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Be part of a world-class team, adopting a best practice approach backed up by our long-term performance.

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Grow your future as we grow New Zealand’s

Our people are our greatest asset. At the Guardians your professional growth is a strong focus to ensure that you, as part of our team, are able to achieve your best work, every day. Being part of our team means you will be supported and encouraged to develop and stretch yourself.

 

Grow your future as we grow New Zealand’s
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At the Guardians the value we add lies in the quality of our decisions and actions.

Our ability to add value to New Zealand therefore lies solely with our people and that's why we invest so much into finding and developing our people.

By joining the Guardians you're joining a team of exceptionally talented individuals who're committed to building a better future for New Zealand.

And, for me personally, when I come to work each day I find that pretty inspiring.

We really have a unique view in the Guardians in that we believe that all our staff are top talent, and what that means practically is we invest in everybody, regardless of role, or level within the Guardians, and really take the time to understand our staff's career aspirations and what their goals are.

So what that allows us to do is build really targeted and tailored development plans to match that.

For my team, our aspirations and what we're trying to achieve here is to make sure that we get the right learning to the right people at the right time in their careers, and by doing that we know that we'll actually raise the capability of every staff member here at the Guardians year-on-year which will ultimately lead to the success of the Guardians and make us a great place to work.

Find where you fit

Wherever you belong, make a difference for New Zealand every day.

Legal
Te Ture

A key partner to the rest of the organisation, the Legal team provides legal direction in the context of a deep understanding of the Guardians and Fund, its risk appetite, and its objectives. The team’s work is broad, cross-border and complex, advising on all legal matters impacting our operations; keeping ahead of the global regulatory landscape and how that impacts the mandates we manage and preparing, reviewing and negotiating all contracts and legal documents on our behalf.

Communications
Te Pāhekoheko

We understand the importance of a strong reputation and healthy stakeholder relationships to achieving our investment and organisational objectives. Our Communications team has a key role in ensuring we maintain the trust and confidence of our stakeholders through a commitment to transparent, timely and accurate communication. We also have a strong focus on internal communication.

See our current vacancies

Internal Audit
Te Tātari ā-Roto

The Internal Audit function is an independent objective assurance and advisory activity. Our team works closely with the Board and Leadership Team to help the Guardians achieve its objectives by evaluating and improving the effectiveness of our governance, risk management and internal control processes across all areas of the business.

See our current vacancies

Direct Investments
Ngā Haumitanga Torokaka

The Direct Investments team leads the origination, review and execution of our direct investment opportunities, as well as the management and governance of these investments post-completion. We are also responsible for managing our New Zealand active equities portfolio.

Asset Allocation
Te Tiringa o ngā Rawa

The Asset Allocation team at the Guardians is the unifying force behind our investment decision-making; providing robust investment risk measurement and management. The team supports the NZ Super Fund’s Reference Portfolio, as well as the risk capital allocation (risk budgeting) across the active investment strategies that make up its Actual Portfolio. The team includes the Economics, Data Analytics and Portfolio Design functions.

External Investments and Partnerships
Ngā Haumitanga o Waho me ngā Pātuitanga

A significant portion of the NZ Super Fund, and all of the Elevate Fund, is invested by external fund managers on our behalf. The External Investments and Partnerships team works with investment and asset managers around the world, representing a wide variety of investments, listed and unlisted. Selecting these managers and monitoring their performance is a key part of the team’s work. The team is also responsible for coordinating our relationships with global peers.

Sustainable Investment
Te Haepapa o te Haumitanga

The Sustainable Investment team is charged with supporting and upskilling the investments team to ensure they are equipped with the knowledge and expertise necessary to consider the material Environmental, Social and Governance risks on our portfolio (like climate change) along with the impact of our investments on the long-term wellbeing of society, the environment and the real economy while continuing to deliver strong commercial returns.

Strategic Tilting
Ngā Rautaki Honga

The Strategic Tilting team is primarily responsible for managing and executing the New Zealand Superannuation Fund’s active, internally-managed strategic tilting strategy. This strategy reflects the Fund’s endowments and investment belief, and alters the Fund’s exposure to broad markets and currencies (such as global equities, rates, commodities and credit). It is a long-horizon, value-based strategy with a very disciplined and systematic investment approach.

Data Analytics
Tātari Raraunga

The Data Analytics (DA) team bring expertise and experience in data science to contribute to investment excellence and innovation, create efficiencies, and mitigate risk. The DA team develop investment quantitative models and analytical tools. The function leads and supports Guardians-wide improvement in data analysis systems and practices to keep pace with the industry and enable productivity. The DA team is an active member of the Investments Team with an enterprise function. 

