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Investment Service Consultant | Retail Client Services

Job Title

Investment Service Consultant | Retail Client Services

Description

The Investment Service Consultant role is a permanent position suitable for recent graduates with less than 2 years of work experience. 

Job Summary

Why should you consider Allan Gray?

At Allan Gray, you will spend your days doing meaningful and engaging work with smart, inspiring colleagues. Our steadfast commitment to long-term investing extends to our people, and we embrace diversity and offer a supportive work environment. We provide performance-based financial rewards and encourage your career and skills development. Growth is an essential part of your journey at Allan Gray. Therefore, our leaders are accessible to help you develop and set you up for a long-term career. Your physical and mental well-being are top priorities, and we provide access to services and platforms to support you in these areas.

Purpose of the role

Our Client Service Centre is integral to our service offering for clients and independent financial advisers. As an Investment Service Consultant, your purpose will be to build clients’ and advisers’ trust and confidence through providing world-class service.

Our consultants do impactful work by empowering our clients on their investment journey. You will gain in-depth knowledge of Allan Gray’s range of products and develop the necessary skills to confidently communicate with and educate our clients.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide excellent service to investors, potential investors and independent financial advisers via our various servicing channels, i.e. inbound calls and emails, face-to-face interactions.
• Build trust and confidence by explaining our investment philosophy and long-term approach to investing.
• Educate clients by sharing product and fund knowledge and empower them to make informed investment decisions.
• Take end-to-end ownership of transactions and ensure accurate record-keeping.
• Actively participate in the organisation’s drive towards continuous improvement by contributing to solutions to client problems.

Skills and Competencies

• This role is suited to individuals who are highly performance driven and seek new challenges.
• A growth mindset and resilience are key attributes to successfully navigate the ever-changing needs of clients and the financial services industry.
• The role requires high adaptability, vigour and agility.
• Our consultants need to be empathetic and client focused.  
• Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential.
• The ability to deal with complexity in a high-pressure environment, analytical thinking, attention to detail and problem-solving ability are crucial to ensure we always do what is best for clients.
• A genuine passion for people and a commitment to service excellence are vital to building long-term and meaningful relationships with our clients.
• Consistently strong academic record. 

Qualifications

• A completed or currently completing a Bachelors of Commerce or Business Science degree
• Specialisations in Finance, Economics, Investment Management, Statistics and related fields will be considered

Location

Cape Town

Relocation assistance provided for successful hires outside of CPT (Ts & Cs Apply).

Closing Date

30 April 2026

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Backend Developer

Job Summary

Allan Gray is looking for talented developers who are willing to help us in building out our microservices architecture in developing complex and integrated backend APIs that solve vital problems and provide cutting-edge features to the business.

This opportunity also allows you to form part of a DevOps team where you will get to explore all aspects of web application architecture, solution design, scaling and testing. 

At Allan Gray, we are constantly looking for better ways of doing things, so if you can bring a willingness and excitement to find innovative solutions in a performance-driven environment that will allow you to play with the latest and great technologies, then we may just be perfect for you.   

As a key member of our team, you will work alongside the product owner, business analysts, senior developers and testers in order to deliver high performance enterprise grade applications.  

We have adopted a Microservices architecture with RESTful API’s predominantly written in Scala, with some built in Go. Our Microservices are built and deployed on an elastic containerized infrastructure supported and managed on premises through Kubernetes.  

Job Responsibilities

    Analyse and design new features
    Write elegant robust code
    Write unit, integration and acceptance tests for all components
    Write build and deployment automation scripts
    Improve and optimize the performance of existing systems
    Troubleshoot and root-cause errors
    Mentor other developers
    Deliver features timeously
    Drive innovation and improvement in our tech stack
    Collaborate with multiple third-party vendors to deliver technical solutions

