A world leading investment and insurance firm invites an equity analyst to join its Waterfront offices. Reporting to the director/portfolio manager, you will be responsible for the analysis of JSE-listed equities as well as provide portfolio management and administrative support. The ideal candidate must be a CFA charter holder or possess a CA/B BusSci or related degree, have at least two years’ equity work experience and FAIS experience with the necessary (RE5) representative regulatory exam would be an advantageous.

Duties: 

Investment process 

• Assist with refinements of the overall equity investment process.
• Prepare research and information for monthly and quarterly equity meetings.
• Assist with day-to-day portfolio management and administration of client portfolios.
• JSE listed equity investment research and idea generation.
• Monitor portfolio mandate compliance.
• Stock broker and sell-side institutional research communication.
• Maintain and update investment universe.
• Updating and idea generation for House View portfolios.

Client experience 

• Assist in improvement of overall client experience through external research distribution and note preparation.
• Assist with client meetings and reviews.
• Assist with client quarterly reporting process.

Marketing

• Assist with proposal generation.
• Involved with the preparation of marketing material.

Portfolio review

• Assist with ongoing client portfolio reviews.
• Prepare recommendations to portfolio manager(s).

Client interaction

• Develop direct relationships with certain clients as deemed appropriate by the portfolio manager(s).

Trading and execution

• Assist with generation of portfolio implementation plans.
• Assist with design and implementation of new CRM and order management system.
• Placing and monitoring of certain trading activity.
• Ensure trading adheres to portfolio implementation plan and portfolio restrictions.

Requirements: 

Qualifications

• CFA charter holder/CA/B BusSci or related degree.

Experience/skills 

• Two to five years’ working experience in equity environment.
• FAIS experience with the necessary (RE5) representative regulatory exam would be an advantage. If not, then the candidate would have to undergo supervision to meet the fit and proper criteria.
• MS Office (Advanced Excel, Power-point, Word, Outlook).
• Working experience with Bloomberg or similar market software.

Attributes: 

• Shows a passion and enthusiasm for equity markets.
• Planning and organising: Schedules and manages workload effectively, thinks ahead, sets plans to achieve goals.
• Teamwork: Supports and works towards team goals, Shares information, is helpful and cooperative, Works effectively with people outside immediate team and within the wider group.
• Communication skills: Highly skilled communicator on a one-on-one level, communicates clearly and concisely, listens effectively, written communication is well presented. Excellent presentation skills.
• Accuracy, quality, and productivity: Delivers work of a high standard, output is accurate and error free, productivity is satisfactory and consistent.
• Technical knowledge: Demonstrates required technical knowledge, understands the policies, processes and systems in their area of expertise, keeps technical knowledge up-to-date.

While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.

When applying for jobs, ensure that you have the minimum job requirements. Only SA citizens will be considered for this role. If you are not in the mentioned location of any of the jobs, please note your relocation plans in all applications for jobs and correspondence. Please email a Word copy of your CV to 

moc.nifatad@ellehcim

 and mention the reference numbers of the jobs. We have a list of jobs on http://www.datafin.com. Datafin IT Recruitment – Cape Town Jobs.

Posted on 16 Nov 09:08

Channel operations and improvement analyst

The role:

• Coordinates and facilitates structured process improvement activities aligned to our business goals.
• Fosters a culture of continuous improvement through “zero­defect” philosophy and processes, providing thought leadership to and influencing change at all levels in the organization.
• Responsible for improving service and process efficiency which will enable financial control and maintain customer satisfaction – constantly look to find agile, rapid ways of implementing fast
• Understand customer ­first, design thinking.

KPI’s

1. Quality management

Leads and supports process improvement projects in the digital team that may have a wider impact. Performs quantitative analysis of key process indicators to identify opportunities for process improvement. Audits completed digital marketing projects to verify sustained impact. Communicates across all levels on project and program progress. Represent Omnichannel team’s needs in other teams’ prioritization processes. Performs general duties to support and improve the digital marketing program. Monitor, analyze, manage and report on process performances Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives and projects

2. Customer experience

Ensure a consistent and delightful customer experience across all digital touchpoints of the Shoprite customer journey. Drive quality led improvements in the customer experience journey. Provides strategic input to customer experience improvements that help drive customer acquisition, customer retention, and conversion

3. Marketing

Support integrated Omnichannel marketing through dynamic and customer­-lovable products (including mobile features and offers). Actively promote and advocate quality assurance led customer experience improvements through “zero­defect” philosophy and processes

4. Operations

Drive exceptional customer services across omnichannel digital products (through quality control, route­cause analysis, etc.) Adhere to and improve customer service levels across businesses and services. Provide integrated reporting and feedback across the business

5. People and Finance

Drive customer centric culture, processes and way of working. Plan, evaluate and manage budget for QA on a monthly and yearly basis

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree/three-year Diploma or equivalent experience in commerce, engineering
• Master’s Degree or additional qualification in marketing, business administration, information technology
• Five + years prior experience as a QA specialist on digital consumer ­facing applications/eCommerce/omnichannel experience
• Proven track record of successfully improving products/digital experience through data analytics and insights
• General marketing/retail experience (two to three years)
• Customer user experience and product management (two to three years)
• Analytics/big data (one to two years)
• Deep experience in quality assurance methodologies and practices in digital environment
• Advanced digital product customer development through quality assurance practices
• Analytical, e­commerce and mobile experience
• Strong intellectual curiosity combined with a knack for recognising correlations, trends, and statistical irregularities
• Understanding of African digital market and customers X Knowledge of legal compliance (Protection Of Personal Information Act, Electronic Information Act, etc.)

