Jobs at Iress

Prepare, clean, analyze, and validate data to answer business questions and identify trends. Create reports, dashboards, visualizations, and clear narratives for technical and non-technical stakeholders. Investigate routine data issues, document analytical methods, collaborate with data and business teams, improve reusable workflows, and responsibly use approved AI tools while protecting confidential information. The role includes extensive training and mentoring within a graduate program.

Provides first-line support for trading and market data clients, troubleshoots product issues, logs and investigates cases, performs basic root cause analysis, escalates complex problems, maintains support documentation, and collaborates with Product, Engineering, and Implementation teams. The 12-month graduate program includes structured training and mentoring, with potential permanent employment for strong performers.

Own and grow strategic trading client relationships across ANZ. Manage account plans, executive engagement, renewals, retention, upsell, cross-sell, licensing negotiations, forecasting, and revenue growth. Support clients in implementing and optimizing Global Trading and Market Data products, coordinate internal teams, resolve complex issues, and share market insights with product and development teams.

Build and manage relationships with investment management, fund management, and private wealth clients. Develop account plans supporting retention, product adoption, revenue growth, forecasting, and commercial negotiations. Support implementation and client education, resolve issues with internal teams, identify expansion opportunities, and provide client insights to improve products and processes. The role is based in Johannesburg with regular travel to Cape Town.

Implement, configure, and support trading and market data software for clients. Translate requirements into practical solutions, troubleshoot technical and post-implementation issues, document procedures, coordinate internal teams, support change adoption, and contribute to incident response and continuous improvement. The role requires client-facing delivery experience, knowledge of integrations, databases, APIs, messaging technologies, FIX, and financial markets technology.

Partners with business unit leaders to manage enterprise and technology risk within the risk appetite. Leads risk identification, assessment, reporting, control self-assessments, incident and breach management, regulatory compliance, audit remediation, and strategic risk initiatives. Supports business continuity, resilience, AI and data governance, information security, cyber risk management, and continual improvement of risk frameworks and GRC capabilities.

The Financial Accountant supports group and subsidiary financial reporting, audits, accounting standards application, reconciliations, journals, balance sheet accounting, treasury activities, and financial analysis. The role also contributes to finance systems improvements, internal controls, business initiatives, and reporting for leadership, regulators, and external stakeholders. Strong accounting knowledge, analytical ability, attention to detail, and proficiency with Excel are required.

Leads Iress’s enterprise operational resilience program globally, including framework and policy development, critical service and dependency mapping, impact tolerances, resilience governance, scenario testing, third-party risk, audit and regulatory assurance, and business continuity capability. The role advises executives and boards, partners with technology and security leaders, and embeds resilience practices across business units.

Manage new client acquisition and existing financial-services accounts for financial market data software. Responsibilities include developing sales plans, prospecting, presenting products, negotiating contracts, closing deals, managing client relationships, upselling, maintaining CRM records, forecasting pipeline performance, and collaborating with marketing, product, support, delivery, and finance teams.

Partners with APAC Wealth leadership on commercial strategy, budgets, forecasts, five-year projections, and P&L ownership. Translates financial data into actionable insights, identifies profit opportunities, challenges existing practices, and drives reporting automation. Builds business cases, advises on contract renewals, supports market and investor-relations materials, and evaluates revenue pipelines while serving as a trusted strategic advisor to senior stakeholders.

Drive new client acquisition and grow and retain existing financial markets clients. Develop sales plans, conduct market research, demonstrate products, negotiate contracts, close deals, manage client relationships, identify upsell opportunities, maintain CRM records, forecast pipeline performance, and coordinate delivery teams to address client feedback.

Owns and prioritizes product backlogs across Trading and Market Data, translating client, market, and commercial needs into product requirements, release goals, and measurable outcomes. Leads client discovery, collaborates with product and engineering teams, coordinates delivery readiness, monitors adoption and feedback, and contributes to product strategy and roadmaps. The role requires capital markets or related financial-services domain knowledge and experience managing complex technology products.

Develops and maintains robust software across the full engineering lifecycle, from requirements and architecture through deployment and production support. The role focuses on Python and C++ backend development, React frontend work, automated testing, security, reliability, CI/CD, and scalable application design. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, automation, cross-team collaboration, risk management, mentoring junior engineers, and contributing to feature and non-functional design for the Xplan wealth-management platform.