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Purpose of role:

• The Operations Change & Delivery Specialist acts as the operational interface between Prescient Fund Services Operations and ICT project team. The role coordinates operational technology initiatives from requirement clarification through to development tracking, testing, rollout and post-implementation review. The individual is an Operations resource, not an ICT resource, and is accountable for ensuring operational priorities, stakeholder feedback, deadlines, risks and dependencies are clearly managed and visible throughout the project lifecycle.
• The role is to create one coordinated Operations voice for technology and development change: clear requirements, clear ownership, clear deadlines, clear feedback loops, and controlled rollouts.

Duties and responsibilities:
Operational Project Portfolio Coordination

• Maintain a complete and accurate register of Operations-related ICT projects, enhancements and development initiatives.
• Status, owner, priority, due date, blockers and next actions must be current and visible to relevant stakeholders.

Operations and ICT Interface Management

• Act as the primary Operations coordination point with ICT project teams. Ensure that operational priorities, requirements, dependencies and timelines are understood, documented and followed through.

Department Head Feedback and Stakeholder Alignment

• Obtain structured feedback from relevant department heads and operational stakeholders. Consolidate feedback into clear actions, decisions and escalations so that project direction remains aligned to operational needs.

Deadline, Milestone and Action Tracking

• Track deadlines, milestones, testing windows, approvals, rollout dates and action owners. Proactively escalate slippage, unresolved dependencies or decision delays before project delivery is materially impacted.

Business Requirements and Prioritisation Support

• Coordinate the gathering and clarification of business requirements. Ensure requirements are sufficiently clear, agreed by Operations, and prioritised before ICT development work proceeds.

Testing, Sign-off and Rollout Coordination

• Coordinate Operations involvement in user acceptance testing, release readiness, business sign-off, training/communications and controlled rollout into production.

Risk, Issue and Dependency Management

• Maintain visibility of operational risks, ICT dependencies, resource constraints, unresolved decisions and delivery blockers. Escalate matters with clear impact, proposed resolution and required decision.

Governance, Reporting and Continuous Improvement

• Prepare concise status reporting for management forums. Capture lessons learned after rollout and recommended improvements to the project/change process, control environment and stakeholder engagement model.

Required qualifications and experience:

• Relevant financial qualification / post graduate qualification.
• Extensive experience within a fund administration, investment operations, or fund services environment.
• Proven ability to operate at a senior level within an operations function, taking ownership of deliverables and driving outcomes through collaboration with multiple stakeholders and team members.
• Strong understanding of investment operations processes, controls, and service delivery within a regulated financial services environment.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate, prioritise, and oversee operational activities while maintaining a high standard of accuracy and client service.

Advantageous

• Previous experience in a similar operational leadership or specialist role within fund administration or asset servicing.
• Project management experience, including participation in operational enhancements, system implementations, process improvements, or client onboarding initiatives.
• Experience managing deliverables across teams and contributing to strategic operational projects.

Key Capability

• Ability to lead and deliver through others, influencing stakeholders and coordinating cross-functional teams to achieve business objectives.

Key competencies:

• Strong understanding of fund administration operations and business process flows.
• Project coordination and delivery tracking discipline.
• Ability to operate across Operations and ICT without formal line authority.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Structured work style, attention to detail and strong follow-through.
• Ability to translate operational needs into clear requirements and actions.
• Risk, issue and dependency management mindset.
• Assertiveness, confidence and sound judgement when escalating matters.
• Change management and rollout coordination capability.

Why this role:

• An excellent newly created position for an experience operational specialist to create one coordinated Operations voice for technology and development change. We are looking for someone who will drive and deliver clear requirements, clear ownership, clear deadlines, clear feedback loops, and controlled rollouts. This role offers exciting challenge and exposure.

Deadline:30th September,2026

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Duties and responsibilities:
Project Coordination & Tracking

• Maintain visibility of all implementation projects, including onboardings, launches, offboarding’s, and change requests.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve the team's project tracking framework.
• Ensure project status information remains accurate, current, and accessible to stakeholders.
• Coordinate and facilitate project-related client engagements and status meetings.
• Arrange introductions between clients and relevant internal stakeholders to support successful project delivery.
• Establish and maintain recurring project update meetings for complex or high-priority implementations.
• Support the production of project reporting and management information.

Operational Oversight

• Monitor the Implementations inbox and ensure queries are appropriately allocated and responded to.
• Maintain project checklists and documentation to ensure completeness and consistency.
• Ensure all project-related information is stored appropriately and remains easily accessible.
• Drive adherence to implementation governance, processes, and tracking standards.

