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Description of the role 

• This role offers an opportunity to build a financial advisory career dealing with our current or newly acquired private clients as part of a broader offering across our leading Private Bank and Wealth and Investment businesses.  
• The purpose of this role is to deliver tailored professional financial advice, planning, and products that align with the unique needs of both new and existing clients, reflecting Investec's commitment to personalisation and excellence. You will be responsible for cultivating sustainable, high-quality business in line with our strategic objectives. The aim is to build and maintain long-term relationships with clients, as this entrenches the Investec value proposition and offers ongoing opportunities for advice and sales. Your efforts will contribute to clients receiving advice throughout their financial journey including estate planning, retirement and investment planning. 
• You will be enabled by our culture, strong brand, value proposition and product offerings. 

Key responsibilities 

• The role is responsible for providing financial advice to private clients in accordance with FAIS legislation and according to Investec's professional financial advice guidelines. The overarching objective is to offer holistic financial planning, which includes analysis of the client's financial affairs (including a risk analysis, pre and post-retirement planning and intergenerational wealth planning); development of a financial plan for the client; solutioning for the client using Investec's life insurance and investment products; and ensuring that proper record keeping of advice is maintained.

Useful detail

• Build and manage your financial advisory practice:- Regularly engage with your clients as they build their wealth and as their needs change- Showcase the Investec investment and life insurance offering to new and existing clients as part of the holistic Investec private client value proposition- Build and maintain close relationships with Private Bankers, to provide a consistent and coordinated client experience- Perform annual financial reviews with clients
• Play a strategic role in the development and delivery of our private client initiatives across the various regions in which Investec operates
• Support the development of junior advisers working directly with you, as well as part of the broader advisory team
• Ensure credibility, within Investec and with clients, through professionalism and demonstration of expertise
• Always operate within the Private Bank business strategies and Investec's brand guidelines

Experience, skill and capability

• Relevant tertiary qualification and CFP would be preferred 
• Five to seven years experience in financial services, preferably in financial advice or legal advice positions 
• Understanding of long-term insurance business and markets 
• Knowledge and understanding of the relevant income tax and estate duty legislation 
• Sound experience with financial planning processes 
• Ensure that the core financial planning competencies are maintained through continuous training and development 
• Client service orientated 
• Excellent interpersonal skills 
• Relationship building and networking 
• Ability to organise, prioritise and work under pressure 
• Team player 
• Self-starter 
• Ability to close a deal

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Description

• The Investment Consultant has the responsibility of supporting the effective and efficient running of the current My Investments business. The Investment Consultant will be responsible for servicing the needs of existing and potential My Investments clients.
• The role provides the opportunity to work in a fast moving, creative and challenging environment as part of a multi-skilled team. Furthermore, the role promotes exposure across Private Bank and Wealth & Investment. 

As an Investment Consultant you will be responsible for:

• Servicing clients through our digital, telephonic and email channels. 
• Providing intermediary administrative services to the Private Banking client base for the My Investments product offering, ensuring compliance with relevant legislative requirements.
• Facilitate Section 14, Preservation fund and other investment transfers. 
• Whilst providing the above services, you will be expected to approach each interaction even in a simple query with a sales and service mindset.
• Execute investment service requests efficiently, including processing client transactions, managing account updates, and ensuring timely execution of trades.
• Deliver exceptional telephonic service and assist clients with online navigation and product related queries, adhering to our client service principles.
• Proactively engage with clients to resolve queries, provide updates on investment activities, and ensure a seamless client experience.
• Ensure day-to-day client service operations run smoothly, responding to client and internal stakeholder requests in line with service principles.
• Administer client requests effectively, ensuring that all documentation is processed accurately and in a timely manner.
• Participate in projects aimed at enhancing the current operating model, including the development of internal controls and ad-hoc testing.
• Administer various systems and processes, identifying opportunities for process enhancement and efficiency improvements.

Qualifications and Experience

• A relevant degree 
• Previous Investment or Asset management experience
• Ability to problem solve
• Passionate about client service and client engagement
• Organized, efficient and ability to deal with complexity
• Strong operational and analytical mindset
• Ability to multi-task across the entire product suite
• High energy individual who is a self-starter
• Exceptional written and spoken communication 

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Role Description

• Selling to and networking within a specific Investec target market to grow the client base and generate new business through a strong acquisitions focus. 
• Sourcing new business through specific networking & building key relationships 
• Sourcing new business through cold calling, extracting value from an existing client base, networking, and referrals.
• Meeting specified budget and targets per activity
• Presentation of products and services to clients
• Providing financial advice to clients on:
• Lending products: including Residential, Commercial Property, Secured loans
• Local and international banking requirements
• Treasury and forex
• Being a connector and an “enabler” for the clients' needs into the other divisions of the Investec Group, eg. Investec Capital Markets, Investec Wealth & Investment, where and when appropriate.
• Identifying business opportunities and successfully introducing leads to other areas of the business ie. IWI, IFB etc.

