Your new team

The position is available within State Street's department entirely dedicated to supporting Charles River Development (CRD). The company functions as part of State Street group and provides an end-to-end solutions to automate front and middle office investment management functions across asset classes on a single platform. Delivered as a hosted service, the solution improves data quality and investment professional productivity, controls risk and lowers technology costs. Charles River serves more than 350 investment firms in over 40 countries in the institutional asset and fund management, private wealth, alternative investments, insurance, banking, and pension markets.

In 2016, CRD established a Compliance Advisory Service (CAS) in the EMEA region in response to demand from clients. The aim of establishing CAS in this region was to be consistent with the continuing investment to ensure that CRD is recognised as the leading provider of solutions in compliance and regulation for buy-side asset managers, pension funds, insurers and wealth managers. With the CAS team firmly established in EMEA, the Service has become global in nature, providing a service to our clients around-the-clock.

Who we are looking for

Leading Business Analyst in the area of LawCards / Investment Compliance implementations and product design under Charles River Development Operations.

Your new role

Tou will be Leading Compliance Business Analyst responsible for monitoring of existing and new regulations applicable for Investment Compliance area in order to develop, maintain and deliver to clients a complete set of LawCards (LawCard, being a set of regulatory rules written in IC system for given jurisdiction i.e. CRD LawCards) together with available interpretations and post implementation support.

As a Senior Compliance Business Analyst - LawCards, Assistant Vice President you will

• Research and analysis of local and global regulations within the Funds industry (e.g. UCITS, AFIMD, 1940 act) as well as technical requests from our client P

• Produce new LawCards or update existing LawCards (Rule writing, Testing, Documentation in the LawCard Portal)

• Be responsibility for LawCardTM as State Street product

• Establish and test system-based rules to review investor compliance

• Consult for implementation of new asset classes, attributes, compliance rules etc.

• Support, Bugfixing, Customer Hotline Concepts (Liquidity Risk Monitoring, Net Short Position, CDS and or any new topic related to monitoring of investments by fund managers)

• Participate in events / presentations (Visiting external events

• Prepare and execute LawCard Events organized for clients)

• Assist Professional Service Team and Lead or support of various projects

• Visit customers personally,

• Perform sales and presales activities as per need

• Maintain contact to regulators and industry associations (e.g. ESMA, FCA, SEC, EFAMA)

• Cover people management responsibilities for team of highly skilled Subject Matter experts if required

What we value

Desired experience and qualifications:

• in-depth knowledge about financial instruments and markets including understanding of regulations like UCITS, AIFMD, 1940 Act and similar

• At least 5 years of experience in roles related to finance or investment compliance, regulatory reporting, including investment compliance implementation process; exposure to regulatory concerns would be a plus

• Good understanding of different financial instruments and mechanisms driving fund industry

• Analytical mind, allowing candidate to understand existing and new regulations (i.e.. UCITS) and translate it into system language

• Experience in Investment Compliance would be a plus

• CFA Certification, FRM Financial Risk Manager or CRM Certified Risk Manager certification would be a strong asset

• Excellent computer skills including knowledge of Excel spreadsheets and database applications

• Knowledge of SQL is a plus

• People management experience would be an asset

Skills and competencies needed to succeed in the role

• Good client relationship management skills

• Ability to work independent and take responsibility for assigned items

• Fluency in English required, German or French knowledge is a plus

• Excellent communication skills; ability to adjust communication style to targeted audience

• Accuracy and ability to work with deadlines

• Ability to prioritize, pay attention to details and understand customer requirements

• Ability to establish and maintain professional contacts and relationships within the company

• Eagerness and ability to discover / learn new applications

• Flexibility, accuracy, time management

• Understanding need of change

• Attitude that supports and rewards innovations

What we offer

• Employee savings plan

• Premium life insurance package

• VIP medical package

• Multisport Plus card

• Additional holiday entitlement

• Language classes

• Soft skills trainings and technical workshops

• Development sessions with a mentor

• Diversity of opportunities across a range of challenging and highly complex activities

• Technical or leadership career pathway