Auroville Investment Management - Manager - Hedge Fund - Middle Office

About Auroville Investment Management:

Auroville Investment Management (AIM) is a deep-fundamental bottoms-up, research-intensive, long/short equity oriented investment fund based in Hong Kong. The Fund has a global mandate though with a strong Asia thematic bias. The fund spun out in January 2017 from Tybourne Capital Management, a leading (~US$7 billion) Asia based hedge fund that spun-off out of Lone Pine Capital Asia, one of the best performing Tiger (cub) funds of all time. AIMs investment's strategy entails - Sector- as the primary axis of intellectual property (focused across 4 industry verticals: Consumer, Financials, TMT and Industrials) with - Country- as the secondary axis (focus on China, India, Japan, ASEAN, and US).

AIM's team brings together senior analysts from leading investment platforms and experienced operations and trading professionals from leading sell-side banks on the non-investment side. Auroville Investment Management is registered with the SEC in the US as a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) and with the SFC in HK holding a Type 9 Asset management license. AIM's Fund Board, is chaired by Tracie Ahern, who was prior the long standing CFO of Soros Fund Management (2007-16). Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Merrill Lynch are the Prime Brokers for AIM's Funds. AIM holds platinum status with Bank of America Merrill Lynch and works with all the other major investment banks round the world and with the top regional/local IBs in Asia.

Media: more information can be found in a recent Bloomberg articles:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-03/auroville-hedge-fund-is-said-to-rise-on-stock-bets-since-debut

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-28/tybourne-capital-s-anand-said-to-plan-asia-focused-hedge-fund

Job Description:

In order to support our ongoing business growth, the Fund is now looking to hire a Middle Office Operations Manager based in New Delhi or Mumbai. Compensation is competitive and development opportunity interacting with colleagues from IIT and a CPA on the Operations side. The key responsibilities of this Manager include:

1. Trade execution and post-execution support :

a. Daily trade affirmation and matching for all trades (mainly cash equities, swaps, futures and options)

b. Issuing of daily settlement instructions to counterparties

c. Daily reconciliation of positions between the Fund, Prime Brokers and the Fund administrator

d. Monitoring and Resolution of any breaks, failing trades or other trade-related processes

e. Manage interaction with brokers and custodians to optimize post-trade related processes

2. Fund accounting support:

a. Supporting the CFO on NAV packs and Financial Control for the Fund and GP

b. Support in preparation of performance attribution and financial analysis

c. Support in annual audit process

Candidate requirements :

1. The ideal candidate would have 2-3 years of prior work experience in a middle office role or fund administration role (incl. Fund accounting)

2. High degree of independence and drive required

3. Ability to work with geographically distributed teams

3. Degree in CA, MBA, Accounting, Finance or Operations from a top school preferred.

4. Familiarity with Excel, PowerPoint, Word a must. Familiarity with basic coding (VBA, Python etc) and Databases (My SQL, Mongo etc) a bonus but not a pre-requisite.