Capital Markets Operations Analyst

**Take hold of a monster opportunity and join our Investment Operations and Performance team as a Capital Markets Operations Analyst. If you’re a good fit for this role and live in Brisbane, we’d love you to apply.**

**Why join us?**
- You'll get 14% super as standard, to help your future come alive.
- Unleash your potential and build a career to be proud of through excellent training and development opportunities.
- Balance your work between in-person days at our purpose-built hubs and working from home.
- In the office, enjoy end of trip facilities, a yoga and multi-faith room, parent and carer rooms, quiet rooms, BrewHub coffee facilities, and collaborative team spaces.

**About the role**

Based within the Investment Operations and Performance team and reporting to the Capital Markets Support Manager, you will play a key role in the delivery of trade support to the Capital Markets team. You will be required to provide daily oversight, as well work with the broader business to facilitate and implement the decisions made by the Investment Services team.

Day to day, you'll:

- Manage internal and external stakeholders to ensure the efficient and accurate delivery of capital markets trades, oversight of collateral management, and delivery by the futures clearer to the custodian - all to time critical, complete and accurate standards.
- Manage the delivery and reconciliation of OTC derivative trades to trade repositories to ensure compliance obligations are reliably met.
- Design, prepare, test, plan and execute system tests so that the Capital Markets trading system delivers to the business requirements.
- Consistently deliver optimal service through the provision of regular reporting and attending to queries in a timely and professional manner.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements, and using structured commercial thinking, recommend efficiencies that may improve current practices.
- Liaise with internal and external auditors and assurance providers.
- Manage or provide key technical input to business projects with an outcome orientated focus.
- Assist in the on-boarding of new investments / investment managers in line with agreed delivery and reporting timeframes.

This role is a permanent opportunity.

**About you**

It goes without saying you'll be a great communicator with top notch interpersonal skills. We'll also expect you to pick up problems and come up with quick, creative ways to solve them. It's quite likely you tick some of the following boxes too:

- A relevant qualification in finance, mathematics, business, commerce or economics.
- Highly developed communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate and negotiate in writing and verbally with business and technical personnel.
- Experience in investment operations or fund accounting roles, including investment accounting and/or trading systems, particularly derivatives and money markets.
- Ability to manage and direct a range of competing priorities taking into account short and long-term business needs.
- Knowledge of Fixed Income, Over-the-Counter Derivatives and Traded Derivative instruments.
- Knowledge of and/or the ability to rapidly acquire knowledge of valuation principles for listed and unlisted instruments.
- Understanding of financial instruments (physical and derivatives) such as money market and fixed interest securities, futures and forward FX contracts, particularly in relation to their usage within portfolio management, and their underlying mechanics (transaction life cycle and valuation methodologies).
- Advanced technology skills (i.e. advanced spread sheeting, high degree of familiarity with systems integration, relational databases and automated work-flow concepts), including the ability to specify and prototype business requirements and processes (e.g. data flow diagrams).

**About us**

Our 2.4 million members trust us to take care of over $330 billion in retirement savings. And we help them take charge of their finances and face the future with confidence. Our inclusive culture means you’ll be valued and heard in a respectful workplace. We've created an environment where you can be yourself and do amazing work. It's that simple.

We don’t want to leave you with a monstrous wait. So, you’ll hear from us after the closing date to find out whether you’ve made it through to the next round or not. Being fair and up-front is important to us - and recruitment is no different.