Aqhama Ndondo

I am a passionate, dedicated individual whose is curious about the world of finance and investments, which led me to pursue a degree in Finance and Investments together with an Honours degree in the same major at the University of the Western Cape.
Over the years, I've gained hands on experience in Client Relations, Fund Accounting and Portfolio Management through my various roles. I thrive in environments that encourage collaboration and continuous learning, with an aim to deliver great results under high pressure.

Investment Administrator (Implementations Team), January 2023 – Present
 
Tasks included but not limited to:
·        Facilitating take-ons/ transitions of new clients
·        Facilitating restructures/ transitions of existing clients
·        Performing daily controls and resolving all discrepancies
·        Assessing and monitoring asset allocations across all investment products
·        Futures trading
·        Modelling and trading into international managers and processing FX trades
·        Implementation of Tactical Asset Allocations to align products with Investments Teams objectives 
·        Administration of Securities Lending as well as processing flows associated with Lending
·        Senior resource to Client Relationship Management team especially to facilitate transitioning of exceptional flows within Portfolios 
 
Investment Administrator (Client Relationship Management Team), September 2021 – January 2023
 
Tasks included but not limited to:
·        Daily unitisation/ valuation of multi-manager products
·        Assessing performance and reasonability of portfolio movements and manager prices
·        Daily reporting to clients, including dissemination of unit prices and trade confirmation statements
·        Daily processing of client cash flows including the investment/ disinvestment of client funds with the relevant asset managers
·        Modelling of client portfolios to maintain them within allocated weightings as well as modelling for portfolio rebalances
·        Processing of EFT payments and transfers to internal bank accounts, asset managers and clients
·        Bank reconciliations on a daily basis
·        Unit reconciliations on a daily and monthly basis
·        Payment and processing of monthly management fees
·        Monthly client reporting
 
 
JTC Fund Services South Africa 
Fund Accountant, July 2019 – August 2021
Tasks included but not limited to within the international market sphere:
·        Monitoring and capturing cash movements (cash management), investment trades and update transactions of monthly, weekly and daily funds.
·        Analysis of price movements as well as comparisons between pricing sources and client source documents.
·        Assessment of expenses and updating accrual changes to fund expenses.
·        Reconciling the cash and units to the Client figures for the different funds.
·        Preparation of NAV Report and checking reasonability of fund’s performance while ensuring that the fund’s Net Assets correspond with the Assets and Liabilities.
·        Ensuring Funds comply with international fund regulatory requirements.
·        Updating the excel tools used to perform checks for the funds.
·        Responding to client and investor queries regarding NAV and cash settlements of the funds.
·        Payment of fund expenses that due arise as a result of fund activity.
·        Compilation of Quarterly Financial statements for Fund Manager accounts
·        I’ve been in involved in variety of International Funds within my department as follows:
• Equity and Index based Funds
• Property Funds
•  Loan backed funds
•   Cryptocurrency Funds
 
 
 
Realfin Fund Services
Fund Accountant, March 2018 – June 2019, where I was tasked with the following:
•                 Valuation of funds, in specific:
o   Policy funds
o   Private Equity funds
o   Hedge funds
•                 Reconciliation of Fund NAV to reports using fund accounting
•                 Fund performance analysis
•                 Onboarding new investors and payment of investors
•                 Client retention through regular communication
•                 Responsibility for all inflows in and out of funds
 

University of the Western Cape 
Honours in Finance and Investments, 2017
·        70% average across modules with A averages (75% and above) in 
o   Financial Research Report
o   Financial Statement Analysis
 
University of the Western Cape 
B. Com General (Finance and Financial Accounting), 2013 - 2016
·        64% Average in final year with A average in:
o   Financial Management
 
South African College High School
NSC Matric certificate, January 2008 - December 2012
·        66% average with B average in:
o   Economics