Junior Data Scientist

Company Description

Supporting millions of Aussies since 1988 with low fees and competitive long-term performance. Profits back to members, not shareholders.

Closing Date: 19 May 2024. Please note Rest does not accept speculative resumes from recruitment agencies.

Job Description

• Reach Your True Potential - Junior Career Development Opportunity 
• Permanent, Full-time role 
• Sydney Located 
• Hybrid Working - a blend of Sydney CBD Office and Home 

About Us 

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

We support nearly two million members, with around $75 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.

About the Role 

The Junior Data Scientist supports a broad spectrum of business stakeholders by finding innovative connections through data mining. Providing the business with insights into the current and likely future behaviour of Rests members and employers.

Key accountabilities include:

• Support a team that devises, develops and maintains a suite of advanced analytical assets for Rest.
• Support the design and build data mining, analytical modelling, predictive and prescriptive analytics and modelling.
• Support the design and build customer segmentation, value measurement within the analytics environment.
• Support the design and build of data summarization to provide insights or forecasting into the future based on patterns identified from past and current data.
• Support the design, development and implementation of business intelligence strategies and overall analytics.
• Support the design and development of analytical projects designed to understand key business behaviours (including member behaviours and competitor behaviours) that drive customer acquisition, retention, and engagement.
• Support the identification of opportunities to develop forecasts, statistical models, segmentation schemes, and data-driven analyses to drive marketing and retention efforts

Qualifications

About You:

• The role will appeal to a recent graduate with tertiary qualification in Data Science / Computer Science / Statistics / Mathematics or related discipline.

Required experience, understanding or credentials including:

• Solid understanding of advanced analytics, data mining and machine learning.
• Experience in SQL, Python and R.
• Experience of Snowflake, Redshift, EC2 and S3.
• Experience in stakeholder management with the ability to translate business problems into analytical solutions.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, lifting the conversation out of the technical jargon, with a willing to reach out, discuss and collaborate with key stakeholders, both independently and as a team.
• Ability to think strategically and support the development of analytical assets for future needs.
• Ability to work under pressure including the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, prioritise work, manage time, and meet deadlines.
• Ability to demonstrate initiative, work autonomously and set priorities, whilst being able to adapt quickly to a changing environment.
• Industry knowledge – experience and/or understanding of superannuation/financial services industry/insurance preferred.

Additionally, what we are looking for: 

• A can-do-attitude: you like a challenge and have a winning spirit, curious and driven to learn and understand how things work – keen sense of business and passion for professional development.
• Team-Oriented: a team player dedicated focusing on outcomes and will deliver on them.
• Strong sense of curiosity: Demonstrates a willingness to learn new things, get in and have a go, ask questions and be passionate about better outcomes.

Additional Information

Benefits

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

• Personal and professional development opportunities 
• Flexible, hybrid working – work to suit your lifestyle (must be based in Australia) 
• 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) 

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 2023. Rest is recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.

Rest will review applications prior to the closing date and may close the role earlier