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, 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 AllocationEvaluate stress testing outputs on market and liquidity risk to inform portfolio construction, positioning and implementationDesign and enhance financial and predictive models across the investment division, ensuring that they are appropriately built with consistent inputs and key assumptionsCollaborate with Portfolio Managers to support risk analysis, and its identification consistently across our investment strategiesDevelop forward looking methodologies to capture risks in private market investmentsIdentify emerging risks, macro and mega-trends that may impact the investments, portfolios, and strategy, quantify the potential impact and build potential mitigating measuresProvide advice and input into the build and implementation of new risk systemsContribute to the modelling of CMA's and assessment of factor and climate risks across portfolios