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Technology Assurance Programme

• Ensure that scheduled and ad-hoc control assurance activities are undertaken to determine design and operating effectiveness of technology key controls and to identify any control deficiencies.

Compliance with Policies and Standards

• Ensure that regular internal and external reviews to assess levels of compliance are performed.

Framework Alignment with Regulation and Legislation

• Ensure that all regulations and legislations required by the Prudential Authority and other regulatory institutions are aligned on regular basis.

Technology Policy Framework

• Ensure that an information security management system (ISMS) that provides a standard, formal and continuous approach to security and privacy management for information is established.

Information Risk Assessment

• Ensure that RCSA is performed on a semi-annual basis.

Risk Management Metrics

• Ensure that monitoring of key goals and metrics of risk governance and management processes are in place.

Security Governance Framework

• Ensure that security governance framework is operating effectively.

Control Deficiencies

• Ensure that there's a systematic approach to identify and understand Control Deficiencies.

Control Templates

• Ensure that Control Templates are reviewed annually following ownership changes, process changes, and/or control failures or incidents

Recertification & Transfers

• Ensure that authorized users are reviewed on a semi-annually basis.

• Pre - Quarterly Meetings Preparations.
• Compiling IT SubCommittee and Audit Committee Report together with Head of Information Technology Services
• Recording and Distribution of Minutes.

• Streamlining and automation of support processes.
• Implementation of job scheduling application.
• Take on support for all applications across organization.
• Communication of issues to appropriate Investment Administration departments as well as Front Office users and
• Serve as team member on projects in support of strategic initiatives for new financial applications and enhancements to existing applications.
• Working in team that provides production support for multiple business-critical applications on different platforms (in-house developed as well as "Consumer-Off-The-Shelf" applications) andseries of integrations between disparate enterprise applications.
• Analyze and diagnose issues that the applications may have and work with the developers or vendors to resolve them.

• Support operations teams with fast turn-around on issue resolution and queries, business extracts/reports, support & capture of securities, corporate action processing and loading of prices used in the preparation of client valuations.
• This includes - Support & management of expense schedules - Loading of dividends and coupons - Report Package maintenance - User Access Security/profiles in systems.
• Engaging with vendors to ensure systems are current, timely loading of feeds and smooth, uninterrupted running of SunGard systems for fund accountants to meet delivery deadlines.
• This includes - Testing of InvestOne and Investran upgrades and service updates. - Keeping abreast of new updates/conventions & new vendor modules/services.
• Development & maintenance of bespoke reports and operations tools to ensure efficient process flows, adequate controls, and effective, optimal use of systems.
• This includes - Transaction Import tools - NAV pricing sheets - Price & Stock - Expense checking tools - Expense Adjustment tools - Regulatory tools - Risk reduction tools/checks as identified by the business
• Identify & provide ongoing systems training across the business to ensure correct and effective use by staff.
• Assist on migrations, setup of new funds and/or new structure changes to ensure system setup meets client and business requirements, and bespoke requirements are reasonably catered for within deadlines.

• The Fund Accountant role involves preparations of accurate portfolio valuations on a timely basis. It is typically responsible for the accounting of a numbers of portfolios.
• Assist the external auditors to ensure that the audit function is executed on a timely and efficient basis.
• When a Fund is being audited, Fund Accountant provides all information needed to the Auditor and resolve any queries that might arise during the audit process.
• Periodically assists with reviews and the identification of errors and inconsistencies.
• Fund Accountant assist with reviews when he/she completes a Fund without errors.