Role Description 

The role and responsibilities of a Reconciliations Officer is to ensure that clients investment positions recorded on our FNZ platforms match the external positions held at our various external providers. Exceptions found on any of the reconciliation reports need to be thoroughly investigated and accurately identified. Appropriate actions are required to be put in place in order to clear the exception. These are to be managed appropriately through to resolution of the exception.

Key Requirements

·        The role holder will be responsible for all aspects of day-to-day processing, ensuring that all processes are followed correctly and completed to a high level of quality.   

·        The role holder will be responsible for service delivery to our corporate clients from their core activities, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and achievement of service standards in accordance with clients’ KPIs. 

Specific Role Responsibilities 

Strategy 

·        Deliver best in class operational services to clients and internal partners. 

·        Support operational relationships across the global business, ensuring collaborative engagement and partnering to achieve the best results and protection for clients and the business.  

·        Participate as an internal stakeholder and positively support the relationships globally to create a positive, collaborative, and engaged relationship.  

·        Engage with external stakeholders in relation to their team’s issues, service standards, change and risk including clients, custodians, consultants, potential clients, third parties, regulators, and non-executive directors.  

Process 

·        Ensure that completion of daily tasks are true and accurate, minimising errors with processing and quality actions.

·        Delivery of KPI / KRI’s in relation to customer contractual terms, taking action to prevent failure, through quality processing,  

·        Support, contribute to, and challenge the delivery of the Operational Transformation Programme (or any other continuous improvement programme), ensuring delivering and milestone completion for the team.  

·        Complete personal risk management, covering Control Attestation, Risk Event and Breach Reporting, ensure accurate and timely reporting, with focus on quality and prevention.  

·        Ensure adherence of operational controls, to reduce errors and mitigate potential for fraud; and deliver reporting / evidence to the Manager and/or Senior Officers to evidence standards achieved. 

·        Support quality of processing for handling client assets and client money within role; and deliver reporting / evidence to the Manager and/or Senior Officers to evidence standards achieved. 

People  

·        Maintain training requirements.

·        Encourage a culture of collaboration, supportive challenge and discussion through openness and ethical decision making. 

·        Be an effective communicator, ensuring that information is communicated effectively to necessary parties and in a timely manner for purpose of rapid resolution.

·        Ensure compliance with all mandatory training is completed in a timely fashion.  

·        Support, implement and manage the FNZ culture, meeting the FNZ conduct standards and focus on collaboration, debate, openness, and engagement for staff. 

·        Develop professional and technical knowledge and skills, via training & development, in order to meet Continuing Professional Development requirements.  

Experience Required 

Required Knowledge & Skills 

·        A degree or equivalent in a finance, business or numerate discipline. 

·        Experience in client services. 

·        Experience in using Excel for data analysis.

·        The ability to work accurately and to deadlines. 

·        Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. 

·        High attention to detail.

Preferred Knowledge & Skills 

·        Proposition knowledge of platform industry, from Retail Client to Asset Servicing delivery. 

·        Change management experience, 

·        Understanding of risk/compliance policies and processes for a financial services business.

·        Able to demonstrate understanding of regulations that apply within the region.  

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back. 

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution. 

We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).

Together with our customers, we help over 20 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.