Mourant
Senior Administrator, Fund Administration
Job Description
Description
Ready for a new challenge? We’ve got an exciting opportunity for a talented, experienced Senior Fund Administrator to join our ambitious and busy fund services team.
Reporting to the manager, you’ll be responsible for providing high quality administration for a portfolio of fund clients with particular emphasis on the client service aspects of the business, delivering excellent client services levels at all times. You’ll be involved in the full life cycle of our clients, including the client take-on process and all aspects of the ongoing administration of the client.
In return, we can offer you focused mentoring and professional development support to ensure you continue to grow as the business grows and achieve your full potential.
If you’ve solid administration experience in fund services and would like to join our friendly and professional team, we’d really like to hear from you.
About the role
- Manage and be wholly responsible for the administration of a portfolio fund clients, respective management companies and associated fund structures, ensuring that client relationships and administration are conducted effectively and to a high standard
- Co-ordinate company secretarial matters including board meeting preparation and minutes of meetings
- Process routine and ad-hoc fund operations, including drawdowns, distributions, transfers of interest, closings and equalisations
- Ensure that you have an understanding of the transactions you are working on, providing technical support and training to other employees as and when required
- Co-ordinate with the fund accounting team on investor reporting, the audit process, accounts distribution and filings
- Ensure client expectations are properly managed and valuable relationships are nurtured
- Assist with the effective management of day-to-day activities to include timely processing of work, completion of electronic payments, maintenance of banking systems, client communications, opening and closing of bank accounts, AML/KYC collation, transactional and internal procedural deadlines
- Appropriately delegate work and utilise the resources within the team to ensure client services are maintained at the expected standards
- Ensure that regulatory and statutory filings are made on time
- Act as a mentor and actively supervise junior staff
- Other ad-hod duties as requested
About you – essential requirements
- Proven administration and company secretarial experience
- You’ll hold or be studying towards a relevant professional qualification (such as STEP, CGI or ACCA)
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft desktop software
- Knowledge of specialist software e.g. document and entity management systems, as well as fund administration systems
- Having good communication and interpersonal skills
- Being able to build relationships and work as part of a team
- A positive and flexible approach
- Ability to manage and prioritise tasks, time and people in order to meet deadlines
- Ability to work independently
About Mourant
We are proud to be a leading offshore law-firm led professional services business, advising many of the world’s leading financial institutions, corporations, public organisations, private equity houses and investment funds, as well as ultra-high net worth individuals and family offices.
We believe in inclusive workplaces where everyone feels seen, heard, valued and respected. We have a strong sense of common purpose, where all our people are clear about our goals and the role they can play in achieving them. We pride ourselves in providing accessible development opportunities to all our people in a team-spirited environment, where everyone feels like they belong and can thrive.
If you would like to join an award winning and forward thinking firm whose inclusive culture and values recognise that its people are fundamental to its success, we would love to hear from you.
We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. If you need this job description or the application form in an alternative format, or if you would like to discuss the recruitment process with our recruitment team, please email recruitment@mourant.com.