Requirements

    At least 4 years’ worth of professional development experience
    Since we are a multi-technology environment, knowledge of computer science fundamentals in object oriented design, data structures and algorithms are a necessity
    Strong software design skills
    Proficiency in more than one modern programming language. It is beneficial if you have experience in one dynamically typed language such as JavaScript, Python or Ruby and one statically typed language such as Go, Scala, Java or C++.
    Proficiency in a database technology such as SQL Server, MySQL or PostgreSQL
    Knowledge of one or more modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Vue, or Angular and Typescript would be beneficial.
    Experience in distributed computing and building enterprise-wide systems
    Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes and testing

Attributes

    Good interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types and deal with conflict in an effective way
    Ability to work individually and with teams within an Agile context
    Experience in influencing best practices within teams

Education

    Tertiary Qualification in computer science, computer engineering, information systems or related technical discipline

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Scrum Master

Job Description

This is an opportunity to work in a large IT department with about 20 teams. 

You’ll be surrounded by people who are passionate about creating long term wealth for our clients, and believe that world class service is critical to customer success. 

We appreciate someone that is pragmatic and knows when to push for process improvement or let the team experiment and fail in a safe manner. Many of our teams have been doing Scrum or Kanban, some have even chosen parts of Agile processes that work for them, it is not one size fits all. The candidate should be able to engage with teams to either re-establish Scrum practises or assist them in Process design to achieve buy-in and help the team be effective.

The candidate will work with a high degree of autonomy and will need to engage not only with the team but also with stakeholders outside the team to drive continuous improvement.

You will not be alone, we currently have a team of Scrum Masters that you can co-facilitate, co-coach, pair on anything to help achieve a team’s goals.

We believe Scrum Masters can influence broader than one or two teams and we encourage implementation of improvement themes across the department

Responsibilities

    Organise and help execute the Scrum framework: Scrum meetings (i.e. daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, planning sessions) and metrics (burndown charts, predictability metrics) 
    Assist the product owner in prioritisation and scheduling of work, to meet agreed delivery time frames
    Make sure that all the team members understand their roles and fulfil them to the best of their ability
    Guide/coach/mentor the development team to take on the responsibilities of the process and the ownership of the product – lead team to a self-organised state
    Identify and facilitate the resolution of identified impediments 
    Helps the team in its use of Scrum and Agile practices by motivating the team and reminding the team of its goals and how they choose to meet them

Skills and Competencies

    Strong communication, coaching and facilitation skills 
    Flexible, resilient, energetic and have an adaptive leadership style 
    Influential. Able to exert influence without authority inside and outside the team 
    Strong logical thinking and deductive reasoning 
    Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills 
    Self-motivated and the ability to motivate others 
    Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types and deal with conflict in an effective way. 
    Collaborative. Works to ensure a collaborative culture exists within the team 
    Highly observant and an expert at root cause analysis 
    Committed and responsible: Take responsibility without assuming any authority that might be useful in achieving it. 
    Humble and lead through Servant Leadership. Recognize the value in all team members and by example lead others to the same opinion.
    Experience in dealing with all levels of business essential

Experience

    Understanding of SDLC
    Experience in dealing with all levels of business essential
    3 – 5 years Scrum Master experience 
    2+ years’ IT industry experience essential

Qualifications

    Tertiary qualification 
    Scrum certification

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Business Analyst | Namibia

About The Company

Allan Gray is an investment management firm focused on building long-term wealth for our clients. Allan Gray Namibia follows a highly integrated approach to managing its client’s funds, which allows the firm to leverage off the skills and more than fifty (50) years’ experience of the Allan Gray Group and Orbis. We consider our ability to draw on these resources and interact with the various teams as an integral part of our success in delivering global investment solutions to Namibian clients and developing world class Namibian investment professionals. We always put our clients’ interests first. We try to build our clients’ trust and confidence in us through offering excellent client service and focus on long-term absolute performance. Every service interaction needs to reinforce the trust that our clients have in us.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The Business Analyst will be responsible for ensuring professional service delivery to the firm’s client base. The role will focus on two core areas. Firstly, in-depth research and analysis relating to our investment portfolios, institutional clients, consultants, retail distribution channels and the regulatory environment. Secondly, the Business Analyst will assist in the growth of the firm through identifying new opportunities. The successful candidate must have a strong and demonstrable interest in Allan Gray and Orbis investment research, portfolios, institutional and retail operations and offerings. The role will a solid grounding in the asset management industry. Preference will be given to Namibian citizen candidates

Job Description

Key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

•    Gain an excellent working knowledge of the firm’s domestic and international portfolios.

