Category: Ops & Admin - OF6310
Posted by: Alexander Forbes
Posted on: 28 Jan 2025
Closing date: 06 Feb 2025
Location: Sandton
Purpose Of The Job
To effectively and efficiently partake in all implementation and transition processes to ensure accurate completion of all client instructions. To assist and support the trade and rebalance team if required. To manage the delivery of high quality services to clients, building effective relationships with internal teams and to promote a culture of high performance, innovation, ambition and continuous improvement within Investment Operations. The successful incumbent will be responsible for implementing all instructions received from clients (investment team and platform). These functions include, but are not limited to, new portfolio take-ons, portfolio restructures, asset transfers and monitoring transactions loaded by the APEX teams. The successful incumbent will report to the Senior Manager Portfolio Administration the Investment Administration area.
Overview
Qualifications:
- National Certificate/Matric
- Bachelors Degree (3 years - 360 credits) - Financial Market Instruments
- Financial Instruments (3-5 years)
- Implementations / Transitions (3-5 years)
- Portfolio Administration (3-5 years)
Implementations
- Calculate and execute all required trade instructions
- Monitor emails to ensure all instructions are seen
- Use the Transition Management process that entails coordinating the entire process
- Engage with asset managers and APEX to successfully execute the plan
- Provide support and assist the Trade and rebalance Team
- Resolve queries
- Automate Manual Processes
- Enhance Processes
- Project Management
- Assist trade and rebalance team where required
- Resolving trading queries with rebalance team
- Resolving trading queries with administrators Maitland
- Provide support to the senior management
- Ensure day to day dealing with APEX is completed accurately and timeously
- Management of the daily NAV queries from an implementation perspective
- Building effective relationships with internal teams such as platform and the Investment Team
Computer Literacy:
- MS Office
- Operations management
- Business relations
- Analytical skills
- Detailed orientated
- Report writing
- Excellent communication skills both writing and oral
- Time Management
- Tracking and reporting on operational performance
- Maintaining policy and procedure documents
- Project Management
- Business relations
- Decision Making Judgement
- Adaptability and flexibility
- Process Management
- Accountability and Dependability
- Attention to detail
- Planning and organising
- Effective prioritisation
- Customer focus
- Change management
- Driving performance
- Resilience
- Motivating and Inspiring
- Coaching and mentoring
- Effective communication
- Interpersonal skills
- Collaboration and partnering
- Effective communication
- Taking initiative
- Learning agility
- Teamwork
- Build emotional connection at Alexforbes brand
