Assistant Operations Analyst

**Description**:
Betashares Direct is an investing platform designed and operated by Betashares to help customers build wealth. Betashares is seeking an enthusiastic, self-motivated university graduate or penultimate year student to join the Betashares Direct operations team as an Assistant Operations Analyst.

This is a fantastic opportunity to accelerate your career in operations and work alongside an experienced, collaborative, and high-performing operations team in our fast-growing business. The role will provide you with the opportunity to build knowledge and start a rewarding career in one of the most innovative and progressive financial services companies in Australia.

In this role, you will work closely with other members of the team (and broader business) and report into the Investment Operations Manager for Betashares Direct. Your core responsibility will be to learn and provide support across all aspects of operations. This is a fantastic opportunity to work alongside an experienced, collaborative, and high performing team in our fast-growing business. You’ll play an integral role in bringing our strategy to life.

**Role Responsibilities**:

- Custody, cash processing & settlement oversight.
- Processing of customer transfer requests and liaising with broker counterparties
- Trading & execution oversight.
- Review of daily/monthly checks & reconciliations.
- Corporate action processing & oversight.
- Support Betashares AML transaction monitoring activities.
- Tax & Financial Accounts preparation for the scheme and its customers.
- Generation of Betashares Direct regulatory reporting.

**Skills & Experience**:

- Curiosity to learn with a proactive attitude and ambition to progress your career.
- Detailed oriented with the ability to think in a structured and analytical manner.
- Tertiary qualified or near qualified in an Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, or other relevant discipline.
- Genuine interest in financial markets and good understanding of investment products is essential.
- Curiosity to explore and adopt technology to improve process efficiency and reduce risk (experience in SQL, Python is desirable).
- Excellent verbal and written communication.

**Reasons To Join Us**:
**What We Offer**

Betashares believes our most important asset is our people and we are proud of the culture we have built - but we are always striving to be better. We want every Betashares employee to be doing their best work and developing their careers. In addition to a competitive salary, we also offer:

- Continuous career development and training opportunities
- Access to a health and wellbeing platform with physical, mental, social and financial support programs available.
- Volunteering days off, so you can contribute to a cause that matters to you.
- Conveniently located CBD offices with fully stocked kitchens, team breakfasts and catered lunches on a regular basis.
- Fun and inclusive social events.

**Our Values**

As our business continues to grow, we’re committed to creating a workplace that gives us all the best opportunity to succeed, and that is enjoyable to be a part of. We prize ambition and drive, but equally we value honesty and humility.

We support each other, and we respect our clients and our competitors. Innovation is in our DNA, and we are always looking for better ways to do things and are willing to take measured risks and learn from our mistakes along the way.

**About Betashares**:
Betashares was founded in 2009 and launched with the vision to create intelligent and accessible investment solutions for Australian investors. Over the past decade our dedication to helping Australian investors achieve their financial goals has seen Betashares grow from ‘challenger’ to market leader, driving disruption and innovation in the exchange traded funds (ETFs) industry.

Betashares offers the broadest range of exchange traded funds on the ASX and is trusted by over a million investors. As of October 2024, Betashares manages over $44 billion in assets.

Betashares is continuing to grow and innovate with a strong focus on the customer, recently entering the superannuation sector and launching our retail wealth platform, Betashares Direct.

We currently have offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and New Zealand and a growing team of over 170 people.

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