Reporting to the COO, this role is responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable legislation, including JSE and A2X Exchange Rules & Directives, as well as assist the Board to ensure adherence to internal policies and procedures.
Prescient Fund Services is a leading technology driven Fund Administration Service provider. As part of the Trade Management team your role is to support this strategy and ensure exceptional delivery to the client through effective team leadership and delivery in the Trade Management/Settlements team.
The DevOps Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure and automation pipelines that support the development, deployment, and monitoring of software and data solutions. This role is critical in enabling continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), improving system reliability, and ensuring scalable, secure, and efficient operations across the engineering and data science teams.
The Performance Analyst plays a critical supporting role to the Investment team by maintaining and developing the performance systems and databases. This includes ensuring the accuracy and integrity of performance calculations and attribution analysis across all funds, classes, benchmarks, and composites. In addition to performance and attribution responsibilities, the role requires close collaboration with various stakeholders, including the Client Solutions and Business Development teams, to support reporting, client servicing, and strategic initiatives across the business.
The candidate will be part of the Bonds team, with exposure to all aspects of interest-bearing research. In this senior-level role, you will take ownership of research, analysis, and strategic recommendations on interest bearing markets using both fundamental and quantitative techniques.
The Head of Compliance will lead the compliance function for PFS Group in South Africa, including Prescient Management Company (MANCO), ensuring adherence to all applicable South African regulatory frameworks, including the Collective Investment Schemes Control Act (CISCA), Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act (FAIS), Financial Intelligence Centre Act (FICA), Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), and other regulatory requirements applicable to the PFS Group (SA). This individual will ensure that the company maintains its regulatory licences, promotes a culture of compliance, and proactively manages regulatory risk.
We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Risk Manager to join our dynamic team. This mid-level role is ideal for a candidate with a strong foundation in financial services risk management and a desire to grow within a fast-paced, evolving environment. The successful candidate will play a key role in developing the risk function across a range of investment products and operational areas.
This is a key compliance function with the responsibilities to cover a number of compliance requirements, including FAIS, S13B of the Pension Funds Act and the FICA, for both Prescient Fund Services and Prescient Management Company. A great opportunity suited to an experienced regulatory Compliance Officer.
To lead, support and strengthen the operational environment at PFS by managing fund and client onboarding, overseeing transitions, driving client-driven changes, and championing process and technology improvements to enable scalable growth.
The Transfer Agency Client Service team aims to provide excellent levels of client service to all investors in a timely and accurate manner. Recognising its key position as the conduit between the client and the broader Prescient Fund Services operational teams. As part of the onboarding function of the broader client service team you will be responsible for performing all duties relating to the client onboarding process for individuals and legal entities.
Prescient Fund Services (PFS) is a registered section 13B administrator and supplies administration services in respect of Life Policies and Retirement Funds. These Policies and Retirement Funds provide investors with access to a range of investment options. The role of Life Pooled Fund Administrator is to take responsibility for all processing and client service activities relating to Life Pooled Funds and policies.
The Life and Retirement team aims to provide excellent levels of client service to all policyholders and members in a timely and accurate manner. The team’s focus is to provide the highest level of administration services, act with integrity and ethical standards in all interactions with clients and colleagues. We are committed to continuously striving to improve our services.
Manage money market and enhanced cash portfolios in line with Prescient’s philosophy and process, with a focus on delivering on portfolio return objectives. Be a custodian of and continually re-define the cash and income philosophy and process. Develop implementable investment strategies that generates alpha and ensures the successful management of portfolios by analyzing and interpreting global economics, interest bearing markets, derivatives and currencies. Work very closely with the traders / implementation specialists to ensure that cash sweeping and investment are optimal across Prescient’s entire portfolio range. Follow a collaborative team approach that adheres to the Prescient value framework.
To perform an end-to-end fund accounting role as part of the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) Accounting team. This role has a strong client reporting focus with a specific focus on segregated/institutional mandates.
The Payroll and Talent Reporting Analyst plays a key role in overseeing all aspects of the payroll process and ensuring accurate employee reporting. In this role you will need to have a comprehensive understanding of payroll systems and processes as well as accounting principles to assist in enhancing current payroll and HR / Talent reporting processes. This is an exciting newly created position offering excellent challenge and growth. Experience as a Sage 300 People consultant will also be considered as highly advantageous for this role.
The Prescient Senior IT Support Systems Engineer will play a critical role in maintaining, optimizing, and improving the organization's IT systems and infrastructure. This position involves providing advanced technical support, troubleshooting complex system issues, and ensuring the stability and security of software, hardware, and network systems. The engineer will also lead projects, mentor junior staff, and collaborate with stakeholders to meet organizational goals effectively.
Part of the Client Delivery team, this role works closely with the Head of Business Development in all aspects relating to business development and new client engagement The Business Development Manager must drive business growth through implementing business development activities in the fund services market in accordance with the organisational sales targets and strategies.
The candidate will be part of the Credit team responsible for the Prescient Credit funds. To utilise PIM credit philosophy process by employing quantitative analysis in asset selection, pricing and managing of credit portfolio.
Our vision is to be our customers' first and most trusted partner and have the ability to provide strategic, operational, customizable, creative, effective and professional legal and risk mitigation to the Prescient Group.
The role of the Business Development Manager is to ensure business growth through business development activities in the institutional market in accordance with the organisational strategy. Plan, direct and manage business development and client management activities as well as trustee education. This key resource will work closely with institutional investors, consultants, prospects and clients. You are a ‘hunter’ with the strong ability to attract, retain and grow new and existing business.
For any queries, please contact our Head of Talent Management, Joanne Meyer via email at joanne.meyer@prescient.co.za.
If you are a final year or recent graduate studying in a Financial, Economical, Business or related field, then our Prescient Graduate Program might interest you.
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