Who are we looking for

We're looking for someone to join the APAC Portfolio Compliance Change team as a Portfolio Compliance Lead Specialist to be based in either Hong Kong or Singapore.

The Portfolio Compliance Team is an essential part of the Schroder control environment, supporting Investment Teams to ensure effective pre and post trade mandate restriction monitoring and coding. You will be responsible for interpreting, coding and testing rules in Aladdin, as well as assisting other Portfolio Compliance teams, Fund Managers and other teams across Schroders with queries, escalating issues and coordinating delivery with the wider London Change team. Performing day to day control activities to ensure a robust control environment. As well as wider reviews and project work. It is a role where attention to detail, time management and good communication skills are critical.

The base

You will be either based at Two Pacific Lace, Queensway Hong Kong or Marker Street, CapitaGreen Singapore both in the financial centres. We offer flexible working appropriate for a client solutions focussed role.

The team

The Portfolio Compliance Team is a global function. The Team comprises Regional Oversight teams in US, APAC and EMEA together with a central Global Change Team. The Oversight teams primarily focus on providing daily pre and post trade monitoring of investment restrictions. These can be sourced from clients, regulations or internally. Activities also include minor updates to coding, responding to queries relating to restrictions and periodic sign offs. Coding is largely handled by the Global Change Team. The team is mainly located in London. The Global Change Team are also responsible for improving data, process and functionality. There is opportunity for cross training between the teams. This new role sits in the APac Change Team.

We're a multi-talented team who enjoy working together, exchanging ideas and sharing information to improve the control environment.

We routinely review our working practice to improve process, increase capacity and add more value for internal customers. We want to make time so we can give extra care and attention to the things that make a difference.

What you'll do

• A good understanding of investment management generally and ideally +5yrs experience in in a similar coding role
• Ideally having previous Aladdin experience
• Ability to deliver complex information in a clear and concise way, both written and face to face
• Care and diligence in reviewing coding and the desire to make the way we do things more robust, scalable and efficient

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help

• Self-motivated and enthusiastic; own and deliver solutions
• Flexible, highly curious and willing to learn
• A critical thinker who's able to look at things from different angles
• Attention to detail with a passion for quality
• Able to work under pressure, on several priorities at once, and with tight deadlines
• Able to work well in collaboration with other people, sharing and communicating decisions
• Keen to improve what we do for our clients and how we do it

We're looking for the best, whoever they are

Schroders is an equal opportunities employer. You're welcome here whatever your sex, marital status, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief or age.

(Job Reference No: SIN01334)