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<h3>About us</h3>
<p>Symbiotics is the leading market access platform for impact investing in emerging and frontier markets, offering market research, investment advisory and asset management services. We are regulated by FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority and our daughter company Symbiotics (UK) Ltd has an investment firm license from the FCA in the UK. Symbiotics currently employs 160 people and is headquartered in Geneva, with further offices in Zurich, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Mexico City, Singapore, Cape Town, Delhi and Yerevan. Since 2004, we have invested over USD 6.9bn in more than over 500 microfinance institutions across over 90 emerging and frontier markets, working with more than 62 investment funds and many institutional investors.</p>
<p>We are a fast-growing, market-leading company, offering a dynamic work environment in the growing impact investment space. Our people are our biggest competitive advantage.</p>
<p>We believe that in order to recruit the best professionals all applications must be reviewed equally. For this reason, we will not require personal data such as photos, date of birth or gender to be included on CV applications.</p>
<p><strong>Who we are looking for</strong></p>
<p>We are looking for a Product Development Analyst and who will be working within the Product Development Unit (PDU). You will focus mainly on the Client onboarding. This starts with support to the pre-sales development (including Due Diligence Questionnaires (DDQ) and Request for Proposals (RFP)) as well as the full onboarding of new mandates (mainly sub-funds), third-party AIFMs and ManCos. The Analyst will also support the sales and client relations team of the Clients division with different tasks related to the smooth functioning of the team as well as ad hoc requests from prospective and existing Clients.</p>
<p>The position is based in our Head office in Geneva, with reporting line to the Head of Product Development Unit, reporting to the Head of Asset Management.</p>

About the Job

<p><strong>Product development and support to the sales team</strong></p>
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<li>Answer DDQs and special requests in coordination with the relationship manager in charge of the Clients and the different internal and external stakeholders</li>
<li>Reply or redirect questions asked by Clients relative to the onboarding process</li>
<li>Take part in project management: articulate the process involving all internal (our own divisions) and external (Client&rsquo;s various divisions + possible consultants) stakeholders</li>
<li>Organize on-site visits for prospects and existing Clients (including due diligences), coordinate agenda, review internal presentations and revert to the Client with requested documents</li>
<li>Support the sales team with ad-hoc questions on products, operational setup and value chain</li>
<li>Ensure proper delivery of reporting material by responsible units as well as consistency across units</li>
<li>Produce pipeline simulations and portfolio optimization under constraints</li>
<li>Coordinate external ManCo / AIFM onboarding</li>
<li>Draft contractual agreements and circular resolutions for sub-funds in the context of Alternative Investment Funds domiciled in Luxembourg</li>
<li>Manage the registration of new sub-funds under EU AIFM / Non-EU AIFM regulatory framework</li>
<li>Manage Mifid II / SFDR regulatory reporting frameworks and assist the team to implement new regulatory frameworks and reports into Symbiotics value chain</li>
<li>On-boarding of new operational providers in the context of special projects</li>
<li>Apply systematically all formatting methodologies for all internal and external documents</li>
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Your Qualification

<p>We are looking for a dynamic and well-organized person who is eager to learn, autonomous, and able to work in a dynamic and challenging environment.</p>
<p>More specifically, you :</p>
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<li>3 to 5 years of experience, preferably in the finance industry (Private banking, Institutional asset management etc.) and particularly in a product development or product management function</li>
<li>Good organizational abilities, ability to work on several different tasks, proven project management skills, resistance to stress and a ready to face a potentially irregular workload</li>
<li>Good command of Word, Power Point and Excel.</li>
<li>Learning ability for other portfolio optimization software and Bloomberg</li>
<li>Strong interest in impact investing, and desire to build knowledge of our businesses and markets</li>
<li>Good written and oral communication skills in French and English. German a plus</li>
<li>Swiss/EU National or valid Swiss Work Permit</li>
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Job Offer

<h3>What makes us different?</h3>
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<li>The chance to contribute to improving the lives of people in emerging and frontier countries, to work towards supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals</li>
<li>A flexible work environment with colleagues from 41 countries</li>
<li>The opportunity to become part of a growing business that pushes you to excel every day while having a positive impact on others</li>
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