
at HSBC
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**AVP Fund Services Operations:** Drive fund compliance by managing investment restrictions, enforcing breach protocols, and ensuring regulatory oversight. Apply fund, portfolio, and derivative knowledge, and utilize monitoring systems. Duties include developing controls, enhancing data quality, and collaborating with cross-border stakeholders. Ideal candidate holds a related degree, securities services knowledge, SEC rules understanding, excellent communication skills, and Thai-English fluency.
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Full Job Description
Responsibilities:
1) Investment Restrictions Monitoring
- Review portfolio holdings, exposures, derivatives, counterparty and concentration limits, eligible asset rules, etc (as relevant to the fund type).
- Validate restriction rule coding/parameters in monitoring systems and ensure rules reflect the latest prospectus and regulatory requirements.
2) Breach Management & Escalation
- Perform daily/periodic monitoring of investment restrictions
- Investigate alerts and determine whether they represent true breaches, near-breaches, or false positives (data/market movement/system issues).
- Classify breaches (e.g., active vs passive; pre-trade vs post-trade; regulatory vs prospectus; materiality assessment).
- Coordinate timely remediation actions with the Investment Manager/Portfolio Management team and other stakeholders.
- Maintain breach logs, evidence, root-cause analysis, and closure documentation.
- Escalate breaches in line with governance requirements to senior management, risk/compliance, depositary/trustee (where applicable), and relevant committees.
3) Prospectus & Regulatory Oversight
- Interpret fund documentation and translate requirements into operational monitoring rules.
- Support updates arising from prospectus changes, new sub-funds, strategy changes, or regulatory updates.
- Participate in due diligence and oversight of delegated parties/service providers (e.g., investment manager, administrator, risk provider).
4) Reporting & Governance
- Produce periodic compliance monitoring reports (daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly)
- Support fund boards/management company reporting packs and respond to ad-hoc queries from internal stakeholders and auditors.
- Contribute to governance forums (e.g., breach committees, valuation/operational risk meetings) with clear, decision-ready summaries.
5) Controls, Data Quality & Process Improvement
- Perform reconciliations and reasonableness checks on positions, exposures, reference data, and corporate actions impacting restrictions.
- Identify control gaps and drive process improvements/automation to reduce manual effort and operational risk.
- Support UAT/testing for system enhancements, rule changes, and new fund launches/migrations.
- Maintain procedures, desk instructions, and control documentation aligned to operational risk standards.
6) Stakeholder Management
- Act as a key point of contact in relation to Fund investment monitoring to both internal stakeholders/clients.
- Communicate clearly and professionally with cross-border teams; manage timelines and expectations during breach events.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, or other related fields.
- Knowledge in securities services business and SEC rules and regulations
- Strong understanding of fund structures and documentation (prospectus)
- Knowledge of investment instruments (equities, fixed income, FX, derivatives, funds, structured products) and how exposures are calculated.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a desire to work in a team-oriented environment
- Fluency in both Thai and English is preferred.




