Investment Operations Specialist - Prowess Investment Managers
(2025-06)
- Investment operations functions including portfolio valuation
- Portfolio rebalancing, client inflows/outflows
- Client reporting function
- Managing risk
- Compliance with investment guidelines
- Client service: liaising with clients, managing information requirements and managing queries
- Portfolio and client communication
- The implementation of investment administration processes and systems
Investment Operations Analyst - Denker Capital
(2024-10 - 2025-05)
- Daily portfolio administration
- Overall responsibility for supplying daily portfolio and cash level reports and other supporting reports to the investment team
- Portfolio cash management
- Coordinate decisions on corporate actions applicable to investment companies and ensure correct execution by administrators
- Daily compliance monitoring
- Systems reconciliation (investigating differences between Hiport and NX Manager and correcting them)
- Ad hoc investment operation activities pertaining to the funds' administration
- Calculation and implementation of trades of various asset classes
- Forex trading coordination with dealing desk and administrators
- Setting up new security codes and portfolios on Hiport
- Supplying outstanding and executed trades reports to the investment team
- Submit report to compliance department and management companies
- Top trades report to investment team
- Investment related reports to clients
- Investment data for marketing team
- External administrators' liaison
- Other admin related functions
Investment Operations Specialist - Liberty Corporate
(2023-06 - 2024-09)
- Conducting detailed due diligence checks
- Assess the impact of regulation on the organisation and implementation of required changes
- Investment Portfolio construction, maintenance, and rebalancing
- Total Investment Costs calculations, analysis, and implementation
- Resolution of adhoc investments related queries
- Conducting research into financial instruments across asset classes
- Asset liability management and reporting
- Financial analysis and modelling
- Investment reconciliations and performance monitoring
- Generating quotations for pension, provident and PRMA funds
- Generating option forms for PRMA benefit members
- Generating implementation certificates for PRMA benefit members
- Daily portfolio movement reports
- Regulation 28 Analysis and quarterly reporting
- SARB and FSB quarterly reporting
- IRP5 and IT3A income tax certificates reconciliations
- Tax aggregation related queries
- Month end portfolio movement reports
- Maintenance of existing portfolios in terms of unit price, portfolio names, fees and reporting
- Monthly invoices reconciliation
- Performing bulk data calculations required for internal /external client
- Testing of new products and implementations
Investments Administrator - Liberty Corporate
(2022-05 - 2023-05)
To provide specialist guidance and support related to changes in investment options, in order to achieve predefined goals, through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed SOPs. Ensure compliance with mandates and the Clients Investment Rules
- Check Reg28 compliance for all switch requests and provide detail feedback of noncompliance
- Ensure Scheme & Member switches are processed accurately, and no monetary Loss recorded - 0% Error Rate
- Build and Maintain Customer Relations
- Service Delivery to be Aligned with the different needs of each client
- Corrections of all assets invested in incorrect portfolios due to members withdrawals/reinstatements New Business – Update system timelessly for future contributions to be invested in the correct portfolio
- Monthly Statistics reports for all investment switch requests processed
- Ensure assets are switched to a conservative portfolio in terms of the scheme rules when members are withdrawn from the fund
- Ensure switches are processed timelessly to avoid Investment losses
- Conducting detailed due diligence checks
- Assess the impact of regulation on the organisation and implementation of required changes
- Investment Portfolio construction, maintenance, and rebalancing
- Checking and authorising scheme switches done by other team members
Risk Fund/Special Quotes Administrator - Liberty Corporate
(2017-08 - 2022-05)
- Managing group risk quotes, the renewal process and special quotes along with updating quote templates and models, generating special quotes based on scheme's profile, benefit structure and membership
- Granting discounts or loading to rates (risk concession), decision on discounts made my discretion or my manager if it exceeds 20%
- Annually reviewing rates for all funds, taking in consideration profile change and competitors' rates if provided . Working with risk benefits such as Group life, funeral, dread disease ,capital disability , Income disability, spouses death/disability etc
- Issuing final rate review letters and confirmation to justify rates presented on the letter
- Responding to queries through emails and telephonically from Client service specialists
- Calculating and reviewing free cover limits for a fund,all work is done within 5 day SLA
- Training and mentoring new staff on how to do work, and checking their work before sending out confirmation
- Dealing client related queries such as escalations and complaints
