OTC Operations Manager

Anton Murray Consulting; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Anton Murray Consulting client in Sydney seeks a Senior Operations Manager to lead trading operations locally. This senior, hands-on role ensures operational readiness, regulatory alignment, and scalable post-trade and client money workflows across CFDs and leveraged products.

The ideal candidate has several years of equity markets and OTC middle office experience, strong SQL (MySQL), and a proactive leadership style to mentor the growing Sydney ops team while partnering with Finance,

Qualifications

• 5+ years in financial services operations with increasing responsibility.
• Hands-on equity markets and OTC middle office experience.
• Strong understanding of CFDs and leveraged products, margining and client money flows.
• Advanced SQL and database knowledge (MySQL or similar).
• Understanding of accounting principles and general ledger flows.

Responsibilities

• Act as the most senior operations lead in our trading business, overseeing the operational readiness and execution across all post-trade and client money workflows.
• Develop and enhance end-to-end operations processes for complex financial products, including margining, client funding flows, reconciliations, and lifecycle events.
• Shape compliant and scalable operations frameworks for leveraged and derivative instruments (e.g., CFDs).
• Collaborate with Finance, Compliance, Legal, and Product to align processes with ASIC RG212, RG166 and other applicable guidelines.

Skills

CFD trading operations

SQL proficiency

Regulatory compliance

Leadership

Client money handling

Advanced > MySQL

Accounting basics

Tools

MySQL

Job description

Our client is a leading global trading with a growing Sydney office and seeking to appoint a Senior Operations Manager to lead trading operations locally in Sydney. This is a senior, hands-on role with responsibility for ensuring the operational readiness, regulatory alignment, and scalability of post-trade and client money operations, particularly across CFD and leveraged products.

The ideal applicant will have several years of hands-on equity markets and OTC middle office and operations experience, ideally with previous experience with retail equity, FX and CFD products. Ideally you will have a strong middle office and operations background, combined with some SQL database knowledge, and have a technical acumen across operations and accounting.You will have strong trade recs knowledge, and be a dynamic, motivational team leader, to help mentor the small ops function as this team grows in Australia.

Description:

• Act as the most senior operations lead in our trading business, overseeing the operational readiness and execution across all post-trade and client money workflows.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance robust end-to-end operations processes for complex financial products, including handling of margining, client funding flows, reconciliations, and corporate action lifecycles.
• Bring deep understanding of leveraged and derivative trading instruments (e.g., CFDs), with the ability to apply that knowledge to shape compliant and scalable operations frameworks.
• Collaborate with Finance, Compliance, Legal, and Product teams to align operational processes with ASIC requirements, especially in line with RG212, RG166, and other applicable regulatory guidelines.

Skills and experience:

• Proven experience in CFD trading operations, including operational workflows, client money handling, reconciliation, and margin monitoring.
• Strong understanding of ASIC regulations applicable to CFDs, including RG212, RG166, and other relevant guidance.
• 5+ years of experience in financial services operations, with increasing levels of responsibility.
• Advanced SQL proficiency and hands-on experience with MySQL or similar database tools.
• Understanding of basic accounting principles and general ledger flows.

Our client is patient to find the right for this important position, as part of their growing Sydney team. This position will pay a great salary + discretionary annual bonus based on growth of the Australian P&L and business.