Senior BA: Fund Admin & API Systems (Hybrid, Cape Town)

AES Global; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

A Cape Town-based investment operations hub is expanding its ICT team and seeks a business analyst who understands the securities lifecycle—settlements, custody, corporate actions, reconciliations, NAV support and asset servicing. You’ll translate operations needs into technical design, write SQL, model data, and guide automation, testing and audits in a regulated environment.

This hands-on role emphasizes end-to-end process improvement, API data models, and cross-functional collaboration with

Qualifications

• 5+ years as business/systems analyst in ICT for asset management.
• Experience in fund accounting, transfer agency or prime broker operations.
• Deep knowledge of settlements, custody, corporate actions, reconciliations, NAV support, asset servicing.
• Experience with investment administration or accounting software.
• Strong technical skills: SQL, data modelling, API design, REST, JSON and XML.
• Experience documenting requirements, data mappings and test plans; writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Understanding internal controls and audit processes; supporting audits.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, business, CS, IS or related field.
• Clear technical writing and ability to run workshops with operations and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Gather technical requirements and design solutions for asset administration, translating operational problems into integration and system designs.
• Drive asset administration process improvement end to end, from root-cause analysis through to implementation.
• Specify integrations against middleware, message queues and ETL tools, and design the APIs and data models that support them.
• Define what AI and intelligent automation need in order to work: data and validation requirements, the model metrics to interpret, and the monitoring to put around them.
• Build out the data and reporting the business runs its decisions on.
• Document requirements, data mappings and test plans, and write user stories and acceptance criteria that a delivery team can work from.
• Run testing and implementation, and support internal and external audits with the evidence they need.
• Coordinate with data engineering so integration and pipeline work lands together rather than in sequence.
• Manage stakeholders across trading, operations, custody, fund accounting and vendor partners, and run cross-functional workshops that bridge ICT and the business.

Skills

SQL

Data modelling

API design

REST APIs

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

Test planning

Audit controls

Finance knowledge

Securities lifecycle

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance or related field

Tools

ETL tools

Data modelling tools

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Job description

A Cape Town-based investment operations hub is expanding its ICT team and seeks a business analyst who understands the securities lifecycle—settlements, custody, corporate actions, reconciliations, NAV support and asset servicing. You’ll translate operations needs into technical design, write SQL, model data, and guide automation, testing and audits in a regulated environment.

This hands-on role emphasizes end-to-end process improvement, API data models, and cross-functional collaboration with