Product Associate, Investment Products
Job Summary
ASX: Powering Australias financial markets
Why join the ASX
When you join ASX youre joining a company with a strong purpose to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all.
In your new role youll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub.
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are more than a securities exchange!
The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines.
We run critical market infrastructure with 1 in 3 people employed within technology. Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations program delivery financial products investor engagement risk and compliance.
Were proud to foster a workplace where diversity is celebrated and inclusion is part of our everyday culture. Our employee-led networks champion LGBTIQ inclusion promote gender equality accessibility and wellbeing inspire giving and volunteering and celebrate cultural and religious events creating a sense of belonging for all. As an AWEI Bronze employer and member of the Champions of Change Coalition for gender equality were committed to a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
Whats On Offer
An opportunity to work in a product role within a motivated team that represents the Investment Products business within ASX.
This role will assist a small team that is accountable for setting and leading the strategy performance and longterm sustainability of ASXs Investment Products platform and commercial ecosystem.
The team provides market insights across the commercial platform and operating settings that support Investment Products listed by issuers on ASX ensuring outcomes are fair resilient regulatorconfident and commercially sustainable.
The team plays a critical role by guiding and influencing policy regulatory and market structure settings in collaboration with ASX Policy Compliance Legal and the regulator while driving growth through disciplined Investment Product platform evolution industry engagement and effective use of commercial levers.
What youll do:
- Support the team in managing developing and improving the Investment Products operating and commercial model including listing and admission frameworks platform capabilities commercial structures and postadmission services that support issuers and market participants. This includes contributing to the commercial performance of the Investment Products platform including growth profitability and sustainability of revenues linked to listings and secondary market activity.
- Represent ASX as the operator and steward of the Investment Products marketplace engaging constructively with issuers asset managers market participants and regulators.
- Engage with prospective and existing fund managers and their service providers (including responsible entities lawyers market makers and unit registries) regarding the admission of novel Investment Products (ETFs Structured Products and Listed Investment Vehicles (i.e. LICs and LITs)) to ASX.
- Preparation of periodic and ad hoc reports and presentations that highlight the ASX Investment Products business.
- Assist the investment product admissions team within ASX Compliance in the assessment of individual Investment Products as requested.
- Assist in the development of new admissions policy for Investment Products including drafting editing and reviewing ASX guidance market communications and consultation responses.
- Support the broader Product team to manage ASXs market maker incentive scheme and aiding in the development of the incentive scheme ensuring it is fit-for-purpose.
- Record keeping and data collection within the Investment Products business.
- Identify and analyse trends in the Investment Products business.
- Support the marketing efforts and educational content for new products across digital and other channels.
- Track new Investment Product opportunities.
- Attend industry conferences on ASXs behalf.
What youve done:
- 2-5 years financial services industry experience within capital markets and/or investment products.
- Strong technical skills in data analysis and presentation.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Completed a Bachelors degree in business finance economics or other relevant discipline.
- Experience with ASX Operating & Listing Rules
And if youve got some of this even better:
- Broad ranging knowledge of the operation of financial markets including types of Investment Products their application to portfolio construction & asset allocation a working knowledge of the ASX Operating Rules.
- Experience with ETFs in either a product management or operational support function.
- Experience engaging with product issuers and/or capital markets participants.
- Awareness of policy issues that have an impact on current and future performance of financial products available on ASX.
- Experience with financial data systems including Bloomberg IRESS Morningstar.
- Strong presentation communication and people skills.
- Experience with capital markets transactions and modelling.
What you need to enjoy and be good at for this role:
- A genuine interest in financial markets and investment products such as ETFs.
- Analysis and generating data driven insights.
- Flexibility to prioritise and execute on a wide variety of different tasks with compressed time frames.
- Collaborating with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
- External outgoing high interpersonal skills.
- Be a team player and ability to build a rapport and work effectively with peers superiors and external stakeholders.
- Ability to deal with multi-functional multi-discipline issues.
- Ability to deal with senior level execs.
- Ability to negotiate.
We make hiring decisions based on your skills capabilities and experience and how youll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you dont meet all the criteria of this role.
If you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self please let us know at
At ASX Group our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.
We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks including reference and police checks completed as part of the on-boarding process.
To be considered for this position candidates must be legally authorised to work in Australia on a permanent basis without any restrictions.
Required Experience:
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