About This Role

• Lead and be accountable for delivery of Mutual Funds Specialist Finance Services across two legal entities, managing an onshore team of up to 15 FTE.
• Ensure all Mutual Funds finance activities are completed daily, accurately, and to required standards.
• Act as the company-wide subject matter expert for Mutual Funds finance processes, controls, and governance.
• Own Line 1 CASS compliance, including breach reporting, root cause analysis, CMAR approval, tax returns, and maintenance of the CASS Resolution Pack.
• Establish and maintain effective governance, controls, MI, and disaster recovery/contingency planning across key systems.
• Serve as a trusted business partner to Client Finance, CASS, Operations, Change, and Compliance teams.
• Building out daily MI and reporting based on processes and effective management of escalations.
• Provide strong leadership through mentoring, stakeholder engagement, senior-level communication, and deputising for the Senior Specialist Finance Services Manager when required, while acting as a Consumer Duty ambassador.
• Provide effective team Management to drive efficient and effective Service Delivery, including internal SLA/KPI monitoring and reportingProvide assurance of appropriate utilisation of resource.
• Provide assurance operated in accordance with set processes & controls.

• 10+ years working within a finance role (or a finance-focussed change role) within a CASS-regulated environment.
• An experienced team leader working in a large finance team, where daily reporting and SLA’s are central to the role.
• Experience of investment risk or operational control.
• An in-depth knowledge of client asset and money arrangement regulations and industry practices
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to build successful relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Effective stakeholder management skills
• Excellent communication skills with proven ability to communicate at senior levels
• Outstanding organisational skills, ability to plan workloads and delegate tasks
• A systematic, disciplined and analytical approach to problem solving
• Expert in MS Excel and Word.
• Strong knowledge of financial services (in particular Investments) processes and regulations.
• Strong understanding of Finance and Accounting principles, practices and compliance requirements for the UK and Ireland.
• Accounting qualifications, either part of fully qualified or qualified by experience (QBE).
• IOC qualification related to CASS.

The hiring manager to contact is: Colette O'Grady Email: colette.o'grady@diligenta.co.uk

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