Assistant Manager, Investment Operations

Discover the GREAT in your career.

As a LIFE company, our customers are at the heart of all that we do. Being one of Asia’s leading insurer for over a century, we have built a long-lasting legacy of trust with our customers over many generations. At the foundation of this trust is Integrity, Initiative, and Involvement – from the way we treat every customer relationship with honesty and transparency, to our proactive approach of delivering the best possible solutions in both life and general insurance.

Integrity, Initiative, and Involvement is what guides us. It is what makes us do the right thing, take the lead, and choose ‘we’ over ‘me’. Our mission is to make life great for our customers because we understand what matters most to them, and we know how to help them protect it.

If you are looking to grow in an exciting career filled with opportunities and potential, we are seeking a professional to join our team as Assistant Manager, Investment Operations.

Job Purpose

To ensure that investment-operations processes run smoothly, improving processes and procedures, implement best practices and help organisation processes remain legally compliant.

The Role

• Assist in ensuring the smooth operation of daily trade processing, settlements, monitoring of corporate actions, stock holdings reconciliation and portfolio valuation.
• Perform daily operations and reconciliation of treasury, fixed income securities, forward foreign exchange, derivatives and corporate loans.
• Handle new account openings with financial institutions, which includes updating the Standard Settlement Instructions and the list of authorized signatories.
• Accountability on checking margin calls and interest earned on margin calls between the company and counterparties
• Carry out Eagle Investment System operational activities. Perform and support Investment Book of Record (IBOR) and non-IBOR data services to ensure data quality as part of business-as-usual (BAU) activities.
• Participate and get involved in system enhancements, UAT testing to prevent manual intervention as to improve operational efficiency.
• Assist in reviewing department Policies and SOPs and audit requirements.
• Champion culture and conduct behavioral expectations within the Department/Division.
• Take accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks
• Maintain awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company
• Highlight any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices
• Other responsibilities entailed

The Person

• Possess a recognised Degree in Accounting or Finance or Investment.
• 2-3 years of relevant experience in operations or corporate actions.
• Knowledge in Bloomberg terminal usage, Eagle Investment Systems and Microsoft Excel VBA would be an added advantage.
• Experience in insurance industry an added advantage.
• Demonstrates alignment with the organisation’s core values through expected behaviours
• High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork
• Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes

How you succeed

• Champion and embody our Core Values in everyday tasks and interactions.
• Demonstrate high level of integrity and accountability.
• Take initiative to drive improvements and embrace change.
• Take accountability of business and regulatory compliance risks, implementing measures to mitigate them effectively.
• Keep abreast with industry trends, regulatory compliance, and emerging threats and technologies to understand and highlight potential concerns/ risks to safeguard our company proactively.

Great Eastern Malaysia is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity, and all qualified applicants shall receive a fair and equal consideration for employment.

Location: HQ, Kuala Lumpur

Entity: Great Eastern Life Malaysia

Employment Type: Permanent

About Great Eastern

Founded in 1908, Great Eastern is a well-established market leader and trusted brand in Singapore and Malaysia. With over S$100 billion in assets and more than 16 million policyholders, including 12.5 million from government schemes, it provides insurance solutions to customers through three successful distribution channels – a tied agency force, bancassurance, and financial advisory firm Great Eastern Financial Advisers. The Group also operates in Indonesia and Brunei.

The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited and Great Eastern General Insurance Limited have been assigned the financial strength and counterparty credit ratings of "AA-" by S&P Global Ratings since 2010, one of the highest among Asian life insurance companies. Great Eastern's asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors Limited, is one of the leading asset management companies in Southeast Asia.

Great Eastern is a subsidiary of OCBC, the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932. It is the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s and AA- by both Fitch and S&P. Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World’s Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker.

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Discover the GREAT in your career.

As a LIFE company, our customers are at the heart of all that we do. Being one of Asia’s leading insurer for over a century, we have built a long-lasting legacy of trust with our customers over many generations. At the foundation of this trust is Integrity, Initiative, and Involvement – from the way we treat every customer relationship with honesty and transparency, to our proactive approach of delivering the best possible solutions in both life and general insurance.

Integrity, Initiative, and Involvement is what guides us. It is what makes us do the right thing, take the lead, and choose ‘we’ over ‘me’. Our mission is to make life great for our customers because we understand what matters most to them, and we know how to help them protect it.

If you are looking to grow in an exciting career filled with opportunities and potential, we are seeking a professional to join our team as Assistant Manager, Investment Operations.

Job Purpose

To ensure that investment-operations processes run smoothly, improving processes and procedures, implement best practices and help organisation processes remain legally compliant.

The Role

• Assist in ensuring the smooth operation of daily trade processing, settlements, monitoring of corporate actions, stock holdings reconciliation and portfolio valuation.
• Perform daily operations and reconciliation of treasury, fixed income securities, forward foreign exchange, derivatives and corporate loans.
• Handle new account openings with financial institutions, which includes updating the Standard Settlement Instructions and the list of authorized signatories.
• Accountability on checking margin calls and interest earned on margin calls between the company and counterparties
• Carry out Eagle Investment System operational activities. Perform and support Investment Book of Record (IBOR) and non-IBOR data services to ensure data quality as part of business-as-usual (BAU) activities.
• Participate and get involved in system enhancements, UAT testing to prevent manual intervention as to improve operational efficiency.
• Assist in reviewing department Policies and SOPs and audit requirements.
• Champion culture and conduct behavioral expectations within the Department/Division.
• Take accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks
• Maintain awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company
• Highlight any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices
• Other responsibilities entailed

The Person

• Possess a recognised Degree in Accounting or Finance or Investment.
• 2-3 years of relevant experience in operations or corporate actions.
• Knowledge in Bloomberg terminal usage, Eagle Investment Systems and Microsoft Excel VBA would be an added advantage.
• Experience in insurance industry an added advantage.
• Demonstrates alignment with the organisation’s core values through expected behaviours
• High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork
• Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes

How you succeed

• Champion and embody our Core Values in everyday tasks and interactions.
• Demonstrate high level of integrity and accountability.
• Take initiative to drive improvements and embrace change.
• Take accountability of business and regulatory compliance risks, implementing measures to mitigate them effectively.
• Keep abreast with industry trends, regulatory compliance, and emerging threats and technologies to understand and highlight potential concerns/ risks to safeguard our company proactively.

Great Eastern Malaysia is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity, and all qualified applicants shall receive a fair and equal consideration for employment.

Location: HQ, Kuala Lumpur

Entity: Great Eastern Life Malaysia

Employment Type: Permanent

About Great Eastern

Founded in 1908, Great Eastern is a well-established market leader and trusted brand in Singapore and Malaysia. With over S$100 billion in assets and more than 16 million policyholders, including 12.5 million from government schemes, it provides insurance solutions to customers through three successful distribution channels – a tied agency force, bancassurance, and financial advisory firm Great Eastern Financial Advisers. The Group also operates in Indonesia and Brunei.

The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited and Great Eastern General Insurance Limited have been assigned the financial strength and counterparty credit ratings of "AA-" by S&P Global Ratings since 2010, one of the highest among Asian life insurance companies. Great Eastern's asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors Limited, is one of the leading asset management companies in Southeast Asia.

Great Eastern is a subsidiary of OCBC, the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932. It is the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s and AA- by both Fitch and S&P. Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World’s Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker.

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.