Middle Office Specialist - H​/F

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Lazard Frères Gestion, the French arm of the Lazard group for asset management, manages nearly 45 billion euros for its institutional and private clients, and brings together around 230 employees as of 31/12/2025. Lazard Frères Gestion combines the qualities of an entrepreneurial company with a human touch and close proximity to its clients, with the power of a global group that manages more than 257 billion dollars as of 31/12/2025.

You will be integrated into the Middle-Office OPC Institutional team of Lazard Frères Gestion and more particularly assigned to the Data Management sub-pole.

The Middle Office team is composed of:

• a "Operations and Data Management" pole in charge of:
• management of treasury (daily follow-up / investments / cash adjustments)
• management of settlement/delivery instructions (custodian / valuer), follow-up of outcomes, update of SSI and the repository
• follow-up of threshold crossings / declarations to supervisory authorities and issuers / follow-up of OPA
• daily custodian and valuer reconciliations, derivatives and OTC
• cash transfers and institutional client orders
• follow-up of outcomes / management of suspensions / OST-coupons
• follow-up of Service Level Agreements
• follow-up of EMIR (control + regulatory follow-up)
• follow-up validation of VL, dissemination of VL
• preparation of documents for the ROGI (Operational Risks Institutional Management) committee and broker committee
• preparation of periodic reviews/follow-up satisfaction with different custodians/valuers
• follow-up/control of various requests related to audit/compliance/SOX/ISAE
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• follow-up of dividend distributions
• follow-up of the life of OPCs (creation, dissolution, transfer, merger, change of name…) + parameterizations various custodians (conditions prospectus, online access, reporting…). Renewal of LEI with the INSEE. Update of the OPC collection.
• internal data management and sending to different providers
• a "Flows and Finance" pole in charge of:
• collection of orders through Adjuto and proprietary tool Itérium (deposited funds Lazard Frères Banque and deposited outside), control of receipt of collection statements and VL, follow-up of marking orders and management of insufficient provisions
• reporting (private management flows, institutional management flows, follow-up of weekly and monthly holdings / occasional)
• RTO orders
• support to Commercial, Marketing and RFP departments (responses to calls for tenders/due diligence…)
• commissions/invoicing (refunds of management commissions IN, OUT and INTEROPC / collection of entry fees not acquired in the OPC, management fees of institutional mandates / bringers of business/various providers (OUT), invoicing of fixed and variable FDG + various reporting + miscellaneous invoicing (including LFMI))
• establishment and follow-up of monthly provisions
• daily or occasional controls of activity
• preparation of periodic reviews with different custodians/valuers
• follow-up/control of various requests related to audit/compliance/SOX / ISAE
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You will be particularly attached to the missions of the "Operations and Data Management" pole and in particular:

• You will participate and be guarantor of the quality of the different missions carried out:
• management of treasury (daily follow-up / investments / cash adjustments)
• management of settlement/delivery instructions (custodian / valuer), follow-up of outcomes, update of SSI and the repository
• follow-up of outcomes/management of suspensions / OST-coupons/distribution of dividends
• follow-up of threshold crossings / declarations to supervisory authorities and issuers / follow-up of OPA
• reconciliations with daily custodians (MT 535 and via GT MATCH)
• reconciliations of derivatives and OTC
• reconciliations with valuers (via GT Match and Excel file)
• follow-up of the life of OPCs (creation, dissolution, transfer, merger, change of name…), parameterizations various custodians (conditions prospectus, online access, reporting…). Renewal of LEI with the INSEE. Update of the OPC collection.
• cash transfers and institutional client orders
• follow-up of EMIR (control + regulatory follow-up)
• follow-up of Service Level Agreements
• follow-up of VL validations,…