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Senior Investment Operations Manager

  • Posted Yesterday
  • Permanent
  • 143737
  • Edinburgh, Bristol, Halifax, Leeds
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End date

Monday 06 October 2025

Salary range

£83,411 - £98,130

We support flexible working

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Agile Working Options

Job Share; Hybrid Working

Job description

Day to day, you will

  • Facilitate cash movements within DB schemes to meet pension payments, investment calls, and changes, while forecasting short-term cash requirements (up to 6–9 months ahead).
  • Manage relationships with global custody providers delivering custody, accounting, and collateral services.
  • Liaise with investment managers’ operational teams and external Operational Due Diligence (ODD) suppliers.
  • Monitor investment costs and coordinate with external partners such as longevity swap providers and consulting firms.
  • Lead asset transitions for DB and DC schemes, ensuring secure and efficient execution.
  • Oversee operational interactions with investment managers and provide ODD oversight.
  • Continuously improve operational processes, ensuring robust controls and efficiencies.
  • Champion best practices and regulatory compliance, adapting procedures to industry standards and emerging technologies.
  • Provide guidance and support to team members, fostering a culture of learning and growth.
  • Monitor the investment landscape and identify areas of change, such as use of blockchain technology to support collateral management.

What you'll need

  • Extensive experience in investment operations, ideally within asset management or large UK DB schemes.
  • Experience in DC transformation projects and operational oversight.
  • Strong supplier and stakeholder management skills.
  • Proven track record in contributing to large-scale change projects.
  • People management experience and ability to lead cross-functional collaboration.

In-depth knowledge of:

  • Global custody operations
  • Collateral management
  • Longevity swaps
  • Asset transitions for DB and DC schemes
  • Cash operations and money market fund selection
  • DC scheme operations, including error correction

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

  • A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

  • An annual performance-related bonus

  • Share schemes including free shares

  • Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

  • 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

  • A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Do you want to do amazing work, that’s exciting and makes a difference to millions of people. Join our journey!
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