Officer, Head of Middle Office

About the role

This role ensures accurate, timely valuation and pricing of all funds and mandates, supports the risk management process by identifying key risks early, and provides independent control, oversight and analytical support over investment lifecycle, trading and advisory processes. It works closely with portfolio managers, back office, custodians, registrars, Internal Control, Compliance, Client Service and Risk, as well as regulators and brokers.

Key responsibilities

• Independently validate valuations for all funds and mandates, ensuring same-day NAV and pricing, and investigate and document pricing exceptions
• Perform pre-trade and post-trade controls and monitor compliance with client mandates, regulatory limits, committee approvals and internal policies
• Run daily reconciliations across trades, cash, positions, securities, brokers, corporate actions, bank accounts, valuation systems and custodians, keeping breach and exception registers
• Produce risk and control dashboards, monitor exposures, run trend and portfolio analytics, and verify performance against benchmarks
• Prepare reports on NAVs, income attribution, performance, risk metrics, SBPR reports, client service and yield analysis, and provide inputs to regulators, the Board, Management and the Investment Committee
• Assess concentration, liquidity, counterparty, credit, interest-rate, market, settlement and model risks, and escalate material breaches
• Act as control liaison between Portfolio Management, Sales, Client Service, Operations, Finance, Risk and Compliance
• Monitor trade settlements, corporate actions, maturities, coupons and dividends, and support the automation of reconciliations, dashboards and recurring reports using Excel, Power BI and portfolio management systems

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics or equivalent; a Master's is an advantage
• Professional qualification such as CFA, CIS, ACCA or FRM is desirable
• Minimum 3 years in middle office, trade support, risk management or a control function at a bank, asset manager, hedge fund or brokerage
• Excellent written and spoken English; working French is a strong advantage

Required skills

• Strong knowledge of financial markets, fixed income and equity instruments, investment products and valuation methods
• Mandatory strong Excel and very good Bloomberg skills; Power BI, SQL and portfolio management systems expected
• Sound grasp of risk assessment in capital market operations and project management
• Internal controls, risk audit assurance and financial reporting experience