About the Opportunity

Job Description

Title                 Manager - Portfolio Control and Monitoring

Department    Investment Compliance & Monitoring

Location          Hong Kong

Reports To      Associate Director - Portfolio Control and Monitoring

Level                5

We’re proud to have been helping our clients build better financial futures for over 50 years. How have we achieved this? By working together - and supporting each other - all over the world. So, join our General Counsel Shared Services Team and feel like you’re part of something bigger.

About your team - General Counsel

General Counsel (GC) is a trusted advisor to all parts of FIL, providing high-value independent advisory and assurance expertise through our specialist teams. GC comprises of Legal, Risk, Compliance, Tax, and Public Policy & Strategic Relationship Management.

Investment Compliance & Monitoring

At Fidelity, we regard Integrity, Innovation, and Excellence as our core values. Investment Compliance & Monitoring plays an important role in upholding the firm’s core values while operating in a dynamic environment. Investment Compliance & Monitoring works in close relationship with (Business, Investments and Support functions) as well as 2nd and 3rd line functions to ensure that all investment compliance and regulatory requirements are being adhered to. The team also partners with external stakeholders such as regulators and investment associations to influence and shape the regulatory landscape.

Portfolio Control and Monitoring:

The Portfolio Control and Monitoring team is a global function is part of FIL’s Global Investment Compliance department, with teams present in Hong Kong, London and Gurgaon. The team is primarily responsible for performing End of Day (“EOD”) portfolio compliance monitoring for all retail and institutional products globally managed by FIL as well as coding portfolio restrictions and investment guidelines in compliance monitoring system. The Portfolio Monitoring team also provides compliance guidance and support to FIL’s investment professionals, including Portfolio Managers across all asset classes, Portfolio Support Groups, Investment Risk and Portfolio Analytics teams. In relation to its portfolio control and monitoring responsibilities, the team also engages with FIL’s institutional services and product management teams and other support functions, including local compliance officers, legal and investment services globally.

About your role
You will be playing a key role within the team with respect to the launch of new investment products, take-on process for new mandates and amendments of existing investment guidelines by communicating with various colleagues – within investment compliance as well as externally, on the suitability of the investment restrictions and ensuring that investment restrictions are accurately monitored either coded in the Charles River compliance system or covered through other properly controlled processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Onboarding of new clients for investment compliance by understanding the client requirements, interpreting the prospectus / investment mandate and extracting compliance restrictions to ensure guidelines and restrictions are effectively coded into compliance systems for ongoing monitoring of funds/accounts’ guidelines
• Perform the review of regulatory and client guidelines to ensure accuracy and efficiency of existing rules coded
• Regular Rule maintenance on compliance system i.e. CRD
• Conduct Account Mapping / Review viz a viz applicable rule;
• Continuously improve compliance monitoring of guidelines and regulatory rules by assisting with compliance rule testing, new rule development, improving the automated monitoring of rule and ensuring rules are working as intended
• Liaison with the broader Investment Compliance colleagues globally to ensure that investment restrictions coded on the compliance system are correctly interpreted; this may require discussions with Client Services, Relationship Directors, Legal and Product teams
• Liaison with other departments globally to design, implement and update monitoring control processes for various reasons
• Prepare documentation to support reviews conducted and to substantiate/demonstrate adequate processes/controls in coding rules
• Assist in resolving queries with regional compliance teams
• Assist and lead in ongoing review of relevant processes and procedures to ensure best practice
• Assist and lead in a range of FIL-wide projects or tasks
• Assist with ad-hoc compliance monitoring tasks, as required

Experience and Qualifications Required

• Compliance coding and monitoring experience with Charles River systems is highly valued
• Good understanding of Charles River system workflows and parameters
• Must have knowledge of data set up in Charles River from vendors such as Bloomberg, Factset and ESG
• Technology Savvy with experience in writing high quality, readable, reusable, testable code
• Experience with regulatory environments such as UCITS, SFC, FCA and SEC would be an added advantage
• Strong understanding of portfolio monitoring processes, including the interpretation of client investment management agreements
• 6+ years of experience in working in the investment management industry (preferably in investment compliance) and of investment products
• Good instrument knowledge of equities, fixed income and derivatives
• Solid understanding of ESG guidelines and frameworks is an asset
• Be a strategic thinker, possess strong facilitation and data gathering skills
• Effective problem solver, attention to detail and ability to work to tight deadlines under pressure
• CFA or Bachelor of Business or Commerce preferred
• Fluent verbal and written English communication / presentation skills
• Positive team player as well as the ability to work on their own initiative
• Strong self-motivation, organisation, prioritisation, time management, used to adapting to unforeseen changes

Feel rewarded

For starters, we’ll offer you a comprehensive benefits package. We’ll value your wellbeing and support your development. And we’ll be as flexible as we can about where and when you work – finding a balance that works for all of us. It’s all part of our commitment to making you feel motivated by the work you do and happy to be part of our team. For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.

For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.