Your SUPER career starts here
As one of Australia's largest profit-for-members superannuation funds, we always remember whose money it is and whose future we're looking after. We work to reimagine a new way forward for our 1.1 million members and their communities. Each other. And our world.
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Your New Role
As Assistant Portfolio Manager – Fixed Income, you’ll play a key role in supporting portfolio management, liquidity oversight and strategy implementation across the Fund’s fixed income sectors. With a core focus on government and semi‑government exposures, you’ll contribute to portfolio construction, risk management and process enhancement across a large and complex debt portfolio. You will
- Support day‑to‑day portfolio management across fixed income sectors, with a focus on government and semi‑government securities.
- Contribute to sector construction, including capital allocation, liquidity management and portfolio positioning.
- Manage funding and liquidity requirements, supporting portfolio transitions and alignment with broader strategy.
- Enhance investment processes, including macro research, risk management frameworks and system integration.
- Represent the Fixed Income team to internal stakeholders and contribute to key strategic initiatives.
How do you exceed our expectations?
- The idea of being part of our growth is exciting and you want to play a pivotal role in making super simple.
- 10+ years’ experience in investment management or superannuation, with a strong track record in fixed income.
- Deep understanding of sovereign, semi-government and rates markets, alongside macroeconomic drivers.
- Experience managing portfolio and sector risks within defined investment and regulatory frameworks.
- Strong quantitative and analytical capability, with proficiency in Excel, Bloomberg and ideally Aladdin.
- Proven collaborator with strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- You are balanced in accepting risk in any decision you face. You are curious to understand risk context and choose to speak up as we simplify, learn and grow.
Employee Experience
We understand that not everyone works in the same ways. We value flexibility and know that it helps you manage work and life.
Why you’ll love working at Aware Super:
- Have a super impact: You’ll think big and care deeply to help more Australians live their best lives in retirement.
- Be part of something super unique: You’ll work to reshape super and retirement. We’ll invest in your growth and give you the opportunity to work on career-defining projects.
- Work with super humans: You’ll work hard and innovate, but also have some fun along the way.
- Feel super cared for: We’ll support your wellbeing today, as well as in the future. Enjoy a health & fitness reimbursement, work from home technology reimbursement, salary continuance insurance and organisation-wide meeting free zones.
The Aware Super difference
At Aware Super, we believe that diversity of thought, background and experience creates better outcomes for our members and communities and a stronger sense of belonging for our people. We value a diverse workplace and strongly encourage women, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, people with cultural and linguistic diversity, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, and mature-age individuals to apply. We are proud to be consistently recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality and our CEO, Deanne Stewart, is a Pay Equity Ambassador.
