Senior Investment Operations Analyst

Morningstar; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment management firm in Cape Town is seeking a Senior Investment Operations Analyst to enhance its operations team. The ideal candidate should have at least 5 years of experience in Investment Operations and demonstrate strong analytical and project management skills. Key tasks include managing cash flow processes, generating reports, and maintaining client relationships. The firm promotes a hybrid work culture, facilitating collaboration while offering resources to support flexibility.

Benefits

Hybrid work environment

Flexible benefits supporting needs

Collaborative team setting

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Investment Operations or Fund Administration.
• Sound understanding of the SA investment and platform industry.
• Experience working in a high-performance team managing multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily cash flow allocation processing and compliance.
• Oversee trade execution processing and reconciliation.
• Produce daily, monthly, and client reports.

Skills

Attention to detail

Time management

Analytical thinking

Interpersonal skills

Education

Postgraduate degree or Honours in Investments, Finance, or Commerce

Tools

Excel

Morningstar Direct

Tableau

Salesforce

Job description

About the Role

Morningstar’s Investment Management South Africa is seeking an outstanding Senior Investment Operations Analyst to join our investment operations team. We are looking for an assertive, detail-oriented, self-starter who can work effectively in a highly collaborative team setting. In this role you will support the day-to-day investment operations tasks. The ideal candidate has excellent organisation and time management skills, the ability to multi-task in a dynamic and rapidly changing environment, be proficient in running projects, and thrive in documenting, implementing, and improving processes. This position is based in our Cape Town office and reports to the Head of Operations, South Africa.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage daily cash flow allocation processing, pre- and post- trade compliance, trade execution processing as well as cash and position reconciliation.
• Manage the model portfolios on the various platforms.
• Manage the portfolio rebalances and reallocations implementation.
• Manage the production of daily, monthly, quarterly and ad hoc reporting, including but not limited to NAV reporting, Factsheets, Commentary, AUM reporting, Client reporting.
• Support with new client and service provider onboarding.
• Support the maintenance of investment and operational tools and databases.
• Take ownership of internal/external queries and requests and ensure they are resolved timeously and effectively.
• Work closely with various internal teams to ensure excellent service offering.
• Maintain existing client and service provider relationships.
• Continually review and improve operational processes to reduce risk and improve efficiency.
• Maintenance of procedure documentation.

Experience and Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience working in an Investment Operations or Fund Administration role related role.
• Sound understanding of the SA investment and platform industry.
• Experience working in a small, high-performance team, adept at managing multiple priorities.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and familiarity with related financial systems (Morningstar Direct, Tableau and Salesforce etc.) beneficial.
• Strong understanding of industry regulations and compliance standards.
• Postgraduate degree or Honours in Investments, Finance, or Commerce.

Key Competencies

• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Positive, proactive team player capable of thriving in a collaborative team setting.
• Highly organized with excellent time management skills.
• Resilient under pressure and adept at handling multiple tasks.
• Ownership-driven, taking responsibility for diverse tasks.
• Analytical thinker with strong problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

If you receive and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.

Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.