Deal Implementation Specialist

About Cazenove Capital

At Cazenove Capital we look after private individuals, families and charities. We are the wealth management business of the FTSE-listed global investment manager Schroders. We help our clients around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.

Schroders is a global investment manager which provides active asset management, wealth management and investment solutions. We aim to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. We serve a diverse client base that includes pension schemes, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, high net worth individuals, family offices, as well as end clients through partnerships with distributors, financial advisers, and online platforms.

Established in 1804, we have around 5,500 people across 36 global locations. Schroders' success can be attributed to its diversified business model, spanning different asset classes, client types and geographies.

We have been in 1 LWP since 2018. We’re close to our clients, in the heart of the UK’s financial centre and we have everything we need to work flexibly.

The Deal Implementation Team (DIT) is a centralised dealing function for the Wealth Management business providing a variety of support functions to Portfolio Managers and the Investment Team, liaising with multiple stakeholders across the rest of the business. The team provides the deal implementation function for the Front Office and the transmission mechanism for the Investment Team output into client portfolios.

The team is embedded within the Banking, Lending and Trading team and reports into the Global Head of Trading.

The successful candidate will be a dynamic, confident self starter joining the Cazenove Deal Implementation Team. The role is based in London. The role may be performed remotely in line with Schroders’ guidance from time to time.

Main responsibilities will include

• Proactively managing and implementing significant order books on behalf of the Wealth Management Investment Committee, transmitting investment decisions into client portfolios
• Managing internal unit trust portfolios which replicate the strategy set by the Investment Committee
• Proactively managing and implementing significant model orders for the Direct Equity Committee
• Accurately replicating these model changes across the large number of DIT delegated portfolios
• Transitioning client portfolios into internal portfolio funds
• Managing the daily FX and cash flows into internal portfolio funds
• Weekly reconciliation of internal portfolio funds back to model
• Reflecting direct equity model changes across numerous portfolios on a weekly, monthly and ad-hoc basis
• Managing internal books for placings and IPOs
• Calculating and implementing programme and block trades and liaising between the Dealing Desk and Portfolio Managers.
• Developing and maintaining spreadsheets which contain reference information used by Portfolio Managers
• Assist in testing and implementation of systems changes.
• Act as central point of communication between Portfolio Managers, Dealing Desk, Settlements and other operational areas of the business, as well as external counter parties and custodians
• Provide general administrative support to team manager as required
• Produce reports and statistics to stakeholders when requested
• A variety of daily, weekly and monthly reporting functions

• Strong Excel skills
• Knowledge and proven experience of employing AI into operational processes
• IT literacy – ability to develop using SQL (or similar) and/or keenness to learn
• Skilled at using MS Office
• Eikon/Bloomberg experience
• Understanding of dealing and settlement across different investment instruments

• Knowledge/experience of the investment industry
• Back office/operations background
• Experience of working for financial services’ businesses
• IAQ, IOC or IMC

• Numerate
• Ability to think clearly and calmly under pressure
• Articulate complex…