Associate Investment Consultant

• This is a client-facing position.
• These employees support Investment Consultants and/or Senior Investment Consultants in providing a professional and quality service to institutional clients.
• The focus for employees in this position is to ensure that client requirements are managed to deliver, including operational and administration applications.
• The role requires the employee to produce outputs of a high quality (including presentations, documents, emails).
• The role is investment-related and requires the employee to apply investment knowledge and thinking in their daily tasks.
• This role is for an experienced Associate Investment Consultant. There is room for career growth whereby a successful candidate can progress to Investment Consultant in the medium term upon. successfully demonstrating experience, technical ability, a strong sense of responsibility and commitment, a willingness to grow and alignment with the company values.
• While our offices are located in Johannesburg and Cape Town, we follow a ‘Work From Anywhere’ operating model that allows a reasonable level of flexibility in your job location. This is subject to change at the discretion of the company.

• Client focused
• Driven by and keeps to timelines
• Able to work under pressure and to multi-task
• Problem-solving/solutions-focused ability and mindset
• Flexibility and adaptability to ensure delivery of outputs and to ensure that a high-quality standard is maintained at all times
• Self-driven, determined and motivated
• Professionalism in all interactions
• Positive attitude to learning, growing and getting things done
• Ability to work in a team and be able to work well independently
• Willing to put in long hours when needed
• Time management and project management, and ability to make efficient use of core working hours.
• The nature of the job means that a high level of resilience and emotional maturity is required
• Commitment to learning and development
• Authentic and engaging with a strong ability to communicate
• Well-presented and articulate
• Results-driven and outcome-focused
• Take accountability and display an unwavering sense of responsibility

• Gain a thorough understanding of client requirements, plan for delivery and then project manage the deliverables for clients to deadline
• Support more senior consultants in client engagement and delivery by performing a range of required investment and client service-related tasks including:
• Meeting note taking
• Preparing and attending presentations as required
• Co-ordinating and preparing client output
• Performing investment-related calculations and analysis
• Checking investment reports and returns for accuracy
• Considering client investment strategy and monitoring alignment of client portfolio with strategy, tactical views, and regulation
• Ad hoc team-related outputs
• Administrative, operational and record-keeping tasks
• Key client contact for day-to-day requirements
• Produce a variety of outputs for clients as defined in the client requirements. Outputs can be technical, administrative, qualitative and operational in nature
• Collaborate with other consultants to strategize on client deliverables, ensure best quality solutions and to plan for deliverables and timelines
• Collaborate and engage with colleagues in other departments to request work deliverables, to access information and to gain support for task completion
• Gaining, maintaining and enhancing an in-depth understanding of investments and markets
• When required, present at internal and external meetings, including being able to step in in a stand-alone capacity at a client-meeting, to present and run a client report-back or training session, if required on an ad-hoc basis
• As consulting team member:
• Collaborate with the Consulting Operations manager and Head of Consulting to create frameworks, methodologies and processes for consulting

• Key clients contact for day-to-day requirements
• Frequent interaction with Head of Consulting, Consulting Operations Manager, the consulting team and intentionally investing in relationships with team members and key co-workers
• Build and maintain a strong working relationship with clients from a service delivery and daily interaction perspective
• Building good working relationships with members of other teams, including, but not limited to, Investment Research, Asset Allocation, Administration, Reporting
• Building and maintaining a network of relevant industry contacts

EE disclaimer: RisCura complies with the Employment Equity Act and will fill all roles in accordance with our Employment Equity strategy and to the specification of the business area.
Applicants who have not heard back from Human Resources within one month of the closing date should consider their application unsuccessful.