Junior Middle Office Operations Analyst - Fixed Income Fund Manager

Fast moving, dynamic role with a top fund manager

Exposure to the investment process

Exceptional career prospects

1-2 years’ experience

About the business

Coolabah Capital Investments is a global fixed-income investor managing over USD $15 billion for institutional and retail clients. The Firm focuses on generating alpha from security-specific positions through highly quantitative proprietary models. The team includes a total of 65 talented, full-time staff located in our offices in London, Miami, Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland.

About the role

We are seeking a detail-oriented Operations Analyst to join our Global team and support critical settlement, trade processing, and regulatory reporting functions. This role requires strong analytical skills and experience with industry-standard systems and protocols.Reporting to the Global Middle Office lead (Sydney based) the role will span all areas of middle office operations along with project work, such as onboarding clients and new account setups. This role is a permanent, full-time position.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Global trade processing and settlements for fixed income and related derivatives. Familiarity with Australian and UK markets will be looked at favourably.
• Perform critical daily cash, positions and trade reconciliations across multiple asset classes and counterparties to ensure data accuracy and completeness
• Conduct comprehensive daily collateral reconciliations including margin calls, collateral movements, and valuation adjustments Ability to manage multiple daily deadlines, particularly regulatory reporting timelines
• Proactively identify, investigate and resolve operational exceptions, escalating material settlement, cash, collateral, reconciliation or regulatory-reporting issues in a timely manner;
• Ensuring integrity of static data and account onboarding with counterparties;
• Handover between various Coolabah locations;
• Instruction processing and checking via a maker checker process;
• processing regulatory reporting and related reconciliation processes;

Skills:

To be successful in your application you ideally will need to have previous experience in fund or custody operations, or within a middle office role at an investment bank. Previous experience in some of the follow areas would be highly desirable

• Daily collateral reconciliation including margin management and collateral optimization.
• Regulatory reporting, specifically DTCC, MIFID and EMIR submissions in support of fixed income derivatives operations.
• Proficiency with Bloomberg terminal and related tools (AIM and RHUB in particular).

More importantly is the motivation and enthusiasm to excel and carve out a career in investment management. You will have a sound understanding of the financial markets and thrive in a high-intensity work environment where the whole team shares the same intense work ethic and passion to excel. We are a highly quantitative team, so advanced excel is mandatory, and automation skills via vba/coding/AI is highly desirable.

Location:

The successful candidate will be based in the City of London and would be expected to be in the office 5 days a week.

Benefits and perks:

• It is expected a market-competitive contract will be agreed with the opportunity to participate in the bonus pool. The work will be demanding but also highly rewarding with the right candidate able to assume significant responsibilities and drive operational processes.