Job title: Oversight Analyst

Location: Burwood House, Central London. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £52,600+ dependant on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Monitoring and assessing the services received from outsourced providers against the agreed SLAs and producing metrics and periodic reports to senior management, the BAPFIM board and the boards of Trustees
  
• Acting as one of two primary daily liaisons for operational issues to be resolved or escalated, obtaining and issuing instructions, whilst acting as an operational relationship officer
  
• Supporting Middle Office decision making, including correction of trade instructions to counterparties for review by senior members of the team, processing manual instruction types and creating draft collateral management decisions
  
• Assisting with the oversight of all outsourced processes, including support for other senior members of the BMOT in performing and evidencing of reviews for all processes
  
• Managing contact with our external outsourcing provider / custodian for daily operational activities, including any unresolved cash flow-related issues, and on a weekly and monthly basis for service review-related meetings
  
• Liaison with brokers – for any set-up related issues and throughout the day for any trade-related issues escalated by the outsourced provider
  
• Maintaining daily contact with BAPFIM (BAE Systems Pension Fund Investment Management) Portfolio Managers and external providers, internal and external auditors to provide assistance with fulfilling requests for data and documents (in conjunction with the relevant outsourced provider, where necessary)

Your skills and experiences:

• Prior investment operations experience with trade support for one or more asset types (e.g., equity, fixed income, mutual funds, listed and OTC derivatives)
  
• Significant prior experience in either a Back or Middle office or accounting / controls function within the asset management industry
  
• Familiarity with at least some of the following: collateral management, corporate actions, cash processing and operational control (ideally gained “hands on” and through Oversight capacity in a relevant investment setting)
  
• Investment Management Certificate (IMC) or an Investment Administration Qualification (IAQ) is desirable

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The BAPFIM Middle Office team:

BAE Systems Pension Funds Investment Management (“BAPFIM”) is a leading in-house Pension Fund Investment Manager for BAE Systems Plc, managing over £27bn of assets. It is a diverse, multi-asset, global investment portfolio spanning public and private markets.

As an Oversight Analyst, you will work within the BAPFIM Middle Office Team (BMOT) and the purpose of the role is to support the BMOT in providing oversight of, and acting as an interface between, the BAE HO BAPFIM business and other providers of services. These include stakeholders in Group Pensions and the BAPFIM Finance Team, and the Custodian providing outsourced operations services to the Pension schemes and BAPFIM.

The role reports into the Head of Middle Office and supports another senior member of that team and liaises with key internal and external stakeholders. Joining BAPFIM as an Oversight Analyst will provide you with a fantastic opportunity to develop and enhance your career as an analyst, gaining exposure to, and working with, a variety of key stakeholders within the business.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.”

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

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