The posting
Senior Depositary Associate As Senior Depositary Associate within our Depositary team, you will play a key leadership role in delivering exceptional service to clients across real estate, private equity, and infrastructure fund structures. Your responsibilities will span client relationship management, regulatory compliance, team development, and technical oversight.Key Responsibilities Fulfils an exemplary role in promoting and applying the organisation's vision and values.• Manage and oversee the delivery of depositary services for a portfolio of clients, ensuring compliance with AIFMD requirements and internal standards.• Ensure client relationship management including ongoing multi-channel communication such as face-to-face, telephone and email.• Take ownership of client deliverables and timelines leading on key processes such as cash monitoring, risk assessments, asset verification, AIFMD reporting, fund onboarding, and quarterly reviews.• Review and sign off key fund events (e.g. capital calls, acquisitions, disposals, distributions, terminations), ensuring completeness and accuracy.• Monitor cash flow: review of high-level reconciliations, analytical reviews and substantive testing of bank accounts. Safekeeping and verification of assets: review of verification that assets and their economic benefit exist and are owned by the Fund. Ensuring Analysts and Associates are maintaining an up-to-date inventory of all assets held by the Fund. Complete the sign-off of key events completed by the sub team, to ensure management information is always kept up to date. Ongoing monitoring and oversight of the Fund and Fund Manager: ensure controls and procedures are adequate and are being adhered to, ensuring the fund is being managed in accordance with the fund documentation.• Persevere with non-responsive clients to find alternative ways of working and solutions to aid timely delivery of information.• Update billing schedules ahead of quarter/period-end for clients and chase any late payments.• Have a thorough understanding of AIFMD requirements governing the role of depositary and client activity as well as our regulatory status and permissions and be able to articulate these to a junior team.• Train and supervise junior team members and be the first point of contact in all matters relating to core deliverables, escalating to senior line management as required.• Lead weekly sub team planning meetings, team allocation meetings and participate in weekly depositary management meetings to ensure all issues are escalated, and next steps are taken.• Use management information to effectively distribute work in sub-team, prioritizing accordingly.• Prepare and deliver internal training sessions as part of the depositary learning and development program.• Execute as hoc tasks from time to time.Desired Skills and Experience Key Requirements • Ability to understand/to investigate complex transactions including through the review of accounting records, financial reporting, and legal documentation.• Ability to think laterally about the practical application of the AIFMD, particularly in relation to the verification of a diverse portfolio of assets.• Good knowledge and understanding of the AIFMD and Luxembourg regulatory framework.• Previous experience of managing several client relationships is an advantage• Excellent attention to detail and an inquisitive mindset• Ability to solve practical problems and provide guidance to a team• Ability to plan effectively, with strong deadline orientation.• Is very accurate and delivers high-quality work under increased work pressure.• Can manage priorities and easily switch from one task to another.• Is a pro-active, result and customer-oriented team player.• Strong verbal and written communication skills.• Proven experience managing and developing junior team members is preferred, including line management responsibilities and career development support.Minimum Education, Qualifications and Working Experience• Master's or bachelor's degree in business studies, economics or similar.• 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience .• First experience in team supervision is a strong asset.• Proven knowledge of audit technics.Languages • Fluent in English (knowledge of French and German is an advantage as any additional European language).About Langham Hall Langham Hall provides premium quality accounting, fund administration and investor reporting services to Real Estate and Private Equity Fund clients. Langham Hall invests in people and in developing them professionally. We are extremely proud of our leadership-focused culture which fosters a dedicated, approachable and collaborative way of working. We offer the opportunity to progress your career and study professional qualifications; through intensive training and where applicable, full exam tuition and study support. Langham Hall is a fast-growing company and as such staff experience a variety of responsibilities and inclusion in exciting initiatives beyond their day-to-day role. Employees are supported and encouraged to deliver a first-class service and opportunities are identified at an early stage for employees to engage with our clients which enables them feel involved and challenged in their work. We are proud of our positive working culture which is reinforced through our employees and our extremely low staff turnover and we seek out people that believe in our values.Learn more about Langham Hall by visiting our website: <a href="https://www.langhamhall.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.langhamhall.com</a>/
