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Fund Accounting Oversight Analyst

Glasgow, Scotland

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Fund Accounting Oversight Analyst

Glasgow, Scotland

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Date live: Apr. 22, 2024

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Operations

Reference Code: 90383533

Contract: Permanent

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Fund Accounting Oversight Analyst
Glasgow

As a Barclays Fund Accounting Oversight Analyst, you will work in a team whose primary focus is to oversee the fund administration activities completed by a third-party administrator (TPA).  These activities will include capturing all fund accounting, transfer agency and custody functions.  
Within this role you will ensure that the supplier is adhering to the terms of the SLA and meeting KPI requirements whilst actively challenging the supplier where this is not the case.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

•    Working on number of controls on the functions carried out by the TPA including: publication of daily NAV, cash flows, interim and annual financial statements review
•    Overseeing the MI reporting and the production of reports for key internal stakeholders
•    Assisting in the implementation of fund change, e.g. fund launches, mergers, liquidations, etc; ensuring business as usual activities are not adversely impacted
•    Reviewing and challenging existing processes; implementing process improvements where possible
•    Reporting breach’s including assessing the root cause and preventative measures
•    Ensuring issues arising from controls on Fund Accounting (FA) are reported, and escalated, promptly and appropriately


What we’re looking for:


•    Understanding of Fund Accounting & Custody
•    Excellent Relationship-Building skills /Excellent Communication skills
•    Experience in working in a Fund Accounting role in either an administration or oversight capacity
•    A technical understanding of the regulatory framework for both offshore and onshore mutual funds

Skills that will help you in the role:

•    Relevant professional qualifications, e.g. (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, IOC, etc.) would be advantageous, but not essential
•    Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to effectively communicate with both internal and external stakeholders

Where will you be working?

Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.








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