Our client is a boutiques Asset Management company based in Cape Town – they have a requirement for a young Performance Analyst (BEE candidate ideally) with a few years relevant experience gained in the investments industry
Job Purpose:
The purpose of this role is to provide support to the Investment and Business Development teams with accurate performance and risk and attribution calculations.
Key responsibilities:
- Full involvement in the performance analytics process
- Responsible for daily and monthly performance procedure
- Continuously evaluating and enhancing performance function
- Ad hoc quantitative / risk-return queries
- Ex-post risk analysis
- Compiling and evaluating performance data for business pitches
- Global Investment Performance Standards Reporting
Requirements:
- Min 2-3 years’ experience in a performance role within an asset management environment
- Understanding of performance and attribution methodologies and portfolio risk statistics
- An excellent understanding of investment strategies, financial instruments and markets
- Financial mathematics or statistical orientation with good attention to detail.
- BBusSci/BComm/BSc (Actuarial or Quantitative Management or Maths or Statistics)
Competencies:
- Team player
- Willingness to learn
- Strong attention to detail
- Pride in accuracy
- Ability to multitask and prioritise
- Deadline orientation
Skills:
- Excel skills are essential in this role
- Programming (Visual Basic, Python, etc) an advantage
- Statpro (Performance & Attribution, Interactive) an advantage
- Bloomberg/Inet an advantage
- Quintessence by F(x) an advantage