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About the Role
The Senior Portfolio Manager role spans two functions: Principal Finance, responsible for acquiring and managing mortgage and loan portfolios, and Capital Markets, providing enterprise-wide leadership in structuring, financing, and strategy implementation.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to building a pipeline of whole loan portfolio acquisitions.
- Lead the origination and execution of new whole loans transactions end-to-end.
- Conduct investment due diligence.
- Structure and price transactions.
- Perform cashflow modelling and scenario analysis.
- Manage external stakeholders including originators, servicers, funders, and rating agencies.
- Prepare investment papers for internal approvals.
- Manage transaction legal documentation.
- Build and maintain relationships with issuers, banks, and counterparties.
- Actively contribute to portfolio construction for the Principal Finance strategy.
- Manage existing investments, including compliance with covenants and risk limits.
- Monitor investment performance and drive amendments or restructures.
- Design and implement upgrades to the internal operational framework for execution efficiency and reporting.
- Provide structuring and funding insight for portfolio- and deal-level decision-making.
- Design efficient structures and financing packages.
- Act as a senior representative for the team.
- Support and develop talent within the team.
- Collaborate with ANZ and Offshore ABS teams.
- Work closely with internal stakeholders across Legal, Credit Risk, Finance, Compliance, and Operations.
- Ensure structuring, financing, and strategy implementation activities meet governance frameworks and risk limits.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to uplift risk governance activities.
Requirements
- 10 years+ of experience across structured credit or asset-backed finance markets.
- Strong understanding of securitised credit, mortgage lending, and consumer credit asset classes.
- Deep network and relationships across Australian non-banks and banks.
- Highly numerate with advanced financial modelling skills.
- Ability to quickly interpret data/figures.
- Ability to work independently, take initiative, and manage tasks effectively.
- Familiarity with corporate regulatory environments, governance principles, and risk management within an investment management context.
Skills
- Financial modelling
- Investment due diligence
- Cashflow modelling
- Scenario analysis
- Stakeholder management
- Relationship building
- Portfolio construction
- Risk management
- Structuring
- Financing
- Enterprise thinking
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Relevant tertiary qualification (Finance, Commerce, Mathematics or similar)
Benefits
- Competitive Discretionary bonus scheme
- Employee share plan
- Eighteen weeks paid leave for all new parents
- Challenger Day – one extra day off every year
- Subsidised on-site café
- 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 billion in assets.
- We are 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.
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.