About the Role
Lead the delivery of high-quality depositary oversight services across a diverse portfolio of investment fund clients. Manage client relationships, lead and develop a high-performing team, and ensure regulatory compliance across key depositary activities. Drive operational excellence, strengthen governance, and support the growth of the Depositary function.
Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day line management for team members, including workload direction, prioritization, coaching, performance support, and development planning.
- Accountable for the quality of operational processes and outcome of operational issues, breach and risk event resolution.
- Act as senior client owner for assigned Depositary relationships, including formal client responses, escalation management, and oversight of day-to-day client service standards.
- Own delivery of client onboarding activity for assigned relationships, ensuring requirements, responsibilities, and timelines are clear and actively managed.
- Deliver and support with reporting, ensuring outputs are accurate, timely, useful, and aligned to management, client, and governance expectations.
Requirements
- Experienced professional with a strong understanding of regulatory frameworks.
- Proven experience managing people, setting clear priorities, supporting performance, developing capability, and creating accountability for quality delivery.
- Confident leading a team through competing priorities, operational issues, client demands, and regulatory expectations, while maintaining a strong control environment.
- Ability to act as a senior escalation point, take ownership of complex issues, and drive practical, risk-based resolution with clients, Compliance, third parties, and internal stakeholders.
- Comfortable reviewing legal, fund, and operational documentation, identifying key obligations, evidencing conclusions, and challenging gaps.
Skills
- Depositary oversight
- Client relationship management
- Team leadership
- Regulatory compliance
- Asset verification
- Cash monitoring
- Operational excellence
- Governance
- Reporting
- Performance management
- Risk management
Location
- Belfast
- London
- Newcastle
- Scotland (Glasgow and Edinburgh)
- Wales (Cardiff)
Work Type
- Remote
- Temporary
Experience Level
- 3+ years leadership experience in a financial services organisation
Education Level
- Degree-level qualification
Salary/Compensations
- Motivating financial packages based upon market rates for your role and is proportionate to your qualifications, level of experiences and skills profile
Benefits
- Comprehensive remuneration and pension
- Private health and dental cover
- Life assurance
- Eye test
- Corporate GP
- 25 days paid leave plus all UK public holidays
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Shared parental leave
- Adoption leave
- Flexible working arrangements
About the Company
- A leading Investor Services group offering end-to-end services in administration, accounting, reporting, regulatory and compliance needs of the investment sector worldwide.
- Employs a global workforce of 6,500+ people across 24 jurisdictions.
- Has assets under administration (AUA) exceeding US$857 billion.
- Works with 13 of the world’s top-15 private equity firms.
- 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.
- Operates as trusted partners to clients, delivering intelligent solutions through a combination of technical expertise and strong relationships based on deep client understanding.
- Committed to sustainability, building and maintaining long-term relationships with stakeholders, and reducing environmental impact.
- Fosters an inclusive, equitable, and diverse culture.
- Invests in employee career growth through learning and development programmes.
- Supports employee balance and flexibility through a hybrid working approach.
- Empowers employees to achieve their potential.
- Supports women managers launching their first fund.
- Committed to growing relationships with clients and supporting them in achieving their objectives.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture for our people, led by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion steering committee.
