Your future employer
Our client is an established independent investment management firm, with an international investment scope and a strong track record in managing institutional and private assets. Their Operations team is looking for an experienced professional to lead and further develop their Middle Office function, with a particular focus on alternative investments.
Your mission and contribution
As Head of Middle Office – Alternatives, reporting to the Head of Operations, you will lead the firm's expert Middle Office function, overseeing complex investment operations and controls, particularly across private markets and hedge funds.
Combining strong technical expertise with proven leadership capabilities, you will ensure robust fund operations while developing investment reporting and performance into a trusted source of insight for the wider organization. You will also drive process improvement, automation and operational transformation, helping the team evolve towards a more efficient and scalable operating model.
This role offers the opportunity to combine hands-on operational ownership with the development of a high-performing team and the progressive evolution of the Middle Office function.
Key Responsibilities:
As part of your responsibilities, you will:
- Lead the Middle Office function, overseeing complex, bespoke and exception-based investment operations and controls, with a focus on private markets and hedge funds
- Own fund control and NAV oversight, including fund accounting oversight and coordination with fund administrators and external service providers
- Develop and strengthen investment reporting and performance capabilities, ensuring reliable and consistent insights for internal stakeholders, including board and committee reporting
- Contribute to the development of comparable investment performance analysis across the portfolio
- Drive operational improvement and automation initiatives, strengthening controls and moving towards an oversight-by-exception approach
- Identify mature and standardized operational processes that can progressively be transferred to Investment Operations
- Lead, develop and support a high-performing team, fostering accountability, continuous improvement and professional development
- Strengthen investment data governance and develop business expertise in the firm's investment operations platform
- Collaborate closely with investment teams, Legal, Compliance, Risk and external service providers
Requirements
- Significant relevant experience in investment operations, fund operations or fund control within asset management, with strong expertise in alternative investments, particularly private markets and/or hedge funds
- Solid knowledge of fund accounting, fund control and NAV oversight, with the ability to manage complex operational matters independently
- Proven experience developing investment reporting and performance capabilities, establishing reliable processes and delivering meaningful insights to investment stakeholders
- Demonstrated people management experience, including the ability to develop a team and lead it through operational change
- A track record of simplifying, improving and automating operational processes, strengthening controls and developing scalable workflows
- Experience with SimCorp or a comparable investment operations platform is an asset
- Knowledge of liquid markets, performance measurement and attribution, or data governance is a plus
- Experience developing cross-asset teams or improving collaboration across operational functions is an advantage
- University degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration or a related field. Additional qualifications such as CFA, CAIA or an accounting certification are a plus
- Fluent in both French and English, written and spoken
Benefits
You will thrive in this organization if you have
- A collaborative mindset and strong communication skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstrate integrity, humility and respect in your interactions with colleagues and partners
- Take a proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement
- Enjoy developing people, driving change and building trusted relationships across teams
What’s on offer
- The opportunity to lead and shape an expert Middle Office function within an established investment management firm
- You will combine responsibility for complex alternative investment operations with the opportunity to develop investment reporting and performance capabilities, drive operational transformation and progressively broaden the function's scope as the organization evolves
- Locations
- Lausanne, Vaud, Schweiz
- Education
- bachelor degree