Senior Investment Manager – Single Family Office – Jersey, Channel Islands

Senior Investment Manager – Single Family Office – Jersey, Channel Islands

• Are you an Experienced Investment Management professional looking to escape the growing complications of managing a client book to focus on investing?
• Do you have a detailed understanding of / interest in Fixed Income products?
• Are you ready to join a business with a long term attitude, a stable investment thesis and develop your returns as opposed to driving new sales / KPIs from your client book?
• Want to work with a respectful team which recognises the need for Work Life Balance?

Company

OFC Partners are pleased to be working with a significant Single Family Office (assets in excess of £1 billion) which has a well established team in St Helier, Jersey. They are looking to hire a Senior Investment Manager to take ownership of their Fixed Income strategy which forms a significant portion of their asset allocation.

Role

• Invest in financial products such as fixed-income securities, shares and commodities;
• Closely monitor the credit risks inherent in the portfolio;
• Ensure that the portfolio composition is in line with the mandate;
• Deliver an appropriate level of risk-adjusted return, with minimal capital drawdowns;
• Build and maintain good relations with financial service providers and banks;
• Ensure that the management costs (both direct and indirect) are relatively low;
• Work closely together with the other Senior Investment Manager (focussed on a different asset class);
• Supervise the Investment Analyst.

• Advise the board of directors, holders of Ordinary Shares and limited Fund partners regarding the performance of the portfolio and the general market environment;
• Periodically draw up investment mandate proposals for approval by the board of directors, holders of Ordinary Shares and limited Fund partners;
• Advise the board of directors and holders of Ordinary Shares and limited Fund partners on future investment policy.

You

• Identify critical situations in a timely manner and identify an appropriate response.
  • Respond to critical situations in a timely manner;
  • Prevent matters from getting out of hand by taking timely action;
  • Think ahead and assess required actions.
• Building frameworks/models and formulating ideas based on complex information.
  • Devise different scenarios based on the same data;
  • Devise solutions for complex situations;
  • Think outside the box;
  • Arrive at new scenarios when data and/or circumstances change.

• Be aware of socio-political developments or other external influences .
  • Be familiar with external developments relevant to the area of work;
  • Integrate political and/or social developments in everyday activities;
  • Know the trends and developments on the market and their impact on the portfolio/organisation.
• Balancing data and possible actions to arrive at realistic assessments.
  • Have holistic overview and distinguish main points from minor points;
  • Balance data and possible actions against each other;
  • Have strong analytical skills and arrives at realistic assessments;
  • Assess problems from all angles.
• Develop and consolidate relations and alliances inside and outside the organization, using them to obtain information, support and cooperation.
  • Make and maintain contacts with persons and organizations important to their position;
  • Find the right people to get support and cooperation;
  • Use network to achieve goals in a timely manner.

Requirements:

• At least ten years of relevant, hands-on work experience managing a portfolio of an institutional scope;
• Specialist knowledge of investment grade global fixed income or specialism in EUR and USD markets;
• Experienced asset allocator or contributor to asset allocation decisions;
• Knowledge of the following investment instruments: shares, ETFs, and futures;

• High level of professional and intellectual ability, financial management training;
• Excellent knowledge of and experience with Bloomberg and other financial and investment software;
• Extensive experience with quantitative analysis models and model driven investment processes;
• Strategic thinker capable of critically evaluating stakeholder value;
• Team player, happy to work closely with others as part of a small, focussed team;
• Good oral and written skills;
• Strong presentation skills;
• Excellent command of the English language.