Careers at Allan Gray Proprietary Limited

Job Description

• Allan Gray is looking for an Events Manager to join our team in Cape Town, reporting to the Senior Events Manager.
• In this role, you will take ownership of the end-to-end planning and execution of a diverse portfolio of events at Allan Gray, working collaboratively with the events team to deliver exceptional experiences. You will engage with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, acting as a central point of coordination to ensure seamless communication, alignment, and successful event delivery.

Responsibilities
Process & systems management

• Ensuring event/webinar standards and requirements are met and consistently applied throughout the business
• Ensuring detailed process notes are captured for all events/webinars and consistently applied across all areas of the business
• Continuous development, documenting and streamlining of event/webinar processes

Quality check Events team & client communications

• Manage events budget 
• Manage Allan Gray events calendar as well as the industry events calendar

Event planning, co-ordination & delivery

• Responsible for setting and delivering on a high standard of excellence across all events over which the team has oversight
• Responsible for planning, coordination and delivery of allocated events from start to finish 
• Attendance of events and co-ordination at the dry run and on the day
• Post event record-keeping, feedback and analysis
• Ensuring that event costs are within budget and proactively communicate with stakeholders throughout

Team management

• Manage people capacity. Ensure people have a clear and coherent understanding of the job, competencies required and outputs
• Competency and performance management: Ensure employees deliver on agreed competency requirements
• Morale and culture: People are aligned to the Allan Gray values and culture. Morale positive and productive
• Recruitment, selection and induction: Ensure right people are in place. 

Stakeholder management

• Build and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to ensure events are in line with the high brand standards
• Ensure all stakeholders understand the strategic intent of the event and pro-actively communicate with event owners regarding potential negative or positive impacts on their events strategy

Citizenship

• Client focused, performance driven, long-term oriented, independent mindedness, individual accountability, integrity & trustworthy
• Contributes to the business and overall growth of colleagues, adds to business environment, serve as an ambassador, represent the company in a professional manner

Skills, Competencies and Experience

• Minimum of 10 years’ relevant event management experience within a corporate financial services environment
• Proven experience leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing teams
• Strong project management, operational planning, and multitasking capabilities
• Exceptional verbal and written communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
• Highly organised, proactive, and solutions-driven
• Strong leadership capability with a collaborative and accountable management style, underpinned by high emotional intelligence, sound judgement, and professionalism
• Passionate about delivering exceptional internal and external client experiences
• Adaptable, with the ability to effectively manage changing operational and business requirements
• Willingness to work irregular hours when operationally required
• Meticulous attention to detail, with a strong focus on quality, consistency, and execution standards, aligned to a culture of excellence

Education

• Relevant Degree or diploma
• Advanced computer literacy, with demonstrated proficiency across the Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

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Purpose of the role

• Our Client Service Centre is integral to our service offering for clients and independent financial advisers. As an Investment Service Consultant, your purpose will be to build clients’ and advisers’ trust and confidence through providing world-class service.
• Our consultants do impactful work by empowering our clients on their investment journey. You will gain in-depth knowledge of Allan Gray's range of products and develop the necessary skills to confidently communicate with and educate our clients.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide excellent service to investors, potential investors and independent financial advisers via our various servicing channels, i.e. inbound calls and emails, face-to-face interactions.
• Build trust and confidence by explaining our investment philosophy and long-term approach to investing.
• Educate clients by sharing product and fund knowledge and empower them to make informed investment decisions.
• Take end-to-end ownership of transactions and ensure accurate record-keeping.
• Actively participate in the organisation’s drive towards continuous improvement by contributing to solutions to client problems.

Skills and Competencies

• This role is suited to individuals who are highly performance driven and seek new challenges.
• A growth mindset and resilience are key attributes to successfully navigate the ever-changing needs of clients and the financial services industry.
• The role requires high adaptability, vigour and agility.
• Our consultants need to be empathetic and client focused.  
• Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential.
• The ability to deal with complexity in a high-pressure environment, analytical thinking, attention to detail and problem-solving ability are crucial to ensure we always do what is best for clients.
• A genuine passion for people and a commitment to service excellence are vital to building long-term and meaningful relationships with our clients.
• Consistently strong academic record. 

