Fund Operations Specialist

Reputable investment house's fund operations team seeks a qualified CA(SA) candidate with to join a specialist team with a focus on AML, FATCA, CRS etc regulations on the institutional client operations space.

• Be part of a specialised team ensuring regulatory compliance across multiple regions
• Contribute to strengthening operational excellence and risk controls across institutional operations
• Engage with a wide range of internal stakeholders, auditors, and clients at a senior level

• Ensure new and updated legislation is understood and implemented across operational teams
• Implement and maintain controls and processes for AML, FATCA, CRS, POPIA, complaints and errors
• Report on compliance statuses, including AML, suspicious transactions, FATCA, productivity and service metrics
• Develop team members and ensure process documents remain updated
• Build and maintain strong client relationships; respond to enquiries accurately and timeously
• Coordinate with auditors and internal stakeholders for ISAE3402 updates and completion
• Act as the point person for compliance and regulatory queries from the business
• Review control environments, ownership, and special consideration sign offs for client information
• Perform transaction anomaly and cash threshold reporting
• Analyse daily client screening results; check databases against sanctions and terrorism lists
• Implement controls ensuring complete and up to date data
• Perform FATCA/CRS reporting to relevant tax authorities
• Identify non compliance risks or data quality issues and elevate appropriately
• Ensure team training needs are met, including onboarding and refresher training
• Interpret CRM flows; support design and implementation of automated workflows for client risk profiling
• Perform data quality CAATs
• Develop process notes for training and daily operational use