Collectives Dealer

• Compensation: GBP 34,000 - GBP 40,000 - yearly

We’re looking for a Collectives Dealer to join our Dealing team at AJ Bell. This is a hands-on investment operations role responsible for the accurate and timely execution and contracting of Collective Investment Scheme trades across our investment platforms and for our Custody Solutions clients.

You’ll work closely with fund providers, transfer agents, custodians and internal teams to ensure trades are placed, contracted and settled correctly, while investigating exceptions and resolving queries along the way.

It’s a great opportunity for someone with experience in collective investment dealing, fund operations or investment operations who enjoys working in a fast paced environment where accuracy, deadlines and customer outcomes matter.

What you’ll be doing

• Monitor STP dealing channels and manage trades requiring manual placement or exception handling.
• Ensure fund trades are placed accurately and within relevant fund cut-off times and service levels.
• Complete trade contracting accurately and within agreed SLAs.
• Investigate and resolve dealing and operational queries, taking ownership through to resolution.
• Work with external counter parties including fund providers, authorised corporate directors, transfer agents, Clearstream, Aegon, EMX and Calastone.
• Process FX transactions to support currency fund trading and internal trade requirements.
• Work closely with our Platform Investments team to ensure funds are set up correctly, with accurate pricing and static data.
• Support the Market Settlements team with the timely settlement of fund orders.
• Monitor daily reconciliations, investigate breaks and ensure these are resolved within agreed timescales.
• Process trade amendments accurately and promptly.
• Process Private Placing trades in line with relevant procedures and regulatory requirements.
• Support system testing, process improvements and operational change across the team.
• Provide cover across the wider team where required to maintain service levels.
• Deliver a consistently high standard of service to internal and external customers.

What we’re looking for

• At least one year’s experience within a front-office, middle-office or similar investment operations environment.
• Experience of processing or dealing in Collective Investment Schemes.
• A good working knowledge of collective investments and the associated trade lifecycle.
• Experience of working to fund cut-off times, operational deadlines and service levels.
• Strong numerical skills and excellent attention to detail.
• Confidence investigating discrepancies and resolving operational issues.
• Good Excel skills, with the ability to analyse and interpret operational data.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• The ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining accuracy.

Experience working with custody clients, fund providers, transfer agents or dealing counter parties would be advantageous, as would exposure to STP dealing, trade contracting, reconciliations, exception management or systems testing.

About AJ Bell

At AJ Bell, we believe investing should feel good. Whether you're looking for an ISA, pension or dealing account, whether you want to invest with the help of a financial adviser or do it yourself, we have easy-to-use solutions to suit people from all walks of life.

We're one of the UK's fastest-growing investment platform businesses, trusted by everyone from professional financial advisers to first-time investors.

Today, over 762,000customers trust us to manage more than £121.5billion of assets. By continually striving to make investing simpler and more accessible, we're helping more people take control of their financial futures.

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