Senior Depositary Analyst

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Senior Depositary Analyst Job Description

As a Senior Depositary Analyst in the Depositary department, you will work with the Depositary team to conduct asset verification, cash monitoring, and compliance oversight for investment funds across private equity, real estate, infrastructure, renewable energy, forestry, and other asset classes.

You will manage a portfolio of Depositary clients and provide oversight and support to Depositary Analysts, ensuring each Client Fund or entity supplies sufficient documentation for legal title proof, that all cash transactions align with Fund operations, and that the Client complies with AIFMD requirements.

What you'll do

Ensuring, by direct undertaking and by review of Depositary Analyst work:

• Each Client Fund or entity has supplied sufficient documentary evidence to prove effective legal title over the assets they claim to own.
• Managing the AIFMD reporting process, liaising with the client and internal service centres to meet deadlines.
• Taking responsibility for delegated duties and mitigating or escalating any concerns or potential risks to the Depositary Manager.
• Possessing in depth understanding of risk factors across each asset class and asset location.
• Having in depth knowledge of the legal frameworks under which assets are held.

What we offer

• Comprehensive remuneration and pension packages, proportionate to your qualifications and experience.
• Wellbeing benefits including private health, dental cover, life assurance, discounted gym membership, eye test, and corporate GP.
• Annual leave: 25 days plus all UK public holidays.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity benefits, including shared parental leave and adoption leave.
• Flexible working arrangements to support work life balance.

Qualifications

• Required: Experience in a finance based role within a dynamic, pro active financial services environment.
• Desirable: Working knowledge of the AIFMD.
• Desirable: Experience within a Depositary function.
• Desirable: Qualified or part qualified Accountant.
• Experience working with Collective Investment Schemes, ideally private equity.

Additional information OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Sustainability is integral to our strategy and operations. We build and maintain long term relationships with all stakeholders while reducing our environmental impact.

We continuously strive to improve our people, clients, planet, and governance, fostering an inclusive, equitable, and diverse culture led by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion steering committee.

Our learning and development programmes (including PowerU and MyCampus) support employee career growth. Our hybrid working approach balances flexibility with connectedness. We empower 6,500+ employees from 94 nationalities across 24 countries to achieve their potential. Through IQ EQ Launchpad, we support women managers launching their first fund in an industry where only 15% of private equity and venture capital firms are gender balanced.

Company description

We are a leading Investor Services group offering end to end services for administration, accounting, reporting, regulatory and compliance needs of the investment sector worldwide. Our global workforce of 6,500+ people, operating in 24 jurisdictions and with assets under administration (AUA) exceeding US$857 billion, works with 13 of the world's top 15 private equity firms.

Our services are underpinned by a Group wide commitment to ESG and best in class technology, including a global data platform and innovative proprietary tools supported by in house experts.

Above all, our people set us apart. As trusted partners, we deliver intelligent solutions through technical expertise and strong client relationships based on deep understanding.

Why work at IQ EQ?

We power people and possibilities.