Portfolio Manager

PortfoliosGeneva, Geneva, SwitzerlandFull time

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Description

About us

Symbiotics is the leading market access platform for impact investing in emerging and frontier markets, offering market research, investment advisory and asset management services. We are regulated by FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority and our daughter company Symbiotics (UK) Ltd has an investment firm license from the FCA in the UK. Symbiotics currently employs 160 people and is headquartered in Geneva, with further offices in Zurich, London, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Singapore and Cape Town. Since 2004, we have invested over USD 5bn in more than 400 microfinance institutions across around 80 emerging and frontier markets, working with more than 30 investment funds and many institutional investors.

We are a fast-growing, market-leading company, offering a dynamic work environment in the growing impact investment space.

We believe that in order to recruit the best professionals all applications must be reviewed equally. For this reason, we will not require personal data such as photos, date of birth or gender to be included on CV applications.

We are looking for

You are a Portfolio Manager who will be in charge of managing and developing an African focused fund.

The position is based in our office in Geneva, with reporting line to the Head of the Blended Finance Portfolios unit and support from an Assistant Portfolio Manager. We offer a dynamic work environment in a growing industry and an opportunity to work in the social investment space with a for-profit company.

Job description

• Implement the investment and impact objectives of the fund as determined annually by the Board of Directors


• Prepare the fund's business plan and perform financial performance forecasts


• Coordinate the Fund’s monthly Investment Committees, manage communication with IC members and prepare all IC meeting documentation and minutes


• Liaise and coordinate actively with the Pipeline team to manage the fund’s deal flow (pipeline of deals, IC decisions including special conditions, etc.)


• Liaise with the Investment Operations and Forex teams for the compliance clearance, legal closing, disbursement and currency hedging of each transaction


• Monitor the fund's portfolio diversification and ensure compliance with the Issue Document, Investment Policy and Procedures and other guidelines


• Monitor and manage fund's portfolio risks, including FX, maturity, liquidity, AML/KYC and interest rate risk; develop monitoring tools where required


• Conduct liquidity forecasting, develop proposals for short term cash placements and prepare capital drawdown memos


• Respond to internal and external ad hoc information requests, including Due Diligence from existing and potential public and private investors


• Produce Board meeting related material in connection with all Portfolio management issues.


• Provide input as required to the fund Q3 and Q4 audit processes


• Oversee the production of all fund reports: monthly, quarterly, annual, factsheet, ESR and AML/KYC


• Provide input on other marketing activities (website content, conference material)

Requirements

The ideal candidate is a team player who is highly organized, autonomous, and able to work in a dynamic and challenging environment. Ideally, you have the following qualifications:

• A solid experience related to investments in emerging and frontier markets, with a background in portfolio management, credit risk analysis or deal negotiation and a solid knowledge of accounting (in particular IFRS)


• Highly motivated self-starter with a strong work ethic and a can-do, problem solving attitude


• Willingness to learn with a proactive, structured and independent working style


• Ease at interacting with a multitude of internal and external stakeholders at various seniority levels


• Experience in Sub-Saharan Africa would be advantageous


• Fluent English, other languages (German, French, Spanish) a plus


• Having obtained or in the last stages of obtaining the CFA, CIIA, CAIA or similar qualification


• Swiss/EU national or Valid work permit for Switzerland is required

Benefits

What makes us different?

• The chance to contribute to improving the lives of people in emerging and frontier countries, to work towards supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals


• A flexible work environment with colleagues from 34 countries


• The opportunity to become part of a growing business that pushes you to be your best every day while having a positive impact on others

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