Middle Office Officer - Portfolio Monitoring F/M

Vacancy details

General information

Reference

2025-326  

Position description

Business unit

Operations, Data & IT - Operations, Client Servicing & Reporting

Job title

Middle Office Officer - Portfolio Monitoring F/M

Contract type

Temporary

Contract duration

12 months

Candriam Group Presentation

Candriam is a global multi-specialist asset manager and a recognized pioneer and leader in sustainable investment. For more than 25 years, Candriam has offered innovative and diversified investment solutions across many asset classes including fixed income, equities, absolute return , asset allocation and illiquid assets.

As a Responsible Employer, Equal Employment Opportunity is crucial to Candriam. We are committed to building the best global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We provide an inclusive work environment and support wellbeing and work-life balance.

Mission

 The Middle Office Portfolio Monitoiring  Team handles the two main basic activities in the Middle Office environment.

 

1.Reconciliation Team:

o    Reconciliation of cash, securities and derivatives positions for all portfolios;

o    End-of-month checks to guarantee qualitative client reporting;

o    NAV check for specific Institutional Clients;

o    Specific accounting and reporting requests for Insurance Mandates.

 

2. Corporate Actions Team:

o    Management of the whole Corporate Action flow for funds and mandates (management of custodian notifications, fund manager choices and bookings

within strict deadlines);

3. Proxy Voting Process.

Responsabilities

As Middle Office Officer Portfolio Monitoring at CANDRIAM, you will put your experience and economic/financial knowledge to use in:

1. Ensuring the regular reconciliations of the cash and securities statements with custodians (transactions, dividends, coupons, fees, subscription/redemptions…)
2. Monitoring the Corporate Action process from the custodian notification until the fund manager decision
3. Ensure NAV comparisons are executed when needed
4. Reconcile Futures activity on a daily basis
5. Coordinating the Proxy Voting Process in coordination with internal colleagues
6. Monitoring the relationship with our custodians
7. Continuously enhancing current processes

Profile

1. Soft skills : He/She is an analytical, rigorous ( strongly risk awareness oriented ), assertive, autonomous, a demonstrable sense of initiative and results-driven team player and self-starter who constantly seeks ways to enhance existing processes;

2. He/She performs well in stressful situations;
3. He/she has a Bachelor/Master degree with financial orientation or equivalent experience (accounting, etc..)
4. He/she has experience in the banking sector or in asset management.
5. He/She holds knowledge of Front-to-Back flows for different types of financial instruments ( Equity, Bond, Forex, Money Market,ETD,.. );
6. He/she has knowledge of the Reconciliation and corporate actions process is clearly a plus
7. He/She is highly skilled in English, French and Dutch

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Position location

Job location

Europe, Belgium

City

Brussels

Candidate criteria

Education

2. Bachelor's Degree / Licence - Master (BAC+3)

Minimum level of experience required

2-5 years

Languages

  • French (C1 - Fluent)
  • English (C1 - Fluent)