Role Title: Operations and Product Control Manager
Department: Operations and Product Control
Location: Singapore
Permanent
Overview of the team/department:
The Operations department is responsible for maintaining the day‑to‑day integrity of the firm’s financial records, ensuring trading activity is accurately recorded, reconciled, and settled in a timely manner.
As elements of the operating model transition, the team’s responsibilities are expanding towards oversight and control, with increased involvement in query management, front‑office engagement, and monitoring trade and event flows to identify and resolve exceptions efficiently.
The Product Control department is responsible for the production, analysis, publication and control of official daily P&L for all BlueCrest funds at a Portfolio Manager, Desk and Fund level, as well as oversight of monthly NAV production and approval of distribution of statements to investors.
Both departments work across three offices (London, New York and Singapore) covering all major asset classes, with the overarching objective of developing innovative approaches to achieve best-in-class control of the business.
Role requirements:
This role plays a crucial part in the Operations and Product Control daily and month-end processes. Specific responsibilities include:
- Management of the Singapore team of five Product Controllers in producing daily P&L across various trading desks, working closely with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and ensure timely and accurate delivery of the P&L.
- Management of the Singapore team of Operations Analysts (typically 3-5 people) in performing functions supporting any elements of the front to back support. Trade and event capture, affirmation and confirmation, settlement, reconciliation and ALL other lifecycle (corp actions, novation etc).
- Management and familiarity with elements of the treasury/funding and margin flows that run in the Singapore time zone.
- To get more “hands on” with some of the functions if necessary, to guide, fix etc.
- Ownership of the start-of-day relationship with Arcesium, ensuring that data feeding into the firm’s reporting systems is reviewed and material issues resolved.
- Ad hoc information requests from Portfolio Managers, management and external stakeholders.
- Involvement in process improvement and broader Infrastructure-wide transformation initiatives.
- Act as main infrastructure central person for escalation and interaction to and from other BC operating regions, especially back to management in London.
Experience required:
The ideal candidate will be an experienced Operations Manager and/or Product Controller within a bank or hedge fund with demonstrable strong understanding of Fixed Income derivative and securities products.
Essential experience includes:
- Experience of managing and developing teams.
- Strong academic qualifications in a numerate subject from a top-tier academic institution.
- Experienced user of MS Excel.
Desirable, but not essential, experience includes:
- Experience of both Operations and Product Control.
- Experience of common Visualisation tools, ETL tools and/or Python.
- Exposure to more than one asset class
- Exposure to a number of different areas of “infrastructure” support or the front to back support functions of an asset class/asset classes.
- Knowledge of Valuation control / IPV processes.
About you:
You will be a self-starter comfortable with taking the initiative and independently driving forward competing priorities across a range of timescales, both for yourself and for your team.
Working across teams is critical, for which you will have excellent communication and influencing skills, and will need to be comfortable building strong working relationships within Operations and Product Control globally across multiple time zones, and with other stakeholders across the firm.
You will have a growth mindset with a desire to continuously learn and to constructively challenge the status quo.
BlueCrest is committed to providing an inclusive environment for its workforce. As an employer, we provide equal opportunities to all people regardless of their gender, marital or civil partnership status, race, religion or ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation or nationality.
