VIE - Investment Guidelines Manager na AXA Investment Managers

In an international context, the IG officer acts as a key contributor in the adherence of AXA IM to all its regulatory, client or internal investment guidelines with identification of guidelines, implementation of controls in automated solutions, permanent and independent controls, logging and escalation of breaches for remediation, support of the front office in the prevention of breaches and reports on these activities.

Highly involved in the investment process you will interact with most of departments in the company. You will be involved in most of evolutions and challenges who impacting the company and the asset management industry (financial and technologic innovation, digitalisation, regulatory changes, responsible investment…). That is an opportunity to join a dynamic and qualitative team in an international financial company who is helping clients and customers to make the right decisions to achieve their financial goals of tomorrow.
 

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In a dynamic and competitive environment, your main responsibilities will include:

•    Identify and interpret all investment guidelines in regulations, prospectus, contracts and internal risk policies. Assess suitability and feasibility of investment guidelines  monitoring. Escalate the risk of non monitorable guidelines. Create or update control card summarizing all the investment guidelines. Maintain completeness and reliability of the central guidelines repository.
•    Contribute to the coding in the different automated monitoring systems. Control the implementation. Specify for development in relationship with Referentials (DALI) and Technology teams or develop new solutions to monitor new investment guidelines or to adapt to new instrument types.
•    Conduct permanent (daily) and independent controls of investment guidelines. Ensure full coverage and reliability of this monitoring. Keep evidences of the controls. Analyse alerts raised in post-trade by the different systems and/or by third parties.
•    Issue a breach notification to the fund manager for remediation in the best interests of the client and escalate the breach if not remediated in time. Track to resolution and potentially request for tolerance. Log the breach in a central database, qualified as active or passive, with the analysis and the all evidences. Maintain the repository completeness and quality.
•    Produce breach / KPI reports to some clients, some auditors and local or global governance bodies.
•    Ensure collaboration with all teams involved in AXA IM Investment Guidelines process, like the offshoring of activities to AXA BS in India, to Operations, Risk and Compliance teams.
•    Contribute to initiatives to adapt to environment evolution (eg regulatory, organisational, technical) or that reduce operational risks or improve operational efficiencies.
•    Ensure knowledge maintenance and business continuity. 
•    Support local risk management team is his day to day activity.

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Education/Qualifications

• Graduate degree
   

Experience

• Experience in a similar function or within an asset manager would be a plus

Knowledge and Skills

• Fluent in English 
• Financial instruments, management strategy and portfolio valuation
• Awareness of related information systems and agility in using multiple tools.

Competencies

• Analytical. Rigorous. Synthetical.
• Autonomous and collaborative.
• Able to work with time constraints. Organised and Efficient.
• Excellent written and oral communication, ability to interact with people from different levels within the organisation.
• Challenging and ability to be firm.

As of July 1, 2025, AXA Investment Managers has officially joined the BNP Paribas group through BNP Paribas Cardif. This marks the opening of new horizons as we integrate into a leading European banking and financial-services group. We are creating a leading European asset manager with €1.5 trillion in assets under management, positioning us among the top players in long-term savings and investment management.

•    This new scale gives us a stronger voice in the industry, especially around sustainability leadership, where both AXA IM and BNPP AM rank in the global top 5 (Share Action).
•    By uniting two established firms, we offer employees the opportunity to be part of a purpose-led organisation with a long-term strategic outlook and strong group backing.

The integration creates expanded career paths and opportunities across various entities, asset classes, and regions.
Opportunities for our people:
•    A unified vision for a leading European asset manager with €1.5 trillion in assets, fostering a culture of fairness and inclusion.
Solutions for our clients:
•    A global platform delivering tailored investment solutions with a client-focused approach.
Innovation:
•    Utilizing emerging technologies to enhance efficiency and foster creativity.
Pathways to sustainability:
•    Embedding sustainability in operations with a commitment to responsible investment.
Cultural integration:
•    Merging two client-centric cultures focused on performance, collaboration, and diversity.