Portfolio Manager

About Korbly

Orialles Capital is the asset management arm of the Korbly Ltd, focused on building resilient, high-performing, and ethically-aligned investment platforms in Africa and frontier markets. We operate across liquid and private markets, deploying capital through fixed income, private credit, macro hedge strategies, and infrastructure-aligned funds. Our approach is rooted in first-principles analysis, antifragile design, and rigorous scenario-driven thinking. We serve institutions, sovereigns, and family offices that seek to generate durable value in uncertain environments.

Role Overview

The Portfolio Manager will be responsible for designing, managing, and optimizing multi-asset portfolios with a focus on African sovereign, credit, and macro strategies. This role combines asset allocation, deep fundamental and quantitative analysis, and active portfolio construction across both local currency and foreign-denominated assets. The successful candidate will work within a high-trust, interdisciplinary environment to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns and support the firm’s goal of becoming Africa’s most strategic alternative investment manager.

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio Construction & Management

• Lead portfolio strategy across one or more funds
• Maintain risk-weighted exposure limits, factor models, stress testing scenarios, and market regime diagnostics
• Develop tactical asset allocation overlays, hedging strategies, and liquidity optimization tools across products
• Monitor market conditions, model-driven triggers, and policy regimes to inform rebalancing and capital reallocation

Investment Research & Strategy Development

• Conduct original research on African capital markets, sovereign credit, FX dynamics, commodity linkages, and global macro shifts
• Develop systematic and discretionary investment ideas informed by geopolitical intelligence, economic indicators, and capital flows
• Interface with credit analysts, economists, and external partners to validate assumptions and position-level strategies
• Utilize both top-down macro frameworks and bottom-up issuer analysis in portfolio construction

Fund Development & Product Strategy

• Collaborate with the structuring and legal team to shape fund terms, investor communication, and reporting
• Support design of new fund vehicles and investment themes aligned to regulatory guidelines (SEC Ghana, NPRA, BoG)
• Play a critical role in investor meetings, pitch materials, and LP updates by articulating positioning, risk management, and return expectations

Risk, Operations & Governance

• Ensure portfolios adhere to internal risk policies, regulatory requirements, and fund mandates
• Partner with the operations team to align execution, settlement, and NAV computation
• Maintain clear documentation of investment rationales, backtests, and decisions to support compliance and audit trails

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative discipline; CFA, MBA or advanced degrees preferred
• 5+ years of experience in asset management, macro research, or institutional investment management, ideally with African or emerging markets exposure
• Demonstrated success in managing portfolios or active strategies with a strong grasp of risk-adjusted performance attribution
• Familiarity with fixed income instruments, derivatives, FX products, private credit structures, and frontier market dynamics
• Strong command of modeling tools (Excel, Python, R, or MATLAB); comfort with Bloomberg, Eikon, or similar systems
• Deep intellectual curiosity, high integrity, and the ability to operate with precision in high-stakes environments

Key Attributes We Look For

• Antifragile Thinking: Comfort with ambiguity, volatility, and regime shifts—turning complexity into opportunity
• Systemic Rigor: Ability to think in interdependencies, macro linkages, and quantitative cause-effect loops
• Strategic Imagination: Not just managing risk, but redesigning investment strategies to reshape outcomes
• Execution Discipline: Clear judgment, decisive action, and analytical accountability across time horizons
• Collaborative Edge: Works seamlessly with cross-functional teams, LPs, and sovereign stakeholders

Why Join Korbly

You’ll be part of an elite, purpose-driven team shaping the future of African capital markets. At Korbly, we’re building more than portfolios—we’re building financial institutions designed to endure, empower, and transform Africa.

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