Wealth Manager - (SP7) - Capricorn Asset Management- Private Wealth
Listing reference: capgh_000339
Listing status: Online
Apply by: 27 October 2025
Position summary
Industry: Banking
Job category: Asset and Fund Management
Location: Windhoek
Contract: Permanent
EE position: No
Introduction
To deliver a full range of financial services and products to affluent clients who desire the assistance of a credentialed financial advisor in a consultative way. The Wealth Manager should coordinate private banking, short- and long-term insurance, estate planning, fiduciary services, retirement planning, tax professionals and investment management. Must have the ability to perform, implement and review a complete financial needs analysis to the affluent market.
Job description
Key Performance Areas (KPAs)
Knowledge and Investment advice.
- Capricorn Unit Trusts;
- Republic of Namibia Treasury Bills;
- Republic of Namibia Government bonds;
- Selected third party unit trust funds on the Capricorn Investment Platform;
- Investment Linked Living Annuities, Retirement Annuities and Preservation funds on all Namibian insurers’ platforms;
- Offshore investment options on Sanlam Private Wealth investment platform;
- Structured investment products created by Capricorn Asset Management;
- Bank Windhoek investment products.
Customer Focus
- Build long-lasting and trustful relationships with clients.
- Handle any client query and be able to fully assist in client investment needs on all relevant investment or banking systems.
- Willingness and ability to commute to client choice of venue and deliver required investment advice there.
- Make sure all client information is fed into the FNA and that all details are accurate, make recommendations to client and incorporate into FNA & Recording of advice.
- Have the ability to design and implement financial solutions to clients.
- Ensure that clients' needs are met at all times by making sure all business units work together as a team.
- Make sure to obtain all signed documents from client, e.g. Astute, SLA, Broker change, Advice agreement, Fee structure, Proposal.
- Obtain necessary documents for drafting of Wills &Trust Deed.
- Explore customers long-term and short-term insurance needs, obtain quotes, provide suitable proposals and implement solutions.
General
- Keep up to date with the client's life cycle, birthdays, anniversaries, children, hobbies, business interest, new car, new house, travel, etc.
- Retain ownership of customers' request, complaints and applications and keep customer up to date.
- Obtain all relevant documents from client, e.g. ID, marriage certificate, etc.
- Instruct to prepare Wealth File and maintain our copy of the file.
Self-Development
- Be familiar with relevant tools to provide investment advice to enhance investment advice and client understanding.
- Be up to date with all relevant legislation, best practices and compliance regulations.
- Be up to date with all the information and fine details of CUT funds and CPW products and services.
- Be fully aware and up to date of all relevant peer investment options, performance, fees and other critical information.
- Have sufficient knowledge on insurance products and services in order to provide general advice and guidance to clients.
- Constantly work to improve industry knowledge.
- Familiar and high aptitude on various systems including Microsoft Office, Phoenix, Silica, Money Mate and Glacier, Sanport and Sanfin (FNA system).
People Management
- Set clear work objectives and standards for the team - lead by active example;
- Manages the team to ensure that work standards and quality work output targets are achieved and maintained;
- Establishes appropriate, clear and consistent work measures for the area;
- Manages the performance contribution of staff against clear and established measures/ targets;
- Recognize and reward outstanding performance;
- Identify and manage poor performance (in line with the poor performance code) providing an opportunity for corrective steps to be taken to rehabilitate performance;
- Proactively share knowledge, coach and mentor the team;
- Identify strengths and weaknesses and provide staff with the appropriate training to improve skills;
- Actively build and encourage collaborative team relationships to help accomplish team goals; and
- Actively support employment equity by utilizing differences to the benefit of the team and customers. Ensure that all team members and customers are treated with equal respect and dignity.
- Make sure relationship between Wealth Manger, Private Banker, and STI is in line with wants, needs and expectations of client, it should be consistent
Minimum requirements
Experience/Knowledge and Skills
- Be fully informed of all relevant investment product knowledge, availability, performance and current market prices.
- Be able to provide clients with a high level of investment advice taking into consideration all available options and client situation, objective(s) and risk tolerance.
- Ability to create a suitable investment portfolio for clients in line with CAM and general investment norms.
- Draft high quality investment proposals if required in order to generate business.
- Be fully informed of relevant market events, overall economic situation and official CAM house view and have the ability to convey that into client advice.
- Be able to identify prospective clients, attract and offer them relevant investment options and generate business according to predetermined targets.
- Be able to manage and maintain a large book of affluent investors.
- Arrange and perform regular check-up / rebalancing sessions with clients regarding their short-term insurance policy in sync with Welwitschia.
- Ability to design, create and maintain relevant MIS reports.
- Must have extensive knowledge and experience in offering long term insurance advice on both personal and business level.
- Be fully aware of the various long term insurance products and offering available in the market.
- Be able to deliver a complete financial needs analysis to the affluent individual and related business alike.
- Pro-actively identify cross-selling opportunities within existing portfolio of clients and give leads to responsible manager.
Qualifications
- 3yr Relevant Bachelor’s Degree with 8yrs experience within the Financial Planning Industry.
- 3yr Bachelor’s Degree, Post-graduate diploma in Financial Planning and 5 yrs. experience in the Financial Planning Industry.
- Preferably a CFP accreditation required.