Senior Administrator

  • Orchard Recruitment Ltd
  • Douglas, Isle of Man
  • Sep 10, 2025
Full time Accounting

Job Description

Our Douglas-based Financial Services Client is enjoying tremendous growth and have ahead of them an exciting transformation programme. To support them through this, they require a Senior Administrator to join their EMC team to effectively manage the ongoing administration of externally managed accounts.

As Senior Administrator here you will:

  • Ensure compliance and regulatory legislation requirements are met and adhered to
  • Work as part of a team in a collaborative and constructive manner
  • Support to the rest of the team, including answering queries, checking, training, and coaching
  • Completion of work to meet set service standards and deadlines
  • Demonstrate awareness of the potential risks of activities performed and be able to evidence the controls in place to mitigate them
  • Highlight any efficiency opportunities within the area, suggesting changes
  • Identification and reporting of issues, with solutions suggested where possible
  • Liaise with External Account Managers & Custodians (EMCs) to set up new external managed accounts as required, arrange payment to, or request money from, external managers as required
  • Assist with reconciliations and data cleansing activities and the EMC Valuations team as required
  • Deal with ad hoc correspondence and telephone queries from EMCs, financial advisers and company sales branches as required

The ideal candidate for the role of Senior Administrator will have:

  • Minimum of 2 years' experience within the Financial Services sector
  • Minimum of 5 x GCSE (or equivalent) grade C or above, including English and Maths
  • Keen awareness of GDPR requirements
  • Detailed knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook)
  • Able to work within a team or own initiative
  • Good administration, literacy, numeracy, planning and organisational skills
  • Able to meet targets and goals with accurate results
  • Understanding of various Investment instruments such as equities, bonds, collective investment Schemes, investment trusts, etc