Associate Director, Investment Data

Full-time

Office Location: Kuala Lumpur

Rank: Associate Director

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time

**Company Description**:
**About MUFG Investor Services**:
Experience something Brilliantly Different with a career at MUFG Investor Services.

Who are we? In a nutshell, MUFG Investor Services is part of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, and we partner with over 480 loyal global investment firms to provide them with administration, asset services, banking and fund financing.

We’re in 14 global locations and provide an exceptional hub of Brilliantly Different talent to thrive.

This is a vital role in ensuring we provide quality fund administration services to our clients. An Investment Data & Valuation (IDV) Associate Director will operate and oversee internal and vendor systems to create and maintain accurate investment product database, investment pricing and valuation, corporate action processing, and investment reporting, etc.**

An IDV Associate Director will have a strong understanding of financial market, exchange traded and OTC products, and investment pricing and valuation, as well as a keen interest in learning new technologies and systems that help automate and process timely and accurate financial data.

An IDV Associate Director may be tasked with reviewing the work of an Associate; ensuring tasks are completed and issues appropriately investigated. An Associate Director will likely be the team lead for certain mandates, being first point of contact and owning the day to day operations.

Role Responsibilities:

- Maintain and quality-control global reference database for various financial products including exchange traded, broker-dealer platform, and OTC derivatives
- Ensure accurate and timely pricing and evaluation, perform price validation, and interact with market data vendors (Bloomberg, ICE, Markit, Refinitive, etc.) such as price challenges
- Process corporate actions at global portfolios such as dividend, split, merger/acquisition, call/put, etc. and asset servicing, drawdown, payback, rate reset, etc
- Responsible for set-up, maintenance and monitoring of automated processes such as trade capture, investment pricing, and OTC derivatives evaluation
- Respond promptly to enquires related to financial instruments, corporate actions, pricing and valuation, as well as investment reporting.
- Help manage local team and control operational risk

**Qualifications**:

- Degree in Finance, Economics, Business Analytics, Mathematics, Computational Finance, Financial Engineering, or other quantitative fields preferred
- CFA, FRM or enrolment in such professional programs is strongly desired
- Relevant experience in financial service or related industries is preferred.
- Good Knowledge with VBA, SQL, Python or other scripting language
- Experience with Bloomberg, Refinitiv, ICE, IHS Markit, and/or other market data vendors
- Intermediate above knowledge with VBA, SQL, Python or other scripting languages
- Strong oral, written and communication skills with the ability to interact and communicate effectively with all levels of management, users and vendors.
- Approachability and willingness to listen to others and to learn from peers/leaders.
- Efficiently manage a team of 3-5

**This role requires you to work on late evening shift. Shift starting from 3pm to 12am.**

**Additional Information**:
At MUFG Investor Services, we are exceptionally proud of our approach to Hybrid Working. It enables the flexibility to thrive from wherever our employees work and, stay connected to their team and our culture. When we make Hybrid Working plans, we get to know the individual and pride ourselves in underpinning all our decisions with fairness and consistency.

MUFG Investor Services provides all of its employees with an extremely attractive compensation package. In addition to base salary, there is a group medical insurance scheme, group pension scheme, reimbursement of professional subscriptions, paid holidays and assistance towards gym memberships.

**MUFG is an equal opportunity employer.