Jobs at Challenger (challenger.com)

Supports Business Development Managers and financial advisers by maintaining relationships, driving retention and sales, demonstrating retirement income strategies, assisting with administration and implementation, training users on quoting tools, resolving product queries, and tracking funds flow. The role requires financial services experience, strong customer service and communication skills, relevant financial product exposure, and RG146 qualifications across managed investments, superannuation, life insurance, securities, and derivatives.

Leads origination, structuring, execution, financing, and ongoing management of whole-loan and asset-backed transactions. Responsibilities include investment due diligence, pricing, financial modelling, scenario analysis, stakeholder and counterparty management, portfolio oversight, covenant monitoring, restructures, governance, risk management, and developing team capability.

Lead the greenfield development of Challenger’s React digital platform. Own React architecture, engineering standards, reusable component libraries, API and BFF integrations, CI/CD pipelines, quality controls, security, performance, accessibility and observability. Provide hands-on coding, code reviews and technical leadership while influencing internal teams and delivery partners. Collaborate with Product, Architecture, Design, Security and Accenture teams to establish scalable digital portal foundations and grow internal React capability.

Designs and reviews end-to-end solution architectures across investment management initiatives. The role documents technology decisions, partners with product and engineering teams, manages external technology vendors, addresses technical debt and dependencies, and ensures solutions meet governance, cybersecurity, privacy, and data standards. It also contributes to architecture governance, reference architecture, and enterprise technology direction.

Prepare statutory accounts, perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations, consolidation entries, P&L and balance sheet analysis, and support month-end close. Liaise with auditors and tax, improve processes and controls, coach team members, and manage assigned complex entities across investment portfolios and annuity insurance products.

Own the integrated release lifecycle for a major transformation program, including roadmap management, release planning, dependency coordination, governance, readiness reviews, cutover, deployment, rollback, production verification, and post-release stabilization. The role coordinates technology, business, operational, project, testing, and external delivery teams while managing risks, environments, stakeholder communication, and release approvals.

Business Analyst supporting customer, technology, regulatory, operational and strategic initiatives. Responsibilities include facilitating workshops, eliciting and documenting requirements, mapping current and future-state processes, conducting impact assessments, validating solutions, performing gap analysis, and supporting delivery teams. The role partners with business stakeholders, technology teams and delivery partners to translate business needs into functional and technical outcomes.

Develop and maintain quantitative pricing, valuation, risk, market data, and actuarial systems using C#/.NET. Translate financial models into production software, build quantitative libraries and valuation infrastructure, troubleshoot production issues, and contribute to testing, validation, peer reviews, and engineering improvements. Collaborate with analysts, actuaries, and developers across fixed income, interest rates, FX, derivatives, annuities, and reinsurance while exploring AI-assisted development and automation.

Own and govern investment data and platform support for front-office workflows. Manage data quality, security master and reference data processes, coordinate onboarding of securities/benchmarks/market data, partner with State Street and vendors to resolve platform issues, and support testing and implementation of platform enhancements (Charles River, Alpha Data Platform).

Execute and implement complex investment, insurance, reinsurance, funding, and cross-border transactions. Structure solutions, support negotiations, coordinate governance and approvals, onboard investment managers, and establish operating models. Collaborate with Investment, Finance, ALM, Risk, Operations, Legal, and external counterparties to deliver commercially effective, risk-aware outcomes in a regulated financial services environment.