•    Complete detailed data, systems, and process analysis to improve understanding of products, portfolios, and capital markets, and to support projects related to the client experience.

•    Support the institutional and retail client servicing and investment teams in developing and presenting client report-backs, intermediary focussed presentations and attending prospective client, consultant and intermediary due diligence meetings.

•    Assist in preparing quarterly commentaries, investor education material, and other client communications.

•    Respond to client/consultant/intermediary queries, tenders, and due diligence reports in a detailed, accurate and timely manner. 

•    Assist in the growth of the firm’s institutional and retail client base. Develop and successfully execute business and product development plans.

•    To manage and develop relationship with existing and potential clients, consultants/intermediaries as well as other distribution channels

•    To build and cultivate a network of relationships across Allan Gray and Orbis businesses. The client servicing team works closely with internal stakeholders such as legal, compliance, trading, performance, and portfolio administration teams.

•    To perform relevant market/industry research.

•    Gain an understanding of the firm’s regulatory requirements, legislative environment and interact with NAMFISA, RFIN, NASIA and others. The Business Analyst will be expected to identify and understand core financial services legislation to maintain the firm’s operating licenses and contribute to the development of new legislation and regulations.

•    Accurately generate and interpret data (including performance and risk analyses), clearly communicate insights, and recommend solutions.

•    Participate in institutional business processes to ensure smooth running of day-to-day client functions and proactively identify improvement opportunities relating to systems and operations.

•    Perform other duties that may reasonably assist in the efficient operations of Allan Gray Namibia.

Personal Competencies

•    Proficiency in Microsoft Office

•    Excellent problem-solving skills.

•    Ability to research, analyse, synthesise and present information in a meaningful manner. Excellent attention to detail.

•    Excellent verbal and written communication skills including, ability to articulate oneself clearly, public speaking and ability to facilitate group discussions.

•    Excellent ability to liaise and deal with the complexity of different types of clients.

•    Energetic, flexible, passionate about people, uses initiative, and be willing to go the extra mile. 

•    Tenacious and performance driven.

•    Self-motivated, individually accountable, innovative, action-oriented and goal-oriented. 

•    Ability to work under stress, while retaining composure and focus. 

•    Good organisational skills with the ability to cope with shifting priorities and function independently. Ability to work independently as well as within a team.

•    The highest standards of personal integrity and ability to maintain confidentiality is essential.

Qualifications

•    Relevant Business/Commerce degree; specialisation in accounting, actuarial, economics, investments, finance, statistics or similar. If the undergraduate degree is in another field, the candidate must demonstrate a strong interest in investments.

•    Additional postgraduate/professional qualifications would be advantageous.

Experience and Requirements

•    Relevant Business/Commerce degree; specialisation in accounting, actuarial, economics, investments, finance, statistics or similar. If the undergraduate degree is in another field, the candidate must demonstrate a strong interest in investments.

•    Additional postgraduate/professional qualifications would be advantageous.

Closing Date

15 April 2026

Location

Windhoek, Namibia

Please include copies PDF of your O-Level or AS Level certificate and university transcripts with your application. 

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IT Risk Analyst | Risk

Role summary

We are seeking a capable and motivated IT Risk Analyst to join our Risk team. The role focuses on identifying, assessing, and helping manage technology-related risks across the organisation. The position sits at the intersection of technology, data, and business operations. It requires someone who enjoys understanding how systems, data, and processes interact within a complex organisation, and who can translate that understanding into meaningful risk insights.

The successful candidate will work closely with technology, security, and operational teams, building an understanding of the organisation’s systems, data architecture, and key business processes. The role requires thoughtful analysis, sound judgement, and the ability to raise questions or concerns in a constructive and collaborative way.
As technology evolves rapidly, including developments in areas such as artificial intelligence, the role will also contribute to the team’s evolving approach to technology and AI risk governance. The position offers broad exposure to technology risk within a financial services environment and provides an opportunity to grow into deeper expertise over time.

