WorksheetsA+ Virtual Onboarding: LOB Check
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 7mins
This LOB's primary objective is to design and execute oversight model for the financial reporting process for the AQR products, namely mutual funds, hedge funds, UCITS, and Lux private funds
Finance
Fund Treasury
Portfolio Accounting
GIPS
This team is the center of back office operations. They do the reconciliation and reporting include cash reconciliation, positions reconciliation, net-asset value reconciliation, performance and returns reconciliation.
Portfolio Implementation
Portfolio Middle Office
Portfolio Accounting
Portfolio Finance
Portfolio Accounting is comprised of 6 groups namely HFMF Recon, Admin Recon, ________, ________, ________, and ________.
Fees and Performance
Derivatives Recon
Mutual Funds Admin
Client Fund Admin
Managed Accounts Admin
_______ ___________ team produces financial reports reflective of the firm’s current and forecasted expenses covering three sub-groups:
Market Data
Telecommunications
Software
(a)
Trading Operations oversees the full breadth of firm wide trade settlements by leveraging scalable, straight through processes in order to ensure a seamless transition of a trade through its complete lifecycle from trade matching and reconciliation, to allocation and delivery and finally, funding and settlement.
True
False
Treasury’s core responsibility is to maintain our cash balances by performing daily cash reconciliations, effectively managing collateral balances and facilitating the wire approval process.
True
False
Responsible for streamlining workflows between portfolio management teams and the firm’s Operations groups.
Portfolio Middle Offshore
Portfolio Middle Office
Portfolio Middle Organization
Asset Servicing is responsible for corporate actions, reference data management, proxy voting, valuation, 144A support. They have 3 major processes:
Corporate Actions
Security Master
Security Management
Security Valuation
Corporate Approvals
The (a) Group is responsible for the complete, accurate, and timely maintenance of the financial books and records of AQR Capital Management Holdings Company and its entities.
This team tracks and reconciles employee expenses for Business Development within the T&E policy of AQR.
International Institutional
International Valuation
Institutional Expense
Travel and Expense
BD General maintains AQR Client databases in assistance to the Business Development team onshore as they manage existing and onboard new clients.
True
False
Compliance Offshore Team started in 2013 working on Disclosure Requests as their first project. The Offshore Team supports different Onshore Compliance groups namely Compliance Reporting & Marketing Review, Core Compliance, Investment Management, Registered Funds Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, and Trading Compliance & Advisory.
True
False
The Client Administration department is comprised of three divisions.
Client Reporting
Client Services and Information Management
Lux Fund Services
Lux Administration
This team is responsible for model validation, stress testing, scenario analysis, and contingency planning.
(a)
The Talent Management Group is responsible for the design and execution of the organization’s talent strategies – from onboarding, skills training, leadership development, to career management.
True
False