Process Improvement & Automation

• Proactively identify opportunities to improve implementation processes, workflows, and communications.
• Evaluate and implement automation and AI-driven solutions to reduce manual effort and improve team efficiency.
• Assess and recommend suitable tools and platforms to support project tracking and reporting requirements.
• Partner with stakeholders to streamline operational processes and eliminate inefficiencies.
• Deliver measurable process enhancement initiatives on an ongoing basis.
• Present improvement recommendations and implementation plan to management.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate closely with Implementation Specialists, Business Development, Legal, Trades, and other internal teams.
• Build effective relationships with clients and internal stakeholders.
• Facilitate effective communication throughout the implementation lifecycle.
• Support change adoption associated with new processes, tools, and ways of working.

Required qualifications and experience:
Minimum Requirements

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Commerce, Finance, Business Administration, Operations, or a related field.
• 3–5 years' experience within financial services operations, fund administration, client onboarding, project coordination, or a related environment.
• Strong administrative, coordination, and organisational skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office applications.

Advantageous

• Experience within fund administration, asset management, investment operations, or transfer agency environments.
• Exposure to workflow automation, process optimisation, business improvement initiatives, or project management methodologies.
• Experience working with SharePoint, Power Platform, workflow tools, AI solutions, or similar technologies.
• Knowledge of onboarding and account opening processes within financial services.

Key competencies:

• Strong project coordination and organisational capability.
• Process-improvement and continuous-improvement mindset.
• Ability to analyse workflows and identify optimisation opportunities.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• High attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to balance operational delivery with strategic process enhancement initiatives.
• Self-motivated and capable of working independently.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking skills.
• Comfortable operating in a dynamic and evolving environment.

Why this role:

• As Prescient Fund Services continues to grow and manage an increasing volume of client implementations, onboarding projects, launches, offboarding’s, and change initiatives, there is a need for dedicated oversight, coordination, and continuous improvement across these activities. This role has been created to provide a single source of truth for project visibility, ensuring that all implementation work is accurately tracked, effectively communicated, and delivered efficiently.

Deadline:22nd September,2026

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Purpose of role:

• The Data Management team plays a critical role relating to the setup, maintenance and valuation of financial instruments traded and held by Prescient clients. In this role, you will be required to work within your team to setup, maintain and value these instruments, and support downstream teams.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Managing and maintaining financial market and instrument data across Prescient systems.
• Utilize ETL technologies and workflows to deliver solutions daily, monthly and on an ad hoc basis.
• Operating instrument valuation models for pricing OTC instruments.
• Analysing input and validating outputs of instrument valuation models.
• Analysing and validating the quality of financial market data used by Prescient.
• Executing and enforcing Prescient’s data governance policy for pricing and instrument meta data.
• Meta data maintenance in Prescient’s core accounting system.

Required experience:

• Entry level position, so no experience required but exposure to asset valuations & setups is advantageous.

Required Qualifications:

• A relevant tertiary qualification (e.g., Information Systems/Technology, Finance, Accounting / Commerce).

Key competencies:

• Technical aptitude for working with systems and data.
• Ability to methodically plan, organise, analyse, and manage data driven tasks with detail and precision.
• Self-motivated and delivery focused.
• Positive team player.
• Proficient interpersonal skills with the ability to engage and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Deadline driven.

Why this role:

• This is a great junior level position within Data Management, a team which plays a critical role relating to the setup, maintenance and valuation of financial instruments. This position offers excellent exposure and growth.

Deadline:22nd September,2026

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Purpose of role:

• We’re looking for an AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help us build and operate highly reliable, secure, and scalable cloud platforms. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of software engineering, cloud infrastructure, and operations, and enjoys automating everything.
• As an AWS SRE, you’ll be a key player in shaping our cloud environment, mentoring engineers, and ensuring our AWS workloads are secure, cost-efficient, and always available.

Duties and responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for building and operating resilient infrastructure, automating operational processes, and driving continuous improvements in system performance and availability. This role requires a balance of hands-on technical expertise, problem-solving skills, and a passion for delivering highly reliable services that support critical business operations.

Reliability & Uptime

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available and resilient AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Monitor system health and performance, ensuring services meet SLAs.
• Respond to and resolve production incidents, performing root cause analysis and implementing long-term fixes.

Automation & Scalability

• Build automation for deployment, monitoring, scaling, and recovery using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation).
• Automate repetitive operational tasks to reduce toil and improve system reliability.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth and reliable delivery of applications.

Monitoring & Observability

• Configure and manage observability solutions (CloudWatch, Grafana, etc.).
• Define and track Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Objectives (SLOs).
• Develop proactive alerting and anomaly detection mechanisms.

Security & Compliance

• Apply AWS security best practices, including IAM governance, secrets management, encryption, and compliance monitoring.
• Work closely with InfoSec teams to ensure systems adhere to regulatory standards (e.g., PCI DSS, POPIA, GDPR, ISO27001).
• Perform regular audits of cloud resources, ensuring alignment with organizational policies.

Performance & Cost Optimization

• Continuously optimize cloud infrastructure for performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
• Analyse usage patterns and right-size resources or recommend reserved/spot instances where appropriate.
• Provide visibility into AWS spend and assist teams in cost governance.

