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About the Role

Challenger Limited is an ASX-listed investment management firm managing $128.2 billion in assets. The Investment Strategy team, headed by the CIO Life, is a key stakeholder in the investment management process. The team is responsible for asset allocation models for Challenger Life Company, including proprietary models to measure asset risk premiums and optimize portfolio construction.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and review of strategic and tactical asset allocation analysis, including portfolio construction, optimisation and scenario analysis.
• Assist with maintaining capital market assumptions, including expected returns, volatilities and correlations across asset classes.
• Help assess how potential allocation changes may affect portfolio risk, capital usage and expected returns.
• Assist with preparing papers and presentations for investment committees and senior investment stakeholders.
• Work with portfolio managers, risk and finance teams to build an understanding of how asset allocation decisions are developed and implemented.
• Continue to develop knowledge of asset classes, portfolio theory and Challenger Life’s balance sheet.
• Assist with developing and improving models and tools that support asset allocation analysis, including simulation and optimisation work.
• Help maintain analytical tools, code libraries and data processes using tools such as Python and Excel.
• Follow good practices for version control, documentation and reproducibility when working with models, code and analytical outputs.
• Assist with monitoring portfolio positioning against targets, ranges and risk limits, and help identify potential rebalancing requirements.
• Support the preparation of regular reporting on asset allocation, performance and portfolio exposures for senior management and committees.

Requirements

• Proven ability to dissect complex data, interpret multifaceted concepts, and make informed, data-driven decisions.
• Must have a collaborative and team-first mindset and thrive in a fast-paced and dead-line driven environment.
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Skills

• Quantitative modelling
• Scenario analysis
• Portfolio construction
• Fixed income
• Equity
• Liquid strategies
• Python for quantitative analysis
• Advanced Excel modelling
• Asset classes
• Portfolio theory
• Optimisation techniques
• Risk/return analysis
• Modern AI tools and technologies
• Life insurance or annuity balance sheets
• Capital frameworks
• Liability-driven investing

Location

• Sydney CBD Office

Work Type

• Hybrid working arrangement (3 days in office, 2 days from home)
• Permanent

Experience Level

• Analyst

Education Level

• Strong academic track-record in quantitative disciplines such as Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, Actuarial Studies, Finance/Economics etc.

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Employee share plan
• Eighteen weeks paid leave for all new parents
• Flexibility on when, and how, parental leave is taken
• Challenger Day – one extra day off every year
• Subsidised on-site café
• Fantastic central location a stone's throw from Martin Place Metro
• Additional support leave (fertility treatment leave, gender affirmation leaves)
• Extra superannuation contributions
• Access to Fitness Passport

About the Company

• Challenger Limited is an ASX-listed investment management firm managing $128.2 billion in assets (as at 31 December 2025).
• Life with us is fast moving and always exciting.
• Together we’re driving to deliver our vision to provide our customers with financial security for a better retirement.
• We achieve this goal by providing a work environment where people from diverse backgrounds, with a range of skills and experiences can contribute and succeed.
• Working at Challenger means being part of a connected team that enjoys what they do.
• We’re small enough to move quickly, and big enough to make meaningful change.
• We support your growth and development, offer flexibility, and value the unique contributions people bring.
• Our employee value proposition guides how we work: Grow and realise your potential, supporting each other, stronger together and making things happen.
• Our culture encourages curiosity, considered thinking and meaningful contribution, with opportunities to build a broad and rewarding career.
• Our working environment is unique and encourages our employees to share their ideas and feel empowered to tackle new opportunities.

Equal Opportunity

• We are committed to fostering a safe, inclusive and respectful workplace where people of all backgrounds, identities and ways of thinking can thrive, and promoting flexible working to support work-life balance.
• Challenger is proud to be a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, a Family Friendly Workplace and recognised as a Bronze Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI), the national benchmark for LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion.