Our client, a global investment management firm, is looking to hire a Senior Fund Manager who will be responsible for setting the strategic direction of the organisation’s investment funds, ensuring strong performance, capital efficiency, and optimal risk-adjusted returns.
This role involves fund structuring, liquidity management, and investment governance, ensuring that the firm’s investment funds remain well-positioned for long-term growth. By balancing opportunity and risk, the Senior Fund Manager plays a key role in capital deployment, financial structuring, and investment decision-making, driving value for both the firm and its investors.
Responsibilities
Fund Management & Capital Deployment
- Oversee fund structuring, allocation, and capital deployment, ensuring funds align with investment mandates and liquidity needs.
- Support portfolio manager with developing strategies to optimize cost of funds (COF)
- Monitor fund performance, ensuring compliance with risk-adjusted return expectations and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure liquidity management aligns with risk appetite, maintaining stable capital availability for investment opportunities.
- Prepare and maintain investment strategy pitch books and product sheets for managed products.
Investment Risk Management & Compliance
- Implement risk control frameworks, ensuring investment strategies comply with regulatory and internal governance policies.
- Oversee fund-wide risk exposure, mitigating threats from market volatility, credit risks, and macroeconomic shifts.
- Work closely with the Chief Quant Economist (CQE) to integrate quantitative risk models, stress testing, and scenario analysis into fund management strategies.
- Supervise hedging and derivatives strategies, ensuring FX, interest rate, and credit risk exposure is actively managed.
- Lead counterparty risk assessments, ensuring all financial transactions meet due diligence and risk management standards.
Research & Market Intelligence
- Leverage macroeconomic analysis, sector research, and financial modelling to inform fund-level investment decisions.
- Collaborate with Research team to integrate market insights into fund allocation strategies.
- Monitor regulatory shifts and economic trends, ensuring investment decisions remain data-driven and forward-looking.
Portfolio Management
- Ensure portfolio allocations align with fund-level mandates, collaborating with portfolio managers on strategic adjustments.
- Provide guidance on liability-driven investment strategies, ensuring portfolio liquidity matches financial obligations.
- Monitor portfolio performance relative to fund objectives, ensuring fund-wide performance targets are met.
Trade Execution & Liquidity Management
- Oversee fund-wide trading activities, ensuring best execution practices and liquidity optimization.
- Work with portfolio managers and risk analysts to assess trade impact on fund performance.
- Ensure liquidity thresholds align with capital deployment needs and market conditions.
- Supervise trade reconciliation and settlements to ensure seamless post-trade processes and regulatory compliance.
Corporate Actions Management
- Monitor and assess the impact of corporate actions on fund allocations.
- Recommend portfolio adjustments in response to corporate actions, ensuring continued fund alignment.
- Ensure all key stakeholders are informed of relevant corporate actions.
Workflow Automation & Process Optimization
- Implement automation tools to enhance fund management efficiency and streamline processes.
- Leverage technology to improve liquidity monitoring, trade execution, and performance analytics.
- Drive process improvements to reduce inefficiencies and enhance data-driven decision-making.
Stakeholder Engagement & Investor Relations
- Support capital-raising efforts, working with business development teams to align fund structures with investor needs.
- Ensure clear and transparent investor reporting, providing performance insights and risk assessments.
Team Leadership & Development
- Mentor and develop fund management associates and analysts, fostering a high-performance investment culture.
Other Duties as Assigned
- Lead or contribute to special projects, industry partnerships, and cross-functional initiatives as required.
- Adapt to evolving business needs and support firm-wide growth objectives.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Investment Management, Accounting, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field.
- CFA, CAIA, or equivalent certification preferred.
- 8+ years of experience in fund management, asset management, or investment strategy execution.
- Expertise in fund structuring, capital deployment, and liquidity management.
- Experience in macroeconomic analysis, financial modeling, and risk-adjusted return optimization.
- Strong knowledge of counterparty risk management, due diligence, and corporate actions oversight.
- Proficiency in financial and analytical tools, including:
- Bloomberg Terminal, FactSet, Morningstar (investment research & market intelligence).
- Excel (VBA), Python, R (quantitative modelling & statistical analysis).
- Tableau, Power BI (data visualization & investment analytics).
Must have skills
- Exceptional stakeholder engagement, communication, and leadership skills.
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills
- Collaboration, Communication, Highly Analytical and Problem-solving
- Strong leadership, analytical, and communication skills.
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