Current Vacancies at Prescient

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• New Business administration processing. Process account opening applications.
• Liaising with clients on outstanding requirements
• Capturing Subscription, Redemption and Switch instructions form
• Handling FICA requirements and internal AML policy for all clients
• Processing and setting up of broker fees
• Implementing and maintaining process controls using workflow management
• Recording client tax details appropriately
• Management of internal relationships to ensure prompt client response. Providing support to the CRM and broader client service team with queries as required
• Daily Finswitch file processing

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Relevant experience of at least 2-4 years in a similar investor services processing role is essential.
• Experience gained in a similar asset management / unit trust / LISP client service environment where your focus has been on processing investment applications.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Relevant tertiary qualification (or study towards) a BCom, BTech Commerce, Finance, Business Administration highly advantageous.
• Minimum Matric coupled with a relevant industry relate courses (NQF 5 /6 equivalent)

System Exposure

• MS Office
• Exposure to investment systems and workflow tools preferred 

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Highly methodical and can working within specific processes and structure
• Ability to work under limited supervision
• Positive team player 
• Enthusiastic and client centric attitude
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to work under pressure
• Honesty and integrity

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DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Perform daily and monthly cash reconciliations on bank accounts
• Understand the Unit Trusts Manco environment
• Ensure all unallocated cash is reported and investigated
• Perform reconciling of daily payments
• Processing and reconciliation of Fees and clearing thereof
• Ensure sufficient cash is available in the physical bank account before transfers
• Arrange for intraday facility with banks where necessary
• Capturing to online banking platforms
• Ensure Transfers are debited and credited timeously
• Ensure payments are made timeously and accurately
• Assist auditors – internal and external – with documentation required for the auditors to do their job satisfactorily
• Ensure resolution of internal and external queries
• Identify and report any payment or collection failures
• Responsible for setting up and closing bank accounts as part of Fund Maintenance

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Relevant experience of at least 3-5 years in a related reconciliations role within Financial Services/MANCO client service environment is essential 
• Sound foundational understanding and exposure to the various applicable legislation including but not limited to:
  • UT Manco environment and operations
  • Knowledge of reconciliations in the Manco to Inflow & Outflow accounts
  • Excel – intermediary
  • FICA, DWT, FATCA

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Relevant tertiary qualification required.

System Exposure

• MS Office
• Exposure to investment systems and workflow tools preferred 

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Highly methodical and can working within specific processes and structure
• Ability to work under time pressure around submission deadline times
• Highly organized and good time management skills 
• Strong problem-solving ability 
• Ability to work under limited supervision
• Positive team player 
• Enthusiastic and client centric attitude
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Honesty and integrity

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DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide team leadership for the Cash administration team,
  • Assist the Operations Manager with recruitment activities as required.
  • Lead the ongoing performance management and development of staff members in your team with support from the Operations Manager.
  • Provide oversight to team deliverables and ensure the team is adequately staffed and trained.
  • Building and maintaining a positive working relationship with all team members as well as other stakeholders in the business
• Overseeing the capturing, processing, authorisation and reconciliation of payments and transfers on the electronic banking platforms as well as updating the Investment Administration systems.
• Ensure all applicable reconciliation and exception reports are performed and /or reviewed on a daily/weekly/monthly basis - refer to Key Responsibilities list.
• Handling escalated queries efficiently to ensure resolution of both internal and external client queries (in conjunction with the Client Delivery and Client services teams).
• Compiling of incident reports and representation of the team at Incident Report meetings.
• Ensure appropriate controls are in place to mitigate risk.
• Supporting the management and co-ordination of team deliverables relating to projects and new client take-on’s.
• Compile a monthly report pack of the Operational area.
• Develop and uphold operations policies and procedures. Responsible for implementing standard operating procedures and business rules across teams, processes, and systems.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Relevant experience of at least 3 - 5 years in a related role where you have gained a strong understanding of Banking i.e. Cash settlements is required.
• Previous people management and leadership experience essential.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Relevant Tertiary Qualification - Finance, Commerce, Investments required. 

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Self-starter
• Highly methodical
• Ability to work under limited supervision.
• A positive, team player
• Positive and enthusiastic attitude
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Diligent and thorough\
• Strong risk and control focus
• Client orientated and able to see the bigger picture

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DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

High level objective of the role is to provide efficient and effective support to Prescient’s accounting arrangements. The Assistant Accountant is responsible for assisting the Financial Accountant with meeting the below duties and responsibilities:

• Financial accounting and records
• Management accounting and reporting
• Tax
• Reconciliation
• Cash management
• Procurement and banking
• Compliance
• Debtors and creditors management
• Be a valued team member of the Prescient Finance Function

Accounting Function

Assist the Head of Finance and Financial Accountants with the day-to-day operations of the finance function with specific focus on the Prescient Fund Services Group.

