About the Company

Future Options Consulting is one of the best management consulting firms in Uganda. They focus on offering full human resources solutions, corporate advising services, and programs to improve capacity.

Future Options Consulting was founded to help firms meet their expanding needs for strategic management and operational efficiency. They have earned a good reputation for providing high-quality, customized services that help organizations succeed.

The company does a lot of things, such as hiring and searching for executives, outsourcing HR, training and developing employees, improving organizations, and doing market research.

These services are meant to help businesses get the most out of their employees, boost productivity, and reach their goals.

The team at Future Options Consulting is made up of seasoned individuals that know a lot about the industry. This means that clients get useful and informative answers to their problems.

Future Options Consulting is also known for its creative way of managing talent. They use cutting-edge technologies and methods to find and develop people with a lot of potential within companies.

People really like the company's training programs because they focus on improving skills and helping employees grow professionally. This helps employees at all levels do their jobs better and help their organizations succeed as a whole.

What the Job Is About

Job Title: Operations Assistant Manager

Company: Future Options Consulting

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Summary of the Job: Our client is a corporation that offers a variety of investing services, such as managing private wealth, unit trusts, and funds.

It helps people and businesses invest in several types of assets, such as money market, fixed income, and equities, with the goal of helping them keep and build their wealth.

Roles, Duties, and Responsibilities

The job includes helping the company's operational strategy and making the firm run more smoothly overall.
The holder will be in charge of making sure that business runs well and that services are delivered quickly by making sure that system transactions are posted correctly, payments are processed on time, reports are prepared for the business and for clients, and anything else that needs to be done.
Manage daily fund activities, such as processing trades, reconciling cash and positions, and settling trades.
Work with custodians, fund administrators, agents, and internal teams to fix problems and make sure things are done on schedule.
Check and confirm Net Asset Value (NAV) calculations and make sure that securities are priced correctly.
Help new funds, clients, and investment products get started
Make sure that you follow the rules set by the government and your own company.
To make things go more smoothly and lower risk, review and improve your operational processes and controls.
Make and look over operational reports, dashboards, and MIS for use by the company and the government.
Help with audits, inspections by regulators, and reviews of risks
Talk to portfolio managers, risk, compliance, and finance teams to make sure that all departments are on the same page.
Use best practices in your work and help with process automation or system upgrades.
Make sure that the systems are set up to provide smooth customer service (fixing system support problems)
Support new ideas and tests for support systems to improve performance
Any other tasks that may be given on a daily basis.

Qualifications, Education, and Skills Needed

Bachelor's degree in a field relating to finance, accounting, statistics, quantitative economics, or anything else.

Experience details

At least three (3) years of experience working in operations in fund management or a comparable financial services company.

Skills, knowledge, and abilities

Strong leadership has the ability to encourage teamwork, develop others, and motivate them.
Good communication and presentation abilities, such as the ability to draft reports and gather the right supporting documents.
Excellent people skills and the ability to work with people from different cultures, especially the capacity to form alliances and work together.
Must be able to start things on their own, be very organized, and get along with people at all levels of the company.
Previous experience working with third-party custodians or fund administrators.
Good in analyzing, using numbers, and coming up with new ideas
Good at managing relationships with customers (both inside and outside the company).