Intern - Transition Management

About Eastspring

Eastspring is a global asset manager with Asia at its core. We foster a culture where diversity is celebrated and inclusion is assured for colleagues, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and in return, we support our people’s career ambitions. We strive to make Eastspring a place where you can connect, grow, and succeed.

Key Accountabilities

The Transition Management team is responsible for the end-to-end management and execution of changes to assets within portfolios, including the client onboarding and offboarding process. The team ensures any changes to assets are coordinated across Eastspring and its service providers and acts as a single point of contact to receive, triage, plan, problem-solve, monitor, and implement asset-related requests, queries, and changes.

It is also responsible for ensuring trading accounts readiness and maintaining counterparty records.

This role has a number of key responsibilities:

• Maintain accurate custodian and trading account records
• Support account opening requests
• Support onboarding of brokers and counterparties and facilitate KYC and due diligence conducted by counterparties
• Introduce innovative ways to transform data maintenance
• Support the team in maintaining and updating team processes, procedures, checklists, etc.
• Support ad hoc projects

Experience / Qualifications

• Diploma or Bachelor’s degree
• Well versed in Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel. VBA / workflow system knowledge is an advantage.
• Knowledge of visualization tools (Power BI) will be an advantage.
• Demonstrate teamwork and a will-to-win together attitude

Candidate Attributes

• Confident, not afraid to take charge
• Resilient and maintains a positive attitude when navigating a steep learning curve
• Fast learner, able to grasp terminology and the asset management business model
• Comfortable working independently with minimal guidance
• Shows strong initiative by engaging stakeholders and driving assignments forward
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Enjoys solving problems
• Excellent organizational skills to manage multiple assignments
• Meticulous

Equal Opportunity

Eastspring is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal opportunities for all who apply and who perform work for our organization regardless of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability, part-time or fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers, taking into account context of grade, job, and location. Reasonable adjustments are available to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.