Associate - Market Access

Waystone leads the way in specialist services for the asset management industry.

Partnering with institutional investors, investment funds and asset managers, Waystone builds, supports and protects investment structures and strategies worldwide.

With over 20 years’ experience and a comprehensive range of specialist services to its name, Waystone is now serving assets under management in excess of $2Tn.
Waystone provides its clients with the guidance and tools to allow them to focus on managing their investment goals with confidence.

Summary: 

This is a client-facing role in our Market Access team.

The core objective of the team is ensuring investors can easily access clients’ funds and fund information, thus supporting growth in those products. It requires building strong relationships with colleagues, clients, investors and service providers across functional and geographic boundaries as well understanding associated distribution channels.

The Associate will be working within a dynamic team making a meaningful difference to our clients. The role provides exposure to many areas, including investor relations, marketing, risk and relationship management and will ensure you develop an understanding of multiple distribution channels.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Providing insights into the practical aspects of what needs to be considered when marketing in a particular jurisdiction, e.g.:
  
  
  
  • Fund country registration marketing permissions
  
  
  • Distribution & wrap platforms
  
  
  • Jurisdictional, investor-requested, reporting
  
  
  • Data dissemination via key investor databases
  
  
  
  


• Owning a number of relationships with distribution and wrap platforms
  
  
  
  • Developing relationships with new platforms as required
  
  
  • Managing key European and UK distribution platform access for clients
  
  
  
  


• Owning a number of client relationships and working with them to meet distribution deliverables


• Coordinating with relevant parties to implement client-driven requests to:
  
  
  
  • Arrange marketing passports, registrations and private placements of funds globally
  
  
  • Make funds accessible over distribution platforms
  
  
  • Ensure investors’ preferred data providers are in receipt of fund information
  
  
  • Arrange tax reporting
  
  
  
  


• Acting in an Investor Relations capacity for the MontLake UCITS Platform ICAV suite of products
  
  
  
  • Responding to investor queries
  
  
  • Building and updating fund marketing material
  
  
  • Coordinating distribution agreement implementation
  
  
  • Managing investor due diligence questionnaire responses
  
  
  
  


• Supporting investor rebate implementation through
  
  
  
  • Arranging agreement completion
  
  
  • Calculating rebates in line with agreed formulae
  
  
  
  


• Liaising with internal teams to ensure investor & client requirements for Market Access are met


• Logging all communication and activity within Salesforce


• Maintaining robust process documents

REQUIREMENTS

Education:

• Bachelors’ degree level

Experience:

2 - 4 years’ experience in working with international clients and with exposure to alternative UCITS and AIFs, ideally within an Investor Relations or Client Relations team for an asset manager or fund service provider. A working knowledge of another European language would be a plus.

You should be able to demonstrate:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English


• Strong organisational skills


• Collaboration with colleagues across geographic and functional boundaries


• Proactive problem resolution and an ability to independently manage tasks


• High levels of personal integrity and client service


• Self-motivation and confidence


• Solid computer skills particularly in Salesforce, or similar CRM system, Excel and PowerPoint