• This includes, but is not limited to, the below functions:
  • Monthly bank statement processing and reconciliations (including credit cards)
  • Cash-flow monitoring and management
  • Assisting with client fee calculations in terms of signed mandates and/or SLAs
  • Maintaining fee schedules that agree to the general ledger
  • Capturing of supplier invoices and maintaining monthly supplier reconciliations
  • Maintaining expense schedules that agree to the general ledger
  • Management of accounts payable and accounts receivable aging and following up where necessary
  • Calculating monthly Capital Adequacy Requirements
  • Ensuring that relevant SOPS are documented and maintained

General Finance Function

• Responsible for providing efficient and effective support to Prescient’s broader finance team and procurement processes; and assist Head of Finance with the day-to-day operations of the finance function.
• This includes, but is not limited to, the below functions:
  • New supplier and invoice capturing on Acumatica
  • Cross-training and knowledge sharing across the greater finance team
  • Continual improvement of controls and processes to streamline, reduce risk, identify threats and opportunities and increase efficiency
  • Participate in the weekly finance team meeting, in a positive and proactive manner and ensure action points are followed up on
  • Monthly reconciliation and settlement of intercompany balances.
  • Adhere to monthly, quarterly and annual Group reporting requirements
  • Cooperate with any internal audit requests and implement suggested changes where applicable
  • Self-review the accuracy and completeness of monthly management accounts and processes

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• BCom / Hons Accounting / CIMA and 1-2 years’ experience gained as an Accountant
• Exposure to Financial Services preferable (Fund Services, Unit Trusts, Investment Management).
• Able to work on various IT systems [advanced Excel skills would be an advantage] 
• Exposure to Accounting systems

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• BCom Accounting / CIMA / SAIPA

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Good communication skills – open and transparent, able to liaise with multiple stakeholders
• Time management skills, able to manage own pace and delivery
• Take ownership and problem solve when required
• Diligent and takes pride in their work
• Able to work in a busy and pressurised environment
• Extremely organised
• Positive, proactive team player who enjoys collaboration
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Flexible and adaptable to the changing needs of the business

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DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• To engage, assist and run with all new client take ons, take offs, portfolio transitions, changes and launches
• To engage, assist and run with fund setups, fee calculator and NAV recon books builds, including ongoing system and counterparty improvement initiatives
• To optimise the Project Solutions environment (including the full supply chain end to end), developing out the system capabilities and efficiencies for fund products
• Functionally supporting PFS, being the interface between Business Development initiatives, Operations and the Project Office
• To develop, work on and roll out the project list as directed by the strategic initiatives directed by the Manager
• To utilise the technology stack for client relationships (Salesforce) for 
  • documenting all opportunities and take on engagements, including regular client service review meetings and report back sessions in relation to client onboardings / offboarding’s.
  • To use client reports and dashboards to better communicate internally and externally. 
• Relationship building internally, able to positively influence all relevant stakeholders.
• Relationship building, have positive relationships with all internal parties, including spreading of positive influence in dealing with stakeholders.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Strong technical Fund Accounting experience required. Minimum 5 years Fund Accounting experience with exposure to client take ons, take offs, portfolio transitions etc.
• Suited to someone used to working in small, high performance teams and dealing with multiple issues at onceAdvanced level experience in Excel and related systems

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Relevant postgraduate / Honours Degree (Investments, Finance, Commerce)

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Enthusiastic problem solver
• Accuracy and meticulous attention to detail
• Positive, pro-active team player. Able to work well in a team environment
• Highly organised with good time management skills
• Able to handle stress well
• Ownership driven, take responsibilities for a variety of talks
• Analytical thinker with problem solving skills
• Honesty, integrity and mutual respect for co-workers. You have the ability to deal with different cultural and business situations

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DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Development and Desk Quantitative Technical Support

  • Collaboration with team on new projects, products or processes
  • Write production algorithms and automations that go into reports or business processes

• Build and maintain Financial Models and Reports

  • Responsible for designing, testing and building financial models.
  • Assist with the design, testing and building of complex GEARS functions.
  • Performs scenario analysis and spreadsheet manipulation for clients.
  • Understands the fundamental theory behind these models.
  • Solves client analytics problems and communicates results and methodologies.
  • Creates and maintains various reports across the desks
  • Understands the underlying methodologies and philosophies behind the data, math, and implementations
  • Understands the underlying methodologies and philosophies behind the data, math, and implementations

• Quantitative Technical Support to GEARS

  • Assist to execute complex data queries from clients quickly and efficiently based on knowledge of what we have in the databases and how to manipulate it to deliver accurate data solutions to clients
  • Assist to solves client analytics problems and communicates results and methodologies.
• Data Analysis
  • Defines the validity of the information and works with the data steward to ensure that the information used is in compliance with the regulatory and security policies.
  • Understands market data and knows when to question the validity of information and queries with the JSE, Bloomberg or other service provider.
  • Presents and depicts the rationale of their findings in easy to understand terms for business.
  • Troubleshoots and implements enhancements and fixes to systems as needed.
  • Conducts advanced data analysis and complex algorithms as needed. 
• Development Support
  • Collaborate with Development Team on new projects or trouble-shooting maintenance reports.
  • Understand what data is available and relevant, including internal and external data sources.
• Strategic Support
  • Ad-Hoc assistance to Management and Exco as required.
  • Maintain and support key client CRM systems as required, and maintain, support and manage workflow via team roadmaps.
  • Support, execution of and presentation ( when and if appropriate) of bespoke value-added research to clients.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• 3-5 years + experience in a similar quantitative analytics position in financial services where you have gained a strong understanding of various asset classes
• Strong coding ability in SQL, R
• VBA and Python advantageous
• Excellent Excel skills 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Hons / Masters degree in a Quantitative Finance field

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Enthusiastic problem solver
• Collaborative in approach, and able to work well in a team environment
• Excellent attention to detail
• Self-driven and self-directed
• Solution orientated
• High levels of integrity and discretion
• Displays initiative
• Highly curious