Operations Associate
London, England, United Kingdom
• Varied responsibilities in a start-up environment with a market-neutral hedge fund. >$500 million AUM.• Business development - Directly engage, liaise, and onboard the fund with strategic partners, service providers, and counterparties including exchanges, lending protocols, insurance providers/brokers, OTC entities, IT/Software, and others.• Compliance - Due diligence and AML/KYC knowledge for on-chain transactions using Chainalysis and other blockchain analysis tools. • Understanding of AIFMD obligations, requirements, and best practices for a large investment firm.• Compile and build out monitoring solutions for key firm data including risk registers(counterparty and internal), exchange due diligence, investor information requests, and others. • Operations - Build out of prioritisation and organizational tools utilising OKRs, ROI monitoring and triaging, and ongoing evaluation using Google Sheets and Asana. • Financial and accounting duties including reconciliation of accounts, processing of invoices and expenses, and assisting to the CFO. Experience with Xero and Dext. • Proofing experience and an understanding of offering memorandums, supplements, and other investor due diligence requests.• IT duties - build out internal company website, organise and handle VOIP setup and rollout, troubleshoot and develop innovative base-level IT solutions.• Automate processes to ensure efficient operation of the firm. • Monitoring of events and market conditions to assist traders in revenue generation. • Office management duties including security, asset procurement and management, build out of conference systems, catering solutions, staff events, and ensuring a productive environment.