Senior Trade & Post-Trade Analyst (Fixed-Income)

Fitzgerald Jenkins Recruitment; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Part time

Job summary

Fitzgerald Jenkins Recruitment is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support trade lifecycle processes across a critical clearing platform for fixed‑income products, including bonds and repos. You will collaborate with business, technology, operations and risk to understand requirements, analyse trading and post‑trade processes, design solutions and drive delivery from concept to BAU.

This role offers exposure to significant market infrastructure projects within a highly regulated

Qualifications

• Five+ years’ dedicated Business Analysis experience.
• Experience across Agile, Lean and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of trade processing, workflows, settlement and reporting.
• Experience with fixed‑income products, particularly bonds and repos.
• Knowledge of post‑trade processes and lifecycle events.
• Experience with FIX, JSON and XML messaging and integration.
• Knowledge of SQL and integration technologies such as IBM MQ and REST APIs.
• Experience with SWIFT integration and Austraclear settlement processes.
• Knowledge of SWIFT ISO 20022 and ISO 15022 messaging, including MT54x messages.
• Experience using Agile tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• A proven ability to work across the full SDLC, from early ideation through to delivery and BAU embedment.

Responsibilities

• Analyse trade processing, workflows, settlement processes, dashboards and reporting requirements.
• Support the lifecycle of bond and repo products, including post‑trade processes and lifecycle events.
• Engage with stakeholders to gather, document and prioritise business requirements.
• Translate business needs into clear, detailed functional and technical requirements.
• Facilitate workshops, process reviews and solution‑design sessions.
• Work with delivery teams throughout the full software development lifecycle.
• Support integration initiatives involving FIX, JSON, XML, SWIFT and related technologies.
• Collaborate with technology, operations, risk, product and project teams in a matrix environment.
• Contribute to testing, implementation, change management and the transition of solutions into business‑as‑usual operations.
• Identify risks, resolve complex problems and support continuous process improvement.
• Help influence user adoption and embed operational change effectively.

Skills

Business Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Requirements Gathering

Process Improvement

SDLC

Tools

Jira

Confluence

SQL

IBM MQ

REST APIs

FIX

JSON

XML

SWIFT

Job description

Fitzgerald Jenkins Recruitment is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support trade lifecycle processes across a critical clearing platform for fixed‑income products, including bonds and repos. You will collaborate with business, technology, operations and risk to understand requirements, analyse trading and post‑trade processes, design solutions and drive delivery from concept to BAU.

This role offers exposure to significant market infrastructure projects within a highly regulated