• Develop, implement, and maintain portfolio strategies and processes; monitor performance, including cost, risk, cash flow, and liquidity; and collaborate with other departments, including risk, compliance, and operations.
  
• Develop and execute investment plans and strategies based on trends in financial markets, macroeconomic conditions, and company strategy, and collaborate with other executives in the development of short- and long-term capital allocation plans.
  
• Perform ongoing performance benchmarking to assess investment performance.
  
• Prepare accounting analyses, reports, and prospectuses, including establishing and maintaining accounting policies and procedures; forecasting future cash flows; and resolving accounting discrepancies.
  
• Develop and maintain reporting systems, analyze the results, and present the findings in detailed reports.
  
• Develop and monitor annual operating budgets, including preparing, submitting, and monitoring quarterly forecast adjustments.
  
• Monitor cash requirements and liquidity, including preparation of variance analysis.
  
• Provide oversight and due diligence for existing investment portfolios.
  
• Provide corporate investment policy guidance to the company.
  
• Manage and oversee the investment committee.
  
• Develop and oversee investment policies and procedures.
  
• Advise the board of directors and management on all corporate investment issues.
  
• Propose investment recommendations to senior management.
  
• Evaluate financial plans for new investment opportunities.
  
• Prepare appropriate investment paperwork.
  
• Provide all appropriate and necessary reports to management.
  
• Any other duty as may be assigned by the supervisor.
  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, accounting, or business administration.
  
• 5+ years’ experience managing dedicated or pooled portfolios of investments.
  
• Working with a bank in the same profile will be preferred.
  
• Ability to understand and navigate global markets, and knowledge of equity and fixed-income markets.
  
• Knowledge of financial regulations, accounting practices, and investment strategies.
  
• Experience ideally with an investment practice background.
  
• Experience in managing a finance function in a fast-moving, rapidly growing environment.
  
• Experience in managing across different cultures, and across multiple jurisdictions/time zones due to RI relationships.
  
• Poise and confidence to operate at the board level.
  
• Eye for detail and diligence to ensure the accuracy of systems and processes.
  
• Proven ability to drive efficiency and process reviews across an international organization.
  
• Commercially astute individual, capable of strategic thinking and sound judgment.
  
• Excellent analytical, communication, and influencing skills.
  
• Understanding of Tanzania tax regime preferred.
  
• Conversant with financial reporting requirements and ability to prepare reliable & accurate reports, analyze and interpret.
  
• Basic knowledge of applicable, Taxation Laws and other applicable laws/regulations.
  
• Knowledge of data analytics, forecasting methods, and MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.).
  
• Analytical mind and comfortable with numbers.
  
• Ability to deliver/ complete assignments timely.
  
• Good communication and people skills.
  
• Honest, confident, and have high integrity.
  
• Fluent in English and Swahili.
  
• Reliable and ethical with a high degree of integrity.
  
• Able to get on with others and be a team player.