Senior Associate, Fund Operation

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Job Description

The Fund Operations is a member of APAC Operations. The person is responsible for the wide area of investment trust operations. These are the key roles for the person.

• Ensure day-to-day management for the fund administration of Japan.

• Monitor day-to-day operations handled by the outsource service provider to complete NAV calculation (not limited to) in timely manner.

• Preparing of disclosure documents, Investment Reports for Japan domiciled funds.

• Working on prospectuses.

Primary Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be expected to perform the following functions:

• Completion and accuracy of the calculation of daily net assets and price of investment trust fund.

• Authorization of daily NAV provided by outsource service provider.

• Managing subscription / redemption details, fund NAV calculation including market price checks and any other operational issues arising.

• Monitoring of cash balance of the funds to avoid overdraft including the cash projection.

• Submission of investment trust related reports to Investment Trust Association Japan and BOJ.

• Preparing regular BIS reports.

• Provision of the financial statement of investment trust fund for external auditors. Ensure that the financial statement provided by the outsource service provider for fund audit is correct.

• Ensure operational setup in relation to fund operations for newly launched fund and a new distributor.

• Confirmation of data used for Disclosure of investment trust fund.

Qualifications

• Experiences at fund accounting or disclosure in asset management company, Trust Bank or Outsource Service provider for 5 – 8 years.

• Knowledge of basic financial instruments and using market information system such as Bloomberg, Aladdin.

• Must possess good interpersonal skills.

• Fluent Japanese.

• Preferrable for English skill for reading, writing and speaking.

Barings is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer; Minority/Female/Age/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply.