Financial Markets ("AFIN"). The role of the Investment Director is primarily responsible for managing and monitoring the portfolios of various managed funds, analyzing value creation and interpretation of the returns of various investments in different asset classes. Monitoring and reporting on market relevant developments to the funds’ portfolios in various markets. The role holder is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with various stakeholders including Fund Directors, Fund Administrators, Investment Managers, Custodians, Bankers and Market Regulators, ensuring timely and quality service delivery.
Main Responsibilities
Investment Aspects
- Build and lead a team responsible for preparing investment recommendations, performance reports for funds’ investment committees, quarterly board reports or at any other requested frequency.
- Drive the analysis and interpretation of the returns of various asset classes, monitoring markets and industries relevant to the funds’ portfolios.
- Liaise and build good relationships with sub-advisors that are advising the funds in specific areas of investment.
- Supervise all recommendations and investment advice from the funds’ sub-advisors.
- Ensure that the Investment Management Team has regular contact with the investee companies and get quarterly financial updates. On a yearly basis, strategic objectives are checked and confirmed, and realized performance is compared to budgeted results.
- Ensure the operations team is on top of completing the orders which have been placed by the relevant sub-advisor/asset managers appointed by the investment manager.
- Interact with Custodians, Bankers, and other service providers of the funds managed and collect their updates to provide the same to management and the relevant asset managers.
- Assist the Fund Administrators in the quarterly NAV production of private investments.
Strategic
- Plan and direct the AFIN activities to achieve stated/ agreed targets and standards for performance.
- Develop the Annual Business Plan with the leadership team and other organization policies; drive business profitability and performance aligned with the approved business plans.
- Ensure that Business Plan is cascaded in terms of quantifiable performance measures across AFIN.
- Develop and implement global systems and processes which increase the efficiency of AFIN.
- Identify and control key drivers of cost, quality, risks, revenues, profits, business growth, competition, and performance.
- Contribute to the evaluation and development of operational strategy and performance.
- Understand business challenges and strategize solutions to solve and to implement relevant changes to procedures and systems in order to optimize the internal processes and efficiencies.
Other Duties
- Undertake the role of director, trustee, nominee, manager, partner, secretary, authorized signatory or any related position in internal entities or client entities of Amicorp and Andetta Group, where necessary and required by the Management.
- Undertake such other duties, related to the position, as may from time to time be agreed with Management.
Qualifications, Skills, and Experience
- Chartered Accountant or CFA charter member with over 15 years' experience with prior experience in managing a team of investment managers.
- Good valuations knowledge with ability to build financial models to do analysis, forecasting and valuations.
- Commercial drive, takes initiative, positive and proactive, dedicated, focused and business driven.
- Exhibits strong leadership, social & interpersonal skills; a positive can-do attitude and creativity.
- Excellent client facing skills to regularly engage with clients and investment companies to build a clear ongoing relationship and sound understanding of the investment, its operating environment and forecasts.
- Well-developed spoken and written communication skills and the ability to tailor style to relevant audiences, and successfully liaise with people at different levels. Excellent English language fluency.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills, solution driven, highly organized and detail-oriented with good decision making and time management skills. Pragmatic in dealing with stakeholders at all levels while able to work under pressure and respect deadlines.
- Independent, hands-on and takes accountability to deliver solutions and results.
- Ability to adapt and work under pressure in a smaller, dynamic local team environment; along with being part of a bigger matrix organization.
- Proven leadership and team player skills, with ambition to excel in the role.
- Willing to travel within the country and outside the country.
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