Senior Data Analyst (Investment Data)

• Permanent Positions with leading Industry Super fund.
• Must have Investments or Super industry experience
• Great work culture with genuine hybrid environment

Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds.

We support nearly two million members, with around $86 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super, they’re more likely to get a better retirement outcome.

Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours, we want to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.

Investment Data function supports all components of data management, including the establishment and ongoing maintenance of the Investment Data Platform, a custom designed reporting and analytics environment to support the data and analytical needs for our growing Investment business.  

As the Senior Data Analyst, you will be responsible for sourcing and managing data feeds and providing expert analysis of Investment data and data relationships, while seeking to identify and optimise Investment systems and data sources/flows. More broadly, you will participate in key project work and collaborate with a variety of internal and external stakeholders, to deliver support to the business for business intelligence and complex analytical use cases.

• Maintaining and validating Investment data, overseeing Investment databases and systems, and assisting in compiling and analysing performance results, risk matrices, and portfolio analytics to feed insights dashboards. 
• Ensure accurate information is stored and reported, maintaining automated reconciliation and validations in REST's systems, monitoring for discrepancies, and investigating cause.
• Understand and describe data definitions, lineage, provenance, and the data quality of critical data for the Rest Investment business.
• Develop and improve the Investment Data Platform, assuring the availability of, and trust in business data.
• Design and manage the implementation of technical specifications for data ingestion patterns, to optimise persistence for reporting and analytical data sets.
• Support best practice business process optimisation for the Data and Analytics operations, consistently evolving business process with technology and analytical tools.
• Collaborate with Investment teams and key stakeholders to design and produce data required to support analysis for the Rest Investment business.

• Significant experience of data analysis in a data management or investment analytics function.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with data platform environments (AWS, Snowflake, Azure) and data integration technologies.
• Proven ability to drive outcomes for data quality initiatives.
• Exposure to BI and analysis technologies, PowerBI/Tableau, Python, R, Excel.
• Proficiency in SQL programming.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage meaningfully with key stakeholders in the Front Office & Investment Analytics teams.
• High attention to detail and ability to work independently
• Eager to use your expertise to help make a positive difference to every Rest member's financial future

Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include:

• Personal and professional development opportunities 
• Hybrid working 
• Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave 
• Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave 
• Linkedin Learning 
• Income Protection Insurance 
• Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rest’s values and behaviours) 
• Rest Stops - meeting free breaks 

If you share our values, believe you can help make a difference for our members and want to be part of a leading superannuation fund with a Super culture, please click Apply Now.

Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion - where people feel welcome, safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best.

We value the different backgrounds, lived experiences and abilities our diverse team brings. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all ages, cultural backgrounds, faiths, gender identities, sexual orientations and thinking styles. This includes people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples and those with disrupted work history due to career or other breaks.

Please note only people with the right to work in Australia will be considered.

*Funds under management as at 30 June 2024. Rest is recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.