
Ronan Cliff
Portfolio Administrator
Accurate administration behind investment portfolios
Portfolio administrator with seven years supporting investment operations for an asset manager in Dublin. Keeps portfolios running behind the scenes — processing trades and corporate actions, reconciling positions and cash, maintaining records, and producing the reporting investment teams rely on. Built a reconciliation and reporting process that cut errors and sped up the daily and monthly cycle. Processes transactions and settlements, reconciles holdings and cash, handles corporate actions, prepares client and fund reporting, and supports audits and compliance. Strong on both the accuracy and the operational detail portfolio administration demands, where an error has real consequences. Precise, organised and reliable under deadlines. Looking for a portfolio-administrator, investment-operations or fund-admin role with an asset manager or administrator.
Dublin Asset Management - Dublin, Ireland
Portfolio Administrator
Built a reconciliation and reporting process that cut errors and sped up the daily and monthly cycle.
Reconcile all the holdings and the cash and resolve the breaks with the custodians and brokers.
Process all the transactions, the settlements and the corporate actions both accurately and on time.
Prepare all of the client and the fund reporting for all the investment teams each cycle.
Support all the audits and the compliance with the fully accurate records and the documentation each year.
Irish Investment Services - Dublin, Ireland
Investment Operations Analyst
Investigated all the breaks and supported all the reporting and the audits there.
Learned the investment operations, settlements and corporate actions on the job.
Gained the full IOC and then moved up into a portfolio-administrator role.
Irish Investment Services - Dublin, Ireland
Fund Operations Assistant
Learned the settlements, the reconciliations and the fund operations on the job.
Built up the operations grounding that good portfolio administration is built on.
Then earned the move into a full investment-operations analyst role from there.
University College Dublin
BSc in Finance
CISI
Investment Operations Certificate (IOC)
English
Native or Bilingual ProficiencyIrish
Professional Working ProficiencyAdvanced Investment Operations
CISI (January 2018 to June 2018)
Financial Markets & Instruments
CFA Institute (March 2021 to Present)
Investment Operations Certificate
CISI (June 2017 to Present)
Asset Servicing & Reconciliation
CISI (April 2019 to Present)
Fewer errors, faster cycle
Accurate where it counts
- Trade Processing
- Reconciliation
- Corporate Actions
- Settlements
- Position & Cash Management
- Client & Fund Reporting
- Records Management
- Audit Support
- Operations Systems
- Excel
- Accuracy
- Attention to Detail
- Organisation
- Reliability
- Composure