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Description

• The Engineering Lead will be responsible for overseeing the engineering efforts within their specific business unit, ensuring high-quality software development and fostering a culture of excellence. This role involves driving technical initiatives, exploring new technologies, and enhancing engineering practices within the business unit in-line with the group engineering strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive Modern Software Delivery Practices
• Drive and embed up-to-date engineering methods, tools, and mindsets across the group.
• Establish non-negotiable engineering standards that align with the group's strategic objectives.
• Elevate Developer Experience and Efficiency
• Continuously refine processes and environments to help teams deliver high-quality software faster.
• Identify and remove impediments that slow down or hinder software delivery teams.
• Foster a Learning Culture and Mentor Talent
• Provide guidance, coaching, and technical leadership to engineers at all levels.
• Encourage knowledge sharing within and across business units, ensuring best practices circulate freely.
• Own Business Outcomes Through Technology
• Align engineering efforts with business objectives so that technical innovation has a clear, measurable impact.
• Collaborate with CIOs, architects, GRC, InfoSec, analysts, product owners, and other stakeholders to ensure group-wide cohesion.
• Promote Security, Risk Management, and Compliance
• Integrate security and risk awareness into all stages of software delivery.
• Ensure teams follow robust governance practices and meet regulatory requirements
• Represent and Amplify Engineering @ Investec Externally
• Encourage and drive open-source contributions where appropriate, showcasing the group's technical excellence.
• Support teams (and yourself) in writing about (e.g. blogging) or speaking at conferences and sharing experiences, elevating both Investec's brand and the individual engineers' profiles.
• Collaborate to Scale Impact
• Build effective relationships with other engineering leads, architects, product owners, and business leaders to coordinate efforts.
• Leverage the “One Investec” ideal to unify standards and approaches, reducing duplication of effort.
• Demonstrate Continuous Improvement
• Continuously assess and refine engineering processes, tools, and metrics.
• Champion a culture where experimentation, feedback loops, and iterative enhancements are the norm.
• Own and Track Progress
• Translate group engineering goals into actionable milestones.
• Regularly review team performance and adjust to keep progress on track.
• Embody the Leadership Philosophy
• “Build people first”: focus on developing talent and fostering a growth mindset.
• “Collaborate boldly”: break silos, share knowledge, and take on big challenges together.
• “Own outcomes”: ensure that technical activities map directly to business value.
• “Amplify influence”: go beyond internal duties to contribute to the broader technical community.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

Technical Experience Required:

• Principle level engineering expertise
• Familiarity with modern engineering practices and data store design
• Experience with Continuous Delivery, CI/CD pipelines, and Azure DevOps
• In-depth knowledge of Cloud (Azure/AWS), containerisation, container orchestration (like Kubernetes) and streaming architectures
• Experience with Data and Data engineering architecture and best practice

Other Qualities:

• Deep technical architecture skills with experience designing scale architectures in banking in transactional and analytical domains
• Strong technical analysis, problem-solving skills, and the ability to make well-reasoned decisions
• Clear and effective communication skills, both verbal and written
• A history of delivering secure, testable, clean, and performance-oriented technology solutions
• A passion for tackling complex technical challenges
• An agile mindset with a focus on continuous improvement
• Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Skilled at providing constructive feedback to engineers and identifying security vulnerabilities
• Quick at diagnosing and resolving complex production issues.
• Competence in identifying high-calibre technical candidates during interviews
• Commitment to developing and sharing engineering best practices
• Ability to identify areas for improvement and drive positive change
• A broad perspective that considers both technical and business aspects

Core skills & knowledge

• Regulatory Knowledge as applicable to role (compulsory)
• To always act with integrity and embrace the philosophy of treating our customers fairly (compulsory)
• Coaching & Assessment (compulsory for Line Managers and other Supervisors)

Additional attributes

• Participate in external (to Investec) technical forums & conferences
• Security aware development practices
• Approachable

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Description of the role 

• Investec Cape Town is looking for a candidate to be part of a team responsible for primarily providing technical on-site and remote support to corporate users. The ideal candidate is driven by technology evolution, a self-starter with exceptional problem-solving skills, able to deliver outstanding customer service with the ability to resolve complex problems and implement solutions with little or no guidance. 
• The role requires previous Desktop support experience, in-depth knowledge of technical hardware and software support for all Windows, Mac and mobile platforms. Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to balance multiple tasks with high attention to detail in a fast-paced environment.

