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08/09/10
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  Transfer Agency Initiatives Team Manager
BlackRock
London

Transfer Agency Initiatives Team Manager
The Operations & Administration – Transfer Agency Initiatives Team plays the lead role in ensuring product and process projects, relating to Transfer Agency, are delivered across the EMEA region fund ranges.

In the region, BlackRock employs several Transfer Agents across various jurisdictions including the UK, Ireland and Luxembourg. Multiple product types including UK AUT’s, UUT’s, ISA’s, Lux SICAV, UCITS III and Money Market Funds are held. The Team is responsible for all project interactions with the Transfer Agent, BlackRock Teams and other associated service providers.


Key Responsibilities
Assume the Team Manager role ensuring:
- resources are allocated against project pipeline
- project plans, milestones & timelines are in place for all projects
- project reporting is accurate and timely
Actively manage projects, as a team member, across product and process driven events, such as:
- New Fund / Share Class launches
- Fund / Share Class mergers & closures
- Fund Dealing related processes
- Compliance/Legal initiatives & regulatory changes
- Client Service initiatives
- Technology upgrades
Establish a close working relationship with BlackRock Retail Business management and teams
Maintain relationships with Transfer Agents as the Initiatives Manager
Qualifications: Bachelors
Experience: 10 years +
Languages: English : Speak / Write Fluently
Job-Type: open-ended
Remuneration: unspecified
Permit Type: EU National
Region: London
· Solid experience within a UK & European Transfer Agency environment
· Previous Project Management experience, preferably within Mutual Funds space
· Experience of managing people against project deliverables
· Excellent organisation and time management skills
· Strong sense of accountability
· High degree of attention to detail and accuracy
· Ability to manage multiple tasks under pressure
· Ability to communicate with people at all levels, written and oral
· Willingness to assume additional responsibilities
· A keenness to contribute to team successes as well as being able to work alone and deliver tasks unsupervised
· A forward thinker who is willing to challenge the status quo and identify process enhancements
· Process oriented thinker
· Strong excel skills

BlackRock is one of the world’s preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary and individual investors around the world.

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