Senior Fund Manager at Sankore Global

Key Responsibilities
Fund Management & Capital Deployment:

• Oversee fund structuring, allocation, and capital deployment, ensuring funds align with investment mandates and liquidity needs.
• Support portfolio manager with developing strategies to optimize cost of funds (COF)
• Monitor fund performance, ensuring compliance with risk-adjusted return expectations and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure liquidity management aligns with risk appetite, maintaining stable capital availability for investment opportunities.
• Prepare and maintain investment strategy pitch books and product sheets for managed products.

Investment Risk Management & Compliance:

• Implement risk control frameworks, ensuring investment strategies comply with regulatory and internal governance policies.
• Oversee fund-wide risk exposure, mitigating threats from market volatility, credit risks, and macroeconomic shifts.
• Work closely with the Chief Quant Economist (CQE) to integrate quantitative risk models, stress testing, and scenario analysis into fund management strategies.
• Supervise hedging and derivatives strategies, ensuring FX, interest rate, and credit risk exposure is actively managed.
• Lead counterparty risk assessments, ensuring all financial transactions meet due diligence and risk management standards.

Research & Market Intelligence:

• Leverage macroeconomic analysis, sector research, and financial modeling to inform fund-level investment decisions.
• Collaborate with Research team to integrate market insights into fund allocation strategies.
• Monitor regulatory shifts and economic trends, ensuring investment decisions remain data-driven and forward-looking.

Portfolio Management:

• Ensure portfolio allocations align with fund-level mandates, collaborating with portfolio managers on strategic adjustments.
• Provide guidance on liability-driven investment strategies, ensuring portfolio liquidity matches financial obligations.
• Monitor portfolio performance relative to fund objectives, ensuring fund-wide performance targets are met.

Trade Execution & Liquidity Management:

• Oversee fund-wide trading activities, ensuring best execution practices and liquidity optimization.
• Work with portfolio managers and risk analysts to assess trade impact on fund performance.
• Ensure liquidity thresholds align with capital deployment needs and market conditions.
• Supervise trade reconciliation and settlements to ensure seamless post-trade processes and regulatory compliance.

Corporate Actions Management:

• Monitor and assess the impact of corporate actions on fund allocations.
• Recommend portfolio adjustments in response to corporate actions, ensuring continued fund alignment.
• Ensure all key stakeholders are informed of relevant corporate actions.

Workflow Automation & Process Optimization:

• Implement automation tools to enhance fund management efficiency and streamline processes.
• Leverage technology to improve liquidity monitoring, trade execution, and performance analytics.
• Drive process improvements to reduce inefficiencies and enhance data-driven decision-making.

Stakeholder Engagement & Investor Relations:

• Support capital-raising efforts, working with business development teams to align fund structures with investor needs.
• Ensure clear and transparent investor reporting, providing performance insights and risk assessments.

Team Leadership & Development:

• Mentor and develop fund management associates and analysts, fostering a high-performance investment culture.

Other Duties As Assigned:

• Lead or contribute to special projects, industry partnerships, and cross-functional initiatives as required.
• Adapt to evolving business needs and support firm-wide growth objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Investment Management, Accounting, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field.
• CFA, CAIA, or equivalent certification preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in fund management, asset management, or investment strategy execution.
• Expertise in fund structuring, capital deployment, and liquidity management.
• Experience in macroeconomic analysis, financial modeling, and risk-adjusted return optimization.
• Strong knowledge of counterparty risk management, due diligence, and corporate actions oversight.
• Proficiency in financial and analytical tools, including:
• Bloomberg Terminal, FactSet, Morningstar (investment research & market intelligence).
• Excel (VBA), Python, R (quantitative modeling & statistical analysis).
• Tableau, Power BI (data visualization & investment analytics).
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement, communication, and leadership skills.