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Overview
M&G Investments is looking for a passionate and motivated Credit Analyst who will be responsible for evaluating credit metrics, financial statements, industry trends, and macroeconomic factors to develop comprehensive credit assessments of issuers in the SA bond markets. As a Credit Analyst, you will collaborate with portfolio managers to optimise the holdings of corporate credit within client portfolios.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing an independent opinion on the credit worthiness of borrowers in the SA bond market
- Liaison with issuers, debt arrangers (the Investment banks), industry experts, regulators, sell-side analysts and rating agencies, including reviewing the opinions presented by rating agencies
- Monitoring credit relevant news (including company announcements, regulatory developments, earnings reports, ratings actions) and analysing the impact on credit views
- Attending all credit committee meetings and other regular meetings of the fixed income team
- Leveraging off the work of the M&G Equity team, rating agencies, and sell-side analysts
- Analysing the impact of corporate action events on assigned issuers, and exercising our voting rights as appropriate
- Responding to internal queries relating to the assigned credit issuers and broader credit market
Attributes Qualifications, Skills & Experience
- An appropriate finance or business degree (e.g., BCom, BBusSc)
- 3 years relevant financial services/investment industry experience an advantage
- Chartered Accountant qualification will be an advantage but is not required
Competencies & Personal Attributes
- Enthusiasm and passion for investments
- Ability to understand and explain complex corporate and capital structures
- An ability to synthesize economic, industry and company information and formulate an investment rationale
- Strong communication (written and oral) skills
- Ability to critically analyse data, financial statements and maintain credit models
- Innovative thinking and idea generation in respect of research and investment responsibilities and ability to convince others of the merits of such ideas
- Attention to detail and tenacity
- Adaptability and a willingness to continuously learn
- An ability to work independently and in a team
- Ability to maintain a high level of productivity and demonstrate a good work ethic
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Overview
We are looking for a highly technical, skilled and energetic Senior Technical Business Analyst to join the IT Team at M&G Investments. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to work collaboratively across a global business to drive real progress in our change and project management processes. As a Senior Technical Business Analyst you will be part of the change program and the size and scope of the projects will range from small to large. The successful candidate will report directly to the Head of IT.
Key Responsibilities
- Produces logical and technical specifications from functional specifications for the application environments. Does component level design utilising mainly Technology and Data Architecture Models.
- Assists with the designing of new systems and major changes to existing systems in consultation with the Enterprise Architect.
- Incumbent carries out systems analyses, design, system testing, security assessments, performance assessments and user interfaces and applies Desktop and SaaS/MSP Technologies.
- Responsible for the systematic and methodical investigation, analysis and documentation of all or part of a business area in terms of business functions and processes, and the information they use across applications.
- Identifies and examines business needs and determines timely and effective solutions to business functions and processes.
- Acts as a bridge between the business and the IT development teams.
- Evaluates and documents the underlying business architecture and conducts feasibility studies, business cases, risk assessments, prototypes, writes proposals, creates functional requirements for new applications and major changes to existing applications made possible by information and communication technology.
- Comprehensive documentation of Test Plans and coordination of testing effort.
- Document implementation plan and ensure successful implementation.
- Conduct post implementation review.
- Work with various members of the team on an agile sprint schedule
- Participate in daily scrums, sprint feature estimating, and sprint demos
- Work closely with Product Owners
- Learn new skills and technologies as required – you are expected to continuously learn and up-skill
- Oversees the development and implementation of change control processes for the development team
Attributes Qualifications, Skills & Experience
- Relevant Tertiary qualification
- IIBA or Business Analysis diploma (required)
- 8-10 years’ experience as a Business and/or Systems Analyst, preferably in the Asset Management and/or financial services industry
- Agile training and experience
- Experience working with a geographically dispersed development team, including local and offshore resources.
- Proven experience in multiple project disciplines, e.g. Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid
- Experience in agile thinking and delivery
- Experience in change management
- Experience of working and analysing in an Investment Management environment is an advantage.
