Investment Support Alternative Credit

At AXA IM our purpose, to act for human progress by investing for what matters, is central to every action we take as a business. As a responsible asset manager, we actively invest for the long-term to help our clients, our people and the world to prosper.

As a future Investment Support Alternative Credit, you will report to the Head Of Investment Support For Structured Finance France, and you will be part of AXA IM Operations' team.

DISCOVER your opportunity

Your role is to provide portfolio control and investment support services acting as a point of contact for Portfolio Managers, fund accountants and other third parties in respect of middle and back office requests.

Your responsibilities will include to:

- Act as a point of contact for any middle and back office inquiries / issues / exceptions by Fund Managers, fund accountants and external third parties
- Perform relevant NAV (Net Asset Value) validation on specific portfolios to make sure the NAV prices produced by fund accountant are correct. This may include checks of all Portfolio Data: positions, transactions, cash monitoring, instrument prices, accrued interest, forward FX P&L,
- Operate controls defined by AXA-IM Global Risk Control Framework (GRCF) and Compliance for Portfolio Control activity and ensure that rules defined by this risk framework are well applied on a daily basis (ex : forced price systematically validated by Risk team)
- Assist Fund Managers on Investment Support tasks on a daily basis (ex : cash management by producing cash forecasts and overdraft monitoring ). This can include asset servicing responsibility, instrument valuation for clients and all OTC related tasks.
- Participate in and assist with the creation of and changes to portfolios, new types of instruments and new operational procedures including liaising with IT and Product Engineering
- Participate in the development and testing of system changes which have an impact on the Operations procedures affecting our portfolios
- Participate in Operations projects, department governance and initiatives

**QUALIFICATIONS**

SHARE your unique expertise

Your qualifications and experience
- Degree educated in business/finance or relevant experience in Operations
- Relevant past experience in Middle office/Front Office Support roles
- In-depth knowledge of financial instruments and good understanding of the Asset Management industry
- Comprehensive understanding of Investment Management Operations as well as Fund Administration and Accounting
- Good Excel skills ,advanced skills (VBA & macro) preferable
- Fluent in English (for France)

Your knowledges and skills
- Team spirit
- Pragmatic
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Attention to details

**ABOUT AXA**

Would you like to wake up every day driven and inspired by our noble mission and to work together as one global team to empower people to live a better life? Here at AXA we strive to lead the transformation of our industry. We are looking for talented individuals who come from varied backgrounds, think differently and want to be part of this exciting transformation by challenging the status quo so we can push AXA - a leading global brand and one of the most innovative companies in our industry - onto even greater things.

In a fast-evolving world and with a presence in 64 countries, our 166,000 employees and exclusive distributors anticipate change to offer services and solutions tailored to the current and future needs of our 103 million customers.

We are an active, long-term, global, multi-asset investor focused on enabling more people to harness the power of investing to meet their financial goals. By combining investment insight and innovation with robust risk management we have become one of the largest asset managers in Europe, managing €746bn in assets as of the end of 2017. We employ about 2,400 people around the world and operate out of 21 countries.

**WHAT WE OFFER**

We are proud to foster a high-performance culture, which means that we seek to recruit and retain people who are not only technically-skilled but also globally-minded, innovative and able to leverage their unique perspectives and life experiences to support our success as a company.

AXA IM is committed to building an inclusive culture, valuing diversity and supporting the career progression of all employees.