Senior Manager, Total Portfolio Risk

Company Description

Supporting millions of Aussies since 1988 with low fees and competitive long-term performance. Profits back to members, not shareholders

Closing date: 19th September 2025

Please note Rest does not accept speculative resumes from recruitment agencies

Rest will review applications prior to the closing date and may close the role earlier

Job Description

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, we want to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.

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.

Key responsibilities:

• 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

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in accounting, economics, business or equivalent
• (desirable) professional certification (eg, CFA or FRM)

Required experience, understanding or credentials including:

• Demonstrated experience in investment risk management in the investment management and/or superannuation industry
• Thorough understanding of, and experience of developing and implementing and reporting on, investment risk management tools, techniques and best practice methodologies
• Demonstrated 'commercial' approach to investment risk management, including demonstrated 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 coupled with sound oral and written communications skills
• Strong technical capabilities in financial modelling and programming in many programming languages (python programming preferred)

Additional Information

Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include:

• Personal and professional development opportunities
• Hybrid working
• Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave
• Linkedin Learning
• Income Protection Insurance
• Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rest's values and behaviours)
• Rest Stops - meeting free breaks

If you share our values, believe you can help make a difference for our members and want to be part of a leading superannuation fund with a Super culture, please click Apply Now.

Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion - where people feel welcome, safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best.

We value the different backgrounds, lived experiences and abilities our diverse team brings. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all ages, cultural backgrounds, faiths, gender identities, sexual orientations and thinking styles. This includes people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples and those with disrupted work history due to career or other breaks.

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.