Senior Associate - Equities at Centum

Job Brief

Nabo Capital, a subsidiary of Centum seeks to recruit a Senior Associate to support the distribution team in originating and onboarding prospective clients as well as servicing existing institutional clients.

Principal Accountabilities

1. Direct AUM mobilization:

• Identify and profile target institutional clients  to gain an understanding of their investment strategy across frontier and emerging markets .
• Prepare investment proposals and provide supporting investment – related material to be used by the sales team in pitching to institutional clients .
• Prepare goal - based financial plans to address needs such as education, lifestyle, home ownership, retirement etc. for individual clients .

2. Content Generation:

• Brand visibility: prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly publications for circulation to our target clients covering topics such as market performance, asset class performance and various macroeconomic events/ indicators across Africa.
• Video content: prepare and package investment -related material for generation of video content to be used in promoting brand visibility .
• Investment advisory: package investment deals identified by the investment team for circulation to our target clients with an aim of triggering funding .
• Other content: prepare investment related marketing collateral to be used by the marketing team during events such as investor clinics, investment brochures.

3. Client Servicing

• Prepare and present macroeconomic outlook and investment pe r formance reports for our institutional clients.

4. Risk and Compliance

• Work with investment manager, risk, legal and operations teams to monitor investment guideline compliance .
• Adhere and remain up to date on regulatory developments covering capital markets across Africa .

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Financial Economics, Financial Engineering, Finance, Actuarial Science, or related background.
• Possess professional qualification (CFA, ACCA, CAIA, CQF, CPA).
• Good analytical and quantitative reasoning. 
• Relevant 3 years’ work experience in an investment management environment.
• Strong organizational and time management skills -ability to adhere to deadlines, multi-task and be able to prioritize.
• Entrepreneurial spirit with demonstrated creativity & innovation in business.

Nabo Capital is an Equal Opportunity Employer