Investments Team Middle Office Associate

Skills

About the Role

You will own facility administration, cash-flow processing, reconciliations, and treasury-related operational activities across assigned portfolios. You will maintain accurate records, verify documentation and approvals, support reporting and lifecycle events, resolve discrepancies, and improve operational processes with internal and external stakeholders.

Requirements

• Typically 2–3 years of relevant experience in middle office, loan operations, fund administration, structured finance operations, agency or trustee services, loan servicing, audit, or transaction services.
• Practical understanding of lending-facility cash flows, interest and fee calculations, settlement, lifecycle events, and cash and position reconciliations.
• Strong Excel skills, including lookups, pivot tables, and handling large datasets.
• Ability to interpret facility documentation and translate operational requirements into calendars, checklists, and controls.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to investigate discrepancies.
• Strong organisational and communication skills.
• Ability to manage competing deadlines.
• Experience within a fund or bank is advantageous.
• Exposure to asset-based finance is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate operational readiness for new facilities and amendments.
• Administer utilisation requests, drawdowns, rollovers, reinvestments, repayments, and prepayments.
• Check interest, fees, and contractual waterfall allocations.
• Ensure documentation, approvals, and operational conditions are in place before processing.
• Maintain facility records and calendars for payments, maturities, reporting obligations, and deadlines.
• Support onboarding of new debtors under existing agreements.
• Reconcile facility and platform balances, cash movements, interest, and fee accruals.
• Monitor expected facility cash flows and support cash forecasting.
• Provide verified data and schedules for NAV, valuations, investor reporting, audits, and regulatory reporting.
• Support lifecycle processing for bonds, asset-backed securities, term loans, and FX or cross-currency hedges.
• Maintain procedures, checklists, and audit trails.
• Automate recurring checks, improve data quality, and develop monitoring dashboards.
• Coordinate operational deliverables with borrowers, originators, servicers, administrators, and agents.

Benefits

• Performance-related bonus scheme
• Private medical and dental insurance through Bupa, including children's cover
• Life insurance, income protection, and critical illness cover
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Salary-sacrifice pension with Hargreaves Lansdown matched up to 10%
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Emergency parental leave, emergency childcare, and nursery benefit
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Charity giving through CAF
• Annual wellbeing budget
• Team socials and annual summer and Christmas parties