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Investment Operations Senior Analyst, Australia (12mths Maternity)

City: Melbourne

Division: Operations

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 prospect

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.

📌 Investment Operations Senior Analyst, Australia (Melbourne)
🏢 Janus Henderson Investors
📍 Melbourne