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Junior Analyst (investment industry)

PSS Recruitment

  • R Undisclosed
  • Permanent Junior position
  • Cape Town Region
  • Posted 09 Jun 2025 by PSS Recruitment
  • Expires in 31 days
  • Job 2613365
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About the position

Job spec - Analyst

Job type Permanent
Reports to Head of Operations
Job location Cape Town
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Honours degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Finance or a related field.

  • Inclination to complete the CIPM, FRM or CAIA charter
    Experience
  • Graduate position to 1-2 years relevant experience
    Purpose of job
  • Providing portfolio investment analysis and reporting services in relation to asset owners, asset managers and service providers
    Other key relationships
  • Assist fellow team members within the immediate team
  • Collaborate with other teams
  • Interact with Clients
  • Assist analysts responsible for data processing
  • Assist analysts responsible for data management
    Key competencies
  • 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
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Proficienct in Excel, SQL and MS Power BI advantageous
  • 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 to clients
  • Able to work independently but also be a team player
  • Uses initiative, is pro-active and possesses problem solving skills
  • Willing to put in long hours when needed to meet deadlines

Monthly/daily tasks
- Work with the team to:
? Agree and plan work deliverables and priorities
? Deal with large quantities of portfolio and market data on a daily basis
? Retrieve, validate, reconcile, analyse and prepare data for daily, monthly and quarterly deliverables
? Interrogate and analyse data to produce client reports
? Interpret and analyse report results as input to the advisory services to the client
? Safeguard the integrity of sensitive client data
? Manually recalculate and verify statistics
? Check reports generated by fellow analysts
? Provide ad hoc analyses and supporting output
? Respond to report queries when required

  • Work with the team to improve work practises:
    ? Suggesting and generating ideas for improvement of current or development of future technical solutions, tools and platforms
    ? Identifying shortcomings in current work methods and processes
    ? Contributing to the establishment of in quality management processes
  • Manage their own performance and career by:
    ? Developing career objectives and goals and pursuing it
    ? Setting annual work goals and regularly meeting with their line manager to discuss their performance
    ? Contributing to knowledge sharing and participation in special projects
  • Acting as a corporate citizen and participating in organisational discussions, events and innovation
    Ad hoc analysis
    Remuneration
  • Market Related

Please note: only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Desired Skills:

  • relevant degree
  • graduate or 1-2 years relevant experience

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