Description Salary and Benefits: up to £30,000 depending on experience asset management bonus, excellent pension scheme, private medical insurance, 38 days holiday incl. Bank Holidays (pro-rated), plus 12x salary life assurance, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more Reporting to: Investment Operations - Senior Analyst & Team Manager Job Type: FTC – c. 9 months (maternity cover) Location: This role will be based in Telford office, you will be required to attend the office a minimum of twice a week but otherwise time spent between home and the office You can read more about Phoenix Flex here. We are pleased to announce an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as an Investment Operations Analyst to join the Investment Operations team, part of the Asset Management function. Who are we? We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked. We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet. Context Our Investment Operations team are responsible for the administration of around 2,000 unit-linked and with-profits funds with over 9,000 pricing series linked to them. Our roles vary from oversight of fund accounting and unit pricing, placement of trades and the maintenance of customer facing data for our funds. The Role This is a great opportunity for someone with the relevant experience and qualifications to join our Trading & Box Management team, covering maternity leave for 9 months. You will support the team in delivering daily tasks, working to strict deadlines as determined by the investment markets we deal in. You will be involved in all aspects of the end-to-end trading and asset/liability matching processes along with investigating and resolving cash breaks between accounting and custody records. You will be an organised and dependable member of the team, able to play a key part in the monitoring of actions and management of risks and controls that we are responsible for. Key Responsibilities Unit matching – Ensuring that the ReAssure policyholder liabilities and asset holdings are aligned and determining what needs to be processed. Trading & Creations process - placement of trade instructions via multiple platforms such as Aegon & EMX and ensuring accurate postings to our Fund Accounting & Custody platforms. Cash reconciliation – investigating and resolving breaks between fund accounting and custody records. Risk and Control – support the on-going delivery of robust, effective and efficient operational, finance processes and controls. Rebate validation – monitor rebates received from Aegon on our TPF holdings to ensure that they are aligned with expectation. Fee posting – support the posting of received fees to the ReAssure funds. Interfund transfers – support the movement of cash between accounts following trade settlement. With Profit and Managed fund asset allocation – support requests from our Asset Management team and external fund managers (abrdn, LGIM, Quilter, HGAM) with the implementation of asset allocation changes. Minimum Requirements Experience / Knowledge Accounting and Investment Operations-related qualifications Proficient MS Excel user with experience with macros. Experience within Financial Services industry. It would be preferable to have experience in investment fund operations with understanding of Unit Linked and With-Profit funds, but this is not essential. Experience with / knowledge of Fund trading and Box Management processes would be ideal but not essential Personal Attributes & Skills Self-starter and independent worker with strong sense of ownership, capable of delivering to meet deadlines under pressure. Diligent working style with attention to detail and high standards for quality Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with holistic financial thinking Good communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across a wide range of stakeholders. We want to hire the whole version of you. We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best. Find out more about LifeAtPhoenix Guide for Candidates: thephoenixgroup.pagetiger.com/guideforcandidates Find or get answers from our colleagues: www.thephoenixgroup.com/careers/talk-to-us LI-SC1