Risk and Performance Analyst

Applications Close 31 July 2026

Location

Cape Town, South Africa

Reports To

Head of Operations

Application Criteria

• Bachelor’s or Honours degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Finance or a related field.
• Inclination to complete the CIPM, FRM or CAIA charter.

Experience

• Graduate position to 1-2 years relevant experience.
• Corporate Action exposure would be advantageous.

EE Disclaimer

RisCura complies with the Employment Equity Act and will fill all roles in accordance with our Employment Equity strategy and to the specification of the business area. Applicants who have not heard back from Human Resources within one month of the closing date should consider their application unsuccessful.

Purpose of Job

Providing portfolio investment analysis and reporting services in relation to asset owners, asset managers and service providers.

Key Competencies, Skills and Attributes

• Pays attention to detail
• Safeguards integrity of sensitive client data
• Deals with large quantities of portfolio and market data
• Understanding of portfolio and instrument level information
• Strong analytical skills
• Proficient in Excel, Databricks, Python, SQL and BI tools experience advantageous.
• Exposure to AI tools, automation, coding projects or self- initiated learning is advantageous.
• Good time management, and able to manage deadlines
• Able to work under pressure
• Understands industry trends
• Communicates clearly and politely, both verbally and in writing to clients
• Able to work independently but also be a team player
• Uses initiative, is pro-active and possesses problem solving skills

Monthly/Daily Tasks

Work with the team to:

• Agree and plan work deliverables and priorities.
• Deal with large quantities of portfolio and market data on a daily basis.
• Retrieve, validate, reconcile, analyse and prepare data for daily, monthly and quarterly deliverables.
• Interrogate and analyse data to produce client reports.
• Interpret and analyse report results as input to the advisory services to the client.
• Safeguard the integrity of sensitive client data.
• Manually recalculate and verify statistics.
• Check reports generated by fellow analysts.
• Provide ad hoc analyses and supporting output.
• Respond to report queries when required.

Work with the team to improve work practises:

• Suggesting and generating ideas for improvement of current or development of future technical solutions, tools and platforms.
• Identifying shortcomings in current work methods and processes.
• Contributing to the establishment of in quality management processes.

Manage their own performance and career by:

• Developing career objectives and goals and pursuing it.
• Setting annual work goals and regularly meeting with their line manager to discuss their performance.
• Contributing to knowledge sharing and participation in special projects.

Acting as a corporate citizen and participating in organisational discussions, events and innovation.

Ad hoc analysis.

Key Responsibilities

Risk and Performance responsibilities

Focuses on investment risk analytics and performance measurement to asset managers and asset owners:

• Produce daily and monthly risk and performance deliverables for client portfolios.
• Calculate, verify and interpret performance, attribution and risk statistics at portfolio and instrument level.
• Interpret and analyse report results as input to the advisory services provided to the client.
• Perform quantitative analysis and independent model validation.
• Perform indexation and benchmark construction analysis.
• Understand industry trends in risk and performance measurement and reporting.

Other Key Relationships

• Assist fellow team members within the immediate team.
• Collaborate with RisCura teams.
• Interact with clients.
• Assist analysts responsible for data processing.
• Assist analysts responsible for data management.

Remuneration

Market-related.