Front Office Support Analyst

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Sydney, New South Wales
In-Office
Mid level
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Role
Provide first-line technical support for front office pricing and risk systems. Monitor applications, manage configuration, and troubleshoot incidents with a focus on system stability.
Summary Generated by Built In

If you also believe that everyone should be able to achieve their financial potential, then you’ll love contributing to CMC Markets’ company vision of providing the ultimate trading experience. Seize the opportunity to progress your career in the fintech industry by joining a global leader in CFD trading and share investing. Grow yourself personally and professionally with a company that’s growing with you, by global expansion and product offering.

You'll be the first line of defence for our front office pricing and risk systems at CMC Markets This isn't a reactive support role where you're just putting out fires. You'll own the health and stability of our front office pricing and risk systems during local Asia Pacific working hours. Your problem-solving skills will be tested daily as you monitor live applications, spot anomalies before they become incidents, and make real-time decisions about system interventions

This role positions you at the intersection of technology and finance, working alongside traders, business operations teams, and developers.

Why You'll like working here

Just some of the reasons you’ll love working here include:

  • Leave benefits: Accrue 5 additional annual leave entitlements each year called My Days, as well as enjoying 5 extra annual leave days once you pass 12 months. Enjoy your birthday off to spend time with family and friends, on us! Utilise a free annual charity day to give back to your community.
  • $0 Trades: Staff & family trading accounts with CMC Markets Invest have access to the best brokerage rates in the market - $0 trades for all domestic and international equity orders!
  • Continuous learning: Our L&D offering covers both technical and performance training, ensuring you're always learning new skills.
  • Unlimited access to a dedicated benefits & wellbeing hub where you can save money through various retailer discounts, and make use of a variety of resources that will enhance your physical and mental wellbeing
  • Collaboration: We believe that great things happen when smart people work together, that’s why we’ve made the decision to work five days in the office.
     
  • Office perks: Help yourself to free breakfast cereals, condiments, and coffee to fuel your workday. Our culture club provides opportunities for everyone whether you’re into fitness, pizza making classes, socialising or bringing out your competitive side in trivia or lawn bowls!

What you’ll be working on

You'll provide first-line technical and operational support for all front office pricing and risk systems, with full ownership during Asia Pacific trading hours. Your day involves monitoring live applications for performance issues, validating system connectivity, and conducting controlled restarts or environment switches when needed.

Configuration management is a critical part of your role. You'll gatekeep changes to pricing and risk parameters, ensuring every modification is accurate, authorised, and properly risk-assessed.

When incidents occur, you'll troubleshoot independently, exhaust local resolution options, and only escalate to offshore teams when necessary. You'll collaborate with traders, business operations, and application support teams to resolve issues quickly, perform root cause analysis, and identify opportunities to prevent recurrence.

Beyond firefighting, you'll proactively develop monitoring tools, dashboards, and alerting mechanisms that catch problems early. You'll recommend process enhancements that reduce operational risk and participate in post-incident reviews to strengthen system resilience.

What will help you be successful?

You bring experience from a front office trade support environment and understand the pressure of keeping trading systems operational. You're comfortable with scripting languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell, and ideally have some Linux environment exposure. Knowledge of SQL, time-series databases, and real-time data feeds gives you an advantage, as does awareness of market data systems, order routing, or risk calculation platforms. You're familiar with system monitoring tools, log analysis, and configuration management practices.

More than technical skills, you have a highly proactive and inquisitive mindset with strong attention to detail. You think clearly and act decisively under pressure, taking genuine ownership of system health and stability. You're an effective collaborator who works well across functions and time zones, communicating clearly even during high-pressure situations. If you've been working in trading support, financial operations support, or front office technical support roles, we'd love to hear from you

You must hold full working rights in Australia to be eligible for this role.

The things we live by

CMC Markets is powered by our people. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, where our people feel confident to be themselves, feel valued and are able to do their best work. We don’t just value differences and unique perspectives, we seek them out and we invite them in, because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyone

Click on the link to find out more about the things we live by at CMC Markets CMC Markets - Culture Video  

We’re always on the lookout for great people, so even if you don’t feel you are a 100% fit, apply with your up-to-date CV and we’ll consider you for this role and any other suitable opportunities across the business. 

 We look forward to hearing from you! 

Please be vigilant when applying for jobs online. CMC Markets will never request personal identification details, such as Date of Birth or Tax File Number prior to an offer being made. If your initial application is successful, regardless of whether you've applied directly or through an approved recruiter, you will always liaise with a representative from CMC's Talent Acquisition team. We will only discuss a role you have formally applied for via phone or email (CMC Markets email address); and never via Facebook

Top Skills

Bash
Configuration Management Tools
Linux
Powershell
Python
SQL
Time-Series Databases
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The Company
1,366 Employees
Year Founded: 1989

What We Do

CMC Markets is a leading global provider of online trading and investing, with a comprehensive retail, professional and institutional offering. Established in 1989, headquartered in London and listed on the London Stock Exchange, we have offices in Australia, China, Singapore, and across Europe.

Over 1m traders and investors* worldwide have access to our proprietary platforms, native mobile trading apps, and MetaTrader 4. Our clients can trade on a huge range of financial instruments through our award-winning spread betting, CFD and share trading platforms**.

We provide transparent, competitive pricing, market insights, and dedicated, 24/5 customer service.

*1.388 million unique user logins for the CMC Markets invest and CFD platforms globally, as at August 2023.
**Awards include: No.1 Web Platform & No.1 Most Currency Pairs, ForexBrokers.com Awards 2023; Best Forex Broker, Good Money Guide Awards 2023; Best In-House Analysts, Professional Trader Awards 2023; CFD Provider of the Year, Investors' Chronicle/Financial Times Celebration of Investment Awards 2023; No.1 Platform Technology, ForexBrokers.com Awards 2022; Best Mobile Trading Platform, ADVFN International Financial Awards 2022.


Disclaimer: Spread bets and CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 68% of retail investor accounts lose money when spread betting and/or trading CFDs with this provider. You should consider whether you understand how spread bets, CFDs, OTC options or any of our other products work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

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