St Helier, Jersey

Senior Administration - Funds

 Job Description:

Senior Administrator, Fund Administration

 An exciting opportunity for a talented, experienced Senior Fund Administrator to join an ambitious and busy fund services team.
Reporting to the manager, you'll be responsible for providing high quality administration for a portfolio of fund clients with particular emphasis on the client service aspects of the business, delivering excellent client services levels at all times. You'll be involved in the full life cycle of our clients, including the client take-on process and all aspects of the ongoing administration of the client.

In return, we can offer you focused mentoring and professional development support to ensure you continue to grow as the business grows and achieve your full potential.
If you've solid administration experience in fund services and would like to join our friendly and professional team, we'd really like to hear from you.

About the role

  • Manage and be wholly responsible for the administration of a portfolio fund clients, respective management companies and associated fund structures, ensuring that client relationships and administration are conducted effectively and to a high standard
  • Co-ordinate company secretarial matters including board meeting preparation and minutes of meetings
  • Process routine and ad-hoc fund operations, including drawdowns, distributions, transfers of interest, closings and equalisations
  • Ensure that you have an understanding of the transactions you are working on, providing technical support and training to other employees as and when required
  • Co-ordinate with the fund accounting team on investor reporting, the audit process, accounts distribution and filings
  • Ensure client expectations are properly managed and valuable relationships are nurtured
  • Assist with the effective management of day-to-day activities to include timely processing of work, completion of electronic payments, maintenance of banking systems, client communications, opening and closing of bank accounts, AML/KYC collation, transactional and internal procedural deadlines
  • Appropriately delegate work and utilise the resources within the team to ensure client services are maintained at the expected standards
  • Ensure that regulatory and statutory filings are made on time
  • Act as a mentor and actively supervise junior staff
  • Other ad-hod duties as requested

About you - essential requirements

  • Proven administration and company secretarial experience
  • You'll hold or be studying towards a relevant professional qualification (such as STEP, CGI or ACCA)
  • Good working knowledge of Microsoft desktop software
  • Knowledge of specialist software e.g. document and entity management systems, as well as fund administration systems
  • Having good communication and interpersonal skills
  • Being able to build relationships and work as part of a team
  • A positive and flexible approach
  • Ability to manage and prioritise tasks, time and people in order to meet deadlines
  • Ability to work independently
  • Must be Jersey resident - no sponsorship
  Required Skills:

Sponsorship KYC Structures Mentoring Interpersonal Skills Banking Technical Support Payments Administration Accounting Preparation Software Maintenance Business Training Communication Management