How We Think About Risk

In our environment, effective risk management requires more than the application of frameworks and controls. It requires curiosity about how systems and processes interact, thoughtful analysis, and the ability to form balanced judgements in situations where there are rarely simple answers. While the role has a strong focus on IT-related risk, the successful candidate must adopt a broader enterprise risk perspective and actively contribute to general risk management initiatives across the business.
We value individuals who take the time to understand how things work, who ask insightful questions, and who continuously develop their understanding as technology, regulation, and the broader business environment evolve.

Key responsibilities

–    Identify, assess, and monitor IT and technology-related risks across the organisation.
–    Support the development and maintenance of the organisation’s technology risk framework, policies, and controls.
–    Work with technology, security, and operational teams to understand systems, processes, and controls and identify potential areas of risk.
–    Develop an understanding of how core systems and data architecture support key business processes, including fund operations and fund accounting.
–    Translate complex technical issues into clear and practical risk insights for stakeholders.
–    Conduct risk assessments relating to technology initiatives, systems, and third-party service providers.
–    Track and monitor remediation actions arising from risk assessments and control reviews.
–    Monitor developments in emerging technologies and contribute to the team’s understanding of how these may affect the organisation’s risk landscape.
–    Contribute to the development of risk approaches relating to new technologies, including artificial intelligence.
–    Prepare and contribute to monthly and quarterly risk reporting to management and governance forums.
–    Willing and able to contribute to broader risk initiatives beyond IT-related incidents and assessments, including cross-functional and strategic risk projects.
–    Promote a constructive risk culture through thoughtful engagement and well-considered challenge.

Qualifications and experience

–    Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Risk Management, Audit, Finance, Engineering, or a related field. 
–    4 –10 years of relevant experience in IT risk, technology risk, information security risk, IT audit, or a related field.
–    Experience in financial services or another regulated environment is advantageous.
–    Demonstrated understanding of IT systems, technology environments, or technology-related risk.
–    Familiarity with IT control or risk frameworks such as COBIT, ISO 27001, or NIST is advantageous.
–    Professional certifications such as CISA, CRISC, CISSP, CISM or similar are advantageous.  
–    Advantageous: Fluency in a coding language such as SQL or Python, with the ability to interrogate data independently. 
–    Advantageous: Proven experience using Power BI (or similar BI tools) to build dashboards and risk reporting packs.
–    Experience in data analysis and presentation for reporting purposes (e.g., trend analysis, incident reporting, risk dashboards, executive-level reporting).
–    Advantageous: Demonstrated experience engaging with artificial intelligence technologies, including evaluating or using AI tools, and an ability to assess and articulate the related risk implications.

Competencies and attributes

–    Strong analytical thinking: Able to interpret and synthesise large volumes of information, identify patterns, and distil meaningful insights. 
–    Strong data literacy, including the ability to extract, manipulate and analyse data for risk monitoring and reporting purposes. Ability to translate complex data into clear, decision-useful insights for management and governance forums.
–    Conceptual and systems thinking: Able to understand how systems, data, and processes interact and identify risks across interconnected environments.
–    Problem solving: Comfortable working through complex or ambiguous issues and identifying practical solutions.
–    Continuous learning mindset: Demonstrates intellectual curiosity and a proactive approach to staying informed on emerging technologies, regulatory developments, and industry trends. Shows a strong ability to learn new tools, technologies, and concepts and apply them effectively in practice.
–    Technology literacy: Comfortable engaging with technology teams and able to understand core IT concepts, systems, and architecture in order to interpret technology-related risks.
–    Understanding of data environments: Able to develop a working understanding of data architecture, data flows, and data structures.
–    Business and operational awareness: Able to understand how technology and data support operational processes, including areas such as fund operations and fund accounting.
–    Constructive influence: Builds credibility through strong thinking and delivery and engages stakeholders with thoughtful, well-timed challenge that supports sound decision-making.
–    High emotional intelligence: Builds strong relationships and engages stakeholders in a collaborative and respectful manner.
–    Portfolio and workload management: Structured, disciplined, and reliable in independently managing multiple risk portfolios or workstreams simultaneously, while maintaining oversight and consistent follow-through.
–    Proactive mindset: Anticipates issues and takes initiative to improve risk visibility and control effectiveness.
–    Willingness to develop a foundational understanding of business continuity and organisational resilience concepts, in order to contribute meaningfully to integrated risk assessments that consider IT dependencies and operational resilience.

Attributes:

–    Intellectually curious with a strong desire to continuously learn and improve.
–    Able to process complexity and bring clarity to ambiguous situations.
–    Thoughtful and balanced in forming judgements.
–    Collaborative and approachable while maintaining independence of thought.
–    Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
–    Comfortable operating in a demanding, performance-driven environment.
–    Comfortable working across operational, regulatory and strategic risk themes.
–    Adaptable and flexible, comfortable operating in a continuously evolving environment where priorities may shift, while maintaining discipline, structure, and follow-through.

Application details

The role is based at 1 Silo, V&A, Cape Town.

Closing date: 01 April 2026

Please include your Matric certifcate and University transcripts with your application.

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Specialist | Retail Operations | Life & Retirement Operations 

Job Description

We are looking for a detail-oriented and client-focused individual to join our Death Validations team within the Retail Division. This role involves managing death notifications and validating claims across Life and Discretionary products. The successful candidate will ensure accurate, timely, and diligent processing of instructions received from beneficiaries, executors, and independent financial advisers (IFAs). 

This position requires strong process and systems knowledge, excellent client service skills, and the ability to resolve queries efficiently. 

Responsibilities

• Validate and verify death notification documents. 
• Process death claim instructions for Life products (AGLA, AGEN, AGTF). 
• Ensure all instructions are complete and ready for processing by relevant administration teams. 
• Communicate with beneficiaries, executors, and IFAs regarding instructions and outstanding requirements. 
• Process claims within defined service level agreements (SLAs). 
• Contribute to process improvements to enhance efficiency and mitigate risk (including fraud prevention). 
• Handle queries and provide support to beneficiaries, executors, and IFAs. 
• Consulting with internal stakeholders such as Legal, Tax, Compliance, and other departments. 
• Maintain accurate records of all interactions using Siebel. 
• Participate in ad hoc duties and projects as required. 

Requirements

• Strong case management and organizational skills. 
• Ability to work well under pressure with minimal supervision. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication. 
• Team player with a proactive and self-motivated approach. 
• High attention to detail and accuracy. 
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills. 
• Trustworthy, responsible, and diligent. 
• Effective time management and prioritization. 
• Methodical and structured work ethic. 
• Sound judgment and discretion. 
• Strong knowledge management and documentation skills.

Education

• Matric and a relevant business or commerce degree (or equivalent experience). 

• Minimum of 12 months’ experience within Allan Gray Retail Operations. 

• Solid understanding of Life, Offshore, and Discretionary products. 

• Proficient in systems such as Siebel and FlexCube. 

Location

Cape Town.

Closing Date

2 April 2026.

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Test Analyst III | Institutional IT | Client Servicing Domain

Job Summary

We are looking for a self-motivated individual to join the Institutional IT team as a test analyst in delivering quality software that will create an exceptional user experience for our end-users. 

Allan Gray Institutional IT team consists of appr. 65 members, covering a range of skills and responsibilities including Domain Owners, Development Manager, Architect, Business Analysts, Developers (.NET and SQL) and IT Operations. The team operates with four business-aligned domains (Front Office, Middle Office, Fund Operations and Client Servicing). 
Additionally, the Tech domain and IT Operations teams support the business-aligned domains.

What you can expect: You will work predominantly within the Client Services Domain performing functional and regression testing as well as resolving production defects. 

Please note: This is a Cape Town based role and you will be required to be in office for a minimum of 3 days / week, with a Monday and Thursday as compulsory.  

