Job Opportunities at Sankore Investment

Summary

• The Executive Assistant is responsible for providing administrative and operational support to the Group Managing Director.
• The role involves attending to the day-to-day functions that are part of the GMD’s role in ensuring the GMD can focus on high-level leadership and strategy functions.

Primary Responsibilities   

• Work directly with the GMD to support all aspects of daily work routine.
• Maintain the GMD’s calendar, including scheduling meetings, appointments, speaking engagements.
• Coordinate work with other team members as needed; play a key role in the coordination of efforts both within and outside the Firm.
• Assist the GMD in the development of presentations for internal and external audiences.
• Determine priority of matters of attention for the GMD; redirect matters to team members to handle, or handle matters personally, as appropriate.
• Engage in a variety of special projects including creating PowerPoint presentations, financial spreadsheets, special reports, and agenda material.
• Keep the GMD advised of time-sensitive and priority issues, ensuring appropriate follow-up.
• Compose and prepare letters relating to routine correspondence for the GMD’s signature.
• Attend meetings and take notes of discussion; prepare the initial draft of minutes and summaries.
• Organize and maintain the GMD’s office filing system.
• Other additional and/or alternative duties as assigned from time to time, including supporting other departments or Executives as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Law, Accounting, Economics.
• Proven experience working with C-Suit Executives.
• A minimum of Second-Class Upper degree in a recognized university.
• 5 – 7 years’ proven work experience in similar position.

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes:

• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Power BI.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• High levels of Emotional Intelligence.
• Excellent Interpersonal Skills.
• Strong networking abilities.
• Strong multi-tasking and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to articulate complex ideas simply and summarize them effectively.
• Positive, can-do attitude and willingness to get the job done.
• Proactive, motivated, and possess poise and self-confidence.
• Ability to plan and prioritize effectively, balancing multiple deliverables efficiently.
• Ability to engage and work collaboratively with colleagues, and multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to bring innovations to operations.
• Highly organized.
• Intellectually curious.
• A strong focus on excellence.
• Self-driven and goal oriented.
• A thirst for knowledge and learning.

Compensation
Competitive and commensurate with experience.

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Summary

• The Head, Research and Strategy is responsible for guiding the investment research function.
• Providing strategic direction into researching and analyzing broad macro-economic trends and financial markets from a global and local perspective with the aim to providing actionable to information for Investment decisions.

Primary Responsibilities
The responsibilities of this role will be broad and include:

• Provide overall strategic direction to the research associates and analysts
• Assist with providing relevant quantitative and qualitative research information to the Investment Committee.
• Build tactical model asset allocations.
• Analyze and produce periodic reports and updates on quoted and unquoted companies
• Maintain an extensive coverage list of companies and monitor of all developments on those companies.
• Review and interpret cash flow statements, income statements and balance sheets on publicly traded domestic and foreign companies.
• Calculate financial ratios and perform exchange rate calculations.
• Develop key industry themes and company due diligence working with research team.
• Provide fundamental research on industry and individual company and help generate timely and accurate investment recommendations.
• Develop financial models to accurately reflect companies’ overall performance and valuation to help make guide  investment decisions.
• Supervise performance of respective company’s part of portfolio and provide timely updates on individual companies.
• Support research and periodical publication activities.
• Develop, update, and evaluate basic and advanced company valuation models.
• Develop, maintain, and analyze generic and specific company, industry, and market overviews.
• Track information from sell-side research sources and assist to build a database of consensus estimates at the macro and security level.
• Build our machine learning based fixed income analytical platform and research bouquet.
• Assist to publish research and retail friendly pieces for client consumption across several channels (email, newsletters, social media).
• Represent the firm in the media and at special client events.
• Provide advisory services to select HNI clients.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration or Accounting, or other Business-related disciplines
• 7 years+ relevant work experience.
• A chartered member of CFA Level 1 (Minimum) is an added advantage.

