work closely with Fund Management and the Client Services team in the review of guidelines – ensuring that amendments can be coded into the compliance systems and standardizing the format of guidelines across the U.S. business
- Liaise with various internal parties (Fund Managers, Legal, Compliance, Risk, Client Directors, Traders) on Guideline Management team projects – ensuring deadlines are met
- Proactively devise ways to reduce operational risk to the business and to increase the efficiency of processes
Experience Required
- Minimum of a BA or BS in finance, mathematics, economics or equivalent
- Prior experience of working in a guideline-related function
- Working within CRD, however experience with an alternative Order Management System may also be considered
- Experience of working on Guideline related projects with a proven ability to enhance existing processes
- Proficient in using Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- SQL experience is beneficial
- Strong understanding of fixed income/municipal securities
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Under pay transparency law we are required to indicate the base salary range for this role of USD 110,000 to 125,000. Any offer of employment will be made based upon the specific skills and experience of the selected candidate and the base salary offered could be higher or lower than indicated.
About Insight Investment
Insight Investment is a leading asset manager focused on designing investment solutions to meet its clients' needs. Founded in 2002, Insight's collaborative approach has delivered both investment performance and growth in assets under management. Insight manages assets across its core liability-driven investment, risk management, full-spectrum fixed income, currency and absolute return capabilities. Insight has a global network of operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Japan and Australia. More information about Insight Investment can be found at: https://www.insightinvestment.com/corporate/
Skills Required
- Minimum of a BA or BS in finance, mathematics, economics or equivalent
- Prior experience of working in a guideline-related function
- Working within CRD or alternative Order Management System
- Experience of working on Guideline related projects
- Proficient in using Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- SQL experience is beneficial
- Strong understanding of fixed income/municipal securities
What We Do
Insight* is one of Europe’s largest investment managers** responsible for £626.2bn/€757.3bn*** in assets under management (AUM) across fixed income, risk management strategies including liability-driven investment (LDI) and currency risk management, absolute return and multi-asset capabilities. Based in London, Insight is a specialist asset manager with a global network of operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Japan and Australia. Our clients include pension funds, corporates, local authorities, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, wealth managers, financial institutions and supranationals. Insight's mission is to offer investors a different approach to achieving their investment goals; one that prioritises the certainty of meeting their chosen objectives in contrast to the traditional focus on maximising return and minimising volatility. Read our mission statement here: www.insightinvestment.com/uk/introducing-insight/our-mission-statement/ We believe responsible investment means helping our clients achieve their desired outcomes and reflecting their priorities. We aim to identify, assess and manage factors that we deem to be financially material, while also reflecting our clients’ sustainability preferences. We were a founding signatory to the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2006. For more on Insight’s approach to responsible investment, visit https://www.insightinvestment.com/investing-responsibly Posts are intended for UK/EU professional investors only. Capital at risk. *Insight is the corporate brand for certain companies operated by Insight Investment Management Limited (IIML). **IPE, ‘Top 500 Asset Managers’ survey, June 2024. Insight is ranked fifth out of the top 120 European institutional managers by total AUM for external Europe-domiciled institutional clients. ***As at 31 December 2024. AUM are represented by the value of cash securities and other economic exposure managed for clients.
