Insight Investment is looking for a Finance Operations Analyst to join the Finance team in London. In this role, you will primarily be involved with drafting, reviewing, and approving fee commercial terms for Insight clients. Additionally, it includes a secondary focus on reviewing and approving revenue calculations within the invoices produced by our outsourced provider.
The fee commercial review and fee billing processes are fundamental to everything that Insight does. This role presents a great opportunity for someone to immerse themselves in how Insight works and gain insights into the asset management industry. The individual in this role will have exposure to all of Insights products, requiring them to understand the fees associated with each product, how these are calculated and the reason for any differences. The role has a high degree of interaction with the Client Solutions team.
Role Responsibilities
Fee Commercials – Drafting and Review
- Gain in-depth knowledge of Insight’s fee structures and gain exposure to complex financial products offered by Insight.
- Draft and review of IMAs, fee templates and fee schedules
- Ensure all Fee Agreements are drafted in line with policy and intention
- Interpret fees and products to ensure alignment with Fee Agreement
Relationship management
- Collaborate, build strong relationships with and challenge Client Services and Client Directors on fee structures
- Build working relationship with outsourced provider and support them to deliver a high performance
- Communicate with key stakeholders to ensure alignment and understanding
Support the revenue calculation process
- Review complex fee calculations produced by outsourced provider
- Generate complex exposure value calculations
- Ensure high priority invoices are dispatched accurately and within the specified time frame
- Address queries from both the outsourced provider and key stakeholders within Insight
Performance tracking and improvement
- Monitor KPIs and SLAs
- Track errors and identify issues within the processes handled for the Finance Operations Team
- Identify and drive process improvement opportunities
Assist in ad hoc requests from the business
Experience Required
- Experience in asset management or financial services, ideally in a similar fee commercials, invoicing or operational function
- Knowledge of client mandates (segregated and pooled funds), their fee arrangements and legal agreements preferable
- Knowledge of financial asset classes (LDI, derivatives, fixed income, liquidity) preferable
- Strong numerical, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Analytical, questioning, and commercial mindset
- Business writing
- Excel skills (pivot tables, vlookups etc.)
Insight is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at TalentAcquisition@InsightInvestment.com
About Insight Investment
Insight Investment is a leading asset manager focused on designing investment solutions to meet its clients’ needs. Founded in 2002, Insight’s collaborative approach has delivered both investment performance and growth in assets under management. Insight manages assets across its core liability-driven investment, risk management, full-spectrum fixed income, currency and absolute return capabilities.
Insight has a global network of operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Japan and Australia. More information about Insight Investment can be found at: www.insightinvestment.com