Associate, Market Operations

Artega is a joint venture between Challenger Limited and SimCorp to provide investment administration services to the market.

Artega is a technology led investment administration business offering front, middle and back office services to investment managers and asset owners in Australia and Asia. The business currently supports over $100Bn for its clients and has 140 staff located in Sydney and London. The business utilises the SimCorp Dimension software as its core technology platform.

Join us as a Market Operations Associate at Artega

• As a Market Operations Associate, you'll work in a collaborative team, rotating through various streams, gaining valuable experience and exposure to all areas of Market Operations.
• At Artega & Challenger, we value teamwork, and our Associates work collaboratively to support each other across 3 key workstreams to ensure all work is completed.
• We work flexibly from our Sydney CBD Office where you can expect to work 3 days in the office with the rest from home.

What you'll do

As a Market Operations Associate, you'll be responsible for trade confirmation, instruction, and settlement, as well as corporate actions, income receipts, payments, regulatory trade reporting, and margin movements.

You'll contribute towards writing issue or incident reports, completing checklist items, whilst adhering to the appropriate procedures as well as ensuring trades are executed accurately and on time, monitoring and reconciling trades and settlements.

Other responsibilities will include.

• Monitoring compliance with regulatory requirements and ensuring that internal policies and procedures are followed.
• Monitoring and analysing market data to support investment decision-making
• Working closely with traders, portfolio managers, and other stakeholders to support the investment process and ensure that portfolios are managed efficiently and effectively.
• Escalation of issues to managers in a prompt/proactive manner

The skills you'll need.

We're looking for someone who ideally has 2-3 years' experience of working in an operations support/operations analyst type role with a good understanding of financial instruments and their settlement lifecycle.

You'll need to have a good understanding of the different types of Corporate Actions with the ability to analyse and interpret announcements in the market.

You'll also need;

• Experience of working within a financial services/corporate regulatory environment
• Knowledge of how funds management businesses work, and the flow of funds.
• Understanding of the market settlement process for fixed interest, equities and exchange traded derivatives.
• Experience in identifying, assessing, evaluating, and managing risks within an operations team.
• A continuous learning mindset, with a keen interest in staying updated on the market and market conditions.

Additional Information

At Artega Investment Administration, a subsidiary of Challenger, we value integrity, accountability, collaboration, and customer-centricity. Join our team and work alongside dedicated professionals who strive for excellence, drive outstanding results, and foster a supportive and inclusive work environment.

As part of the Challenger Group you can expect a competitive reward package as well as a range of social and wellbeing focused benefits, flexible working practices and salary sacrifice initiatives. You can see the full range of our benefits here for more information https://www.challenger.com.au/about-us/careers/our-benefits

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We value inclusion and diversity of thought, promote flexible working practices so our people can integrate their work and personal lives, and are proud to be a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.

We believe in bringing your authentic self and a belonging in our culture. We are prideful in participating in the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) as a national benchmark on LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion and best practice in Australia. We offer the opportunity for a broad career experience and value people who are inquisitive and rigorous and are driven to make a difference.

Job type:
Permanent

Posting Close Date :
27/05/2024