Assistant Manager, Middle Office, Investment Management Services M/F

CACEIS-Gruppe; Putrajaya; Sur place; MYR 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

CACEIS Malaysia invites applications for the Assistant Team Manager, Middle Office Malaysia to lead day-to-day MO operations within a controlled, high-volume environment. You will coordinate tasks, support coaching, and help ensure data integrity across trades, positions and cash balances.

The role emphasizes collaboration with IT, risk, and business units to drive continuous improvement. Working hours are 9:00am–6:00pm Malaysia time, region APAC.

Qualifications

• Experience in monitoring and validating transaction flows in financial services.
• Exposure to trade lifecycle processes, exception management, and controls.

Responsabilités

• Assist the Team Manager in overseeing daily MO operations.
• Coordinate shift scheduling, leave management and capacity planning.
• Coach and develop team members; maintain SOPs and process docs.
• Ensure data quality and timely reporting for governance.

Connaissances

trade validation & exception handling

monitoring & escalation

team coaching

process documentation

Formation

Bachelor Degree / BSc Degree or equivalent

Outils

CTM

ALERT

Apollo

NXG

Description du poste

Business type

Types of Jobs - Asset Management

Job title

Contract type

Permanent Contract

No

Job summary

What is the opportunity?

The Investment Management Services team at CACEIS Malaysia provides critical middle and back-office support to asset managers and institutional clients, ensuring accurate trade processing, position keeping, cash management, corporate actions, and regulatory reporting across multiple asset classes. The team operates within a strong control environment, delivering timely and compliant services that underpin client investment objectives.

The Assistant Team Manager, Middle Office Malaysia, supports the team lead in overseeing day-to-day operations, focusing on team coordination, task management, and operational efficiency. This role contributes to fostering a motivated and collaborative work environment, assisting in employee development and supporting team performance. The Assistant Team Manager serves as a point of contact for operational matters within the team and collaborates with stakeholders to promote a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and process improvement.

• The Middle Office (MO) team is responsible for validating, reconciling, and maintaining the integrity of trades, positions, cash balances, and valuation data across systems.
• The MO team acts as a key control function to ensure operational data is accurate, complete, and timely for downstream reporting, client servicing, and regulatory purposes.
• Operating in a controlled, high-volume environment, the MO team provides detection and resolution of breaks or inconsistencies arising from trading activity or system processing.
• The team collaborates closely with front office, upstream data providers, accounting, IT, and support functions to ensure data consistency and mitigate operational risk.
• As part of the broader investment operations ecosystem, the MO team supports strategic and regulatory initiatives by ensuring reliable operational data that underpins reporting, risk management, and decision-making.

The team contributes to operational resilience through disciplined control execution, exception management, and continuous improvement practices.

Region: APAC

Working Hours: 9:00am - 6:00pm (Malaysia time)

What will you do?

Production and Supervision

• Assist the Team Manager in overseeing daily operations of the MO team to ensure smooth and efficient workflows.
• Coordinate and monitor team tasks, including shift scheduling, leave management, and capacity planning, to maintain adequate coverage and meet deadlines
• Support and guide team members through coaching, training, and knowledge sharing to enhance skills, performance, and development.
• Maintain and update standard operating procedures (SOPs), process workflows, and ensure accurate documentation for operational continuity.

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Supplementary Information

What will you do? (Continuation)

Monitoring and Escalation

• Serve as the first point of escalation for operational issues within the team, assisting in timely identification and resolution of data flow anomalies.
• Collaborate closely with IT, Data Engineering, Risk, Business units, and other stakeholders to resolve technical and operational challenges.
• Assist in implementing and maintaining monitoring tools, alert systems, and exception handling workflows to support proactive issue detection.
• Support regular reporting on team performance, operational metrics, incident trends, and KPIs to leadership for informed decision-making.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement by identifying inefficiencies and recommending solutions to reduce operational risks
• Ensure compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, risk management frameworks, and governance standards.
• Assist in audit preparation and readiness by maintaining control documentation and supporting internal and external audit processes.

Geographical area

Asia, Malaysia

City

Bachelor Degree / BSc Degree or equivalent

• Experience in handling operational issues, trade validation, and exception management.
• Familiarity with trade lifecycle processes, especially in a high-volume and time-sensitive environment.
• Proficiency with trade lifecycle and transaction validation across asset classes.

Level of minimal experience

3-5 years

Experience

• Hands-on experience in monitoring and validating transaction that flows in financial services or related industries.
• Proven ability to investigate, resolve, and escalate trade anomalies and operational issues.
• Exposure to trade lifecycle processes, exception management, and instruction quality controls.

Technical skills required

Hands‑on experience with any one the below trade and position systems such as:

• CTM
• ALERT
• Apollo
• NXG

Languages

General information

Entity

CACEIS is the asset servicing banking group of Crédit Agricole dedicated to asset managers and institutional investors.

Entity

CACEIS is the asset servicing banking group of Crédit Agricole dedicated to asset managers and institutional investors.
Through offices across Europe, North and South America and Asia, CACEIS offers a broad range of services covering execution, clearing, forex, securities lending, custody, depositary, fund administration, fund distribution support, middle-office outsourcing and issuer services.
CACEIS is a consolidator in the European asset servicing market and posts sustained growth in its business activities. The group holds €5.3 trillion in assets under custody and €3.4 trillion in assets under administration (figures as of 31 December 2024)
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