Incident & Problem Management

• Drive post-incident reviews, documenting learnings and improving runbooks.
• Develop self-healing and fault-tolerant systems to minimize impact of failures.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Partner with development teams to embed reliability, scalability, and observability into applications.
• Advocate and implement SRE best practices across the organization.
• Mentor engineers on AWS, DevOps, and reliability engineering practices.

Required experience:

• Strong experience (> 5 years) with AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, VPC, Route 53, IAM).
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation).
• Proficiency in monitoring & observability tools (CloudWatch, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS Code Pipeline).
• Knowledge of containerization & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS).
• Strong scripting/coding skills (Python, Bash, Go, etc.).
• Experience with incident management & on-call operations.

Required Qualifications:

• AWS Professional certifications.
• Experience running Kubernetes/EKS in production.
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks (ISO27001, SOC2, PCI-DSS, POPIA).

Key competencies:

• Problem-solving mindset with focus on root cause analysis and prevention.
• Strong communication skills to collaborate across engineering, security, and business teams.
• Ability to prioritize reliability, scalability, and performance in production systems.
• Continuous improvement mindset, with passion for automation and efficiency.

Deadline:2nd October,2026

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Purpose of role:

• To support the Investment Risk & Compliance function, with primary accountability for the accurate and timely preparation, consolidation and submission of regulatory reporting, and for instrument classification and data integrity. Secondary focus on CISCA investment risk and mandate monitoring, and on supporting the governance and second line compliance activities of the Manco.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Preparing, quality-checking and consolidating regulatory reporting submissions for Prescient Manco and other Prescient Fund Services clients, covering ASISA, Regulation 28 (including Schedule IB) and SARB returns (C23, B31, B16 and C48).
• Owning the reporting calendar — tracking deadlines, data cut-offs and dependencies, and escalating early where a deadline is at risk.
• Assisting with instrument classification reviews, including complex instruments, structured products and derivatives, under the guidance of the Team Leader and the Manco Compliance Officer.
• Applying the documented instrument classification methodology consistently across portfolios and reporting streams, and escalating novel or ambiguous instruments rather than applying an assumed treatment.
• Performing reconciliations and data integrity checks between service provider data, internal systems and reported figures, and investigating anomalies through to resolution.
• Communicating efficiently with service providers and internal teams to ensure all required data is loaded accurately and in time to consistently meet deadlines.
• Leveraging technical systems (including AI) to reduce manual effort, and supporting the development of more efficient and robust reporting processes.
• Drafting and maintaining procedure notes, submission logs and working papers, so that reporting processes are repeatable, well evidenced and not person-dependent.
• Monitoring changes to reporting and regulatory requirements (SARB, Regulation 28 and ASISA), and assisting the team in assessing and implementing the impact.
• Supporting the broader compliance team with CISCA compliance frameworks and monitoring plans, and with the data, analysis and evidence required for second line monitoring and regulatory reporting.
• Liaising with FSPs, trustees, regulators and service providers from a risk and data integrity perspective.
• Assisting with internal and external audits (CISCA, SARB, BN52 and ISAE 3402) by preparing requested information and evidence accurately and on time.
• Involvement with ad-hoc investment and regulatory compliance tasks and projects, as may be required.

Required experience:

• Experience working in financial services, preferably within an asset management, collective investment scheme, fund administration or compliance environment.
• Exposure to regulatory reporting (Regulation 28, SARB or ASISA) and/or instrument classification would be a distinct advantage.
• A working knowledge of financial instruments, including derivatives and structured products, is preferred.

Required Qualifications:

• Relevant tertiary qualification, for example: degree or diploma in finance/ commerce/ investment management/ economics/ law (or studying towards a relevant tertiary qualification).
• Progress towards a professional qualification such as the CFA or FRM would be advantageous.

Key competencies:

• Accuracy and attention to detail are of the utmost importance.
• Strong analytical and numerical ability, with a natural instinct to interrogate data that does not look right.
• Strong work ethic, and ability to work under time pressure around reporting deadline times.
• Sound judgement, and the confidence to escalate and ask rather than assume.
• Strong aptitude for technology use and adoption, including proficiency in AI integration to increase productivity and reduce risk.
• Strong problem-solving ability and critical thinking.
• Ability to work well independently as well as in a team environment.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Self-starter who is self-driven and self-directed.
• Honesty and integrity.

Why this role:

• This is an excellent opportunity to build deep technical expertise in regulatory reporting and instrument classification, in support of a dynamic, highly competent investment compliance team. The role offers direct exposure to the full range of CISCA regulatory requirements, to complex instruments and derivatives, and to the regulators, trustees and managers we engage with daily. This opportunity promises excellent exposure, growth, challenge and reward.

Deadline:2nd October,2026