Senior Manager, Total Portfolio Risk

Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia's largest profit-to-member superannuation funds. We support more than two million members, with around $100 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader. We believe when members understand and engage with their super, they're more likely to get a better retirement outcome. Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours: Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit.

As a key component of the Investment Strategy and Asset Allocation function, the Senior Manager, Total Portfolio Risk will be responsible for developing and maintaining an investment risk modelling framework and ensuring investment risk objectives are appropriately integrated into investment strategy decision making and portfolio construction.

• Provide investment risk related design advice to management's investment decision makers as part of the investment decision making process and by regularly reviewing investment portfolios, asset classes and overlay and implementation strategies to identify potential risks (qualitative and quantitative)
• Provide advice on the allocation of risk and liquidity budgets in the setting of the Strategic Asset Allocation
• Evaluate stress testing outputs on market and liquidity risk to inform portfolio construction, positioning and implementation
• Design and enhance financial and predictive models across the investment division, ensuring that they are appropriately built with consistent inputs and key assumptions
• Collaborate with Portfolio Managers to support risk analysis, and its identification consistently across our investment strategies
• Develop forward looking methodologies to capture risks in private market investments
• Identify emerging risks, macro and mega-trends that may impact the investments, portfolios, and strategy, quantify the potential impact and build potential mitigating measures
• Provide advice and input into the build and implementation of new risk systems
• Contribute to the modelling of CMA\'s and assessment of factor and climate risks across portfolios

• Tertiary qualification in accounting, economics, business or equivalent
• (desirable) professional certification (eg, CFA or FRM)
• Demonstrated experience in investment risk management in the investment management and/or superannuation industry
• Thorough understanding of, and experience in developing, implementing and reporting on investment risk management tools, techniques and best practice methodologies
• Demonstrated 'commercial' approach to investment risk management, including ability to engage effectively with senior decision makers and portfolio managers
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and prioritise competing deadlines
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage a high-performing team
• Well-developed interpersonal skills with sound oral and written communications
• Strong technical capabilities in financial modelling and programming in many programming languages (Python preferred)

• Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include:
• Personal and professional development opportunities
• Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave
• Income Protection Insurance
• Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rest's values and behaviours)

Please note: Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion and welcomes applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Information Technology

Please note only people with the right to work in Australia will be considered. Funds under management as at 31 July 2025. Rest is recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.