Senior Operations Specialist - Investment Operations

Marsh; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Marsh in Dublin is seeking a senior Regulatory Reporting Specialist to oversee fund, regulatory and tax reporting across the Investment Solutions team. The role requires deep knowledge of EU fund structures (UCITS/AIFs) and strong stakeholder management to ensure timely, accurate reporting.

Hybrid work arrangement with three days in the office, collaborating with offshore teams and driving continuous improvement in reporting processes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience in Asset Management/fund administration/investment operations with strong Fund Accounting and academic background (Business/Accounting/Finance/Economics).
• A good understanding of European fund structures including UCITS and AIFs.
• Strong analytical mindset with excellent attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Develop in-depth knowledge of Marsh's funds and portfolios.
• Oversee regulatory reporting for your scope, monitoring SLAs/KPIs.
• Manage relationships with service providers, custodians and managers.
• Prepare regulatory updates for governance boards.
• Support launches, restructures and closures from regulatory reporting view.
• Review fund and client documentation, including legal/operational agreements.
• Identify operational risks and drive process improvements.
• Deliver work with high performance.
• Collaborate with offshore teams to ensure quality and governance.
• Mentor junior team members.
• Research regulatory changes and summarise impacts clearly.
• Lead change and process improvement projects.
• Support team manager on strategic initiatives.
• Support operating model enhancements for new client types.

Skills

Regulatory reporting

Fund accounting

Asset management

MiFID II

AIFMD

Stakeholder management

Education

Business/Accounting/Finance/Economics

Job description

Company: Marsh

Description:

Marsh's Investment Management business, Investment Solutions International (IS), is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented professional to join our Regulatory Reporting team within our Operations unit. The ideal candidate will have a strong and diverse background across Funds/Asset Management with 8+years of experience within an Asset Manager or Administrator and a solid understanding of core Fund/Investment Operations, including Fund Accounting, Middle Office and Transfer Agency. The role focuses on ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of Marsh's Regulatory Reporting as well as the effective oversight of Regulatory Reporting processes. Understanding of European investment products required.

The role will be based in Dublin. This is a hybrid that has a requirement of working three days a week in the office.

What can you expect:

This is an exciting opportunity for a senior candidate to join one of Marsh's largest and most rapidly-growing business areas - Investment Solutions. Marsh is one of the fastest growing investment solutions entities globally, with a rapidly expanding client base and continued strong growth anticipated. Our fund range was launched in Europe in September 2006 and currently consists of c.140 Irish domiciled funds across 5 legal structures. In addition to the ability to provide bespoke solutions to large, sophisticated clients these funds provide building blocks to support Marsh's wider range of investment and risk management solutions targeting the institutional marketplace. Assets Under Management (AUM) at a local level is approx. $200bn and $840bn at a global level.

The Operations Unit is responsible for the on-boarding of new clients into the funds, launching new funds, client and fund rebalancing, management of underlying investment manager changes, NAV and valuation oversight, fund expenses, regulatory & tax oversight, management of third-party service providers, operational infrastructure changes, development and maintenance of relationships with both internal and external clients and adherence to strict risk controls.

As a Regulatory Reporting Senior Specialist, you will play a crucial role in overseeing regulatory reporting requirements of the Funds, the Investment Manager and the Management Company (e.g. MiFID II, AIFMD, MMFR, IMR, PRIIPs KIDs) as well as leading the solutioning of new regulatory change requirements. The effective management of key service providers and oversight of delegates is also an important element of the role. This is a highly visible senior position requiring collaboration with a broad set of stakeholders internally and externally, including investment and commercial teams, Legal, Compliance, Portfolio Managers and operational teams.

The successful candidate will own, drive and deliver key reporting processes, work closely with internal and external stakeholders and contribute to ongoing data and reporting transformation initiatives. You will manage the delivery of business-as-usual (BAU) and team projects as required, become a subject matter expert, and use your initiative to navigate complex queries as well as actively contributing to enhanced operational processes and controls initiatives.

We will count on you to:

• Quickly develop in-depth knowledge of Marsh's fund structures and portfolio solutions.
• Oversee Regulatory Reporting processes for your scope of work, monitoring SLAs and KPIs.
• Manage relationships & regulatory related deliverables with key service providers, including Regulatory Reporting service providers, custodians and investment managers.
• Prepare regulatory updates/reporting for internal governance committees Boards.
• Support fund launches, restructures, transitions and closures from a regulatory reporting impact assessment perspective.
• Review fund and client documentation, including legal and operational agreements.
• Identify operational risks and inefficiencies and help implement process improvements.
• Own, drive and deliver your work with a high-performance mindset.
• Work collaboratively with offshore teams to ensure delivery of high-quality output and strong governance and oversight.
• Train and develop junior members of the team as needed.
• Be able to research regulatory change impacts, interpret key points as they apply to the business and summarise in a clear and succinct manner to aid project deliverables.
• Lead change and process enhancement projects for the team as required.
• Support team manager with key strategic initiatives as required.
• Support the advancement of our Operating Model as we adapt to the needs of new client types.

What you need to have:

8+ years' experience in Asset Management/fund administration/investment operations with strong Fund Accounting and academic background (Business/Accounting/Finance/Economics).

A good understanding of European fund structures including UCITS and AIFs.

Strong analytical mindset with excellent attention to detail.

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