Asset Mngt: Special Admin Manager

Location

Nedgroup Investments is looking for a Special Admin Manager to join our Client Services team based at the Nedbank Clocktower, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town.
 

Job Classification

Nedgroup Investments is an award-winning global investment business with a growing presence in Europe. Nedgroup Investments offers a wide range of investment solutions for retail and institutional investors. Nedgroup Investments is a division of Nedbank Group Ltd, leveraging the investment and financial expertise of one of South Africa’s largest financial services groups. The Nedgroup Investments Best of Breed™ philosophy sees us partner with select fund managers who we believe are able to provide consistent long-term outperformance for our clients. These fund managers are experts in their field of specialisation and we tend to partner with them for long periods of time giving them sufficient opportunity to deliver on their mandate objectives. We obsess about long-term performance and our top priority is to deliver a superior investment experience for our clients.

Job Family

Client Services, Administration and Operations

Career Stream

Client Services and Operations

Leadership Pipeline

Job Purpose

To support business objectives by managing fulfilment of requests from clients and staff in order to achieve business results with effective level of client satisfaction and risk management

Job Responsibilities

• Manage financial losses through efficient management of risk and processes
• Ensure effectiveness of processes by tracking, measuring and analysing data relating to work processes
• Perform effective planning to ensure capacity meets business requirements
• Improve efficiency by looking at ways of re-engineering or automating processes
• Maintain a capable high performing team and ensure an environment for optimal performance is created by identifying talent pool through conducting career conversations, utilising the talent grid principles and developing talent retention programmes
• Administration of investment products end to end, that is from client onboarding to client exit.

People Specification

We believe in employing highly motivated, sharp and quality orientated people that thrive in a culture that celebrates and supports diversity within an environment that is creative, collaborative, challenging and dynamic.  Aligned to our core purpose of enabling our investors to achieve their investment goals, we are committed to enabling our staff achieve their full potential and long-term career growth at Nedgroup Investments. Specifically for this role, we are looking for:

• High standard of personal presentation
• Self-motivated and well organised with an ability to adapt and tackle a wide variety of challenges
• Ability to deal with people both within the organisation and external customers.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

• Honours degree in Commerce 

Minimum Experience Level

• 7 years plus in financial services - Asset management
• 5 years plus in management of people
• 7 years plus in an investment administration management role
• Experience to have automated or digitised some of these processes in previous roles
• Understanding the regulatory environment governing these products and processes in Investment industry
• Worked as a Team Leader or Manager in Client Services Centre in Asset Management

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies