KEY HIGHLIGHTS:
- Allianz employees globally average 10.5 years’ tenure at the company.
- 89% of Allianz employees are satisfied with their flexible work arrangements.
- Allianz spent an average of 60 hours per employee on learning in 2024.
Allianz Australia has made Australia’s inaugural Best Workplaces in Finance and Insurance 2026 list. Based on surveys representing the voices of 18,712 employees across finance and insurance, the 15 organisations that made this list prove that when financial services companies invest in people culture, the returns show up everywhere.
At Allianz Group globally, employees stay for an average of 10.5 years. In financial services, where talent pipelines are fiercely competitive and burnout is a recurring boardroom agenda item, that is a number worth sitting with for a moment.
Allianz Australia, insurer to more than four million policyholders and workers compensation partner to approximately one in four of the top 200 ASX companies, has just been named on Australia’s first ever Best Workplaces in Finance and Insurance 2026 list. This follows a seventh-place finish in the 2025 Best Workplaces in Australia rankings (up from tenth the year before) and marks the third consecutive year the company has earned Great Place To Work Certification.
What makes working at Allianz Australia great?
Recognition culture at Allianz Australia is peer-driven, which matters more than it sounds. The Appreciate Platform lets employees give each other recognition points for demonstrating company values. Those points are redeemable in an online marketplace, and the whole system is run by colleagues rather than leadership or HR.
Once a year, the Aspire Awards brings around 150 semi-finalists together, nominated by their peers, for an evening at Allianz Stadium. Category winners are announced over a gala dinner. Every semi-finalist receives a learning opportunity on top of the night itself.
Learning is a huge part of the people strategy. Allianz Australia has committed to a minimum of 40 hours of learning per employee per year, including mandatory modules on data and AI so employees are not left to interpret for themselves what the technology shift means for their roles. Access to platforms including Degreed and LinkedIn Learning, with over 10,000 courses available, is part of the standard offering.
What Flexible Working at Allianz Australia Looks Like in Practice
There is a difference between a flexible work policy and flexible work. Allianz Australia tracks the gap: 89 per cent of Allianz employees globally say they are satisfied with the flexible arrangements available to them, and around 54 per cent of actual working time happens outside the office.
For Australian employees, that flexibility extends internationally. Allianz’s cross-border remote work program allows up to 25 working days per year from outside an employee’s country of employment. Since the program launched in late 2021, approximately 18,000 requests have been submitted globally and around 75,000 days worked abroad for personal reasons.
The Mini Mobility program goes further, offering 30 to 90-day placements at a different Allianz entity in another country. Jeremy, an actuary based in Australia, spent three months at Allianz UK. “My Mini Mobility experience was valuable to understand how the actuarial profession is regulated differently in the UK, where the challenge to pricing and reserving is more robust than in Australia,” he says. “I would go to the London office daily to network.”
That kind of structured international exposure is unusual in the Australian insurance market, where career development tends to track vertically within a single organisation. The ability to spend three months in a different regulatory environment and come back with a wider professional network is a different kind of benefit to annual leave loading.
Inclusion at Allianz Australia: The Jigsaw Story
In 2020, Allianz Australia was facing a claims backlog. The approach they took to address it says something about how the organisation thinks.
Rather than scaling up conventional temporary staffing, the team partnered with Jigsaw, a social enterprise specialising in training and employing people with disabilities, with a particular focus on neurodiverse individuals. Professional training programs were built from scratch to equip neurodiverse team members with the knowledge needed to support claims processing effectively. A dedicated Jigsaw Coach was embedded in the team as an ongoing point of contact for both new participants and existing Allianz colleagues.
The objective was twofold: clear the backlog and create genuine career opportunities. Both things happened. The team has grown from four people to approximately 50 neurodiverse members across multiple locations.
It is a useful example because the business case and the inclusion case are the same case. Allianz Australia didn’t run a workforce diversity program alongside its claims operation, it built one into it.
On pay, Allianz Group holds EDGE certification across 73 entities in 30 countries, covering gender equity in pay, advancement, and workplace culture. EDGE was launched at the World Economic Forum and is the leading global standard for workplace gender equality. Allianz insurance businesses achieved EDGE Certification or recertification in 2023.
Allianz’s Employee Share Purchase Plan means employees can buy Allianz shares at a 25 per cent discount, with the company adding one euro for every three invested. Doug, an Australian colleague, said: “I really like the idea that the success of Allianz is linked to my success.”
Around 75 per cent of Allianz’s global workforce are shareholders. In a sector where employees are often selling products they have no personal stake in, that alignment helps make people feel more connected to the business.
What Allianz Australia Employees Say
The employee feedback Allianz collected through its global survey captures something specific. Asked for anonymous responses on the company’s employer value proposition, one employee said: “Everyone at Allianz is showing the world we care. For our employees, our customers, our partners, customer service and sales, across the board we ‘care’.” Another said: “It makes me feel like as an employee, I have a chance to make a difference.”
An external candidate, assessing Allianz before joining, described it this way: “It feels forward thinking. Like there is a sense of belonging and emphasises the future of people.”
For HR leaders benchmarking Allianz against industry standards, the signals across three consecutive years of Great Place To Work data point in the same direction: an organisation that has decided its people operation is a business priority, not a communications exercise. That decision tends to show up in the numbers eventually.
FAQs: Working at Allianz Australia
Is Allianz Australia a good place to work?
Allianz Australia has earned Great Place To Work Certification for three consecutive years and placed seventh among large employers in the 2025 Best Workplaces in Australia rankings. It was also named to the inaugural 2026 Best Workplaces in Finance and Insurance list. Great Place To Work rankings are based entirely on confidential employee survey data across 60 dimensions of workplace experience.
What is the culture like at Allianz Australia?
Allianz Australia’s culture is built around what the company calls Inclusive Meritocracy: performance and people are evaluated together. Day-to-day, this means peer-driven recognition through the Appreciate Platform, annual Aspire Awards at Allianz Stadium, flexible work by default, and structured learning programs including mandatory AI and digital modules so employees understand where their roles are heading.
Does Allianz Australia offer flexible working?
Yes. Across the Allianz Group globally, 89 per cent of employees are satisfied with available flexible work arrangements and approximately 54 per cent of working time happens outside the office. Australian employees can also access the cross-border remote work program (up to 25 days per year working abroad) and the Mini Mobility program, which offers 30 to 90-day international placements at other Allianz entities.
What does inclusion look like at Allianz Australia?
In 2020, Allianz Australia partnered with Jigsaw, a social enterprise focused on neurodiverse employment, to build a dedicated claims processing team. That team has grown from four to approximately 50 people across multiple locations. Allianz Group also holds EDGE certification across 73 entities in 30 countries, the leading global standard for workplace gender equality in pay, advancement, and culture.
What career development does Allianz Australia offer?
Allianz Australia commits to a minimum of 40 hours of learning per employee per year, with access to digital platforms including Degreed and LinkedIn Learning. The Mini Mobility program offers international placements of 30 to 90 days at other Allianz entities globally. Leadership development programs and a 360-degree feedback process for people managers are also available.
