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About the Role
The Life Strategic Transactions team executes and implements complex transactions across Challenger's investment and insurance businesses, including reinsurance, investment mandates, and funding initiatives. This role supports a growing pipeline of work, requiring collaboration with senior stakeholders to structure, negotiate, and implement transactions while ensuring appropriate governance and operating models.
Responsibilities
- Support the execution and implementation of strategic transaction opportunities across Challenger's investment and insurance businesses.
- Ensure transactions are implemented in a commercially appropriate, efficient, and risk-aware manner.
- Work on domestic and offshore reinsurance transactions, funding initiatives, and institutional solutions.
- Implement investment mandates across private assets, fixed income, equities, alternatives, and life-risk strategies.
- Structure transaction solutions and support commercial and contractual negotiations.
- Coordinate approvals, governance processes, and transaction obligations.
- Support the onboarding of investment managers, mandates, and associated operating structures.
Requirements
- Experience executing complex transactions in a sophisticated financial services environment, from initial structuring and negotiation through to implementation.
- Comfortable working through ambiguity.
- Ability to coordinate a broad range of stakeholders and deliver commercially effective outcomes within appropriate governance and risk frameworks.
- Experience gained in insurance or reinsurance, investment banking or capital markets, corporate transactions or M&A, financial services consulting or transaction advisory, or in an actuarial, investment or broader financial services organisation with significant transaction exposure.
- Experience working within governance frameworks, approval processes, and regulated environments.
Skills
- Strong commercial negotiation skills
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Knowledge of financial markets
- Knowledge of investment products
- Exposure to cross-border transactions or operating structures
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Hybrid Working
- Permanent
Benefits
- Competitive remuneration
- 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
- Additional support leave (fertility treatment leave, gender affirmation leave)
- Extra superannuation contributions
- Access to Fitness Passport
About the Company
- Challenger Limited is an ASX-listed investment management firm managing $120 billion in assets (as at 30 June 2026).
- We achieve our goal by providing a work environment where people from diverse backgrounds, with a range of skills and experiences can contribute and succeed.
- Our culture encourages curiosity, considered thinking and meaningful contribution, with opportunities to build a broad and rewarding career.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.