Reconcilliations Administrator

Working on behalf of one of our clients; a leading wealth management firm; we are recruiting an experienced reconcilliations administrator to be responsible for the he production of reconciliations of clients assets held by the custodians. The Custodian reconciliations are a requirement of the FCA's CASS rules and are therefore required to be performed with a degree of accuracy.

This is a Hybrid Role.

Hours of Work: Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm

Please note: Please ensure you have full rights to work in the UK indefinately to be considered for this role. Those who require a Visa will not be shortlisted.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Accurate production of daily, monthly and six monthly custodian reconciliations, custody shortfalls and other relevant reports that may need to be produced.
• Identification, recording, monitoring and escalation of breaks appearing within the custodian reconciliations.
• Liaison with other teams within operations, custodians and unit trust providers to ensure timely clearance of outstanding custody reconciliation items.
• Validation of certificated holdings with the relevant registrar to ensure accuracy of physical holdings.
• Review, identify and file scan documentation received from unit trust providers for use in the monthly custody reconciliation.
• Maintain client money and asset procedures, templates, management information and other documentation as required.
• Ability to manage a number of tasks simultaneously and prioritise them.
• Ability to learn other roles within the team to ensure holiday cover.

Qualifications & Experience:

• GCSE's (or equivalent) (including Maths and English).
• Experience completing reconciliations using a reconciliation tool

Knowledge & Skills:

• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent administrative and time management skills.
• Ability to organise and prioritise own workload.
• Ability to influence decision making processes of other teams within Operations.
• Flexible, self-motivated and proactive.
• Established in stakeholder management and inter-personal skills at all levels.
• Proven experience in completing reconciliations in accordance with CASS rules.
• Good Excel skills and a good working knowledge of and word.

Excellent benefits from start date:

• Holiday 27 days per holiday year (1 April to 31 March)
• Life Assurance 4 times salary paid to your named beneficiary(s) as a tax-free lump sum.
• Pension Plan You will be automatically enrolled into the Company pension scheme, unless you notify us otherwise.
• This scheme is non-contributory with the Company contributing 10%.
• Permanent Health Insurance 75% of your income is paid to you if you are suffering from a long-term illness and have been unable to work for a continuous period of 6 months; payment is subject to your application being accepted.
• Anytime Benefits Salary sacrifice benefits such as Ride2Work, Give as you Earn, Mobile Phone Scheme and Childcare Vouchers. After Probation
• Private Medical Insurance You can opt in for Single (paid for by Charles Stanley) and then Couple, Single Parent Family or Family cover through BUPA. Part of the cost will be covered by the Company
• Dental Insurance You can opt in for cover through BUPA.
• Season Ticket Loan An interest-free loan for your annual travel season ticket, which is deducted from your salary over a ten or twelve month period
• Subsidised Gym Membership The Company will pay 50% of the monthly membership fee, currently 65 for Fitness First. As well as the gym in Bishopsgate this covers other Tier 2 Fitness First gyms.
• Flexible Benefits Each year we offer a range of flexible benefits that you can choose to add to your core benefits package. There is a range of benefits to choose from such as additional life assurance cover, purchase of additional holiday and critical illness voluntary cover.