Senior Fund Contract Management Analyst with German

Universal Investment is Europe’s leading third-party Management Company (ManCo) and fund services provider. For nearly 60 years, we have partnered with institutional investors and asset managers to deliver innovative fund solutions across all asset classes.

With operations across Germany, Luxembourg, Ireland, Poland, the UK, France, Sweden and Singapore, we offer opportunities to make an impact. We are looking for people who are curious, entrepreneurial, and eager to challenge the status quo. If you think beyond the obvious, embrace challenges, and thrive in a fast-moving environment, Universal Investment could be the right place for you.

Join a business where your ideas matter, your impact is visible, and your growth is part of our success.

Your tasks and responsibilities:

• Steer and monitor fund lifecycle events (e.g. fund closures, new investor addition, contribution in kind) and maintenance tasks (e.g. investment guideline amendments, amendments fee annexes) to ensure in-time and in-quality delivery
• Strong collaboration and coordination of team’s tasks with other departments across company as well as with external parties such as Asset Managers, Depositories and Financial Regulatory Authorities (BaFin)
• Ensure high communication standards and high level of customer satisfaction through fast and competent response to internal and external client inquiries and requests
• Support internal and external clients in handling non-standard requests
• Establish and maintain efficient and well documented processes as well as challenge and improve existing tasks
• Define and provide ideas for improvements; execute proposed improvements as well as support automatization processes and initiatives;
• Train others, create training plans and update process documentation;
• Participate and lead (if required) transitions/process change projects
• Assign tasks within the team (workload allocation)
• Back up Team Lead in delegated tasks (e.g. KPI reporting, first line for escalations)

Your skills and experience:

• Finance/fund/banking/contract management experience
• University degree in law, business administration, finance, economics or related field of study
• Fluent in German (C1) and English (C1)
• Very good organizational skills
• Strong communication skills with the ability to discuss and align with clients and external partners
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving ability
• Service orientation, paired with a solution-oriented attitude
• Dedicated team player
• Understanding of the financial industry
• Workload management experience
• Leading transitions/process change experience

What we offer:

• Private health care and travel insurance
• Life insurance
• Cafeteria Platform and sports package
• Company Pension Benefits – Employee Savings Plan
• Attractive Employee Referral Bonus Program
• Additional day off for charity
• Holiday subsidy („wczasy pod gruszą”)
• Hybrid working model

The recruiting entity here is Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH