Job Description

Who are we?

Sanlam Investments:

We offer a wide range of investment and financial planning solutions to protect and grow your long-term wealth.

Sanlam Investments is one of South Africa's largest investment management companies, offering a comprehensive range of client-focused investment solutions to end-investors, intermediaries and larger institutions. Our comprehensive investment offerings include both passively and actively managed unit trusts, hedge funds and segregated and pooled retirement funds along the asset class and risk/return spectrum.
Our investment options include passively and actively managed unit trusts, hedge funds and segregated and pooled retirement funds.

Sanlam Investments: Multi Manager

Access an ideal combination of the best managers to meet your needs. Sanlam Multi Management International (SMMI) researches, identifies, blends and manages portfolios that give you access to the best investment managers with the aim of achieving the best possible return at the appropriate level of risk. We design and blend unique portfolios for clients, based on a deep understanding of their investment aims and a fundamental insight into how they perceive risk. By developing a mutual understanding of their investment aim and philosophy, we are able to assist them to achieve their investment goals in the long run. What sets us apart as an investment manager is the way in which we integrate disparate information into a cohesive whole and tilt our clients' portfolios to take advantage of this. We focus on providing a multi-management capability rather than an administrative platform. When it comes to constructing portfolios, we consider:

Who the skilful managers are to meet specific mandates
Portfolio construction techniques to take advantage of this integrated view
The current market and economic environment and how this may change in future
Value for money - our long track record and scale enables us to negotiate favourable fees

What will you do?

Key Responsibilities:

With logical thinking and excellent numerical, provide support to the Financial Manager in the execution of his/her responsibilities, including:

• Verifies and allocates details of business transactions to accounts
• Receiving of invoices from suppliers, checking reasonability and processing
• Calculates and processing of invoices for fee income
• Ensures collection of income
• Completing reconciliations
• Reviews completeness and accuracy of financial record keeping
• Managing of expenses against budgets and report back to management (IT / Marketing / cellphone / training)
• Compiles reports to management
• Resolving payment and invoicing queries
• Completing rebate calculations
• Assisting with month-end procedures, including provisions and reporting
• Assisting internal and external auditors with their requests
• Assisting with annual budget processes
• Follow up on outstanding receivables / payables
• Check and authorize broker payments
• Ad hoc requests
• Completion and submission of asset and flows report (portfolio list)
• Manager fee expense reasonability checks and payments, and liasing with managers to resolve differences.

What will make you successful in this role?

Minimum experience and qualifications:

• Accounting degree
• 3 - 5 years' in a similar role in the financial services industry

Core Competencies

• Cultivates Innovation - Creating new and better ways for the organisation to be successful
• Client focus - building strong client relationships and delivering client centric solutions
• Drives results - consistently seizing opportunities and achieving results even under tough circumstances
• Collaborates - building partnerships and working collaboratively and inclusively with others to meet shared objectives
• Being Resilient - rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations

Behavioural Competencies

• Business Insight - applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organizations goals
• Action Orientated - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm
• Manages Ambiguity - Operating effectively even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
• Communicates Effectively - developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences

Technical Skills

• Strong attention to detail
• Proactive attitude

Technical Competencies & Skills

• Proficient in accounting
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (advanced Excel skills is essential)
• EssBase experience will be advantageous
• IDU experience will be advantageous

Our commitment to transformation

The Sanlam Group is committed to transformation and embracing diversity and our employment equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society as well as people with disabilities.

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