Portfolio Manager, Global ABS

About the Opportunity

Challenger Limited is an ASX-listed investment management firm managing $128.2 billion in assets (as at 31 December 2025). Life with us is fast moving and always exciting. Together we’re 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.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyse market news, emerging themes and implications to identify primary and secondary market opportunities
• Prepare and present investment analysis and reviews to key stakeholders based on thorough issuer due diligence, structural analysis and cashflow modelling
• Support investment strategy process and actively participate in portfolio construction meetings and other investment team meetings
• Support the portfolio monitoring process, complete reviews of credits in the portfolio with recommendations
• Enhancing and building on existing quantitative and qualitative processes
• Conduct research on new sectors and investment strategies
• Interacting with other teams including Operations, Finance, Legal, and Risk
• Contribution to marketing efforts as required

About You

Skills and experience:

• 6+ years in-depth CLO and securitised credit experience, focussed on investment analysis
• Experience and a good understanding of different structured credit products, markets, and regulations
• Good understanding of global financial markets - understanding of macro drivers and adjacent asset classes
• Good understanding of rating agencies methodologies
• Superior analytical skills - analyse deal documentation, think through scenarios, identify risks
• Strong quantitative skills - ability to build cashflow models and run robust scenario analysis, ability to work with large data sets
• Ability to work independently, take initiative, plan and manage own tasks and performance
• Ability to collaborate effectively within a team environment and actively contribute to team development and knowledge sharing
• Strong Intex, Bloomberg, Microsoft Office tool skills
• Programming ability - not required but an advantage

Benefits

We offer flexible working, career development and the chance to make a real impact in a business that values integrity and innovation.

At Challenger, we’re small enough to be agile, but big enough to accelerate bold ideas. We support your growth and development, offering flexibility and a culture that values your unique contributions.

Challenger's 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.

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.

About Company

Challenger is proud to be a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, a Family Friendly Workplace and recognized as a Bronze Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI), the national benchmark for LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion.

Job type:

Permanent

Posting Close Date:

08/03/2026