Investment Operations Specialist – Asset Management

Aquarius Specialist Recruitment; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 350,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

A highly skilled Operations Administrator is sought to join a Boutique Asset Management business in Cape Town. The role involves managing fund administration, coordinating cash management transactions, and ensuring accurate reporting. Ideal candidates possess extensive experience in investment fund administration with advanced Excel skills, along with a BSc or BCom (Honors) degree. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to a high-performing team in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in investment fund administration in asset management.
• Highly professional with strong interpersonal skills.
• Able to work under deadline pressure.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accurate processing of client flows and transactions.
• Coordinate daily cash management and monitor data support.
• Review and distribute reports, and coordinate audits.

Skills

Investment Fund Administration

Professional Approach

Data Management

Problem-Solving

Advanced Excel Skills

Education

BSc or BCom (Honors) in finance-related degree

Job description

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to join our team as an Operations Administrator. This is a unique opportunity to work with a Boutique Asset Management business based in Cape Town.

Key Responsibilities

• Fund Administration and Operations: Ensure the accurate and timely processing of client flows, new client take-on, transitions, partial take-ons, and take-offs.
• Daily Performance Checking/Review and Reporting: Liaise with the Investment Risk team to provide daily performance updates and reviews.
• Cash Management: Coordinate and administer daily money market transactions, electronic banking, and investments in pooled products.
• Data Monitoring and Review: Monitor and review daily data, coordinate with the data support team, and identify opportunities for enhancements.
• Reporting: Review and distribute monthly and quarterly reports to clients, and prepare management accounts and amortisation schedules for private market funds.
• Audit Coordination: Coordinate annual financial audits for private markets funds and review client audit certificates.
• Banking Reconciliations: Review and follow up on query resolution for bank/scrip recons.
• Procedure Documentation: Review and maintain annual procedure documentation.
• Management and Performance Fee Calculations: Calculate and process payments for management and performance fees.
• Trade Monitoring: Monitor equity, derivative, fixed income, money market, and international trade activity.

Essential Experience and Skills

• Investment Fund Administration: Substantial experience in investment fund administration and operations gained in an asset management back-office environment.
• Professional Approach: Highly professional approach/work ethic, strong interpersonal and teamwork skills, ability to multi-task, excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Data Management: Strong data management skills, numerically literate, comfortable working with numbers, and ability to perform under deadline pressure.
• Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving ability, including metrics-driven thinking, ability to work independently and collaboratively within the team and stakeholders.
• Advanced Excel Skills: ADVANCED knowledge of MS Excel.

Education

BSc, BCom (Honors) or finance-related degree.