The result

• Provide the highest-level expertise within the organization to operate, troubleshoot and optimize technology components used across the organization.
• The end goal of our services is to provide the end user with a stable secure platform for them to accomplish their goals. As such, it is vital that the candidate can work with these end users in a professional and competent manner. The services regarding this includes high level as well as low level desktop support.
• Work with people and be able to support the end user in such a manner as to teach and guide that user, making them feel as if they are part of the process. Good relations is key to our operation and relationship management is one of the most important abilities
• Provide this scope of support to any of our users. Many of our users have very specific software requirements and the implied support around these ensures that there is always something new to learn. Being able to perform these tasks as well as helping and teaching more junior (or senior) team members is very important. Investec is a team, and the candidate will need to be able to integrate into that team, this is in the fabric of our DNA

Experience, skill and capability

• Relevant IT End User Support qualification
• Experience as a support engineer or support technician/Desktop support;
• Understanding and proven ability to support IT end users and networking
• Troubleshoot, diagnose and resolve most requests received
• CompTIA A+: Essential.
• CompTIA N+: Essential.
• ITIL Foundation: Essential.
• Entry level PowerShell scripting
• Windows 10/11 and Apple support
• Azure and Azure Virtual Desktop
• Microsoft O365 & MS Apps
• Own transport and willingness to travel between the Cape Town and Stellenbosch offices occasionally

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Description

• The role will involve functions in the operational business and all surrounding interfaces. The role will involve project and business as usual deliverables, the resolution of user issues and requests as well as maintenance and support of systems and related interfaces.
• Independent and original thinking will be required, and to meet expectations, you will have to solve complex problems/issues, particularly as multiple systems, clients and technologies are involved.
• High level business case and solution design (including the Functional requirements Specification) for business driven requirements within given standards
• Deliver cost-effective, user friendly, innovative solutions (business process re-engineering, systems and technology)
• Participate in the full SDLC depending on the scope of the initiative including post implementation activities. This includes the formulation of appropriate documents to present at the various forums and checkpoints
• Ensure that processes, business rules and data requirements are adequately documented and discussed with developers
• Ensure that the solution meets the changing business requirements in terms of functionality, capacity and reliability
• Ensure that all projects are delivered meeting business requirements, can be measured through a sound business case and adhere to agreed application and integration architecture principles
• Projects are run using agile methodologies

Qualifications, Experience and Skills
Essential technical knowledge:

• IT or relevant qualification
• 5+ years of BA work experience
• Sound working knowledge of MS Office specifically Excel and Word
• Experience with design thinking concepts could be an advantage
• Experience and knowledge in Investment Management would be ideal

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Description

• The Credit Origination and Decisioning team is rebuilding its credit application and decision platform from the ground up, a greenfield initiative using modern cloud technologies and embedding AI capabilities. We work collaboratively, help each other, and question the status quo to build high-quality products. We're looking for a passionate .NET engineer to help us deliver.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality backend software solutions, ensuring scalability, resilience, and security.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code in statically typed languages such as C#, Java, Go, and .NET APIs.
• Build and maintain APIs that enable seamless integration across systems and services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to deliver impactful solutions in complex and ambiguous environments.
• Continuously explore and evaluate emerging technologies, applying them to solve business and industry challenges.
• Apply strong engineering principles and enforce high standards when working with production systems.
• Contribute to the design and development of distributed systems to support enterprise-scale financial applications.
• Champion best practices in software engineering, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and shared accountability.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• Education: Degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience) with solid foundations in algorithms, data structures, and systems design.
• Backend engineering: Expert in C#/.NET; proven track record designing, building, and operating APIs and backend services.
• Frontend collaboration: Comfortable working with TypeScript and partnering with Angular/React teams to integrate services.
• Cloud & IaC: Hands-on with Azure and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Azure Bicep to deliver reliable, repeatable environments.
• Messaging & integration: Practical experience with Event Grid, Event Hubs, and Service Bus in event-driven, distributed systems.
• Data stores: Proficient with MS SQL Server and Cosmos DB (schema/design, performance tuning, secure operations).
• Production rigor: Build for scale, resilience, security, and observability; comfortable operating in complex, ambiguous settings with multiple stakeholders.
• Modern Tech and SDLC: Comfortable with responsibly using AI as an accelerator and driving value-adding use of AI within applications