Desired Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

• Excellent use of investment analysis software, e.g., Capital IQ, Bloomberg, Infoware etc.
• Exposed to Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Financial Modeling, Performance Analytics, Risk Management, Portfolio Construction, Reporting, Performance Attribution, etc.
• Excellent quantitative and qualitative analytical skills.
• Solid understanding of financial set-up, procedures, statistics, and economics.
• High level of emotional intelligence.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Possess good Industry Knowledge.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Client Orientation
• Excellent Problem-Solving Skills
• Possess strong attention to detail.
• Constructively helps and coaches’ others in their professional development.
• Driven & Goal Oriented. Exhibits a “can-do” approach and inspires others to excel.
• Develops and maintains team spirit.
• Establishes and maintains high standards and measures.
• Encourages and promotes high standards through example.
• Well Read and Excellent Business Writing
• Constructively helps and coaches’ others in their professional development.
• Exhibits a “can-do” approach and inspires others to excel.
• Develops and maintains team spirit.
• Encourages and promotes high standards through example.
• Considers excellence a fundamental priority and instills this attribute in other team members.
• Conscientiously assign performance goals, offer year-round performance feedback, and conduct timely performance discussions and reviews.
• Align people, work, and systems with the business strategy.
• Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with existing and new clients.

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Summary

• The Wealth Advisor is primarily responsible for meeting Asset Under Management (AUM) targets by engaging high net worth clients and offering sankore's products to address their specific needs and objectives.
• In this role, you will work with clients to design and implement asset allocation strategies and financial plans that meet their unique circumstances, risk tolerance, goals, and objectives.

Primary Responsibilities

• Expand and retain client relationships to grow Assets Under Management (AUM) establishing Sankore’s presence and increasing our market share.
• Develop leads and referrals from current clients and other networks.
• Increase current accounts and grow team’s revenue through additions to AUM.
• Coordinate and participate in meetings with prospective clients.
• Manage on-boarding and KYC requirements for all clients in the region.
• Develop and/or deliver private wealth education sessions to clients.
• Partner with stakeholders and user groups from other teams.
• Research new and emerging trends and technologies in portfolio management.
• Provide Wealth Management service to clients which includes Wealth & Estate Planning, Trust, Financial Planning, Strategy, etc.
• Coordinate with Fund Managers on investment policy statement (IPS) with each client based on their goals, objectives, and risk tolerance.
• Implementation of investment plans and transition for new clients.
• Monitor asset allocation on a periodic basis relative to policy and goals.
• Review client portfolio issues (i.e., taxes, liquidity events, capital calls, etc.)
• Offer value-added fee-based services.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or a similar course of study from a reputable university.
• 7 - 10 years of work experience in Private Banking or Financial Services industry preferred.
• A Masters’ Degree, MBA, CFA, or other relevant post graduate qualifications is preferred.
• Strong experience managing the needs of High-Net-Worth Individuals.

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Summary

• The Junior DevOps Engineer is responsible for assisting the software development team in automating deployment processes for software solutions and code repository.
• In this role, you will be responsible for the day to day supervision of our deployment infrastructure.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design and implement build, deployment, and configuration management.
• Test implemented designs.
• Build and test automation tools for infrastructure provisioning.
• Handle code deployments in all environments.
• Monitor metrics and develop ways to improve.
• Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations.
• Brainstorm for new ideas and ways to improve development delivery.
• Consult with peers for feedback during testing stages.
• Build, maintain, and monitor configuration standards.
• Maintain day-to-day management and administration of projects.
• Manage Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment tools with team.
• Document and design various processes; update existing processes.
• Improve infrastructure development and application development.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• 1 - 2 years’ experience in a similar role preferable in Fintech or Financial Services.
• Any of the following certifications is an added advantage: Docker Certified Associate, Puppet certification, Certified Kubernetes Administrator.

Desired Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

• Demonstrated experience using major DevOps tools.
• A good hands-on experience on cloud platform (AWS, and Azure).
• Good understanding of basic software security skills.
• Good command of automation technologies and tools including CI/CD, continuous testing, app performance monitoring, infrastructure settings and configurations.
• Exacting attention to detail, picking up on the details that others miss.
• Intellectually curious.
• Very flexible with great collaboration skills.
• Good communication skills, an ardent listener.
• A strong focus on excellence.
• Ability to plan and prioritize effectively.
• Comfortable working with a team.
• Passionate, driven, and self-motivated.
• A thirst for knowledge and learning.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Exceptional creativity and problem-solving skills.

Compensation
Competitive and commensurate with experience.