Front Office Support Analyst

If you also believe that everyone should be able to achieve their financial potential then youll love contributing to CMC Markets company vision of providing the ultimate trading experience. Seize the opportunity to progress your career in the fintech industry by joining a global leader in CFD trading and share investing. Grow yourself personally and professionally with a company thats growing with you by global expansion and product offering.

Youll be the first line of defence for our front office pricing and risk systems at CMC Markets This isnt a reactive support role where youre just putting out fires. Youll own the health and stability of our front office pricing and risk systems during local Asia Pacific working hours. Your problem-solving skills will be tested daily as you monitor live applications spot anomalies before they become incidents and make real-time decisions about system interventions

This role positions you at the intersection of technology and finance working alongside traders business operations teams and developers.

Why Youll like working here

Just some of the reasons youll love working here include:

• Leave benefits: Accrue 5 additional annual leave entitlements each year called My Days as well as enjoying 5 extra annual leave days once you pass 12 months. Enjoy your birthday off to spend time with family and friends on us! Utilise a free annual charity day to give back to your community.

• $0 Trades: Staff & family trading accounts with CMC Markets Invest have access to the best brokerage rates in the market - $0 trades for all domestic and international equity orders!

• Continuous learning: Our L&D offering covers both technical and performance training ensuring youre always learning new skills.

• Unlimited access to a dedicated benefits & wellbeing hub where you can save money through various retailer discounts and make use of a variety of resources that will enhance your physical and mental wellbeing

• Collaboration: We believe that great things happen when smart people work together thats why weve made the decision to work five days in the office.
  

• Office perks: Help yourself to free breakfast cereals condiments and coffee to fuel your workday. Our culture club provides opportunities for everyone whether youre into fitness pizza making classes socialising or bringing out your competitive side in trivia or lawn bowls!

What youll be working on

Youll provide first-line technical and operational support for all front office pricing and risk systems with full ownership during Asia Pacific trading hours. Your day involves monitoring live applications for performance issues validating system connectivity and conducting controlled restarts or environment switches when needed.

Configuration management is a critical part of your role. Youll gatekeep changes to pricing and risk parameters ensuring every modification is accurate authorised and properly risk-assessed.

When incidents occur youll troubleshoot independently exhaust local resolution options and only escalate to offshore teams when necessary. Youll collaborate with traders business operations and application support teams to resolve issues quickly perform root cause analysis and identify opportunities to prevent recurrence.

Beyond firefighting youll proactively develop monitoring tools dashboards and alerting mechanisms that catch problems early. Youll recommend process enhancements that reduce operational risk and participate in post-incident reviews to strengthen system resilience.

What will help you be successful

You bring experience from a front office trade support environment and understand the pressure of keeping trading systems operational. Youre comfortable with scripting languages like Python Bash or PowerShell and ideally have some Linux environment exposure. Knowledge of SQL time-series databases and real-time data feeds gives you an advantage as does awareness of market data systems order routing or risk calculation platforms. Youre familiar with system monitoring tools log analysis and configuration management practices.

More than technical skills you have a highly proactive and inquisitive mindset with strong attention to detail. You think clearly and act decisively under pressure taking genuine ownership of system health and stability. Youre an effective collaborator who works well across functions and time zones communicating clearly even during high-pressure situations. If youve been working in trading support financial operations support or front office technical support roles wed love to hear from you

You must hold full working rights in Australia to be eligible for this role.

The things we live by

CMC Markets is powered by our people. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where our people feel confident to be themselves feel valued and are able to do their best work. We dont just value differences and unique perspectives we seek them out and we invite them in because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyone

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Were always on the lookout for great people so even if you dont feel you are a 100% fit apply with your up-to-date CV and well consider you for this role and any other suitable opportunities across the business.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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