Back Office Operations Support

Overview

All well-functioning businesses require extensive back-office support for their operations. Back-office operations include settlement, clearance, record maintenance, regulatory compliance and accounting-related tasks.

These operations are sometimes underrated, although they cover everything from handling and controlling background tasks to equipping front-end employees to perform efficiently.

At Acuity Analytics, we strategically partner with clients to work as an extension of their teams. Our ability to hire, train and retain top finance talent is our main differentiating factor. Our firm’s capital markets research heritage has helped us understand and manage requirements of back-office operations teams. Our ability to provide cost-effective and stable back-office operations has enabled our clients to achieve their operational alpha goals.

Industries We Serve

Fund Consultants

Hedge Funds

Pension Advisors

Back-Office Operations Support We Offer

Capital Activity

Client onboarding and bookkeeping
Subscription and redemption processing
Dividend reinvestment
Switching (within the same AMC)

Admin Support

Invoice database management
Cash confirmation from liquidity teams. external vendor coordination for fee payment and client servicing
Managing collateral, margin, cash, income and expenses of the fund
MIS reporting

Investment Management Regulatory Reporting

Form PF reports
AIFMD reports
Final terms
PRIPS, KIIDs, etc

Portfolio Management

Performance measurement
Attribution
Risk reporting
Investment reporting
Data aggregation and validation

Experience With Third-party Platforms

FIS VPM
FactSet
MSCI Barra
SunGard FIS
SEI ARCHWAY
FIS INVESTRAN
TLM
Aladdin (by BlackRock)
GENEVA
PORT
ALLVUE
Bloomberg
WSO
Global Portfolio

Fund accounting support

Transaction/trade processing

Trade confirmation
Identifying and fixing trade failures
Manual booking of complex trades
Counterparty confirmation
Cash flow monitoring
Liquidity management

Reconciliation

Reconciliation of cash and positions
Reconciliation of custody/broker/trustee vs fund admin books
Automated and manual reconciliation
Clearing breaks in a timely manner
Report publication

Corporate actions and reference data

Creating and maintaining security and event databases/security master functions
Corporate action feed monitoring
Comparing data against data sources for accuracy
Corporate action processing on tools
Modelling securities not supported by the platform

Valuations/pricing

Ensuring 100% price availability
Comparing data from different data sources for accuracy
Identifying price inconsistencies, justifying price jumps/stale prices, etc.
Manually updating prices of OTC products
Producing reports in line with price volatility

NAV calculation

Recording capital flow received from transfer agency
Recording accruals and income from treasury team
Integrating price/corporate action feed and checking O/S breaks
Computing fees (performance, management fees, etc.) and invoicing.

What Defines Us

Customized automated solutions

Our customised automated solutions improve and help build in-house system capabilities that streamline the back-office operations model

Scalable back-office teams

Set up scalable back-office teams that move in line with AuM

Flexible outsourcing model

Set up scalable back-office teams that move in line with AuM

“Follow the sun” model

A “follow the sun” model that helps complete all critical trade tasks before markets open

Our Teams

Stevi Joseph

Senior Director, Head of Investment Operations

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Chamara Gunetileke

Senior Director, Head of Investment Operations and Risk Services