- Experience in project managing and business analysis of small projects.
- Experience of working and analysing digital transformation projects
Competencies & Personal Attributes
- Strong technical and analytical skills including process and data analysis
- Ability to work in a collaborative environment using an agile approach
- Ability to adapt to change
- Ability to be agile, flexible and responsive in thinking and delivery
- Self-motivation and energetic
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Attention to detail
- Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
- Strong documentation and specification skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong knowledge of applicable methodologies, tools, standards, and procedures
- Demonstrated decision-making abilities
- Ability to perform under pressure
- Ability to work independently and self-managing
- Ability to project manage delivery
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Overview
M&G Investments is looking for a Junior IT Business Analyst to join our ITS team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to work collaboratively across a global business to drive real progress in our Project Management processes. The size and scope of the projects will range from small to large. As a Business Analyst you will report directly to the Head of IT Services.
Key Responsibilities
Business analysis
- Determine when and how to modify a selected approach as necessary in order to apply an appropriate level of rigor and best meet the needs of the area of analysis
- Adapt approach as required to adjust to changing conditions and meet new challenges
Elicitation of requirements
- Use a variety of techniques to accurately elicit requirements when stakeholders are focused on solutions, or are biased, or do not know or understand the scope of the analysis area
- Ensure that elicitation results link to the business goal/owner and can be measured or decomposed to measurable requirements
Requirements analysis
- Clearly express and document stakeholder desires and/or current organizational state using a combination of textual formats, models, diagrams, and matrices
- Understands appropriate use of various analysis techniques and approaches
- Define the requirements in terms of business, processes and functional requirements
- Creates detailed Business Requirement Document or User story and translate it into functional specifications.
- Provides analytic support by coordinating data extraction from various databases and data interpretation.
Solution assessment & validation
- When multiple solutions are available, effectively evaluate which option will deliver the greatest business value
- Proactively seek to identify how users have adapted and/or modified the solution and why
- Define the high level design of the solution using textual formats, models, diagrams, and matrices
Testing analysis
- Participates in Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Functionality Testing.
- Clearly define test cases with the business users
- Map test cases to requirements
- Provide input to the test requirements in terms of data, environments, tools and test approaches
- Review, access and resolve test defects
Attributes Qualifications, Skills & Experience
- Any tertiary qualification
- IIBA or Business Analysis diploma (required)
- Agile training or certification
- 2-3 years’ experience as a Business Analyst, preferably in the financial services industry
- Proven experience in multiple project disciplines, e.g. Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid
- Experience in agile thinking and delivery
- Experience in change management
- Experience of working and analysing in an Investment Management environment is an advantage
- Experience in project managing and business analysis of small projects
- Experience of working and analysing digital transformation projects
Competencies & Personal Attributes
- Strong technical and analytical skills including process and data analysis
- Ability to work in a collaborative environment using an agile approach
- Ability to adapt to change
- Ability to be agile, flexible and responsive in thinking and delivery
- Self-motivation and energetic
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Attention to detail
- Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
- Strong documentation and specification skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Understanding of Investment Management landscape
- Strong knowledge of applicable methodologies, tools, standards, and procedures
- Demonstrated decision-making abilities
- Ability to perform under pressure
- Ability to work independently and self-managing
- Ability to project manage delivery
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Overview
A Data and Valuations Specialist vacancy has arisen in the Data Management team within the Investment Administration area at M&G Investments. The role requires the incumbent to spend their time focused on Instrument Valuations and Reference Data setup. The role also requires the incumbent to support the Team Leader in delivery of varying objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Execution and review of Instrument, Portfolio and Trade related data across Order Management and Fund Accounting systems
- Execution and maintenance of daily asset pricing processes (price scrubbing and execution of OTC instrument valuation models)
- Exception management and query resolution in respect of reference data set-up and asset pricing breaks
- Execution of cash management, daily margin requirements and collateral management oversight
- Form part of a team responsible for first line support in respect of data management, asset pricing and trade related queries
- Assist and maintain team risk framework across procedure documents, controls review and incident reporting
Attributes Qualifications, Skills & Experience
- BusSc /BCom Finance or equivalent with a practical understanding of components of the investment management and administration processes
- 3 to 5 years’ experience as a Data/Valuations Specialist or similar
- A good working knowledge of systems used to support investment administration and portfolio management activities
- Above average Excel skills with InvestOne and/or Bloomberg experience an added advantage
- Exposure to mechanics of Fixed Income and Derivative instrument valuations advantageous
Competencies & Personal Attributes
- Attention to detail/high accuracy levels
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
- Ability to maintain high levels of productivity
- Pro-active in investigating and implementing changes/new requirements
- Self-motivated, deadline driven individual with high level of initiative
- Team player that is able to build strong relationships internally and externally
- Deadline driven individual
- Ability to problem solve and work independently
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We have an exciting opportunity to join the M&G Business Enablement team as a Change Facilitation Lead- Business Enablement with key focus on Transfer Agency and Manco operations.
