Analyst - Funds Operations - Cash Management

Analyst - Cash Management

The CFS Cash Management unit covers the Cash Investigation and Cash Reconciliation process for Investment Funds with primary focus on Alternative and Mutual Funds. 
 
Your area of work:

As a CFS Cash Analyst, you will be responsible for the daily reconciliation of cash that is held in internal cash accounts versus our cash correspondent banks. You will be responsible for ensuring the timely reconciliation of our cash accounts.
  
Your responsibilities:

• Help create initial documents for a new cash process (Standard Operating Procedures etc).
• Review of non-automatically reconciled cash items identified by the reconciliation processing. 
• Daily reconciliation of recorded internal cash movements against cash movements on our external cash correspondent banks.
• Detailed investigation of cash differences to ensure that the cash can be assigned to the correct Unit as soon as possible.
• Regular reporting of open cash positions to internal stakeholders.
• Maintaining strong and effectively working connections to internal and external counterparties and understanding how they operate
• Have a continuous improvement mind set to seek out and implement new and better ways of achieving objectives, preventing errors or delays reoccurring, and automating and streamlining processes within the team. Be forward looking and solution minded. 
• Provide a pro-active contribution to ensure individual and team targets and objectives are being achieved within required deadlines.
• Be risk aware and take all steps necessary to minimise errors, including fully complying with existing procedures and staying aware of procedure changes.
• Escalate and advise any relevant issues to Management, as necessary.
• Assist in project work where required.

Your profile:

• University degree in finance, business administration or similar field of studies, preferred but not required.
• Ideally, the candidate will have relevant experience in investment funds and well-developed understanding of business context and processes.
• Previous working experience in finance or administration, including reconciliation tasks is an advantage.
• Good analytical skills and detail orientation (e. g. ability to analyze complex financial processes linked to settlement, corporate actions, income, order routing, etc.).
• Excellent accuracy and attention to detail.
• Technical affinity (understanding and working with complex inhouse IT systems).
• Responsible individual with capability to adapt and to quickly acquire new working methodologies.
• Independent trouble shooter and fast learner.
• Strong team player in an international environment.
• Very good written and spoken English for daily communication with internal and external counterparties. Any other language is an advantage.