Settlements Operations Specialist

Settlements Operations Specialist

Join a critical operations team at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand where your work ensures the integrity of financial market settlements that support New Zealand’s financial wellbeing. This is a highly varied role offering exposure across domestic and international markets, strong career development opportunities, and a comprehensive wellbeing and benefits package.

Te tūranga – The role

As a Settlements Operations Specialist, you will play a key role in ensuring the accurate and timely settlement of the Bank’s domestic and foreign market transactions. You’ll manage settlement lifecycle events, reconcile accounts, and investigate exceptions to ensure strong operational integrity and client service delivery.
 

You will provide support to Senior Settlement Operations Specialists and the Manager in daily operations and play a key role in contributing towards procedure reviews, process improvements and investigate transactional and system issues while exercising decision making to ensure a resolution is achieved.

The role also involves completing rostered shift work: 12pm-8:30pm in summer and 10am-6:30pm in winter.

Ō pūkenga – About you

To be successful in this role you will bring:

• Experience in wholesale banking products and treasury settlements.

• Working knowledge of settlement systems and infrastructures, including SWIFT, RTGS, CSDs, Euroclear, CLS, and treasury platforms.

• Excellent organisation skills along with a can-do attitude will be your driver towards a customer focused approach

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a passion for relationship building

• Strong analysis skills along with a keen eye for detail to help to formulate resolution strategies towards excellence in business delivery 

Ngā painga – What we offer

We offer an inclusive and flexible working environment to enable our people to bring their whole selves to work and embrace each other’s uniqueness. Our benefits include flexi-leave, wellness package, a range of learning and development opportunities, and access to numerous social, networking and sporting activities.

Ko wai matou - Who we are

We are New Zealand’s central bank. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua

We’re Kaitiaki (guardians) of New Zealand’s financial ecosystem – enabling economic wellbeing and prosperity for all New Zealanders. We do all we can to support, a sustainable, productive and efficient economy built on integrity, innovation and inclusion. We’re building diversity and inclusion into everything we do. Our differences seed our innovation and help us deliver our best work – reflective of the needs of society. We welcome and value knowledge of Te Ao Māori, Te Tiriti and Tikanga.

So come join us if you’re wanting that something more

Bring your talent, curiosity and expertise and we’ll help you do the rest. You’ll be part of one of the world’s most trusted and respected central banks. We’ll invest in you. And with you, we’re investing in New Zealand. We’re unreservedly for New Zealand. But we’re not reserved.

To find out more please review the position description on our website and for specific queries contact Arun Kenneth on +64 9 300 7708.

If this has helped you imagine a brighter future, apply online by midnight 24 April 2026. Please include a cover letter and CV with your application.

Kōrero tāpiri - Additional information

If you encounter accessibility barriers in the application process or if you have access needs and require support or adjustments to participate equitably in the recruitment process, please email recruitment@rbnz.govt.nz.