Portfolio Analyst

Hollard Insurance Company; North Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Hollard Insurance invites analytics-minded professionals to join the Portfolio Management team in a role that spans underwriting, pricing and capital insights. You will contribute to monitoring, reporting and data-driven decision making within a newly formed high-visibility function.

Open to candidates across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, with hybrid and remote work options. This early-career opportunity emphasizes development, mentorship and cross-functional exposure.

Qualifications

• Experience in general insurance, financial services, or related analytical role (graduate program welcomed).
• Ability to build clear analyses and validate figures against sources.
• Strong Excel and data analysis skills with attention to accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Produce and maintain portfolio monitoring reports and dashboards.
• Assist with data gathering, analysis and materials for portfolio deep dives.
• Undertake ad hoc analysis to support portfolio initiatives.
• Prepare materials for Enterprise Portfolio Forum and support budgeting.
• Develop cost–benefit analyses and business cases under guidance.

Skills

Excel

Data analysis

Communication skills

Analytical mindset

Education

Graduate program experience

Job description

Opportunity to work with one of Australia’s largest general insurers

Open for candidates across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane

Grow your career with access to mentorship and development support

About Hollard

Hollard Insurance is part of the Hollard Group of Companies and one of largest General Insurer in Australia and New Zealand. We underwrite a broad range of general insurance products, including motor, home, contents, business, bicycle and pet, in proud partnership with some of Australia's biggest consumer brands and broker businesses. As an independent and privately owned company, we believe we can go further together – for our people, customers, communities and partners – through an innovative approach to providing insurance.

Our state-of-the-art facilities in North Sydney reflect our commitment to providing innovative workspaces that support hybrid and remote work.

Your Team

Portfolio Management sits within Hollard's Chief Technical Office, working closely with Pricing, Reinsurance, Capital and Product & Underwriting to drive an integrated, technically led view of Hollard's portfolio performance and risk-adjusted returns.

This role is part of the core Portfolio team being built out under the Head of Portfolio Management, working closely with the Portfolio Manager and gaining exposure across Pricing, Reinsurance, Capital and Product & Underwriting.

Your Role

This is a great opportunity for an analytically minded early-career insurance professional to build broad exposure across underwriting, pricing, reinsurance and capital, within a newly forming, high visibility function.

Your duties and responsibilities

Support the production and maintenance of portfolio monitoring reports, dashboards and routines, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of data and insights.

Assist with data gathering, analysis and preparation of materials for portfolio deep dives.

Undertake ad hoc analysis and research to support portfolio initiatives, under the guidance of the Portfolio Manager.

Assist in preparing materials for the Enterprise Portfolio Forum and support the annual budgeting and planning process through data collation and analysis.

Assist in the development of cost-benefit analyses and business cases under guidance from the Portfolio Manager.

Your knowledge and Experience

Experience in general insurance, financial services, or a related analytical role (graduate program experience in underwriting, pricing or actuarial welcomed).

Demonstrated ability to build clear, accurate analysis and to check and sense-check figures against source data - comfortable asking "does this number make sense" rather than taking financial, market or actuarial data at face value.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the discipline to check, validate and query financial, market or actuarial figures for accuracy and reasonableness before they inform reporting or decisions.

Strong Excel and data analysis skills

Clear communication and influencing skills in raising a question or concern even when working with more senior or technical stakeholders

Working at Hollard

At Hollard, you’ll discover an environment where you can truly make an impact. We offer the best of both worlds – the opportunity, agility and creativity of a company growing with scale, alongside a focus on becoming a catalyst for enduring, positive, social change.

We’re a tight-knit team, where authentic voices and unique perspectives matter. We work supportively, collaboratively and inclusively to help shape our future and create shared value for our communities.

Hollard proudly promotes flexible work including remote work, non-traditional work patterns, and work-family balance. We’re also unapologetically committed to creating a workplace that values your diversity with a true sense of inclusion. We actively seek to hire for your different lived experiences, including as it relates to disability, ethnicity, faith, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, gender diversity, sexual orientation, age, neurodiversity.

We’re building something special. Working closely with our industry partners to reshape insurance for the better, we’re people changing insurance.

Please note:Even if you don’t meet all our selection criteria, we encourage you to apply.

A full background check will be completed on the successful applicant.

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