Platform Rec & Controls Administrator
Platform Reconciliations and Controls Administrator
12 Months Fixed Term Contract
Location: Edinburgh (typically 2 days in the office per week, 3 from home)
Salary: A competitive salary from £24,880 - £37,320 depending on the experience you can bring
Closing date: 1st August 2024
We're Aegon. We're a company of ambitious, positive problem-solvers who get things done. We're a team, not a group of individuals. Collaboration is our life force and we believe it's our duty to leave things better than we find them.
We help people live their best lives. We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive in creating a diverse organisation that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion and belonging.
Our Platform Recs and Controls Administrator will support key processes and work across the Reconciliations and Controls department within Edinburgh. You will work as part of a team to facilitate and deliver monthly and daily processes and undertake client transaction reconciliation and processing activity while adhering to appropriate regulatory guidance and internal timescales. You will be supporting the business operation with completing several critical business processes.
Additionally, you will work to support the delivery of the functions regulatory and internal reporting requirements, whilst engaging with our Operations teams to ensure the timely application of distributions cash and asset transactions.
- You will take responsibility for operating and maintaining core team processes, money processing and reporting for four nominee companies, ensuring consistencies against procedures, process checking and error control.
- You will take responsibility for the timely processing, reconciliation and reporting activities including investigating any issues or exceptions that may arise in your processes.
- Process the management of exceptions arising from the team’s core work, this is typically, the result of processing failures that require investigation and a solution outside the standard model.
- Take responsibility for own development and work towards completing capability matrix measures and actively seek to build a full working knowledge of all end-to-end processes of the platform.
- Provide assurance to your colleagues work to ensure that errors are minimised and the customer receives the best quality service.
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- Strong level of numeracy, accuracy, and attention to detail
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to develop collaborative relationships with team and department members
- Understanding of the principles of Client Money regulations, rules, and practices
- Strong grasp of banking and reconciliation solutions (Cash and Assets), tax wrappers and associated regulations
- Good knowledge of the platform market, competitors, and platform investments
- Knowledge of Dividend/Distribution regulations, Asset Reconciliation and Cash Reconciliation
What’s in it for you?
- A non-contributory pension between 8%-12%
- A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance
- 34 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time)
We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.
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The legal bits
We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.