Job Description

Established in Asia in 2013, FWD is the insurance business of investment group, Pacific Century Group, and spans Hong Kong & Macau, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Japan and Malaysia, offering life and medical insurance, gen Established in Asia in 2013, FWD is the insurance business of investment group, Pacific Century Group, and spans Hong Kong & Macau, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Japan and Malaysia, offering life and medical insurance, general insurance, employee benefits, Shariah and Family Takaful products across a number of its markets. In Singapore, FWD aims to change the way people feel about insurance by leveraging technology to deliver products and services that are relevant, easy to understand and always convenient for our customers. To this end, we have a direct-to-consumer (DTC) platform that allows customers to buy their preferred life and general insurance products directly from our website as well as a network of preferred Financial Advisory (FA) firms for customers who want to speak with an advisor before committing to an insurance plan. Whatever their preference, we believe insurance should be simple, reliable and convenient. Similarly, if you are looking for a career where you can create a real impact and celebrate living, we invite you to join us on our exciting journey. PURPOSE Provide support to the manager in ensuring the delivery of investment operations functions of FWD Singapore. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES Assist in investments operations and accounting, in particular Investment Linked products ('ILP') funds, covering month-end closing, journal entries, reconciliation, and related data management Assist in other investment products, execute trade, settlement, and liaison with counter parties/ Fund Manager Assist in ensuring timely reporting, including regulatory MAS and group reporting, relating to investments Assist in preparation of semi-annual & annual ILP fund report Liaise with auditors for annual ILP report Assist in ensuring timely and accurate trade placement and settlement as well as dividend processing Support in areas pertaining to execution of investment documents, platform contracts, outsourcing contracts, funds onboarding, etc Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to perform the tasks Support in implementation of finance processes where required Participate in projects and implementation of new funds/product launches to provide investment operations/reporting requirements and perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT), where required Ad-hoc duties as assigned QUALIFICATIONS / EXPERIENCE Bachelor's Degree with minimum 2 to 4 years of experience, or Diploma with minimum 4 to 6 years of investment operations functions experience in insurance organisation or fund management industry Investment accounting experience will be favourably considered KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITY Proven track record of trade execution and effective delivery of investment operations functions with minimal occurrence of incidents Familiar with ILP reporting & investment operations (including Understand the full cycle of trades processes) Familiar with ILP regulatory compliance High personal levels of motivation and delivery orientated focus Strong communication skills, thus ability to liaise with and work across departments in order to achieve best outcomes for the business and customer Resilience and with a can-do attitude Able to work in a fast-paced environment Able to work independently and a good team player