Take hold of a monster opportunity and join Australian Retirement Trust as our Senior Specialist - Valuations. You'll play a key role in overseeing valuation governance across a diverse portfolio of unlisted assets, partnering with internal and external stakeholders to ensure robust valuation processes, strong risk management, and reporting excellence. This is your opportunity to influence outcomes across infrastructure, real estate, private equity and private credit while helping drive continuous improvement, operational efficiency, and best-practice valuation oversight.

Our 2.4 million members trust us to take care of over $330 billion in retirement savings. And we help them take charge of their finances and face the future with confidence. Our inclusive culture means you'll be valued and heard in a respectful workplace. We've created an environment where you can be yourself and do amazing work. It's that simple. We value diverse thinking, cultures, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities. We don't want to leave you with a monstrous wait. So, you'll hear from us after the closing date to find out whether you've made it through to the next round or not. Being fair and up-front is important to us - and recruitment is no different.

We're all about helping our members make the most of their money. And while they go after their goals, you can too. As a Senior Specialist - Valuations, you'll play an important role in managing valuation risk across the fund and ensuring the accurate and timely reporting of unlisted asset valuations to committees that oversee valuation governance. You will partner closely with investment teams,



external managers and independent valuers to ensure strong, consistent valuation processes and high‑quality governance outcomes. This role is available as a permanent/ full time opportunity and is based in Brisbane and Sydney.

Day to day, you'll:

- Oversee the valuation process across all investment asset classes, ensuring compliance with best practice and regulatory standards.
- Review and challenge valuations from independent valuers and external managers, ensuring accuracy, strong judgement, and clear supporting documentation.
- Contribute to the management of the composition of the Fund's panel of valuers including coordinating RFPs, overseeing the RFP process of external managers for new assets or when rotation is required, all the way through to the engagement of an independent valuer.
- Monitor markets and industries to identify when out‑of‑cycle valuations may be required.
- Assess the impact of macro‑economic factors (e.g. interest rates, inflation, growth, and geopolitical risks) on asset valuations.
- Support the Valuation Committee and contribute to Board and Committee papers.
- Conduct valuation governance reviews for new and existing external managers to drive continuous improvement.





It goes without saying you'll be a great communicator with top notch interpersonal skills. We'll also expect you to pick up problems and come up with quick, creative ways to solve them. It's quite likely you tick some of the following boxes too:

- Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, accounting, or a related field.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
- Proficiency in excel based analysis, financial modelling and valuation techniques.
- Experience in managing multiple projects with a number of stakeholders and service providers.
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
- Knowledge of relevant accounting standards.

Why join us?

Bring your potential to Australian Retirement Trust and unleash our monster possibilities:

- You'll get 14% super as standard, to help your future come alive.
- Unleash your potential and build a career to be proud of through excellent training and development opportunities.
- Balance your work between in-person days at our purpose-built hubs and working from home.
- In the office, enjoy end of trip facilities, a yoga and multi-faith room, parent and carer rooms, quiet rooms, BrewHub coffee facilities, and collaborative team spaces.

We use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), to support parts of our recruitment process - such as reviewing applications, supporting screening interviews, reference checking, and matching skills to roles. All final hiring decisions are made by people. By applying, you agree to the use of these technologies as part of the recruitment process.

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📌 Senior Specialist - Valuations (City of Sydney)
🏢 Australian Retirement Trust
📍 City of Sydney