Portfolio Implementation Specialist

1 week ago

Southern Suburbs, South Africa Futuregrowth Full time

**Who is Futuregrowth?**

Futuregrowth has been South Africa’s leading developmental, responsible and fixed
- income investor for over 25 years. We manage a range of fixed interest and development funds and play a leadership role in the South African asset management industry. We are committed to investing our clients’ funds in a responsible manner, with the interests of our clients always coming first.

**Purpose of the position**

As part of a team, the successful incumbent will be responsible for providing administrative, procedural and risk management support to the Investment team, in particular the Portfolio Managers (PMs).

**Key responsibilities of the position**

1. Gaining and maintaining knowledge of all fund mandates, definitions and notes.

2. Generating the portfolio exposure reports:

- Preparing daily/weekly exposure and other relevant risk reports for PMs; and
- Driving projects to enhance/automate/expand existing reports and daily interaction with PMs.

3. Generating the house-view trade implementation calculations:

- Managing and implementing house-view trade calculations;
- Over time, creating systems to ensure that the house-view trade calculations process occurs quickly and succinctly across all funds;
- Loading transactions in Decalog (transitioning to Charles River [CRIMS] in 2023); and
- Assisting in the automation of the fair allocation project, with the aim of assisting analysts with all trade allocations.

4. Managing the cash management function:

- Monitoring fund cash positions and preventing overdrafts; and
- Following standing instructions to correct potential overdraft positions.

5. Generating the fund rebalance calculations:

- Rebalancing bond carve-out portfolios for inflows and outflows; and
- Assisting with the rebalancing of interest rate risk exposures across all funds on a regular basis.

6. Maintaining the counterparty client list linked to GMRA and ISDA master agreements.

7. Preparing monthly and/or ad-hoc risk reports for the Investment Executive Committee.

8. Providing back-up with the following:

- Assisting, and in some cases, running, with selected projects affecting the Investment team;
- Attending the Project Forum and Operations Committee meetings when required;
- Engaging with the Specialist Investment Administration team on the needs of the Fixed Interest team as they relate to Infostore on a regular basis; and
- Assisting the Business Development team with ad-hoc client requests.

**Skills, know-how and experience**:

- Specific knowledge of fixed income instruments, their valuation and how to administer these instruments
- Risk management of fixed income assets and funds
- Ability to use systems like Infostore and Decalog/CRIMS
- Knowledge of financial mathematics and statistics
- High-level knowledge of Advanced MS Excel and/or coding skills.

**Technical / professional qualifications**:

- BCom or similar qualification
- Post graduate qualification or study towards one would be advantageous (e.g. Honours degree or CFA).

**Key behaviours and competencies**:

- Strong analytical skills
- High attention to detail
- Collaboration and teamwork
- Adaptability
- Self-motivation/discipline and diligence
- Demonstrable drive, purpose and initiative
- Curiosity and willingness to learn
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent planning and organising skills.

**Recruitment process**:

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