Investment Operations Senior Analyst, Australia (12mths Maternity)

Why work for us?

A career at Janus Henderson is more than a job, it’s about investing in a brighter future together.

Our Mission at Janus Henderson is to help clients define and achieve superior financial outcomes through differentiated insights, disciplined investments, and world-class service. We will do this by protecting and growing our core business, amplifying our strengths and diversifying where we have the right.

Our Values are key to driving our success, and are at the heart of everything we do:

Clients Come First - Always | Execution Supersedes Intention | Together We Win | Diversity Improves Results | Truth Builds Trust

If our mission, values, and purpose align with your own, we would love to hear from you!

Your opportunity

Act as an Investment Operations Senior Analyst, supporting the accurate and timely execution of trade lifecycle processes across multiple asset classes and products. The role covers trade capture, affirmation and confirmation, settlement and cash flows, collateral and margin, OTC and ETD operations. The role is responsible for ensuring the accurate maintenance of portfolio records, oversight of cash and position reconciliation, asset servicing activities, portfolio-related controls, and the resolution of complex operational issues.

The position works closely with portfolio managers, fund accounting, custodians, brokers, technology teams, and external service providers to support efficient portfolio management.

Perform end-to-end trade lifecycle activities, including trade matching, confirmation, settlement and cash flow processing within a follow-the-sun operating model, ensuring seamless cross-regional handovers.

Collaborate with investment teams, brokers, custodians, service providers and regional operations teams to investigate and resolve trade discrepancies, unmatched trades and settlement failures.

Provide effective oversight of cash, position and market value reconciliations, corporate actions, income events, fees, subscriptions, redemptions and other portfolio-level activities, ensuring exceptions are investigated and resolved promptly.

Validate, and publish start-of-day cash positions and liquidity balances to the Investment Desk, ensuring timely identification, escalation, and resolution of funding exceptions to support informed investment and trading decisions.

Monitor portfolio cash balances and overdraft positions, investigate funding exceptions, coordinate remediation with internal and external stakeholders, and ensure timely reporting, escalation, and resolution of breaches in accordance with established risk and governance frameworks.

Support and coordinate fund launches, product implementations, portfolio transitions, client onboarding activities, and mandate changes.

Identify and implement process improvements, automation opportunities and control enhancements to improve operational efficiency, scalability and risk management.

Ensure compliance with internal policies and applicable regulatory requirements, and support audits, reviews and control-testing activities as required.

Maintain accurate and up-to-date operational procedures, process documentation, and knowledge materials.

Escalate material operational issues, risks and incidents to management in a timely manner, coordinate impact assessments and drive remediation through to closure.

Support business change initiatives, system implementations and testing activities, ensuring operational requirements, risks and controls are appropriately considered.

Your role may require you to interact with other JHI offices, employees and third parties based in different time zones, outside of core business hours, such as the UK, USA and Asia.

Carry out other duties as assigned.

What to expect when you join our firm

Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations

Paid volunteer time to step away from your desk and into the community

Support to grow through professional development courses, tuition/qualification reimbursement and more

Maternal/paternal leave benefits

Complimentary subscription to Headspace – the mindfulness app

Corporate membership to ClassPass and other health and well-being benefits

All employee events including networking opportunities and social activities

Must have skills

Substantial experience in investment operations, trade operations, middle-office operations or a comparable asset management environment.

Knowledge of financial instruments across multiple asset classes, including equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, derivatives and money market instruments.

Strong experience across the end-to-end trade lifecycle, including trade capture, matching, affirmation, confirmation, settlement, cash flows and exception management within a global or follow-the-sun operating environment.

Demonstrated ability to review positions, cash, transactions and reference data, investigate complex trade, settlement and reconciliation exceptions, perform root-cause analysis and validate outcomes.

Solid understanding of global financial markets, settlement practices, market deadlines and the roles of brokers, custodians, central counterparties and other market infrastructure providers.

Experience supporting portfolio transitions, fund launches, client onboarding, product launches, and mandate change activities.

Strong analytical and data-management skills, including strong Microsoft Excel capability and experience using investment management, order management, portfolio accounting or trade-processing platforms.

Strong understanding of operational risk, control frameworks, escalation protocols, audit requirements and the evidence required to demonstrate effective oversight.

Proven ability to manage relationships with investment teams, internal business functions, clients, brokers, custodians, vendors and external service providers.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to act as a subject matter expert, challenge constructively, escalate material issues and drive outcomes collaboratively.

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in a relevant field.

Nice to have skills

Experience with Aladdin or similar investment management platform.

Knowledge of ETD clearing, margining, and collateral management.

Understanding of portfolio accounting, IBOR/PBOR reconciliation, and investment data management.

Knowledge of regulatory reporting requirements and post-trade market obligations.

Supervisory responsibilities

Yes

Potential for growth

Mentoring

Leadership development programs

Regular training

Career development services

Continuing education courses

You will be expected to understand the regulatory obligations of the firm, and abide by the regulated entity requirements and JHI policies applicable for your role.

At Janus Henderson Investors we’re committed to an inclusive and supportive environment. We believe diversity improves results and we welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds. Don’t worry if you don’t think you tick every box, we still want to hear from you! We understand everyone has different commitments and while we can’t accommodate every flexible working request we’re happy to be asked about work flexibility and our hybrid working environment. If you need any reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process, please get in touch and let us know at [email protected]

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Annual Bonus Opportunity: Position may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus award from the profit pool. The profit pool is funded based on Company profits. Individual bonuses are determined based on Company, department, team and individual performance.

Benefits: Janus Henderson is committed to offering a comprehensive total rewards package to eligible employees that includes; competitive compensation, pension/retirement plans, and various health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits. To learn more about our offerings please visit the Why Join Us section on the career page here.

Janus Henderson Investors is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. All applications are subject to background checks.

Janus Henderson (including its subsidiaries) will not maintain existing or sponsor new industry registrations or licenses where not supported by an employee’s job functions (as determined by Janus Henderson at its sole discretion).

You should be willing to adhere to the provisions of our Investment Advisory Code of Ethics related to personal securities activities and other disclosure and certification requirements, including past political contributions and political activities. Applicants’ past political contributions or activity may impact applicants’ eligibility for this position.

You will be expected to understand the regulatory obligations of the firm, and abide by the regulated entity requirements and JHI policies applicable for your role.