Fund Operations Analyst - Johannesburg, South Africa - Edge Growth

Edge Growth

Verified Company

Johannesburg, South Africa

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Job purpose:

Responsible for supporting the operational management of investment funds managed by Edge Growth Ventures.

Accountable for the reporting and delivery of operations, finance, compliance, stakeholder management, and legal procedures to ensure seamless business delivery of fund operations and administration.

The Fund Operations Analyst is responsible for ensuring that Fund operations as a whole run effectively and efficiently.

The role is further responsible for continuous process improvement and analysis and a drive to deliver more with less including the implementation of projects outside of the day-to-day scope of the operations team such as best practice trend analysis, specialized fund administration, process optimisation and policy training.

Core activities:

Operations and Stakeholder Management:

50% Weighting

Support Operations Management activities for new and existing Funds.
Support ad hoc Fund operations and administration functions including, report preparation and minute taking at board meetings and steering committee meetings.
Manage stakeholder relations, reporting, communications and deliver an innovative stakeholder relations matrix / framework.
Understand Fund operational policies and procedures.
Prepare training material, coordinate, and facilitate the rollout of training on internal policies to internal teams (e.g. Investor Relations).
Support capital raising processes and initiatives.
Codevelop and maintain the operating model needed to provide necessary support to stakeholders and broader team.
Provide input into fund operations team meetings.
Support IP development and knowledge management

Communication:

25% Weighting

Proven report writing and critical thinking skills.
Manage the writing and review of minutes for key meetings.
Interface with key stakeholders on ad hoc communications.
Schedule, coordinate and manage Fund events.

Process and Project Management:

25% Weighting

Able to own and implement endtoend process for projects and initiatives within the Fund Operations environment.
Understands concepts of Project Management within an agile business environment.
Suggests and implements operational improvement processes including digitising manual processes.
Identifies opportunities for business process automation, optimisation, and data migration within the Fund Operations environment.
Manage adhoc strategic projects and initiatives.

Qualifications:

Degree or diploma with strong problem solving and quantitative underpinning (e.g. Commerce, Business Science).
Business Operations, Financial Management, Compliance and / or Project Management training.
MBA, Project Management or SAICA qualification advantageous.

Experience:

years in financial services sector operations, finance, project management or business consulting.