Data Analyst, Strategic Surveillance

• Provide specialist services to support the work of Regulation & Supervision team
• Permanent role
• Hybrid work (50/50), Sydney or Melbourne location

A future with ASIC means that your work will contribute to ASIC's vision for a fair, strong and efficient financial system for all Australians. We value what you will bring. We value those with sharp, analytical minds and are open to challenging the way things are done. 

The team

The Strategic Surveillance (SS) team delivers proactive surveillance outcomes across the Regulation & Supervision (R&S) group through surveillance expertise running complex surveillances, leading group wide activities, surveillance projects within and between sector teams. The skills within the team will also be deployed to enable a focussed and swift response to specific ASIC wide or priority projects.

The team collaborates with other parts of R&S in ensuring consistent and effective delivery of ASIC's regulatory priorities by using best practice regulatory supervision, surveillance knowledge, expertise, and resources on R&S or ASIC wide projects within and across sector teams.

The role

As a Data Analyst - Strategic Surveillance, you will be accountable for:

• Scoping, identifying, and establishing data collections and analysis methodologies to support the achievement of regulatory outcomes, including risk-based surveillance and sector supervision.
• Delivering best practice data analytics and support that deliver influential regulatory outcomes.
• Identifying trends, patterns, and relationships from multiple data points with the ability to represent such findings as graphs, dashboards or similar.
• Identifying new methods to utilise data to deliver priorities, including effective collection, management, analysis, and communication of insights from data.
• Providing support and guidance for analytics projects including designing and advising on processes to collect, clean and explore data.
• Manipulating and combining multiple sources of data using available tools.
• Following the advice and guidance of senior team members when identifying issues and determining the most appropriate methodology for data analysis.
• Maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders.
• Collecting and preparing accurate data for guidance and publication to internal and external stakeholders.
• Responding to   requests for specific data and information in a timely and accurate manner.
• Utilising strategic, conceptual, analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills as well as drawing on qualitative and quantitative data to reach robust and practical conclusions.
• Using business intelligence applications to create dashboards, reports, briefings, presentations, and data visualisations to communicating analytical findings.

About you

• Relevant tertiary qualification.
• Experience working in an analytics role, gained in a corporate, consulting, government or academic environment.
• Knowledge of Australian financial markets, and the regulatory environment from a regulatory, operations, risk, or consumer harm viewpoint.
• Knowledge or experience applying regulatory or professional judgement and scepticism including the identification and assessment of risks, problems, or issues.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and projects and take responsibility for outcomes. 
• Good verbal, written, analytical and presentation skills including data analysis and insight, and report writing.
• Strategic thinking, analytical, investigative and research skills, including data analysis and presentation.
• An understanding of the benefits in developing strategic relationships that partner to ensure the effective use of all available data and information opportunities.
• Conceptual, analytical, and problem-solving skills as well as drawing on qualitative and quantitative data and to reach robust and practical conclusions.
• Ability to think about and solve problems, coupled with strong business acumen.
• Experience in applying statistical or machine learning approaches.

About ASIC

ASIC's remit is one of the broadest of regulators across the world.

ASIC regulates corporations, markets, financial services and consumer credit and monitors and promotes market integrity and consumer protection in the Australian financial system.

Through our enforcement work, we hold to account those who contravene the law, working to achieve strong outcomes that address the greatest consumer and investor harms.

Through Moneysmart, we aim to improve the skills and knowledge of Australians and provide information and tools to help them in their decision making.

A future with ASIC means that your work will contribute to achieving ASIC's vision for a fair, strong, and efficient financial system for all Australians.

ASIC is committed to a providing a diverse and inclusive workplace where the very best talent in Australia chooses to work. Indigenous Australians are encouraged to apply as well as applicants from all backgrounds and with different abilities.

Applications for this role will close at 11:59pm on Friday 28 June