Junior Investment Analyst

2 weeks ago

Southern Suburbs, South Africa Conova Full time

Our client, based in the Southern Suburbs, is looking for a Junior Investment Analyst to join their team. They are a successful and independent investment management company. As a Junior Investment Analyst, you will be working within their team of highly experienced, thought-leading, and entrepreneurial-minded investment professionals. This is a key new role that intersects with all the functions performed across their investment team, and through which you will be supported and empowered to develop
hands-on knowledge and expertise across multiple areas of our investment firm. As a leading provider of fund
manager research, the exposure you receive by working in this role will provide you with insights into the
behaviours and practices of leading local and offshore asset managers. In addition, through exposure to each
area of their rigorous and institutional quality investment process, you will get the opportunity to develop the
expertise that will accelerate your growth as an investment professional.

The Role:
investment analytics, implementation, and the improvement of processes across the investment functions.
broad range of responsibilities in this area, including quantitative analysis, data management and modelling,
and performance calculations and attribution analytics, all of which provide key inputs into various aspects of
the investment team’s processes. The role will have daily responsibilities, and will contribute to the investment
team’s research, asset allocation, portfolio management, implementation, compliance and reporting activities.

Work Experience

of financial services industry experience would include the following:

- Understanding of the investment environment and financial markets both local and international (incl.

CIS’s, ETF’s, equities, benchmarks)
- Quantitative analysis (modelling, design and development)
- Financial modelling
- Development of analytical tools (incl. Excel, BI tools, proprietary tools)
- Structuring and processing large amounts of data
- Performance attribution analysis
- Performance calculations
- Portfolio mandate and regulatory compliance monitoring
- Trade implementation
- Trade life cycle management (incl. execution, confirmation and settlement)
- Understanding of investment analysis metrics (incl. tracking error, standard deviation)
- Compilation and delivery of investment reporting (to the investment team and clients)
- Sourcing and maintenance of market data and data from 3rd parties
- CIS operations (incl. asset and liability administration, Manco, trustees, custodians)
- Design and implementation of internal process improvements

Qualifications and Skills
and develop within this role. The type of qualifications and skills we are looking for include the following:
Degrees (or similar): Bachelor’s, Honours or Master’s degrees (fields incl. Actuarial Science; Finance;
Mathematics; Statistics; Computer Science; Investment Management) Degree Results: Upper Second; First-Class; Deans Merit List

Additional Studies: Studying towards or completed CFA, CIPM, CFP or other fields of specialization

role); Programming experience (e.g., SQL, Python, Java, C#, R); Experience with trade management, analytics,
and market data systems (e.g., Refinitiv, Bloomberg, Morningstar, FE Analytics)

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