Qualifications

• A completed or currently completing a Bachelors of Commerce or Business Science degree
• Specialisations in Finance, Economics, Investment Management, Statistics and related fields will be considered

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Job Summary

• The candidate will be responsible for assisting the  IT Audit Manager in planning, managing and executing Internal Audit (IA) activities, specifically in the IT area.

Job Responsibilities
Key Focus Areas:

• Support the development of the annual IT audit plan.
• Assist the IT Audit Manager with developing and documenting risk-based engagement plans for each engagement, including scope, objectives, timelines and resource allocation.
• Perform end-to-end IT audit engagements with minimal supervision.
• Evaluate IT risks and control frameworks, identifying gaps and recommending improvements.
• Develop and maintain risk-based audit programmes.
• Compile clear, concise and impactful audit reports.
• Communicate audit findings, recommendations and action plans to management.
• Conduct follow-up reviews on audit findings and remediation actions.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders across IT and business.
• Lead, coach and mentor junior team members on audit engagements.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of Internal Audit methodologies and practices.

Execute IT audits, including:

• Application controls
• General IT controls (GITCs)
• IT infrastructure and platforms
• Cybersecurity and information security
• IT projects and system implementations.

Work experience

• 6+ years of IT audit experience
• Demonstrated ability to perform independent, risk-based IT audits with minimal supervision.

Strong technical IT audit capability, including exposure to:

• Cybersecurity
• Cloud environments
• IT infrastructure and platforms
• Emerging technologies (e.g. AI)
• Financial services industry experience (advantageous)
• Data analytics (advantageous)

Academic Qualifications

• A relevant degree or postgraduate qualification is required. Degree in Accounting / Auditing, Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent is essential
• CISA Certification (non-negotiable)
• CIA, CRISC, CISSP (advantageous)

Personal attributes

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• High level of analytical thinking and problem-solving ability.
• Strong report writing and documentation skills.
• Ability to influence and challenge constructively.
• Self-driven, proactive and able to work independently.
• High attention to detail and quality.
• Resilient and adaptable.
• Passion for continuous learning and staying current with emerging technologies.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
   

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Job Summary

• The successful applicant will be part of the Group Legal Team, responsible for providing legal services to the business. This entails ensuring that the legal and regulatory business needs are satisfied by providing legal expertise and support for all legal and legal-related matters, as well as for certain regulatory compliance-related matters and company secretarial matters.  

You will, inter alia:

• be responsible for assisting or handling a variety of legal matters and projects; act as counsel on issues involving company compliance with governmental and regulatory standards; review legal documentation and provide advice on appropriate action; coordinate and/or oversee legal matters requiring external legal assistance; interact with regulators, industry bodies and other external stakeholders; cultivate constructive relationships that result in stakeholders proactively seeking Group Legal involvement; and on top of all this, contribute meaningfully towards ensuring that the business functions well for our clients.

You may: 

• participate in consultative and lobbying efforts and structures regarding legislative and regulatory developments; participate in corporate affairs and corporate governance related matters; provide work leadership and mentoring to less experienced attorneys, as well as functional advice and training.

Job Responsibilities
You will be required to:

• Provide legal input & opinions when agreements are being negotiated and vetting agreements drafted by other parties and commenting thereon
• Draft and review a wide array of agreements, primarily of a financial services related nature such as retail distribution and service level agreements, e.g. with third party management companies, fund managers and     LISPs; institutional client agreements, e.g. Portfolio Management Agreements; various 3rd party service provider agreements across the business
• Advise on ad hoc legal issues
• Furnish legal opinions and advice concerning the company and its clients, such as in relation to contract and legislation interpretation.
• Advise management, employees and clients on all legal matters 
• Advise the Investment Team regarding various matters, such as corporate actions/transactions, ‘inside information’ matters, Companies Act and Listings Requirement issues 
• Have/quickly obtain a sound working knowledge and effectively deal with issues arising under the legislation mentioned above
• Perform regulatory lobbying - this includes to assist in commenting on new and draft legislation, including impact analyses
• Represent the company at relevant industry workshops/working groups with regard to legislative developments
• Engage with counterparties in our ex-SA offices
• Provide input on various policies
• Advise and assist in regard to client mandates, applicable legislation and internal rules, processes and policies
• Advise on permissible investments
• Assist in further developing, promoting, implementing and maintaining standards and procedures that enable employees to act in an appropriate manner 
• Advise Company Secretary on internal corporate related matters
• Record-keep
• Contribute towards the effective administration of the department
• Assist with internal training and education as may be required – this includes work leadership and mentoring to other attorneys
• Assist with the completion of statutory returns
• Assist with and conduct the rolling out Group Legal policies 
• Assist with the preparation of reports

