Hedge Fund Services Onboarding Associate

JPMorgan Alternative Fund Services delivers an extensive solution for hedge fund, private equity, and fund of hedge fund clients seeking independent administration and custody services or to outsource their day-to-day operations. As an Associate in the global onboarding team, you will play a crucial role in launching or migrating a client's business onto the JPM HFS business platform. Your responsibilities will include reviewing fund documentation, creating fund structure diagrams, initializing application setups, and completing gap analysis. You will collaborates closely with the wider AIS line of business (Fund Accounting, Investor Relations, Compliance, Internal Audit, Operations, Private Equity and Real Estate) ensuring a smooth transition of the fund to a live environment. This role provides an excellent opportunity to enhance your skills in client/fund setup on multiple HFS systems and contribute significantly to our team's success.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide a premier client service by building a strong relationships with clients and internal stakeholders
• Become proficient in client / fund static data set up on HFS systems such as Arcesium, FuMA, FAIRx and IRIS
• Work closely with accounting to agree the ideal fund structures, workflow and allocations setup.
• Participate in pre-launch calls highlighting and missing or conflicting data
• Ensure all scheduled work is completed by agreed deadlines, checklists are signed and trackers updated.
• Proactively review the teams procedures and suggest improvement/automation.
• Complete gap analysis on external administrator reports to understand the data points, logging all differences to JPM standards and workflows.
• Complete data mapping of external reports to the data migration templates and reconciliations tools.
• Work closely with Data Analytics to initialize asset universe and value positions ensuring proper representation.
• Perform detailed NAV reconciliation to external administrator with full back up for audit history.

• A Bachelors Degree finance related.
• Significant experience in the Financial Services industry with prior experience in alternative funds
• Strong working knowledge of fund administration systems, reference data setup and NAV delivery process
• Strong knowledge of hedge fund structures and products including fund of hedge funds.
• Working knowledge of MS Excel & Alteryx
• Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external clients
• Professional and proactive approach to work
• Strong organizational skills, concern for quality, accuracy and working to deadlines
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills