Job: Asset Valuation Senior Analyst – Fidelity International (5years +) Current Role
From: September 2019
Duties:
- Providing administration & the completion of pricing tasks to accurately value all assets held in our funds & accumulate nav prices at both 12:00 & 17:00 valuation points.
- Daily checking, investigating & correcting of various security prices using vendors such as Bloomberg & Reuters. Asset Valuations are responsible for the daily pricing of all securities ranging from all types of asset classes such as equity, fixed income & derivative instruments.
- Sign off on securities prices which have exceeded tolerances.
- Deliver sign off on swing pricing on a weekly basis with approval from swing oversight committee deputies.
- Ensure that the department meets external daily, weekly & ad hoc internal/external deadlines.
- Sign off on price documentation which will be published to other internal / external departments.
- Input Data into our pricing system & verify output.
- Prepares weekly & monthly financial metric reports to stakeholders.
- Oversight into Fair Value decisions on pricing methodologies discussed with committee board.
Skills & Behaviour:
- Works steadily & has built up meticulous care for detail in analysing, pricing & reporting on securities effectively throughout the day maintaining good levels of concentration even when unsupervised.
- Pro-active in addressing tasks at hand & a candidate who truly excels engagement with stakeholders across business, my best attribute with honesty. Communicate with impact & for purpose consolidating effectiveness & clarity.
- High level knowledge with using Bloomberg Terminal, Morningstar & Thomas Reuters platforms & other market products.
- Experience in negotiation with vendors on value, cost reduction & justification of pricing, overall, a good team player.
- Working in high pressured environments with market volatility to ensure sign offs are met on time daily.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Job: Personal Investing Associate at Fidelity International
From: September 2018 to 2019 (1 Year).
Duties:
- Handle Investment Financial Advisor (IFA’s) interaction through a range of channels primarily phone and email and letter, understanding their needs to provide the right solution to them.
- Take ownership of every customer interaction to ensure issues and enquiries are resolved to the satisfaction of the customer and the business.
- Quickly and efficiently escalate risk, potential fraud or vulnerable customers ensuring escalation to the appropriate person.
- Adhere to carrying out transactions for clients, helping with platform queries & any concerns or issues at present. This can range from explaining how funds work, transaction fees, how to set up an online account, products & transferring from accounts etc.
Skills & Behaviour:
- Strong verbal communication skills
- High level understanding of fund ranges across different markets.
- Active Listener
- Works well in high pressured paced environment with averaging 30+ calls from financial advisors daily within the 1 year as an associate. Pressure amounts with tax year end averaging 40+ calls a day.
- Passionate about delivering positive solutions to customers.
