Transaction Management Analyst - Fixed Term Contract

Ninety One; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Ninety One in South Africa is hiring a Transaction Management Analyst on a nine-month fixed-term contract to rearchitect investment monitoring and KYC workflows, embedding automation and AI-ready processes across Private Markets. The role spans monitoring, KYC due diligence, and collaboration with Investment, Legal, ESG, Compliance, Finance, and Treasury teams in a global setting.

You will build scalable, automated workflows, reduce manual inputs, and support timely, accurate investor reporting.

Qualifications

• High accuracy in managing data flows and operational detail; fluency in Excel and modern data handling tools.
• Mindset geared toward systems thinking, continuous improvement and spotting where automation should replace repetition.
• Experience contributing to the design or rollout of operational tooling, dashboards, or automation layers.
• Proficiency in automation and AI tools (e.g. Python, VS Code, Power Automate, or similar platforms) is highly advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Act as contact point for waivers, consents and amendments on relevant Private Market portfolio companies.
• Liaise with legal and investment teams to ensure documentation, deal economics and cash movements are aligned.
• Coordinate end-to-end execution of private credit transactions, including pre-close tracking, funding logistics, settlement flow and post-close setup.
• Ensure transaction milestones are visible, auditable and digitally captured for downstream workflows.
• Complete initial KYC due diligence on relevant Private Market portfolio companies.
• Manage annual KYC refreshes and external reporting across Private Markets.

Skills

Excel and data handling

Automation & AI tools

Systems thinking

Process automation experience

Strong written & verbal communication

Education

BCom LLB, CA (SA) or similar qualification

Tools

Python

VS Code

Power Automate

Job description

About us:

Ninety One is an independent, active global asset manager withR4 trillion* of assets under management.

Established in South Africa in 1991, as Investec Asset Management, the firm started offering domestic investments in an emerging market. In 2020, almost three decades of organic growth later, the firm demerged from Investec Group and became Ninety One.

Our distinctive capabilities sit within differentiated fixed income and credit as well as specialist equities, and we have a unique perspective and approach to investment opportunities presented by emerging markets and the energy transition.

*as at30 June 2026

Ninety One is an equal opportunities employer. Our imperative is to attract and retain the best talent by providing a corporate environment where people from varying backgrounds can develop professionally and build a rewarding career.

About the team:

We are redefining how Private Credit operates, combining institutional rigour with intelligent infrastructure to create a platform designed for scale, automation and transparency. As part of this shift, we are hiring a Transaction Management Analyst (Investment Monitoring & KYC) on a nine-month fixed-term contract to help rearchitect investment monitoring and KYC workflows, supporting the drive towards an AI-native, automation-enabled environment.
This is not a legacy middle-office role. Beyond core investment monitoring responsibilities, you’ll play an active role in redesigning key investment monitoring workflows to reduce manual inputs, embed automation and build more intelligent, forward-looking operational processes. You will also help build the foundation for intelligent KYC/ due diligence and reporting, ensuring investor deliverables that are timely, accurate and increasingly automated.
The Transaction Management Team is a global team embedded in Ninety One’s global Private Markets platform with members in both London and Cape Town. The team focuses on the ongoing management/monitoring/reporting of our Private Market portfolios (such as https://www.eaif.com/). The Team works in close collaboration with various internal teams (Investment Management, Legal, ESG, Compliance, Private Markets Finance and Treasury, and others). This is to ensure that all our Private Market investments across Africa, Latin America, Asia & Europe are appropriately managed and monitored. In addition, the team ensures that all reports and other contractual obligations owed to our clients (who are amongst the globe's top asset allocators and financial institutions) are professionally managed. Success in the role will involve executing on two key sets of related responsibilities: Investment Monitoring and KYC.

In this role you will:

Investment Monitoring

• Act as contact point for all waivers, consents and amendments on relevant Private Market portfolio companies


• Liaise with legal and investment teams to ensure documentation, deal economics and cash movements are aligned


• Provide analysis of requests, synthesise relevant information and coordinate internal approvals/response to portfolio companies, keeping a record for audit/reporting purposes


• Monitor performance of portfolio companies against tracked covenants and obligations to provide financial/other information, flagging risks as appropriate


• Review key information provided by portfolio companies to assess any material change in circumstances


• Manage completion of conditions precedent in advance of disbursement of funds


• Coordinate end-to-end execution of private credit transactions, including pre-close tracking, funding logistics, settlement flow and post-close setup


• Ensure transaction milestones are visible, auditable and digitally captured for downstream workflows


• Establish and maintain AI-ready credit monitoring processes including structured tracking of covenants, reporting schedules and borrower obligations


• Build intelligent escalation paths for breaches, delays and data anomalies


• Assist in centralising structured data from counterparty reports, third-party systems, and internal trackers


• Source, aggregate and present relevant reportable information in format required by fund committees/boards, investors and management


• Collaborate with technology teams to automate recurring report generation and integrate live portfolio data


• Work with product and technology teams to rewire workflows reducing reliance on manual trackers and email chains


• Integrate intelligent tools (e.g. API-based feeds, workflow platforms, LLMs) into monitoring, notifications and lifecycle management


• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with the Investment, Legal, ESG, Compliance, Finance & Treasury, other internal teams, facility agents and portfolio companies

Investment AML/KYC due diligence

• Complete initial KYC due diligence on relevant Private Market portfolio companies (covers Infrastructure and Credit)


• Liaise with the Investment Team and portfolio companies/facility agents to understand the relevant corporate structure and retrieve outstanding documentation


• Manage all internal communication/coordination on KYC as well as quarterly external KYC reporting across Private Markets


• Handle annual KYC refreshes, PEP approval process and outgoing KYC requests across Private Markets


• Ensure funds are appropriately onboarded with facility agents in advance of investment

You should consider applying if you have:

• BCom LLB, CA (SA) or similar qualification


• 2-3 years relevant work experience at a financial institution, bank, asset manager, development finance institution or a professional services, law, accounting or consulting firm


• High accuracy in managing data flows and operational detail; fluency in Excel and modern data handling tools


• Mindset geared toward systems thinking, continuous improvement and spotting where automation should replace repetition


• Experience contributing to the design or rollout of operational tooling, dashboards, or automation layers


• Proficiency in automation and AI tools (e.g. Python, VS Code, Power Automate, or similar platforms) is highly advantageous

Some of the attributes we look for in a person are:

• A client focused and collaborative approach


• Intellectual curiosity


• A proactive ownership mindset, with a commitment to continuous development


• Focused on results, with high standards for accuracy, timeliness and operational rigour


• Curiosity about technology and a genuine interest in using AI and automation to solve real operational problems


• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage across teams and with external counter parties


• Comfortable working in evolving environments where processes are being continuously improved

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