Lead Analyst, Trustee & Depositary

BNY Mellon is a global investments company dedicated to helping its clients manage and service their financial assets throughout the investment lifecycle. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, BNY Mellon delivers informed investment and wealth management and investment services in 35 countries. As of March 31, 2021, BNY Mellon had $41.7 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration, and $2.2 trillion in assets under management. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments. BNY Mellon is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK). Additional information is available on www.bnymellon.com. Follow us on Twitter @BNYMellon or visit our newsroom at www.bnymellon.com/newsroom for the latest company news.

Regular Duties

Under the direction of the Team Manager, the Senior Lead Analyst is responsible for acting as daily contact person for designated clients/KVGs. He/She is responsible for processing, accounting and reporting services to clients/KVGs to ensure delivery of correct accounting data and reporting to clients/KVGs. The Senior Lead Analyst supports the Team Manager and other team members in ensuring that all controls and procedures are performed as well as helping to ensure that service levels meet and exceed client/KVG regulatory and legal requirements.

The position requires good knowledge of fund accounting conventions and techniques, a good understanding of subscriptions and redemptions of fund units, workflows, procedures and controls, and quality standards, as well as a solid understanding of the client/KVG legal and market requirements.

In addition to this, a sound knowledge of BNYM custody and accounting systems is required or subject to self-educated learning via BNYM's MyLearning environment. The Lead Analyst closely interacts with the Team Manager and keeps him/her advised of processing and accounting issues if required, problem resolution status, and internal service delivery status as well as recurring issues that require management follow-up.

In the absence of the Team Manager, the Senior Lead Analyst may be designated to assume his/her technical responsibilities. The Senior Lead Analyst will be represented by another team member in the event of his/her absence. Close interaction is required to ensure knowledge transfer of functional operations responsibilities and client-specific requirements prior to absences.

The Senior Lead Analyst will be required to execute the following tasks within the Depotbank department. They shall be executed within the guidelines and procedures provided by BNYM and under the supervision and guidance of a Fund Accounting Supervisor and Fund Accounting Manager. Reconciliation, manual capturing of trades, as well as processing corporate actions are an integral part of the Senior Lead Analyst role. They will be required to perform these core tasks accurately and in a timely and efficient manner. Every Senior Lead Analyst will receive the requisite Induction Training in addition to both compulsory training (AML/Information Risk) and optional training. Additional, client-specific training will be provided by the Supervisor.

Responsibilities:

• Reconciliation of donation accounts
• Settlement of funds pursuant to resolution/transfer
• Settlement of check deposits from Class Actions
• Set Up and control of fee models in Xentis
• Transfer Agency transactions special funds (subscription/redemption)
• Distributions and accumulations of mutual and special funds
• Processing give-up bills
• Processing call money/time deposits
• Processing of fund Events
• Calculation and delivery of the Depotbank Fee and other charges to Billing Team
• Creating of respective daily and weekly reconciliations TA-Lux vs. Custodian Frankfurt
• Control of fund static data
• Price control of all Transfer Agency Business sales on the basis of price sheets & from WM database
• Preparing and sending the daily Transfer Agency Business sales
• Monitoring payments, monitoring overdue income, responding to queries by the client, documentation, and archiving
• Develop and maintain an understanding of the client/KVG business and market requirements.
• Respond to all client/KVG and BNYM in-house requests in a timely manner.
• Direct communication to asset managers, investors, service providers, and several KVGs
• Creation, documentation, and optimization of own workflows and processes
• Preparation of the relevant documentation for external and internal audit in close cooperation with other senior team members and/or team lead
• Perform and review daily/periodic controls as required or assigned.
• Ensuring that daily workflows, procedures, and controls are effectively executed in a timely manner
• Interaction with other BNY Departments (internal and external).
• Support Team Manager in improving workflows in accordance with BNY procedures and controls, legal requirements, and client/KVG requirements.
• Monitors area for risk and minimizes potential loss and exposure
• Participate in special projects as required.
• Onboarding and training of new employees
• Actively analyze processes, and in conjunction with the other parties involved, work to improve processes, making them as efficient as possible.
• Communicate with the Team Manager for resolution of complex business and operating issues.
• Keep informed of internal and external developments which could affect client/KVG services operations.
• Quality assurance standards development and implementation
• Coordination of activities over Depotbank teams and other BNYM departments
• Creation, documentation, and optimization of workflows and processes
• Coordination and process of customer inquiries

Qualification/Qualifikation

• Bank or business education with specialization and experience in fund accounting within Depotbank and/or KVG
• Proven experience with standard Microsoft Office applications (particularly Excel and Word, Access & VBA is a plus).
• Significant work experience (> 5 years)
• Significant experience in a Financial Services or Accounting or investment administration environment.
• Significant knowledge of instrument characteristics and settlement processes for the following asset classes: securities, derivatives, foreign exchanges, and OTCs (i.e. Swaps, CDS)
• Significant understanding/experience with Options, Swaps, Structured Products, and Security Lending is a plus.
• Self-driven and responsible person to fully complete assigned tasks.
• Act as a role model for other team members and execute best practices
• Eager to attain knowledge of relevant products and business processes.
• Good communicator and team-playing spirit is a must.
• Open-minded approach to understand Fund Accounting related processes to be able to understand how your job will impact clients and other departments of the company
• Frame of mind focused on productivity; willingness to take more duties, expand team
• Preferred to have Process Improvement experiences/skills, e.g. to design/establish new detailed processes, Documentation skills, e.g. procedures/manual.
• Strong Risk Control: monitoring and adhering to legal and compliance responsibilities.
• Good written/verbal English and German skills

About the company

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, commonly known as BNY Mellon, is an American investment banking services holding company headquartered in New York City.