Company Description
**About Us**
Awarded as an ESG and Responsible Investment Leader, Rest is one of Australia's largest profit-to-member superannuation funds; supporting more than 280,000 employers and around 1.95 million members, we have nearly $71 billion of funds under management.
Our ambition is to create super our members love. This is our purpose; it is why Rest exists. To achieve this ambition our mission is clear: make super simple
At the heart of everything we do at Rest are our values and behaviours, they represent how we'll be successful in this pursuit. 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.
**Job Description**:
**About the Job**
**Key Responsibilities Include**:
- Undertake market, economic and investment research for use in asset class valuations, portfolio construction and implementation.
- Assist in the analysis and compilation of data to be used in investment reporting and decision making, including reporting to the Board and Investment Sub-Committees.
- Assist with modelling initiatives including capital market assumptions and ESG-related scenarios.
- Assist in the regular review of investment positioning and the creation of dashboards to monitor investment risk and ESG, including climate change-related risks and opportunities.
- Assist with portfolio exposure management analysis and best practice portfolio implementation
Assist with investment communications and in the preparation of reporting to Board and Investment Sub-Committees
**Qualifications**:
**About You**:
Qualifications:
- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline
- Industry qualifications such as CFA, CAIA or CIMA are highly regarded
Required experience, understanding or credentials **including**:
- Demonstrable understanding of investment markets and responsible investment
- Research skills with an ability to analyse financial, including ESG data and convey key concepts confidently and concisely
- Quantitative and coding skills will be highly regarded
Additional Information
**Benefits**
Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include
- Personal and professional development opportunities
- Hybrid working - Work to suit your lifestyle
- Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave
- Meeting free breaks (Rest Stops)
- Income Protection Insurance
- Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rest's values and behaviours)
- Rest is committed to creating a flexible hybrid work environment and we_ are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture where people feel welcome and inspired to work at their best. _
- We value differences in people and actively seek a wide range of diverse employees. We are passionate about having a workplace that is inclusive of our differences in gender, ethnicity, orientation, age, background, geographical/rural/remote location, disrupted work history due to career or other breaks or abilities, so we can all bring the best of ourselves to work._
Please note only people with the right to work in Australia will be considered.