R HIGHLY NEGOTIABLE PLUS ANNUAL PERFORMANCE BONUS
Our client is an authorised Financial Services Provider, a licensed Retirement Fund Administrator and Investment Manager. They provide a full range of services and products to retirement investors. They administer retirement funds and facilitate risk (insured) benefits. The company manages investments for retirement funds.
Our client is disrupting the investment industry to get dramatically better value for their clients’ long-term savings and lead more dignified lives in how to invest at retirement. The company is challenging the industry by providing a simple, direct low fee investment solution. They are on a mission to build a customer centric tech enabled company – think Amazon They have an outstanding eight-year track record delivering industry beating returns at lower costs with operational excellence and exceptional client retention. But they have only just started. They need great people to help them achieve their dreams.
They now seek an investment product developer to join their team. You will report to the head of investment solutions. The investment solutions team focuses on high‑priority projects and problem‑solving, the strategic positioning of the investment value proposition and oversight of all the company and selected third‑party investment products and bespoke solutions. They are now part of a significant business so they have the funding to manage their highly ambitious targets!
JOB DESCRIPTION WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
- You will be responsible for the end‑to‑end management of this client’s investment products across institutional and retail channels. The role combines product ownership, strategic input, and cross‑functional collaboration to ensure investment solutions are well‑designed, scalable, and aligned with client needs and investment beliefs.
- Investment product management:
- You will be responsible for ownership of investment products including:
- CIS and ETF’s;
- Single asset class funds (local and offshore);
- Flagship multi asset solutions;
- You will be responsible for ownership of investment products including:
- New product development and launches:
- You will be responsible for proactive and reactive product development aligned to investment beliefs;
- You will be responsible for business case development and commercial assessment;
- You will be responsible for end to end product launch project management;
- You will be responsible for regulatory, legal, and company secretarial execution
- You will be responsible for active multi stakeholder engagement across investment, operations, distribution, marketing and compliance;
- Ongoing product upkeep:
- You will be responsible for commercial positioning and profitability analysis;
- You will be responsible for rationalisation of sub scale funds where appropriate;
- You will be responsible for maintenance of up to date regulatory knowledge;
- You will be responsible for ensuring efficient execution of mandates;
- Client and Intermediary Support
- You will be responsible for act as an investment specialist representing products to clients and intermediaries;
- You will be responsible for client engagement across multiple channels:
- You will be responsible for respond to advanced inbound investment and product related queries;
- You will be responsible for support intermediary servicing with deep product and investment insight.
CORE COMPETENCIES REQUIRED, BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
- You are determined, smart, self-starter and an ambitious, independent thinker;
- You have excellent communication (verbal and written) skills in English;
- You have sound presentation skills, too.
CORE QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
- You have a CFA / CA(SA) qualification –
- You have a minimum of 5 years current, relevant investment product experience;
- You have the ability to operate in a fast-paced environment.
Great role – agile team; no micromanagement and smart people to work with and for – huge career opportunities!