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People and Culture
Te Puna Tāngata

People sit at the heart of everything we do at the Guardians. The People and Culture team designs strategies and practices to attract, retain, develop, and motivate our diverse and talented workforce. Underpinning all of this, the People and Culture team places a strong emphasis on enabling a constructive values-driven culture, and a flexible, inclusive environment in which all team members can thrive. People and Culture has three teams:

  • People Partnering
  • Culture and Insights
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Portfolio Investments
Ngā Haumitanga o te Huinga

We look to leverage the NZ Super Fund's sovereign status and strong implied credit rating, together with the fact that it is a long-term fund with a known liquidity profile, to gain access to different kinds of funding opportunities. The Portfolio Investments team, responsible for executing these opportunities, runs a number of active mandates: active collateral, direct arbitrage, opportunistic volatility and dividend derivative futures.

Portfolio Completion
Te Whakaotinga o te Huinga

Established in 2009, the Portfolio Completion (Treasury) team has expanded rapidly to become a key driver of value at the Guardians. The team works to achieve efficiencies in the management of our passive exposures. In recent years the team’s activities have expanded beyond traditional treasury management, looking to add value using a range of investment strategies.

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Risk
Te Tūraru

Risk is an integral part of how we operate at the Guardians. We take investment risk in order to achieve our mission, while also managing other complex non-investment risks. Our Risk team measures and monitors the portfolio, enterprise and compliance risk areas of the organisation to improve decision making through independent review.

Data Services
Ngā Ratonga Raraunga

The Data Services team’s primary purpose is to ensure that Guardians team members have confidence and trust in its investment data and investment reporting. The function supports the business to achieve its strategic data objectives by helping shape the data standards, principles, and data production process support required, to in turn enable efficient and effective investment decision making and risk management. This function also plays a crucial role in managing the Guardians’ relationships with its data partners and providers, as well as internal data consumers ensuring that they are supported in obtaining the data they require, with the right quality controls and performance measures.

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Finance
Te Pūtea

The Finance team is responsible for all aspects of accounting, budgeting and financial reporting at the Guardians, working closely with a broad range of other areas and levels of the organisation. The team also co-ordinates funding, de-funding and valuation of the NZ Super Fund’s unlisted investments and plays a central role in the design and maintenance of our control environment. The facilities management, travel management and reception roles also fall within the Finance team.

Tax
Te Tāke

The Tax team is committed to best practice, openness and transparency. The Guardians' two mandates are subject to tax on their respective worldwide income. The New Zealand Superannuation Fund is one of the largest taxpayers in New Zealand. Investing both mandates in a tax efficient manner is an important consideration for our Tax team which is also responsible for the management of our tax obligations.

Investment Operations
Ngā Whakahaere ā-Haumitanga

The Investment Operations team provides trade lifecycle support for all of our internal investment activity as well as the controls and oversight required for the effective administration of the Fund's externally managed mandates. The team is also responsible for the management of our key service provider relationships, including our global custodian.

Strategic Development
Te Rautaki

The Strategy team sets our strategic agenda, working across teams to envisage where we want to be in the medium and longer-term to achieve our mission and vision, and how we plan to get there (our shorter-term priorities). The team also leads innovation and knowledge management projects, and delivers special projects as required, including project managing global benchmarking initiatives and external reviews of the Guardians.

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Data Technology
Te Hangarau Raraunga

Empowering the Guardians to make the best decisions based on reliable information, the Data Technology team is responsible for our investment-related data and technology services. We deliver the tools and data required to ensure that our investment-related data can be trusted, understood and traced, while creating and maintaining high quality decision support tools.

Technology Services
Ratonga Hangarau

Our investment activity depends on robust, high quality IT platform.  Our Technology Services Team oversees all the systems, infrastructure and data in place at the Guardians.  All systems are now working in a cloud environment and we have a “Cloud first” policy.  This ensures that we have the infrastructure in place to provide the scale, security and business continuity solution to deliver the capabilities required for our investment activity.

Business Solutions Group
Rōpu Whakataunga Pakihi

The Business Solutions Group (BSG) is responsible for partnering with the business to understand and prioritise the business problems that can be solved by technology. We collaborate closely with the business to define and deliver the initiatives that support our business and strategic goals. We also manage a network of external professional relationships to supplement our delivery practices. We are experts in project and programme management, business analysis, enterprise change management and relationship management.

Information Security
Haumarutanga Pārongo

The Information Security team is responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of an information security program that protects the confidentiality, integrity and availability of Guardians' technology and information assets. Our Information Security team is committed to engaging both the internal business stakeholders and, the wider security community to establish an appropriate information security governance structure that encourages and enables collaboration and support for new initiatives.

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A place you can be yourself
Kei hea koe e rongo ai i te kainga

The Guardians is committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, supported and empowered. People who work at the Guardians are comfortable challenging attitudes, ideas and actions. We also openly discuss and learn from mistakes.

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Your wellbeing
To oranga

When our people are at their best, we’re at our best. At the Guardians you can trust we will invest in your wellbeing so you can thrive personally. We are proud to have been awarded the DVFREE Tick from SHINE, which is a mark of confidence that we take meaningful steps to create a workplace free of family violence.

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