Knowledge and Experience
Required:

• 3-5 years PQE practical legal experience i.e. excluding articles – candidates with less than this experience may be considered at our discretion 
• Experience in negotiating, drafting and process management of commercial transactions and agreements

Advantageous 

• Strong proficiency within the financial services industry, asset management in particular
• Sound to excellent knowledge of financial markets
• Current and relevant knowledge of drafting financial services ‘type’ agreements and all legal aspects of a global best practise asset manager
• Working knowledge of and experience with applicable financial services legislation (including subordinate legislation), especially Financial Sector Regulation Act;  Pension Funds Act; Collective Investment Schemes Control Act; Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act; Long-Term Insurance Act; Insurance Act; Financial Intelligence Centre Act; Financial Markets Act; Requirements of the South African Reserve Bank in terms of foreign exchange control / Exchange Control Regulations and other key legislation, especially the Protection of Personal Information Act the Companies Act;  Some proficiency with comparable legislation in ex-SA territories in which the group operates
• Abreast of ongoing regulatory developments and industry trendsExperience at a financial services institution, preferably an asset manager, linked investment services provider and/or a management company 
• Strong computer literacy, especially Microsoft Office/365 (esp. Outlook, Word, Teams, Power Point, Excel etc), and ability to produce management reports.

Competencies

• Strong drafting, research, analytical, judgement, and problem-solving skills with a methodical, detail‑focused approach that ensures high‑quality, accurate outcomes.
• Highly articulate, with the ability to communicate clearly and confidently at all levels and engage effectively with diverse stakeholders.
• Well organized, deadline‑driven, and able to prioritise, multitask, and manage projects efficiently in fast‑paced environments while maintaining quality.
• Reliable, responsive, resourceful and professional, with a strong work ethic, high integrity, and consistent self‑motivation.
• Proven ability to work effectively both independently and as part of multidisciplinary teams, demonstrating flexibility and accountability.

Qualifications

Required:

• LLB degree (or equivalent) with completed articles
• Admitted attorney
• Very strong academics

Advantageous (Additional):

• B Com or similar

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Job Summary

• The Maintenance Electrician will perform complex technical work, on a journeyman level, in the installation, operation, maintenance, modification, service and repair of electrical systems, equipment, fixtures and related electro-mechanical systems, in accordance with applicable Electrical Industry Codes.

Job Responsibilities

• Inspect the premises regularly to identify equipment and machines in need of repair
• Troubleshoot issues to determine necessary repairs
• Plan and conduct routine electrical maintenance using the applicable buildings blueprints or equipment manual as mandated
• Repair faulty wiring where a specialised electrical technician is not required

Additional Duties

• The incumbent will be asked to perform additional maintenance duties on occasion
• Be on standby and work overtime when required

Experience and Skills

• 2–3 years’ electrical experience
• PLC programming experience
• Ability to read and interpret electrical drawings
• Experience with CCTV and access control systems
• Medium- and low-voltage switching experience
• Mechanical experience
• Advanced computer literacy

Qualifications

• N3 in Electrical Engineering
• Electrical Trade Test
• Valid Code 08 driver’s licence
• Wireless licence (advantageous)

Competencies

• Good interpersonal relations and communication skills
• Customer focused
• Ability to use initiative
• Integrity
• Service orientated
• Accountability