Investment Administrator

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

Qualifications

BCom or Higher Diploma in Accounting or Financial Management

Experience

Experience 1 to 3 years of experience in the Financial Services industry

Purpose of job

• Unitisation and cash flow management of client funds including:
• Determination of unit prices
• Daily collection of asset manager data
• Management of the investment strategy, and processing of the clients’ cash flows between the administrator and asset managers
• Production of reports
• Analysing of fund returns
• Capturing transactions and banking transactions.
• Handling relevant stakeholder enquiries

Other key relationships

• Administration Team Members
• Internal teams such as Client Servicing, Trade Rebalancing, Fund Accounting and Transition.
• External Parties such as Employee Benefit Administrators and Asset Managers
• Systems development team and external systems development companies

Monthly/daily tasks

• Collecting and capturing of daily market values
• Sending daily prices
• Capturing and sending cash flows instructions to asset managers
• Following up on queries regarding cash flows instructions with asset managers
• Interpretation and analysis of market values and unit prices
• Preparing of asset allocation calculations and portfolio rebalances
• Loading asset allocation calculations
• Sending Cashflow Statements
• Performing bank reconciliations
• Weekly and monthly data preparation.
• Weekly and monthly report generation.
• Ad hoc queries / reports.
• Work closely with and assist other team members.
• Adhering to practices and procedures, including completing evidence on checklists.
• Assist with documentation of processes and procedures for the Administration team.
• Assist and participate in internal improvement initiatives within the Invest department to ensure continuous business improvement.
• Perform user acceptance testing of enhancements and change requests on systems and applications used by the team as required.