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Investment Accounting Services (IAS) Finance Assistant

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Location: 1 George Street, Scotland
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Closing Date: 14-May-2010


Role Context

Operating within Standard Life Investments' Operations Department, the Investment Accounting Services Team is a small team with responsibility for building and maintaining strong working relationships with internal and external customers and suppliers. In addition this team is responsible for ensuring the quality and accuracy of investment accounting data, issues management and query resolution; thereby building customer confidence in the information received from data providers.

Role Purpose

The purpose of this role is to support the IAS team to act as an interface between multiple internal customers and our external supplier and to ensure that customers are provided with quality investment data, within agreed timescales. Internal customers include senior members of Finance and Actuarial throughout the Group. Additional emphasis on supporting the IAS team to ensure that appropriate data validation activities/processes and reconciliations carried out to improve the quality of accounting data.

Key Outcomes

  • To reconcile and review key investment data received
  • Ensure accounting deliverables received on time
  • Attend meetings to support the IAS team to maintain and enhance productive working relationships with customers at all levels through the organisation ranging to senior finance personnel
  • Respond to ad-hoc queries from customers, both internal and external
  • Assist with the month end deliverable review process
  • Assist IAS team in SLI and Group initiated finance projects
  • Respond to ad-hoc queries from customers, both internal and external
  • Review and investigate issues assigned and manage them to resolution with the assistance of team accountant

Core Skills
  • Accounting experience, preferably gained within an investment management administration or control environment
  • Financial accounting skills (double entry book keeping, reconciliations, incomplete records, Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss, accruals)

Core Knowledge
  • Comprehensive knowledge of fund accounting, cash management and investment operations processes
  • An awareness of investments, funds and regulatory accounting standards
Qualifications/Experience

  • Strong background in investment administration, middle office or control function environments preferred
  • Strong working knowledge of MS Office suite of applications, particularly excel
  • Exposure to the Financial Services Industry
  • Accounting background
Talents

  • Communicating & Influencing - communicates and works effectively with people at all levels across the organisation as well as external clients and agents 
  • Relationship Building/Networking – Create, maintain and develop positive working relationships with internal and external finance staff
  • Planning & Organising – is able to work under pressure to meet deadlines and is comfortable planning and prioritising work
  • Teamwork – works effectively as part of a team and ensures that best practice and knowledge is shared with others in the IAS department
  • Analytical thinking - naturally inclined to analyse and challenge current processes and seek to ensure best practice at all times
  • Accuracy/Attention to detail – is committed to producing accurate work and keeping up to date and clear records
  • Client Focus – works in partnership with clients to understand their requirements and regularly seeks feedback re: solutions delivered to ensure the service is continually improving

Standard Life Investments – Values
  • Integrity
  • Team
  • Client Driven
  • Global
  • Leading
  • Astute

This is not an FSA regulated role