• Melbourne, with hybrid (WFH/office) arrangements available.
• Permanent part-time (60% or 3 days a week spread across 4 or 5 days, with hours and days negotiable). Some out-of-hours work may be required to cater for work with teams in other time zones.
• Carbon Growth Partners offers mutually beneficial flexible working arrangements - we recognise that employees need to balance work and personal lives.
• 3 days / week $51,000 to $57,000 plus super (full time equivalent $85,000 to $95,000 plus super)

What’s on offer:

At Carbon Growth Partners (CGP), we're at the forefront of global carbon markets, driving investments that make a real impact. We're looking for a dynamic Investment Operations Senior Associate to join our team. If you're someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and loves the challenge of ensuring everything runs smoothly behind the scenes, this role is for you. You'll be the key player in making sure our trades are executed and settled smoothly, collaborating with brokers and trading platforms, troubleshooting and keep our operations seamless.

The voluntary carbon market is new and rapidly evolving, which means you’ll have the opportunity to navigate and learn about its emerging market infrastructure firsthand. You’ll keep a close eye on portfolio positions, ensuring everything is in perfect alignment across our systems, banks, and trading platforms. You'll work closely with our CIO, helping to refine processes to keep our data audit-proof and accurate. Plus, you'll be the go-to person for our fund administrator when they prepare the fund’s monthly reporting, and you’ll be stepping in to tackle any issues that come up.

You’ll also get your hands on a variety of other tasks, from setting up accounts and managing treasury operations to supporting our year-end audits and regulatory filings. As we continue to grow and adapt to the changes in the carbon market, you’ll play a crucial role in enhancing our processes, ensuring we stay ahead of the curve and compliant with all regulations. If you’re excited by the idea of making a tangible difference and being part of something bigger, this could be the perfect role for you.

Who we are:

CGP is a leading investment manager in global carbon markets. We’re a small and dedicated team of passionate industry professionals located across a range of time zones in Australia, Hong Kong and North America. CGP focuses on delivering three key objectives for investors and for the planet:

• Generating financial returns by building a diversified portfolio of highest integrity carbon credits and related climate finance instruments.
• Protecting & restoring nature by investing in projects that deliver co-benefits to forests, grasslands and wetlands, and the people who rely on them.
• Accelerating climate action by supporting energy transitions in Developing Countries and bringing trusted carbon offset solutions to businesses.

Your qualifications and experience:

• 5+ years investment operations experience in a in a financial services organisation (i.e., fund manager, custodian, or fund administrator) ideally working with unstructured products that require a high degree of manual intervention.
• Tertiary qualification in commerce, business or similar.
• Proficiency in Excel.
• Experience in working across cultures, languages and time zones.

Your personal qualities:

• A genuine passion for sustainability, climate finance, and impact investing, with a commitment to CGP’s mission and values.
• Very high attention to detail with strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, particularly in evolving or ambiguous environments.
• Self-driven and able to work autonomously and manage competing priorities.
• An inquisitive mindset and egalitarian spirit, willing to do what’s needed to thrive (and to help team members thrive) in a lean, hands-on environment.

We’d love to meet you:

If you have the skills, experience, and motivation to succeed in this role, please take the next step and submit your application. We encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities, and cultures – including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the LGBTQI+ community and people living with disability.

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