The successful applicant will be primarily responsible for the effective oversight of change delivery teams on behalf of the M&G Sales, Product and MANCO business units. This will include ensuring the priority of the respective changes reflect the stakeholder’s priority accordingly. The applicant will also manage the budget request and spend for the applicable stakeholder list of changes.
In addition to this, the applicant will be managing the change delivery and operational oversight of the key global Manco outsource vendor relationships for M&G Investments. You are a resourceful and analytical person who can work with multiple teams in finding appropriate solutions for the M&G business.
Key Responsibilities
Business Analysis and Project Management Oversight
- Engaging M&G Change Delivery Teams for resource allocation
Perform High-Level analysis of changes to inform the requirements such as:
- Ability to clearly express and document stakeholder needs
- Ability to understand appropriate use of various analysis techniques and approaches
Project Management oversight, including planning and tracking for selected changes, where applicable
- Liaising with M&G Change Delivery Teams on implementation of project change into the business
- Ownership and representation of the M&G Sales, Product and MANCO functions within change implementation framework
- Ensuring that appropriate project governance processes are followed, including suitable project artefacts and appropriate sign-offs are adhered to.
Oversight and management of the change delivery by key outsource vendor arrangements – namely, State Street, FNZ, and Waystone including;
- Responsibility for defining operational requirements for implementation and ongoing maintenance of new products or service requirements, where applicable
- Establishment and nurture of close relationships with various teams, across multiple jurisdictions, to address any operational issues promptly
- Ensuring effective management/controls of key performance indicators as set out by the service level agreements (SLAs) where applicable, including
- Co-ordination and review of service level agreements between the different parties
- Ensuring the terms agreed in the SLA are disseminated and executed with internal and external vendor teams
- Management of key deliverables and ensuring swift responses to business queries/issues
- Continued review of processes and procedures to reduce risk and improve efficiencies
- Assist with the implementation of new products, new instruments, or new service requirements, where applicable
Attributes Qualifications, Skills & Experience
- An appropriate tertiary qualification. Bachelor’s degree or higher
- Existing transfer agency industry knowledge
- At least 5 years relevant working experience in asset management or administration providers to the asset management function
- Understanding of CISCA and local Unit Trust environment
- Business analysis/Project management experience
- Experience preparing management information presentations would be advantageous
- MS Office skillset, in particular Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Action orientated and delivery focused
- Self-starter, required to work overtime as and when required
- Able to manage their own time in relation to completing task and deliverables
Competencies & Personal Attributes
- Strong analytical skills
- Attention to detail/high accuracy levels
- Well-developed interpersonal skills
- Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
- Tolerance for stress - must be able to perform under pressure
- Ability to work independently and self-managing
- Take ownership and accountability
- A team player able to build strong working relationships with colleagues and service providers
- Ability to adapt to change
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Logical and detailed approach to change documentation and progress updates
- Proactive with a continuous improvement mindset
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