Product Analyst

Applications Close 04 February 2025

Location

Cape Town, South Africa

Reports To

Product Team Leader

Application Criteria

  • Undergraduate degree with a financial focus or strong maths or stats skills.
  • Honours preferred.

Experience

Two to three years of investment analytics or reporting services, preferably in the multi-management or institutional client space 

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Purpose of Job

  • Work with the Product Specialists to research, launch and manage the ongoing requirements for new and existing investment products and solutions. 
  • Manage and produce the outputs required for the management of RisCura Invests’ products and services and support the business development of these products and services. This may include client requirements.  
  • The scope of the work may be adjusted and refined over time.

Key Competencies, Skills and Attributes

  • Pays attention to detail 
  • Safeguards integrity of sensitive client data 
  • Deals with large quantities of portfolio and market data 
  • Understanding of portfolio and instrument level information 
  • Quick learner 
  • Has an interest in financial services 
  • Strong analytical skills 
  • Good time management, and able to manage deadlines 
  • Able to work under pressure 
  • Understands industry trends 
  • Communicates clearly and politely, both verbally and in writing 
  • Able to work independently but also be a team player 
  • Uses initiative, is proactive and possesses problem-solving skills 
  • Willing to put in long hours when needed 

Key Responsibilities

  • Project manage the set-up of new products 
  • Performance and benchmark outputs and analysis 
  • Comparative performance calculations 
  • Set-up, ongoing management and oversight of fund fact sheets 
  • Set-up and ongoing management of billing and profitability calculations for each product 
  • The provision of performance numbers, performance attribution and asset allocation information for the products, the universe of benchmarks, and comparative products 
  • The provision of performance slides for client report-backs and presentations 
  • Ad-hoc requests for product, benchmarks and competitor performance analysis 
  • Daily, monthly and quarterly retrieval, validation, reconciliation, analysis and preparation of data 
  • Data interrogation and analysis 
  • Client report generation 
  • Checking of reports generated by other Analysts 
  • Interpretation and analysis of report results 
  • Submission of reports to clients and Product teams 
  • Ad hoc analyses 

Other Key Relationships

  • Product Specialist team 
  • Portfolio Management team 
  • Institutional clients 
  • Third party administrators 
  • Research and Development team 
  • Analysts responsible for data processing 
  • Analysts responsible for data management 

Remuneration

Market related

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