Job-specific skills

• Analysing skills/problem solving skills/project management skills/presentation skills/writing and communication skills
• Initiating action supporting and co­operating
• Learning and researching
• Organising and executing
• Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking

Posted on 10 Nov 12:10

Job description

Our client in the financial sector is looking for a iOS  Developer who  will be responsible for the development with focus on Mobile App Development

Requirements

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop mobile products
• Conduct a full System Design process
• Content growth and keyword strategy, leading the relationships with stakeholders to create market leading content from planning to implementation
• Conduct unit testing
• Draft implementation plans
• Work closely with Business Analysts and System Testers to ensure sufficient clarification of specifications
• Provide support, assistance and guidance to Junior Programmers
• Work under limited supervision
• The technologies that you will be working with include but are not limited to:
• OS, JEE 1.6
• Java 1.6 / 1.7
• Spring 2.5 / 3.0
•  JPA / Hibernate
• EJB 3.0
• SOAP & RESTfull Web Services
• Spring MVC
• HTML / CSS / JavaScript
•  JSP / XSLT / XML / Servlets
• Tomcat /Jboss
•  SQL

Qualifications: 

• Matric
• Three to five years’ relevant experience
• Previous iOS Mobile App Development Experience

If you are ready to take your career to the next level, then this may be the right opportunity for you!

Reference Number for this position is LV39725-2017 which is a permanent position based in Pinelands (Cape Town) offering a salary is negotiable on experience.

The time for change is now! e-Merge IT recruitment are specialist niche recruiters with a wide range of positions available. We offer researched positions with top companies to strong technical candidates. Email Liza on

az.oc.egrem-e@azil

or call her on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

Check out our website www.e-merge.co.za  for more positions that might be right for you!

Do you have a friend who is a technology specialist? We pay big cash to you if we place a friend that you sent us!

If you haven’t heard from e-Merge IT within two weeks of your application, please consider it unsuccessful for this position.

Posted on 02 Nov 15:08

Job description

Good developer shop is seeking senior developers for new project work.

Stable shop, with stable work. High amounts of skill development. Opportunities for international travel.

The client will talk to good developers, keen to get their teeth stuck into interesting and varied work.

Requirements

• Generalist C# developer with between four and eight years’ experience.
• Full stack skills – web-based – vital.
• UI – generally good ASP.NET, HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript.
• DB – RDBMS but mainly SQL Server.
• Data tier abstraction – EF.
• Modern testing technique knowledge.

Reference Number for this position is DB39569 which is a permanent position based in Cape Town offering a cost to company salary is from R60k per month negotiable based on skill.

The time for change is now! e-Merge IT recruitment are specialist niche recruiters with a wide range of positions available. We offer researched positions with top companies to strong technical candidates.

Email Dandilene on

az.oc.egrem-e@benelidnad

or call her on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

Check out our website www.e-merge.co.za for more positions that might be right for you!

Do you have a friend who is a technology specialist? We pay big cash to you if we place a friend that you sent us!

If you haven’t heard from e-Merge IT within two weeks of your application, please consider it unsuccessful for this position.

Posted on 12 Oct 10:32

Environment:

A dynamic asset management company seeks a dynamic data warehouse and BI analyst who will be responsible for engaging with and supporting the full end-to-end data development process including business requirements analysis, source data analysis, modelling, ETL solution design and development and testing.

Duties:

• Elicit and document business data and reporting requirements.
• Provide input into data warehouse solution design and data modelling activities.
• Source system and existing warehouse data analysis, as an input into the data requirements and target design.
• Development of data proofs of concept.
• Validation of data models, business rules and business outputs.
• Documentation of requirements, analysis findings and business glossaries.
• Documentation of ETL specifications, such as source to target mappings, business rule and data validation requirements, ETL functional and non-functional requirements.
• Testing and data quality assurance processes.
• Project management engagement including planning, estimates and ongoing feedback.
• Bringing critical insights and suggestions for continual improvement into process and solution design.

Requirements:

• Graduate student in information systems, accounting or investment management fields.
• A minimum of five years working experience with data warehouse and business intelligence-related architecture.
• At least three years of working experience with data in a financial services environment.
• Experience of different data modelling paradigms for data warehousing.
• Experience with industry reference models will be beneficial.
• Strong hands-on SQL experience for the purposes of interrogating data.
• Experience with BI reporting tools such as static reporting, analytics and visualisation tools.
• Knowledge and experience on the following systems:
  • SQL for the purposes of analysing and interrogating data is essential.
  • MS Office Suite, particularly advanced experience of MS Excel.
  • Data modelling and architecture tools such as IBM IDA/Erwin/EA Sparx.
  • Knowledge of portfolio and trade management systems, i.e. InvestOne, Decalog and Bloomberg AIM.
  • Knowledge of retail investment client accounting systems, such as Oracle Flexcube.

While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.

Comments:

When applying for jobs, ensure that you have the minimum job requirements. Only SA Citizens will be considered for this role. If you are not in the mentioned location of any of the jobs, please note your relocation plans in all applications for jobs and correspondence. Please email a word copy of your CV to

moc.nifatad@nyrat

and mention the reference numbers of the jobs.

Posted on 11 Oct 09:48