The Opportunity

Orbis is looking for a Receptionist / Administrative Assistant for our Hong Kong office. Competitive salary and benefits.

Responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include, but may not be limited to:

• Reception duties, incl. greeting clients and investee company management teams, and other visitors.
• Providing general office support including handling phone enquiries, deliveries, photocopying, meeting room bookings, stationery reordering, typing, filing, and mail. Crockery and grocery management.
• Calendar management and associated tasks such as booking conference rooms, audio-visual equipment, documentation, and meeting scheduling. Co-ordinating logistics for business trips and team travel arrangements.
• Organising administrative activities for the smooth running of the team and office, including co-ordination with Orbis’ global locations. Assisting in event organisation.

Qualifications

• University degree preferred but not required.
• Up to 5 years’ work experience. Candidates from the hospitality or aviation industries are very welcome to apply.
• Full proficiency in written and spoken English, fluency in Mandarin and Cantonese.
• Ability to think independently. Ability to anticipate needs, work under-pressure and prioritise. Enthusiastic, humble, willingness to learn and a strong work ethic.

Application Instructions

To apply, please send your résumé, along with your answers to the following 3 questions:

1. What motivates you?
2. What are your reasons for wishing to change job/career?
3. Which attributes of Orbis are most appealing to you?

Please limit your answers to one page and submit the application in one combined PDF file. We are only able to respond to successful candidates

About Orbis

Orbis is a privately owned investment firm managing over US$30 billion of assets, with offices across four continents and over 400 staff. We have been creating value for our clients since 1990. Our investment philosophy is fundamental, long-term and contrarian. We are uniquely structured to encourage bold but considered decisions, even in times of stress. As a firm, our business model requires us to deliver meaningful
outperformance to our clients.

At Orbis we take a different approach:

• We are privately owned by our executives and the founding family’s philanthropic foundation. There is no short-term shareholder pressure, and we can make sure we always act in our clients’ long-term interests.
• We have a refundable performance fee structure to maintain a clear alignment of interests with our clients. We refund performance fees paid when we underperform so our success depends on creating and preserving value for clients.
• We believe contrarian investment decisions are best made by individuals, not groups. Our performance attribution system measures each individual analyst’s ability, so only outperformers direct client capital.
• We are willing to go against the herd in our investment decisions, looking for hidden and missed value and having the conviction of applying our strategy rigorously and consistently over time.

We believe it is the things we do differently that make the difference: our flagship global strategy has outperformed its benchmark by 5% per year since inception 32 years ago.

The same applies to our recruitment decisions. We would not be overly focused on prior finance or investing experience. We are looking for exceptional people with a combination of intellectual curiosity, strong analytical skills, sound judgement, and a track record of excellence in their chosen field.

Orbis in Hong Kong
Orbis Investment Management (Hong Kong) Limited is based in Hong Kong and focused on research and investment management in Global Emerging Markets. We are actively growing from our current base of a dozen professionals.