The Loan & Private Debt team is part of the AXA IM Alts Structured Finance department (100 experts) which manages more than €50Bn in assets. The Structured Finance department is the part of the financial industry involved with non-traditional fixed income products that aim to target stable and predictable cash flows

The Loans & Private Deb Team is dual based in New-York (12 people) and Paris (23 people).

Within a loan market where Investment Operations are key to succeed, the Investment Support analysts assist the Portfolio Management team in:

·       completing the NAV controls on Open-ended funds and mandates

·       reviewing and validating CLO reports and waterfall payments

·       monitoring investment guideline

·       overseeing the process and controls handled by third parties

supporting the funds life cycle events from an operational perspective (launch, merger, liquidation, dividend payments…)

·       Business Development:

Coordination and implementation of new operational setup for new products with the different stakeholders (Portfolio Managers – Structuration – Product Engineering – Risk Management – Compliance…)

Monitoring the process performed by third parties (Middle Office - Fund Administrators - Corporate Servicers - Transfer Agent - Trustee).

Participate to the response to RFP and production of reporting

·       Project Management : 

Define new solutions (IT and/or operational) to improve the monitoring of transactions, holdings and market, as well as the commitments and Investments Guidelines.

·       Monitoring:

Control on a daily basis the accuracy of the data used in the Front Office tool used for decision making and investment constraints monitoring.

Oversee the cash and holdings reconciliation performed by the Middle Office with the different custodians.

Control the portfolio valuation and NAV production.

Review Post-trade investment constraints and liaise with the Portfolio Manager to clear the breaches if any.

·       Reporting : 

Review and validate the reporting’s produced by the Trustees on CLOs.

Assist the AXA IM reporting team to produce client and regulatory reporting.

Escalate any incident to the Structured Finance risk nominees and Risk Management team.

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Education/Qualifications

·       Graduate Degree (Business School, Engineering School, University Master degree in Finance)

Experience

·       Relevant experience in Middle Office/Front Support roles or Financial services industry experience ( 3-5 years Experience)

Skills

·       In-depth knowledge or financial instruments and good understanding of the Asset Management industry

·       Securitization knowledge

·       Experience in loan asset classes would be a plus

·       Good Excel skills. Advanced skills (VBA & macro) would be preferable

·       Fluent in English.

·       Autonomous and capacity to work in team

·       Strong respects of process