Investment Operations Analyst - Melbourne, Australia - Janus Henderson

Janus Henderson

Verified Company

Melbourne, Australia

2 weeks ago

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Olivia Brown

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Description

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

The Department

The Australian Operations team with members in both Sydney & Melbourne offices and is structured into four core functions:

Investment Operations
functions as part of the global Investment Operations department and supports the Investment Managers in Australia including trade management, asset servicing, transitions, Regulatory Reporting and data management.

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Fund Operations - functions as part of the global Fund Operations department and supports the Responsible Entity, including oversight of fund valuations, unit registry, investor services centre, financial reporting and tax.
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Capital Markets Operations - operations support functions that service our range of Listed Products (ETFs) including basket and metrics generation and dissemination, order taking and market surveillance.
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Performance & Reporting - functions as part of the global Performance & Client Reporting department provides performance measurement, attribution and client reporting to our clients (retail and institutional).

Across these functions, the Operations team supports numerous projects and operational changes that support other business teams and seeks to develop and maintain best practice in operational processes.

Janus Henderson Investors operates an outsourced operating model, in partnership with our key Third Party Administrator (TPA), BNP Paribas Security Services (BNP) who provides Global Middle Office Services and much of the & Fund Operations production.

The primary focus of the Australian Operations team is the oversight and management of these, in addition to the Performance and Reporting services manufactured in-house.

Overview of the Role

The Investment Operations Analyst role sits within the Investment Operations team in Australia and is responsible for the delivery for a number of services that support the investment teams, discussed in detail below.

Responsibilities:

Operations Control

The daily support of investment operations (middle office) activities is a key service supporting the investment teams and ensures that all trading and valuations data is captured accurately internally and with our TPAs to ensure the investment teams have accurate data

This includes:

Trade management support of post execution trade lifecycle once trades are raised in the order management system (Charles River) and oversight of our TPAs who perform middle office services for matching and settlement instruction / monitoring. Includes review and resolution of unmatched trades, failed trades and any overdrafts
Review of reporting providing by our TPA for unmatched trades, failed trades and any overdrafts and to manage the resolution of any issues.
Oversight and resolution of any issues with asset servicing (income & corporate actions) captured within IBOR.
Oversight of daily cash & stock reconciliations for IBOR vs Custody and ensuring that our TPA is correctly identifying and resolving any breaks in a timely manner.
Reporting of portfolio cash flows to the investment teams daily.
Oversight and management of same day settlement securities to ensure these are settled appropriately.
Oversight of monthly IBOR vs custody total market value reconditions for intuitional client mandates
Oversight of TPA performance and working closely with TPA Governance and managing KPI Reviews and Incident Reporting.

Transitions

Working with clients, external transitions managers or custodians, internal teams and our TPA on the planning and agreeing scheduling of any asset transitions.
Working with internal teams and our TPA for any account setups required for new funds and mandates
Oversight of TPA activities for the execution and processing of transitions
Providing updates to internal management on transition status and remediating any issues.

Regulatory Reporting

The Investment Operations Analyst will be responsible for the reporting required by regulators for trading and holding of certain asset types (typically over the counter derivatives) This includes

Collation of reports from investment data to populate regulatory reporting
Submission of reporting as required and confirmation to internal management on reporting and resolution of any issues in order to ensu