Job Responsibilities

    Extracting test requirements for user stories, 
    Designing and creating test cases, 
    Estimating effort for testing tasks, 
    Manual testing of applications, which includes front-end, system integration, regression, and end-to-end as well as exploratory testing, 
    Managing and maintaining manual regression test suites, 
    Product risk mitigation, thereby limiting defects in production, 
    Collaborating closely with developers and business analysts in identifying, logging, and verifying defects in a defect tracking system, 
    Collaborating with other teams in INST IT for integration testing. 
    Assist in production support issues and queries.
    Liaise with IT Ops and other Domains for support to resolve or assist with fixes.
    Continuous improvement initiatives specifically with regard to quality and performance

Skills and experience required

    Attention to detail, 
    Data analysis and reporting skills, 
    Good verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills, 
    Ability to: 
       o    Manage own time and get tasks done, 
       o    Grasp concepts and understand the systems being tested, 
       o    Deal with complexity, 
       o    Deal with high variability of work and context switching, 
       o    Be comfortable with a fair amount of unpredictability in daily tasks.
       o    Resolve issues and overcome obstacles
       o    Able to engage with others to gather information

Education

    4 years test experience 
    Basic SQL skills
    Relevant Business/ Commerce/ IT degree. 
    Testing fundamentals training / Test certification would be advantageous.
    Exposure to Agile methodologies (e.g. SCRUM) would be advantageous

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Consultant | Retail Operations

Join Our Retail Operations Team

We’re looking for motivated, client-focused individuals to join of our dynamic Retail Operations Team.

If you’re passionate about delivering exceptional service and thrive in a fast-paced environment, we’d love to hear from you.

About the company

Allan Gray is Africa’s largest privately-owned investment management company, managing more than R500bn of assets. We are focused on generating long-term wealth for our clients, who include individuals, retirement funds, insurers, trusts, companies and foundations. They invest through our focused range of unit trusts, retirement products and life insurance investment pools or in segregated portfolios across both the Institutional and Retail business. Our headquarters are in Cape Town, with additional offices across South Africa, as well as in Guernsey, Namibia and Botswana.

Why should you consider Allan Gray?

Our steadfast commitment to long-term investing extends to our people, our greatest assets. You will spend your days doing meaningful work and engaging with smart, inspiring colleagues. Growth is an essential part of your journey at Allan Gray, and leaders are accessible to help you develop your skills and set you up for success. Your physical and mental well-being are priorities, and access to services to support you in these areas are provided.

Purpose of the role

The position is within the Retail Operations division, an area responsible for processing transactions from clients and independent financial advisers, as well as providing administrative support for the firm’s retail investment offering.

The purpose of the role is to ensure the high service standard at Allan Gray is maintained through building strong client relationships and delivering excellent client service to our clients and independent financial advisers. You will be responsible for ensuring all incoming instructions are responded to and processed and any pending instructions are followed up on. You will report to a team leader, which requires you to work actively within a team but also independently.

Responsibilities

• Checking and accurately processing all incoming or pending instructions. These include:
• New business transactions, e.g. opening a new investment account
• Existing business transactions, e.g. where a client adds or withdraws money or makes changes to their investment
• Providing clients and advisers with a superior level of client service through call and email communications, e.g. responding on time and diligently to all requests from clients, advisers and internal business teams
• Maintaining accurate record-keeping on internal systems of all interactions with clients and advisers
• Knowledge of various legislative requirements relating to investment products
• Supporting members of your team and the team leader, e.g. assisting with technical queries, workflow and processes

Job Specification

• Relevant Business Degree and/or Job-Related Experience
• Sound knowledge of the Life Insurance industry (including Pension Funds) and/or the Unit Trust industry would also be an advantage

Key Attributes and Competencies

• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Excellent time management skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Client-focused with strong verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivated and agile with the ability to function well under pressure
• Intermediate computer literacy skills in Microsoft Word or Excel

Location

The Silo Office, Cape Town

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We wish you all the best with your applications