Trade Operations Analyst

Take hold of a monster opportunity and join Australian Retirement Trust as our Trade Operations Analyst, where you'll play a key role in supporting daily trade operations across diverse investment portfolios. You'll build hands-on experience across the full trade lifecycle while working with a collaborative team committed to accuracy, performance, and continuous improvement.

We're all about helping our members make the most of their money. And while they go after their goals, you can too. As a Trade Operations Analyst, you'll support daily trade lifecycle processes across ART's investment portfolios, ensuring trades are accurately matched, settled, and reconciled. You'll work closely with internal stakeholders and external service providers to maintain data integrity, investigate discrepancies, and resolve trade-related issues. With a strong focus on precision and collaboration, you'll contribute to the smooth delivery of business-as-usual activities while identifying opportunities to enhance processes and controls. You'll also play a role in continuous improvement initiatives, contributing to system testing, documentation, and operational uplift activities that support evolving investment operations.

This role is available as a permanent, full-time opportunity based in Brisbane.

Day to day, you'll:

• Execute trade matching and settlement activities across multiple asset classes.
• Maintain and update static data and ensure accurate positioning of investment records.
• Investigate portfolio changes and explain asset and currency exposure movements.
• Monitor compliance with pre and post trade rules and escalate issues where needed.
• Support reconciliations and resolve operational exceptions.
• Collaborate with brokers, custodians, and internal teams to ensure seamless operations.
• Contribute to system testing, process improvements, and documentation updates.
• Apply risk frameworks and ensure adherence to regulatory and operational standards.

Qualifications

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:

• You hold a tertiary qualification in accounting, finance, mathematics, or commerce.
• Your experience includes trade or middle office operations and reconciliation processes.
• You'll bring knowledge of FX, fixed income, cash, and derivatives markets.
• You're confident working with asset and currency rebalancing concepts.
• You demonstrate strong collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Your ability to identify and escalate risks supports sound operational delivery.
• You'll be eager to learn and grow your understanding of superannuation and investment operations.

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.

Everyone is welcome to apply. We value diverse thinking, cultures, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities. Awaken your career at Australian Retirement Trust and apply now.

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.

Why join us?

Bring your potential to Australian Retirement Trust and unleash our monster possibilities:

• 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.

We use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), to support parts of our recruitment process - such as reviewing applications, supporting screening interviews, reference checking, and matching skills to roles. All final hiring decisions are made by people. By applying, you agree to the use of these technologies as part of the recruitment process.