Investment Compliance Data Analyst at Talent ID (Pty) Ltd

Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintaining a solid understanding of (and an interest in) the investment industry, investment
• products, instruments and structures.
• Maintaining a solid understanding of financial mathematics, returns and industry trends.
• Maintaining a good understanding of relevant investment regulations, including but not limited to:
• AIFM and UCITS compliance for Irish and other EU funds
• ASISA and Board Notice 90 compliance for CISCA funds
• Board Notice 52 compliance for hedge funds
• Regulation 28 compliance for retirement funds

Maintaining an in-depth understanding of relevant investment risk metrics, including but not limited to:

• VaR and CVaR (different VaR methodologies and the pros and cons of each)  
• Exposure metrics (gross, net, commitment and global)
• Liquidity analysis (liquidity days, various ways of aggregating liquidity days across the fund, etc.)
• Derivative (deltas, contract multipliers, etc.)
• Risks related to specific investment products (counterparty, issuer, credit, drivers of price risk, etc.)
• Scenario analysis and stress testing of funds
• SRRI (synthetic risk return indicator)

Developing and maintaining an understanding of the processes across the different products,

• services and deliverables of the business.
• Working closely with other internal teams to continuously enhance an industry leading and
• scalable risk, performance and compliance reporting solution (with the necessary interfaces to
• ensure ease of use and understanding for clients).
• Daily, monthly, quarterly and annual retrieval, validation, reconciliation and maintenance of
• relevant risk, performance and compliance data.
• Interrogation and analysis of data, including compliance monitoring / breach investigations.
• Safeguarding integrity of sensitive client data.
• Running, checking and sending of client reports on a daily, monthly, quarterly and annual basis
• (relating to risk, performance and compliance).
• Interpretation and analysis of report results.
• Handling queries efficiently to ensure resolution of both internal and external client queries.
• Interpretation of legislation, regulations, standards and client mandates, and subsequent coding of rules in compliance systems.
• Supporting the management and co-ordination of team deliverables relating to projects and take-on of new clients.
• Running independently with specific projects.
• Conducting market research when necessary.
• Performing ad hoc tasks and analyses as required.

Required Experience

• Related industry experience in a similar environment/role required (1 to 3 years) with exposure to risk analysis, performance analysis, investment compliance and associated regulatory requirements, etc.

Required Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualification(s) - undergraduate degree with a focus on finance, investments,
• mathematics and / or statistics; honours preferred.
   

Key Competencies

• Ownership driven - willing to take on responsibility for a wide array of tasks in a small, ambitious
• company.
• Self-driven and self-directed, and able to see the bigger picture.
• Strong quantitative and technical skills, specifically with regards to risk and performance analysis.
• Strong attention to detail and high levels of accuracy.

System Exposure

• Exposure to relevant investment systems, as well as compliance software e.g. StatPro, thinkFolio and Moonfire, preferred.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, specifically Excel (and including VBA).